During the Bucks and Bulls NBA playoff game 1 I swear I saw Google Pixel ad flashing on the court itself? Could they be engaging in subliminal advertising? A subliminal message is a message that is meant to sort of ‘slip past your mental radar’ and embed itself deep into your subconscious mind. The word itself refers to the fact that this message should pass below (that is, sub) your normal perception, underneath its limits – therefore being liminal.
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— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) February 19, 2019
I saw this post a couple of weeks ago on Twitter and promised myself to write about it because the execution was so unique. A New York City-based agency known as Glow wanted to provide an anonymous way for people to share their feelings about their ad business clients. Therefore, they created a website to allow users to write nice - or not so nice - anonymous letters to their clients and agencies.
Hello World,
I’ve been thinking about how I could possibly start an Inside That Ad (ITA) YouTube channel. Do you guys think that’s even possible? The reason I am considering a YouTube channel for the ITA blog is for three reasons:
- There isn’t advertising and or a marketing channel like the ITA blog on YouTube. You know, a channel the discusses the ad as content along with the ad’s creators (i.e. ad agency or marketing firm.
- YouTube as a marketing channel will expose the blog via its videos to a wider audience. That audience will already be there and searching for videos to watch.
- If videos take off with respect to views, the YouTube partner program can be another source of revenue for the blog. Let’s be completely honest with you. I’m trying to make the blog, [Teespring](https://teespring.com/stores/bocciamans-store) sales and possibly the videos a legitimate source of income. Right now, everything I’m doing online to try to generate income can be considered simply a hobby.
The reason I need you, the audience is to not only support my endeavor but also help me develop a possible format for the videos that will be uploaded on to the new YouTube channel.
Annihlation, The latest in ITA’s movie adventures was this work of fantasy fiction above. The movie starring Natalie Portman, a biologist named Lena has survived a cataclysmic event. Sitting in an isolation chamber, surrounded by unnerved people in hazmat suits, she’s interrogated about what just happened to her. In the process, she reveals who among the yet-to-be-introduced cast of characters who survives, and who dies. And the scene makes it clear that while some of her companions may be alive, she’s the only one who made it back to report these would be world ending events.
Back in 2015, I announced that I would like ITA to get into movie trailers but after that post, which you can read right here, I dropped the subject. I haven’t thought about it again until I received my new MoviePass card last week. Therefore, I want to try again. Without further ado, the first trailer I want to share with you is for Molly’s Game.
The movie is about Molly Bloom, a business savvy, former athlete who set up and ran a high stake poker game for actors, business tycoons, and star athletes. I’m sharing the trailer first because I love poker and anything about the subject as well as the fact that it is the first movie I saw using the MoviePass card I told you about above. More importantly, I would like to know what you all, the audience want to get out of a blog post discussing a movie trailer? For me, I just wanted a way to track the different movies that I go to on a weekly basis. This is still primarily an advertising blog, which is why I will only discuss movies with respect to their trailers.
I never shared my top commercials from the 2018 Super Bowl. I had to do it after the game because I was actually crying when the Patriots lost. Therefore, without further ado here my top 10 favorite commercials from Super Bowl LII. Oh yeah, and make sure you read this article through, all the way to the end to get to the #1 commercial! Please enjoy the ads that we thought were creme dela creme.
It’s time for the year-end lists, and here’s a fun one—the 2017 YouTube Ads Leaderboard, featuring the most-watched ads on the video platform this year.
You’ll recognize many of the spots, from Super Bowl commercials (Mr. Clean, Kia, Budweiser) to well-known celebrity spots (Natalie Portman for Miss Dior, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” for Apple).
Remarkably, the No. 1 spot on the list, with more than 150 million views, comes from India. It’s a Samsung spot that we wrote about back in January, shortly after it broke and began pulling in views by the millions in just its first few days.
“Fun size” salad packets from Dole would be the most sadistic “treats” to give youngsters on Halloween, almost certainly guaranteeing your trees will be festooned with toilet paper by the end of the night.
Alas, you won’t be able to try it out. The image here is a Photoshop job by Adam Padilla, the founder of creative agency Brandfire.
Still, Dole had a pretty curious reaction to Padilla’s efforts.
Joining in the suddenly hot trend of friendly cease-and-desist letters, the food marketer playfully warned Padilla not to mess with its trademark again without talking to them first. But at the same time, it whipped some of its own “fun size” salad concepts—posting them right along with the warning.
You know you love yourself some ASMR content, that stuff of soft sounds that apparently result in ticklish little braingasms. But the cottage industry goes way further than mere whispers.
Have you met Bread Face?
The Bread Face blog launched in early December 2015, at which time her Instagram account swelled to over 20,000 followers. (She’s now at over 174,000.) The idea is simple: A lone woman in a room smashes her face into bread. It is almost as satisfying as watching Dr. Pimple Popper, except you won’t feel gross about being hungry after.