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 – to [...]

While I only started bitching about ads on this site at the end of 2009, it’s pretty much all this site does five or so days a week.  I do have a few competitors out there, but they are few and far between.  Then the Super Bowl happens and every friggin’ site on the net [...]

While you’re all awaiting my review of the myriad of horrible, horrible ads that came on around the Saints handing the Colts their own asses in a little pink box, here’s a great parody of the Google Super Bowl ad: Just in case you don’t get the joke, here’s the one that Google actually ran [...]

I’ve got the presentation of my career in about an hour, but that doesn’t mean I can’t completely ignore my paying job to support a site that pays me less than a penny a visitor to write my ass off… Anyway, Adweek put together this real of Super Bowl sneak previews… most of them are [...]

So, this was bound to happen sooner or later and, wow, am I happy it did because it just proves that CBS is really just a big bag of hypocritical a-holes. I’ve already mentioned on this site that CBS is allowing the very anit-Gay, anti-choice, and anti-family group, Focus on the Family to put up [...]

I was actually wondering when I was going to see the press release announcing that Go Daddy’s 2010 Super Bowl commercial got banned. A few notes here, guys… one Danica is hot, for a race car driver, but otherwise, she’s just OK, so maybe rethink that one a little. She actually seems to be getting [...]

I first started writing this post awhile back when Chrysler announced that it was going to advertise during the Superbowl.  I noticed right after the announcement that there was a lot of chatter on Advertising Age and a few other sites that showed some real outrage over the idea of a company that received bailout [...]