Recession-Proof Entertainment: Tissues in the Wind
Windy day? Got Kleenex? Try our new sport… Tissues in the Wind…
Windy day? Got Kleenex? Try our new sport… Tissues in the Wind…
A must-see video (thanks Jan) because in 4 days this clip has been viewed 2.5 million times on YouTube alone. So it’s touching a nerve. It’s the Budweiser “wuzzup” advertisement in 2008. A depressed unemployed guy, a soldier, a dude needing healthcare and pain pills, and a screwed investor. Or something like that. It appears…
Here’s an ad display model from NBC’s The Office’s site, and we’ll see more and more like it. It’s the video preroll and the flash ad… rolling simultaneously in different areas of the screen. My minor annoyance as a viewer is more than offset by my fascination as a marketer. Plus NBC is offering exclusive…
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The EepyBird duo shows that if you have enough talent, you can move seamlessly from one major promotion to another — without anything particularly unique between. Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the mad scientists behind EepyBird, a physical theater company exploring how everyday objects can do extraordinary things. They’re the Michael Jordan and Tiger…
According to ZDNet, Revver Co-Founder Oliver Luckett said the company has been secretly working for the last 9 months on opening the API to the world. Unlike most video sites, Revver is positioning itself as the eHarmony for for video content creators and advertisers. The company will begin offering syndication networks, hosting, tracking and ad…
Choices are bad. We don’t like them. The fewer the better. This video builds off of communism and ideology and stuff, but gets to the pretty practical too… like the anxiety provoked by selecting a wine or the choice of sex. Courtesy of Laughing Squid. It’s kinda depressing actually, so maybe you’d prefer some LOLCats.
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Nalts, you and your family are like a smiling piece of Americana for the 21st Century.
By the way, editing and videos keep getting tighter and tighter. 🙂 YAY!
The absolute funniest part of this is the fact that your family thinks farts are a normal form of communication.
@ ass- Farts aren’t a normal forms of communication?
If I were wifeofnalts I would be smacking you upside the head about 10 times a day.
this is no competition to my new sport, Head Bang Ball. It’s way too complicated to explain what it is, though.
Actually, if I ever felt like filming it, I have a script upstairs for a video about Head Bang Ball. It would probably just be really long and boring, though. Tissues in the Wind wins.
now that’s what I call cheap easy fun!
You know I should just stick with posts like this. The comments are far more entertaining than when I write about the industry for an audience of about 3 people.
Love your PJs, Nalts. The girdle looks so good on you, too.
Also, I’m with sukatra. Do you medicate WoN? Is that why she is always so calm, smiling and tolerant in the face of your pranks and flights of fancy?
We read the industry stuff too!
@9: YOU may; I just skip that stuff unless there are pictures too.