Slicksta

Ouch! Slicksta feels sorry for the marketing manager who set loose this email by accident. Talk about a marketing mishap. To add insult to injury, the email shows UCLA winning.
Ever wonder what happens to the actual merchandise that is printed up for teams who lose? See this article on Slate.com for the details.

What if Microsoft had designed the iPod? This witty and well-produced viral clip is worth 2 mins and 55 secs of your time. Slicksta appreciates the convenient link and code that Google Video provides so users can easily display video clips on their own sites. See Slicksta’s implementation below!

The ad guys at Sony Pictures sure know how to play up their best assets. Catherine Zeta Jones is smokin’ in The Legend of Zoro. A forty foot tall version of this was outside of Slicksta’s window until a week ago. Can you say distraction? Slicksta was first introduced to Catherine’s talents in 1998’s “The [...]

The new series of Chase Credit Card commercials are cheesey, even by Slicksta’s standards, but you can’t deny that they get their message acrossl. The spot features the song 100 years by Five for Fighting and soft, grey-toned images that will make girly-men weepy. The genius of the commercial is how the main character is [...]

The injury stricken New York Jets were not expected to stand much of a chance against Michael Vick and the Atlanta Falcons. Nevertheless, Slicksta was surprised, when just a few minutes into the 2nd quarter, with the Jets down 0-17, Frank Gifford and Coach Madden started cracking jokes about how the game was basically over. [...]

This year the NFL is planning to make the commercials that air during the SuperBowl available after the game. Yes, we’ll all get to watch monkeys, horses and frogs doing human stuff and see what Pepsi’s next move is in the quest to topple Coke. Slicksta thinks this is a great idea! He’s always [...]

The calcium in milk helps reduce PMS. This is the basis for a hilarious new commerical from our favorite milk peddlers. The spot shows men stocking up on milk and lugging cartons of it home in every conceivable way. The best part is the look on the guys’ faces: a hilarious mixture of hope and [...]

Slicksta was muy disappointed Coke’s remake of their 1971 Hilltop (“I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect har-mo-ny.”) commercial. Most bloggers agree with Slicksta.

AdRants
“. . . remakes of anything, especially those referred to as “classic,” are rarely a good thing. ”

amandarama
“Who even says ‘chill’ these days?”

Fastcompany
“. . .the updating of Coke’s [...]