Sometimes marketers see a concept or treatment and turn it into the town bike. Now, everyone wants a ride.
Let's look at who's Aping Advertising Copycats now.
The first ad that made me not want to see another spokes-asshole dancing was this one here:
If that doesn't make you want to gouge your everything out, ask your dominatrix to do it for you because you are a sadist.
This guy came out during the last superbowl as ya'all might recall:
There's a lot of copying going on there... the cartoon spokes-reptile, the thriller dance, you name it. The commercial is just not funny, original, or effective in any way.
Here's the newest rumpshaking abomination (as far as I know):
The whole caveman thing was dumb to begin with, so let's just go ahead pump the suck on the whole endeavor there, Geico. Way to go. You suck.
This sphincter-wrinklin' trend has made its way into ad banners as well:
LowerMyBills.suk or com or whatever does this shit ALLLLLLLLLLL the time. I'm not sure if boner up there and the lowermybills stuff comes from the same place, but there's a whole blog devoted to the calvacade of suck that is the falling out of the ass of lowermybills' online marketing department. Check it out.
I just want to find the jackhole responsible for those damn banners and shake them.
Well, as you can see, dancing has had its day. A word of advice to people preparing to launch any advertising campaigns: check to see if the "concept" (used loosely) includes dancing and if it does, do yourself a favor and immolate yourself.
Everybody is doing it; their tribute to the passionate commentator and political newsman, Tim Russert. I wanted to say something too.
The guy had so much vitality and passion that it was shocking to hear the news of his death. He seemed like he could go on as hard-hitting and comprehensive and precise as he was forever. If someone told me he was going to die, I would have argue that "He can't. He simply can not die. Especially now. We need him now." Like the Stones say, "you can't always get what you want." So we are now without...
I recall my passion for Ron Paul's candidacy. He was one of the presidential contenders that had not had their moment with Tim. As Ron Paul supporters, we were very determined to get Ron Paul all the press we could as we saw the media was largely ignoring he was even in the race. We all bound together via the web to bombard him with messages to encourage Tim to interview Ron Paul and eventually, he did. Tim Russert put him through the ringer. When I thought Ron Paul could do no wrong, Tim Russert was the man that made me think more about those causes Ron Paul was fighting for, in which I too believed. Consequently, I started to reexamine my own beliefs. Not many people on TV, or anywhere really, can do that so effectively.
Here's part one of his interview with Dr. Ron Paul:
Follow the youtube link for subsequent portions.
Mr. Tim Russert, you will be thoroughly missed. My condolences to his family and friends.
