Tag: Advertising
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Crumplstock 11 & DJNoNo album preview
A reminder that Crumplstock 11 starts on Friday at 7pm UK time, in just over a day. Many have signed up to play, and there will be a set from DJNoNo with MC Tony at 6pm UK time on Sunday. – not a live set, but he will be there! It will have the first…
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RIP Gardner Post of Emergency Broadcast Network
Discover the pivotal role of Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN) in remix and VJ culture. Learn the impact of their work on U2’s ZooTV tour and explore their Commercial Entertainment Product album. Recently, co-founder Gardner Post passed away.
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Every COVID-19 Ad Is The SAME
In a classic case of ‘Corona Ate My Ideas’ from agencies worldwide, Microsoft Sam put together this supercut of COVID-19 related commercials in the US and Canada. Very spookily similar, and rather manipulative and stale in messaging. Together! Together! Together! Home! Home! Home! It’s almost like a Negativland track. And if I was still working…
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It’s the Dungeon and Dragons ride!
OMG how can a CAR COMMERCIAL from Brazil get Dungeons And Dragons right, whereas all the Hollywood versions have been pants? I don’t post advertising here and fuck Renault / cars in general, but I am a superfan of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon and this needs to exist, as good as this, as a…
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RC 296: Red And Green Brexmas
Take Backstop Ireland From The Frame…What Backstop? Your Moaning Refrain, I Hope You Understand, Sometimes The Single Market Trade Zones Does Not Make The Plan!) Last podcast of the year, and the second part of the Xmas podcasts with a New Year, A New EU! (without Britain, most likely). We see off 2018 in style,…
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Finally a Christmas ad I can get behind
It’s still true, and this was a Xmas ad that made me quite tearful, for a good reason. Despite the recent attacks on Stop Funding Hate (a free press is also the right for advertisers to chose not to associate themselves with toxic brands) that the Mail Group is panicking about the campaign. It is…