This video, which spread like wildfire across social media last week, was just the latest example of the way organizations continuously downplay the impact of domestic violence and rape culture. In turn, this betrays how little we as a society care for, or even think of, victims of interpersonal violence.
The video above provides a 60-second, bird's-eye view of the evolution of the advertising industry, from ad agencies to brand-building to soap operas to bran...
If you thought outdoor advertising was either too expensive or not capable of making a real splash, check out the Zeusvision digital media bus! These literal outdoor advertising vehicles have 31-fo...
Have you seen Subway's latest ad ~ the one with the woman who reminds us to "Eat Fresh!" and stay healthy & slim so we can fit into our sexy Halloween costumes? Jezebel did. And out came the re...
I don’t know about the rest of the stuff, but I sooo want that plastic bowling ball ornament / keepsake / gift certificate holder shown at the bottom of this 1962 ad. Puh-leeze, Santa? (That ...
The “new woman” rode bicycles — and she smoked and likely even chewed tobaccie. So it makes sense that folks would advertise tobacco directly to her. In this antique tobacco...
Banned Gay Guinness Ad Resurfaces After 17 Years Thanks To Gay Marriage Victories - Video (RT @BACK2STONEWALL: Banned Gay Guinness Ad Resurfaces After 17 Years Thanks To Gay Marriage Victories - http://t.co/AUFqB4kX...
From the Corpus Christi Times , March 29, 1957, comes this frightful ad featuring scary movies boldly warning things such as “Do not judge by anything seen before!” and “Girls!...
Never one to shy away from a scandal, controversy or unorthodox marketing scheme, in 1994, Ikea aired a commercial featuring two men shopping for a dining room table, the first...
The ASB has upheld complaints against two ads from differing brands, including a poster which showed a woman's breasts as edible treats, claiming they "degraded" women and "glamourised" smoking.
We vegetarians are currently having a good chuckle at the carnivores’ faux indignance at being served dead horse instead of dead cow as if the slaughter industry was previously a paragon of moral...
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Detail from a Fry’s Sandwich Chocolate ad from Picture Post, September 16th 1939.
My oh my, how things have changed. These 25 vintage tech ads are guaranteed to take you back -- and, in most cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were.
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