She's Selling What?
A Dummy's Puppet's Ramblings - from Chip Martin, Mannequin American
You're Selling What?
Take a look at the photo above and tell me what it's selling. Right! Lip gloss.
VH1 Charm School participant Saaphyri has a commercial video promoting her line of lip gloss called LipChap.
To be honest, from the video, lip gloss seems to be the last thing that she's selling. For those who care, the product is available in ten flavors from Bubble Gum to Cookie Dough to Strawberry to Watermelon. The line is sure to be a hit with middle school girls who want to be sexy before knowing what sex is really all about.
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea
As distasteful as the lip gloss commercial may be to some, in advertising sometimes it's a better idea to use an attractive female model on a stripper pole instead of a ... monkey. The Gainomex ad would have been one of those times.
Click here to see a 30 second commercial for Gainomex Recovery ... whatever that is ... and I'm saying that after watching the commercial.
Coming Soon ... Right After These People Die
From Copyranter: You'd think this type of humor would be right up my alley ... but for some reason, it's not.
Londoners can walk into the Shock and Soul vintage clothing shop and scoop up discarded duds ... which seem to be coming back in fashion. But the print ad campaign puts a timeline on when you can expect to see the clothing in the store. "Coming Soon" and "In Store 3-6 Months" seem a bit callous and hurtful to me. But the campaign won some prestigious ad awards ... so what do I know.
Speaking of Old ...
What do Bic Pens, Jimmy Hendrix and an old woman have in common? The ad above for Bic Pens. The pen is in the upper left-hand corner. Jim Hendrix's autograph is on her left breast. And old is all over the place.
PETA Will Love This Ad
From Ads of the World: Continuing with distasteful ads, the PRIME network, uses what appears to be a Zebra wrap sandwich to promote "Man vs. Wild." I'm just guessing, but a few people may be upset with this approach.
Remember When U.S. Auto Makers Didn't Make Convertibles?
Dale used to own one of the FIAT (Fix-It-Again-Tony) Spiders featured in the 1970's ad above. (Out of necessity, his second car was a tow truck.) The ad points out that American car manufacturers had "stopped making convertibles" in the 70's, so foreign models were our sole sources for rag tops.
If you don't remember, proposed Federal laws regarding roll-over strength contributed to the decision by domestic manufactures to stop making convertibles ... giving the market to foreign manufacturers. Plymouth made their last full-sized convertible in 1966, Lincoln and AMC each made their last (respectively) in 1967, Dodge in 1968, Mercury in 1970, Ford in 1972, and Chrysler in 1976.
In the mid 80's, Chrysler re-introduced a couple of overpriced convertibles, but it wasn't until 1989, with the huge success of the Mazda Miata, that the big three got serious about producing quality convertibles ... taking back the market from foreign competitors.
No Headline is New
Just to show you how difficult it is to come up with an original concept, here's a recent, award winning billboard for the Mini that uses nearly the same headline as the previous Fiat ad that is more than 30 years old.
