Posts Tagged ‘advertising’

December 10, 2010 0

I Like: Funny Chinese Mentos ad

By sushipan in advertising, funny

This Mentos ad cracked me up. It starts off wearing the cloak of melodrama shared by millions of other Asia-Pacific TVCs and music videos, then uses a cartoonish gag that keeps Mentos propped up as a fun and brand for young and sophisticated Chinese consumers. Just the demographic that star agency BBH aims to win [...]

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December 22, 2008 1

Some Advertisers just like pissing off Chinese people

By sushipan in sushipanda

From Adrants, we learn of this new ad campaign from ConAgra foods for their line of Asian Inspired Healthy Choice dinners. When we first saw the image we agree with the poster at Adrants: lame. But it wasn’t until we actually clicked on the interactive that we just felt sad. Once again, an annoying and [...]

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December 11, 2008 1

Loving and hating the King

By sushipan in sushipanda

There has been lots of buzz surrounding Burger King’s Whopper Virgins (agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky) campaign, in which documentary filmmaker (and 70’s skateboard phenom) Stacey Peralta travels with a Burger King funded production crew to remote parts of the world and conducts Big Mac/Whopper taste tests for people who have no concept of what [...]

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October 18, 2008 0

White shoe fantasy

By sushipan in sushipanda

Here’s a new Holiday Inn Express spot:
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This one’s a winner for me because, well, I’m very very uncool.

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October 15, 2008 0

Advertisers…this stuff works

By sushipan in sushipanda

Just saw this Zales ad:

If an Asian version of this ad ran here in Shanghai, most of the Chinese women that I know would orgasm while sitting in their cubicles. Sorry for being crass, but melodrama hits a G-spot for pop culture consuming women in Asia. Sadly, most of it is about a million hairs [...]

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