Who knew an ad that targeted our fear of the dark could work so well or playfully? Then again, what would this ad feature if it played here in the US?

Posted September 19, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, afraid of the dark, dark, fear, folklore, lighbulbs, scared, video. Be the first one.

There it is in The Guardian:
Internet giant Google has drawn up plans to compile psychological profiles of millions of web users by covertly monitoring the way they play online games.
Yep, “do no evil” Google has filed a patent on the process of building psychological profiles of its users for sale to advertisers.
Details such as whether [...]

Posted May 22, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: advertising, evil, google, online gaming, profiling, psychological profile, second life, world of warcraft. 7 Comments.

He he. Chuckle, chuckle. Thanks to Kris and Brett for these pics. They ads are still there now when I search Google for used brain or black plague.
My question is: does eBay just submit bulk lists of terms they want to buy, or do they have a deal with Google to just link ‘em up [...]

Posted May 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, black plague, brain, brains, ebay, keyword advertising, keywords, plague, targeted, targeted advertising, used brain, used brains. 2 Comments.

I should be all down on this sneaky way of advertising Nokia’s N90, but…eh, they’re funny. Bad Quality Officechairs is the latest, Bad Quality Hydraulics (somebody tell them it’s “pneumatics”) and Bad Quality Superglue bring up the rear.
If that isn’t enough, they’ve got the Bad Quality Blog which pulls back the curtain a bit. If [...]

Posted April 7, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, bad quality, bad quality hydraulics, bad quality office chairs, bad quality superglue, funny, funny video, hydraulics, nokia, office chairs, pneumatics, robert nylund, super glue, superglue, video. One Comment.

I don’t know how I feel about shilling for the california dairy industry, but this cow abduction site is pretty funny. Be sure to watch the movie.

Want more, go look at mailorderchickens.org.

Posted March 31, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: abduction, abductions, advertising, alien, aliens, california milk processor board, cow abduction, cow abductions, dairy, funny, milk, movie. Be the first one.

I have mixed feelings about the value of advertising — it’s worth pointing out that according to John Battelle, Google never ran an ad anywhere prior to going public — but I still enjoy seeing things like this Wyoming Libraries campaign. Jill Stover quotes Wyoming Libraries’ Tina Lackey with the news that “Wyoming’s libraries are as expansive as the state, and as close as down the street.”

I’m just hoping that A, the horse is real; and B, they auction it off. See, I have these silly ideas about doing a cross-country road trip with it.

Posted March 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: advertising, buzz, libraries, library, marketing, prairie, promotion, trojan horse, wyoming, wyoming libraries. 2 Comments.

Lynne Puckett on the Web4Lib list pointed me to Web Pages That Suck and highlighted this quote from the site:
Nobody cares about you or your site. Really. What visitors care about is getting their problems solved. Most people visit a web site to solve one or more of the following three problems.

They want/need information
They want/need [...]

Posted October 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: advertising, branding, client needs, customer needs, language, marketing, new marketing, patron needs, web site. 3 Comments.