February 5th, 2007
This year YouTube is hosting a poll for the best spots from SuperBowl XLI. The top ads are ranked by users and overall results are updated hourly. Slicksta encourages you to visit Super Vote to see clips you missed and vote on your favorites. The winner gets a coveted spot on YouTube’s homepage tomorrow.
There is also a handy gallery of Super Bowl ads in case you just want straightforward access to the commericals. You can also find a collection of Super Bowl spots on MySpace.
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April 7th, 2006
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.
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March 16th, 2006
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!
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November 8th, 2005
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 Mask of Zoro”.
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November 3rd, 2005
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 followed through all the stages of his life. Different co-branded Chase credit cards are used to symbolize his life stage:
- Florida State University for a graduation scene.
- Amazon.com while he sits in a convertible at a view-of-the-city make-out spot while watching a
movie on a portable DVD player. Romantic.
- Continental Airlines for his honeymoom (must have been a really good movie). Of course, the Eiffel Tower is in the window so we can figure out that he’s in Paris.
- Disney for when he’s tucking his daughter into bed.
- And finally AARP as he flips through photos in his wallet to reveal himself and make-out girl with glasses and grey hair.
A narrator wraps it up with, ” The road of life takes many turns. There are over 900 Chase credit cards to make the most of every one. Your choice. Your Chase.”
Admittedly, Slicksta knows that this commercial will never win any awards for humor originality, but he can’t down-play the power in its literalness, either.
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October 24th, 2005
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. Obviously, they were not concerned about retaining viewers. “What else are you gonna watch anyways?” they laughed.
Slicksta decided to find out. There was Good Eats with Alton Brown on the Food Network, hurricane Wilma coverage on CNN, and
Everybody Loves Raymond reruns on TBS. Slicksta ended up watching a women’s volleyball game on FSN, butt but that’s besides the point. The bored MNF announcers probably made ratings go from poor to worse. Sponsors cannot be happy with this.
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October 19th, 2005
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 missing one or more of the commercials people chatter about the next day what with all the beer drinking and visits to the toilet.
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September 16th, 2005
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 elation.
Come to think of it, Slicksta hardly ever suffers from PMS! Could it be the healthy dose of calcium he gets from his daily regimen of milk and cereal in the mornin’ / milk and Kahlua at night?
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August 13th, 2005
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 ‘Hilltop’ seems to be veering into some tricky territory, where a bunch of white honkeys are creating a campaign aimed at roughly non-white, ‘Hip-Hop’ audiences.” (ouch!)
AdJab
“They’re more interested it seems in creating buzz than communicating to the audience why they should buy their clients’ products. ”
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August 10th, 2005
AOL is giving away the 2003 H2 Hummer that it seized from a major spammer as a part of a settlement last year. Along with it, the spammer’s $20,000 in gold bars and $75,000 in cash. This is actually the 2nd time AOL has done this, last year, they gave away a seized Porsche Boxter.
I appluad AOL’s Robinhood approach to dealing with the spammers, it hits the spammers where it really hurts, and it appears to be working — spam is down 85% at AOL, according to customer service statistics.
So, what are you waiting for? Click here to enter the sweeps!
Syndiposted from Autowonder.com through the Syndipost Network.
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