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Vitaminwater bus-stop ads charge mobile phones
When it comes to bus-stop advertising, Vitaminwater and ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky have struck gold. Vitaminwater advertisements, besides just informing bus travelers about ways to hydrate themselves, also juices up mobile phones! So, while you wait for your bus to drive up to the stop, all you need to do is plug in…
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Samsung Galaxy S2 on a space mission
Okay, first thing first. This news of the Samsung Galazy S2 is different: it is not a rumour, an upgrade, not even a change of names. It’s a launch and not the ones we normally associate with phones, but the space. That’s right. Hold your jaw. According to Oled.at, the a special balloon called the…
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Nokia to spend $130 million on ad campaign for Windows phone handset
Among the iPhone and Android frenzy, there is definitely a lot of pressure on the Nokia Windows Phone handsets to shine out and either of tech giants clearly does not want to leave any stone unturned. Reports suggest Nokia is going to go big with its marketing strategy and set out as much as $130…
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Volkswagen to give test drives of Golf R through edible print ads (figuratively)
We are familiar with images that can really make you smell food with eyes but I am not sure if visuals of roads and cars can have the same effect. Well Volkswagen begs to differ. The German auto maker is making print ads of the upcoming Golf R car which are actually edible. These have…
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Samsung Galaxy S II gets its first commercial
Samsung has started advertising its flagship phone the Galaxy S II, the first commercial focuses on the phones Super AMOLED Plus display. Wouldn’t it be better if they would have showcased a graphic heavy game to show the phone’s dual core processor and the crystal clear screen rather than a kid drowning the phone in…
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‘Do Not Track’ rule will ward off stalking advertisers
So why do advertisers follow your every move? To study your trends and serve you better, right? This may sometimes, though rarely, prove to be a threat to your security and privacy. Thanks to a report filed by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that proposed a browser based mechanism that would allow users decide if they…
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With iOS4 comes iAds on schedule and looking good
On schedule, iAds has gone live for iOS4 enabled devices. Not many seem to have been talking about it just yet, but from the initial reports it’s going quite smoothly. So far though iAds is just for North America but is that really a bummer for the rest of the globe? I mean can we…
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Dope Heads Arrested After Advertising iPad for Marijuana Trade
This may be solid proof that smoking marijuana really does fry your brains. Two men in Arizona were arrested earlier this week after posting an internet advert offering to trade their 3rd generation iPod touch and roughly seven grams of marijuana, for a 32G iPad. Pot-heads Jacob Walker and Jacob Veldare, 20, stupidly posted the…
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Adobe goes all out in new ad campaign, Apple shall rue the day they turned their backs
So we know that Apple is not nearly ready to give in to the acceptance of Flash support so Adobe seems like it’s going to do whatever it can to make them realize the error of their ways. Adobe has begun a hardcore advertising campaign over the web stating everywhere just how compatible they are…
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Apple’s Get a Mac video ads have breathed their last… it was a simple and quite ceremony.
I’m not particularly a fan of the whole Mac vs. Microsoft video ad campaign – Get a Mac, that showcased now big time movie star Justin Long for Mac and humorist John Hodgman for the PC. The ad campaign has finally reached its Grande finale, last season, end of the road, hit rock bottom, kicked…
