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All Apple advertisements

Bill Gates in a Coca Cola ad. In August 2005, Bill Gates starred in a Coca Cola commercial. He wanders in the halls of Microsoft late one night looking for someone to loan him change for the Coke machine. “I’ll pay you back,” he promises.

Amul ad hits. Comments BINDU NAIR 8 Dec 2011 12:50 pm: LOVE THE JINGLE OF THE AD UTTERLY BUTTERLY DELICIOUS AMUL

Telecom Italia’s Gandhi ad.

An interesting legal conundrum. When Nike was accused of running sweatshops in Asia, it responded with press releases and ads claiming that it did not. Marc Kasky filed a case saying that Nike was advertising unfairly, and won. Now corporates are raising the question of whether corporate statements are free speech, and can be similarly protected.

Indian TV commercial storyboards. The plots of several TV ads, in pictures and words. via Someplace Simple

Kamat observes that most people find out about the site via a search in Google. I’d say advertising is probably pointless for just traffic generation. If one has something to sell, fine. Not otherwise.

Coke and Pepsi paintings on the hills have to be removed because “… species of moss… have been destroyed by the painting.” Gosh!

Where do you want to go today?

I opted out of many popup ads. Not that I particularly mind them… I just wanted to test out the code.

I’m on vacation until 27 August. Don’t expect too many updates. In the meantime, enjoy a CNet ad I liked. (Note: I’m not getting any “ad revenues” for this. Nor do I enjoy vodka. I prefer milk shakes.) (I used to have an Absolut vodka ad here, but it doesn’t seem to work any more.)

BMW films – short films, ads for BMW, which are available only on BMWfilms.com. Great stuff for car chase lovers. Pretty good logic too, since the people who’d buy a BMW could afford a high-speed Internet connection.

AdReady has a neat idea: pop up advertisements near the mouse pointer, when the mouse is sitting idle. Cool. But I don’t want anything popping up when I’m reading! Besides, since this is an easy idea to copy, I doubt they should have it as their USP.