Whether PETA’s unique brand of shockvertising pleases or patronizes its viewers, it always achieves one goal–making headlines. PETA protests regularly employ shock and awe to raise awareness of animal…
Whether PETA’s unique brand of shockvertising pleases or patronizes its viewers, it always achieves one goal–making headlines. PETA protests regularly employ shock and awe to raise awareness of animal…
(TrendHunter.com) Whether PETA’s unique brand of shockvertising pleases or patronizes its viewers, it always achieves one goal–making headlines. PETA protests regularly employ shock and awe to raise awareness of animal…
“Red Alert 3 Remix,” a promotional video for EA’s Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, is the fruit of a partnership between DraftFCB and remix artist CB Shaw.
With the economy in such fragile shape, sellers of holiday goods and services are seeking to gather their dollars while they may.
I don’t know how new this is, but its pretty fun – the YouTube promo site for Wario Land as ported to Wii.
In the realm of contextual fuckery, it’s not always the advertisers that screw up.
(TrendHunter.com) On Monday, the US Mint released four new penny designs to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth in 2009. The new pennies each depict a scene from Lincoln’s life.
The front of the new pennies…
(TrendHunter.com) ‘Fast’ and ‘easy’ are two of the most common words on the Internet. Opening email accounts, uploading photos, finding friends, buying and selling… everything is promised to be fast and easy. At least…
(TrendHunter.com) The history of car design has seen a number of stunning and beautiful additions; unfortunately, not all cars that enter production are ones you’d proudly park in your driveway. These ugly cars evoke a…
Marketing Magazine (Australia) & Julian Cole of The Population, have put together a list of Australia’s Top 100 Marketing Blogs using the same style methodology as the AdAge Power 150.
In the August print edition of Marketing Magazine we we’re number 2. However on Julian’s website, we’re now number 1, outranking industry stalwarts such as B&T magazine (#41) and Campaign Brief (#21).
A great result for us, so thank you to all our readers, contributors, commenters, loiterers and our sponsor Eyeblaster.
(TrendHunter.com) Across the world, people’s ideas of what’s hot vary dramatically. Topping the list of weirdest gadgets on the market in Japan is the Hello Kitty Sleepover kit. The set consists of a blanket, a bag, a rucksack,…
European mobile carrier Orange has this pay-as-you-go program that lets users define their own reward system.
(TrendHunter.com) Youcharades is the virtual version of the parlour game charades where participants guess what the book, movie, song or whatever else the contestant is trying to act out.
Users can guess and type in the…
My sister, who’s way into video games, sent me to YouTube.com/ExperienceWii, where users can watch footage from Wario Land: Shake It!.
(TrendHunter.com) Hot Wheels are little toy cars, but Odd Wheels are things to run around in, or on, that have one, three, or even five wheels. From concept electric cars to production three-wheeled motorcycles, it’s easy…
Honeyshed, the shopping channel for hipsters that is trying way to hard (I’m actually suffocating from the bludgeoning stabs at coolness), is on hiatus. Someone over there at Droga wised up and took the site down, while they try to iron out the kinks. Oh sorry! I mean, move out of there too-long beta period.
Now, I’ve given Droga some compliments and I’ve also crapped all over Honeyshed. Why? Let me give you the bullet list:
1. It tries so hard to be cool, that there’s no way in hell it will ever be so. By the way, electro is out. Why not go for nu disco? Or some Hercules and Love Affair sounds instead?
2. Loading times, loading times, loading times.
3. I get that this is an online home shopping network, but the sell is way too heavy, way too thick. It’s a turn off. A major one.
4. The scripting for the vignettes is god awful. Yes, this is parody, a tongue and cheek look at shopping online, but you need to do that with a bit of the clever, the wit. There is none. Take it from Vice – you can be sardonic and bold while also conveying information. It’s possible! Also, why are all the girls given the dumbest lines to say? Why are they all half naked? Why? Why? Why? It’s fucking boring. Why don’t you guys find a new way to play with sexual taboos? Get inventive. Take a hint from Purple magazine or something.
6. Set your copywriter free to write whatever the hell he wants. Hasta pronto. The text on the holding page is alienating as fuck. Did I say you were trying to hard? I meant that.
7. I ask you this Droga – why, in god’s name, would anyone go to Honeyshed to purchase products? Why watch the show? Why not just get your kicks and your bikini at some other retailer who isn’t going to make you sit through a bunch of nonsense?
OMG. It’s so poorly executed it makes me want to go hack the damn thing and put up a pic of a LOLcat instead.
P.S. Kill the automatic music on the holding page or at least, give us a goddamn mute button. Even if it is just a loading page, it’s truly, truly annoying.
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(TrendHunter.com) B3 Designers, an interior architecture company, used 8,000 cardboard boxes to transform their East End studio in London into what they dubbed the Cardboard Cafe.
The innovative project was on display…
The budget lodging chain seeks to capitalize on the popularity of country music among its customers.
(TrendHunter.com) This innocuous, smart looking, chrome finished lighter is a fire-starter with a difference; Flick open the lid, and the lighter starts coughing!
This is a great gadget to carry around to let others use,…
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