Handcuff Bracelet

Good for: Parties, Cocktails, Going Out...They should list all the ways you can use it. What happened to the notion that all good advertising should excite people's imagination for the product? Perhaps they realized it sells too well to people whose imagination is already very stimulated. Or it could be that they figured out playing down the excitement which comes after Parties, Cocktails and Going Out...that it was never going to stop people from imagining it anyway :)

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"Blackberry Denied"

Mister President, how are we going to break it to the people? I mean it's going to do one hell of a thing to your image. You can't buy this malarkey. Imagine commercials exploiting this in foreign countries showing their leaders calling you from their flashy red Blackberries. Silvio's with the Ferrari logo on it and Sarkozy's with the Carla-Bruni-singing ringtone. The Kim Jong ills, the Chavezes and Ahmadinejads having theirs designed to look like a missile. Damn it, Mister President. I've been warning for years that we're still riddled with traitors. With your permission I'd like to call the boys in CONCOM :P

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Domain name share-advertising

It's like renting out e-property for a while. If a site has huge traffic and recognition it can do the following to make shit loads of money. When users type the domain name to visit the site the landing page will be similar to Google's Chrome tabs, clicking on a tab will take you to that site. Example. You type famousSite.com to visit your favorite site. You land on a page with 2 screenshots, on the left is your normal site and on the right is the advertised site which will open in a new tab/window if you click on it.

The advertiser will pay top dollars for displaying his site's clickable screenshot or other image on a famous site. Actually the advertiser will buy a limited number of displays, so not all users of the famous site will get to see it. Maybe the famous site can ask some of its users to opt-in for such kind of advertising once in a while.

Imagine the instant advertising impact for a new site if it appeared side by side on Google, eBay, CNN etc landing page. If a company has a couple of millions to spend on advertising why not?

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Bruno or Borat?

I find his 'movies' funny but I don't really think of them as movies. They feel like publicity stunts whose aim is to be funny by shocking people so that everyone talks about them after. Both Borat and Bruno would have made great TV series. I had a few good laughs watching Bruno but I think I liked Borat more.

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Pizza Box Advertising!

Did you know that companies in the US run ads inside the cover of pizza boxes?? I didn't know until I saw it myself while visiting the US. I thought it is a smart idea. When I searched online about it I came across some weird advertising like the one in the photo you see here. This is creative but a bit extreme and risky. Some people might feel disgusted despite the humor and not order pizza from that place any more. The concept is creative and even if I had no cockroaches in my place I would still call the guy to congratulate him for the ad.

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