Posts Tagged "advertising"

A few times a week I click on a link somewhere and land on an article. A giant overlay comes up telling me no no no no no you are blocking our ads! This is just unfair and wrong! You want to read our site but deny us the precious ad revenue we need? Well […]

I’m in Skype for Windows. It shows me ads during calls. How about this ad. Ummm, not sure what to do. I am already using Skype for Windows… which you might have known before showing me that ad.

Have you seen the “Blah Blah Blah” commercial for the HTC One (M8) phone? Gary Oldman says blah a lot. He says it doesn’t matter what he says. He’s right. And then he says that this phone is designed for people who form their own opinions. Ooooooo Bold. A phone just for critical thinkers! “Go […]

I guess the mobile app is missing one line of code saying if the person who placed the ad matches the selected target audience, don’t show the ad to the advertiser. I closed the campaign. Ain’t got time for that. Will focus on Google Adwords, which were doing really well.

There are two commercials I’ve seen a lot lately. Both offer “free samples” of their products. One commercial is for catheters. I guess I watch TV targeted at the catheter user. These commercials act like they have a new style catheter you will like much more, so call now for your free sample. But read […]

I never understand why companies do this. Why do they run ads where the main characters are liars or bullshit artists? Is that who they think goes to McDonalds? One recent commercial has a guy on a park bench eating McDonalds. A nice-looking woman sits down next to him, and comments on the art in […]

Milk. They’ve turned into psycho bullies. First, they got aggressive. Now they’re just insane. When I think about how I’d advertise milk, I think I’d not advertise it. If you want milk, you are going to buy it. It’s not like I WANTED milk but I got confused in my grocer’s dairy fridge and accidentally […]

I’m used to spambots on Twitter. Ignore. or Ignore and report as a spammer. But a whole new type of spammer got me this past weekend. A human. A real live person. It started when some guy tweeted my web design company seeming to be interested in us doing a lot of manual work on […]

Some people seem to think that it’s OK to advertise products (over and over) to your Facebook friends. NOT dropping promotional messages on a business page, where people might expect them. For all we know, this was between a cat picture and a post about politics. This was on a personal page. I’ll post the […]

PayPal must have recently blasted out a big email campaign. I have different PayPal accounts for each of my businesses, and three of these emails made it through my spam filter. I’d imagine one or two didn’t. But while each email promoted the same feature, each email was different. I thought this was interesting. The […]