Staying close to home this weekend, the hardworking staff couldn’t help but come across this campaign ad for Massachusetts State Treasurer candidate Steve Grossman (Dem). Background context: Grossman’s opponent, Karen Polito, has run a campaign stressing the need for a “fiscal watchdog” in the Massachusetts Statehouse. Roll it! … Um, who wouldn’t want to vote...
First there was last week’s kerfuffle over the Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Facebook in Privacy Breach.” (Sneak ADtack take here.) CyberBible TechCrunch dismissed the report as the inmates running the asylum: So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that most people in tech, let alone the general population, have no idea what...
Blade: Trinity ties Jessica Biel’s character to Apple, showing her fighting with her iPod on and even making playlists on her Mac before fighting. Check it out here on YouTube, since user who posted this gem doesn’t want it embedded. Want some screen shots to get the idea? You could practically use this scene as...
Have you seen the recent Adidas commercial for Derrick Rose shoes starring Ken Jeong? I don’t want to impugn the wonderful Ken in any way, but . . . . . . could this ad really ever sell shoes?
The Australian Herald Sun reported this Tuesday that a Calvin Klein billboard ad (shown below) would be pulled by the Advertising Standards Bureau, due to protests by sexual assault workers and women’s advocacy groups that the ad was “highly sexualised and clearly suggestive of sexual behaviour.” Reportedly, “the Board considered that whilst the act depicted...