Tweet Is it really this hard to sell a fucking taco these days? Below is the train wreck that is the commercial for Taco Bell’s new “Cheesy Double Decker Taco,” the latest attack on America’s colons. There are so many things wrong with this add that I feel like I’m going insane. First, why are […]

Tweet Sorry, this isn’t as fresh a post as I would have liked. If you didn’t know, I started my own internet marketing agency a few months back and I’ve been slammed.  Plus, Mike, my other writer, has been swamped with actual work as well, so DTM got a slightly lower priority… until I saw […]

Tweet The fine people over at Nerve have put together this short film entitled, “Do You Douche?“, which fantastically compiles the history of those always awkward commercials about New Jersey’s favorite insult. Do You Douche? A Short Film from Nerve Media on Vimeo. I know women had it tough back then because, well, they thought […]

Tweet I have lots of friends on both the traditional and interactive sides of the advertising business, but I have to tell you, the traditional folks are the most fun to fuck with about branding. You see, my theories about traditional advertising are that the ads themselves have a real purpose in the world – […]

Tweet One of the many marketing strategies you can take when you’re not the first in a particular marketplace is to pick a fight with the top dog.  I don’t know if Motorola isn’t the top dog in phones anymore and I don’t have the time to look it up, but for some reason they […]

Tweet I couldn’t find the sales figures for OREO cookies here in the US, but in Australia it was over $2 BILLION ($1.9 billion US) last year, so you can just imagine how many of the damn things we eat over here.  That said, clearly they need to spend some of the profits for those […]

Tweet I know, I know, you missed me a little, I understand.  While it was always my plan to let other writers fill in some of the gaps here on DTM, I never planned to stop writing posts.  Unfortunately, things at work got a tad busier than I expected and I decided I’d rather keep […]

Tweet I really don’t know whom to be pissed at here… Earlier today, Adrants reported that Southwest Airlines rejected the new PETA ad which features a hot chick in her underwear thanks to the new full body scanners at the airport  from it’s in-flight magazine because it was, “too provocative to run in our publication.” […]

Tweet There are boat loads of really smart people over at Accenture, which is why I’m wondering how this commercial saw the light of day. It’s actually a cute little concept. The surfing elephant gets an easy smile and ties in with their question about “who says you can’t be big and nimble?” Two things… […]

Tweet I actually like Ford as a car manufacturer, so I’m taking this series of stupid commercials kind of personal. If you’ve read over this site before, you might have seen my rant on some of the goofy things they do in car commercials.  Coming up with a creative ad concept for  car commercial has […]