Sometimes I’m really amazed what gets through in ads these days.  Jack In The Box has made some amazing ads since they brought Jack back, and this is still a good ad… they may have just wanted to check into what it means when you have a tear tattooed under your eye.         [...]

To say that Aaron Wall of SEO Book has a personal vendetta against the behemoth search engine company, Google, is an understatement. Over the years, he has blogged and spoken with the passion of a man that is trying to get children out of coalmines about how Google doesn’t follow its own rules, favors big corporations, and [...]

So, there appears to be a bit of a kerfuffle (damn I love that word) over everything from intellectual property rights to copy rights and internet memes and all kinds of legal crap over whether or not the new Chevy ad below stole its concept from the popular blog, DearPhotograph.   Of course the answer [...]

Let me break your heart with something: Google doesn’t care what you do.  Google isn’t interested in anything about you.  Google doesn’t actually know who you are.  At all. So, when you see video’s like this from Microsoft, remember that it was made by one of Google’s competitors who trying to spook you out of using [...]

So far it’s been a lousy summer in Chicago. We essentially had no spring and so far June has been feast or famine; 90 degrees or 60 degress. Nothing in-between. But even I remain hopeful that summer will last longer than one week which is apparently what the folks at Taco Bell are expecting. Pay [...]

We’ve all seen the video… The Ray’s third baseman, the unfortunately named Evan Longoriai grabs a stray hit during batting practice with his bare hands and then goes right back to the interview. It’s been picked up everywhere from sports show to comedy sports shows and is just short of 4 MILLION views on YouTube. [...]

I didn’t consciously know it at the time but Novi High School, just like pretty much every other school in America, ran on social currency. It’s a simple system. Everyone has an account with a starting balance dependent on your rung of the social status ladder. You make deposits, like being able to buy liquor at age 15 because [...]

I get a little pain in the back of my neck every time I come across a commercial that attempts to associate a buzzword and a product that have absolutely no relation to each other. For example, DIGITAL vacuuming: Look, Dyson makes great vacuums. I just don’t understand the need to make this product into [...]

Either the people working at the agency that handles print advertising for Nivea don’t gamble much or they are utter morons. Tough call. The headline on this ad reads, “Look Like You’re All-In,” a poker term used when someone bets all of their remaining chips. The copy in the body of the ad includes several more [...]

I’m not a big fan of the tone of the new iPhone commercials. The sentiment of, “If you don’t have an iPhone then you suck,” feels excessively smarmy, even for Apple. But perhaps I judged too quickly. Maybe I underestimated the true power of having an iPhone with constant access to iTunes. The Genius function that analyzes my [...]