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Flashback: 1965 Ad For the "Tummy Television"
This five-inch TV will stay flicker-free — "even if you jiggle when you laugh." Smaller tummy? Buy the four-inch set!
1960s United Airlines Ad: Bring Your Wife, Get a Discount
Advertising from the '60s has a bad rap for always being targeted to men. Mad Men proved this last Sunday when Peggy says a beautiful woman throwing herself at a camera is not going to sell diet soda to its audience — women. Don replies, you know how this works: men want her, so women want to be her.
Three's a Crowd: Is the Vampire Diaries Ad Too Suggestive?
For a network known for teen-centric shows, the CW raises more than a few eyebrows with its decidedly adult ads. Last year, it was the OMFG Gossip Girl ads, and now there's hubbub over its campaign for The Vampire Diaries, a teen vampire drama that debuts Sept. 10.
Flashback: 5 Shockingly Sexist Ads
Wow, no matter how many we've seen, or how the years pass, these ads never get old. How could they? Not when they espouse such true and tried, stand-the-test-of-time messages like your husband will lock your doubtful, inhibited, ignorant self out if you don't wash your privates with Lysol.
Tampons and Maxi Pads: A Walk Down Memory Lane
Whether you call it your Moon Time or the Curse, if you're a woman, you have to contend with a monthly period. Let's take a look at how advertising sold its pads and 'pons to women of yore. Whether it was through distraction (hey, look, a pretty dress!) or through the rhetoric of freedom, advertisers did their best to sell a product women have never really been thrilled to buy.
Bank in Argentina Wants Your Money and Your Tolerance
Argentina's Banco Provincia wants you to know it treats all people the same. In this forward thinking ad the bank's acceptance of a transgender woman prompts an old man (who also uses the bank) to accept her, too. The final message that splashes across the screen translates as: "Your life changes when there's a bank disposed to change."
Casting Call: Looking For Anti-Gay Fameballs, or Actors
Remember those sad faces this morning, saying how people getting gay married were ruining their straight married lives? OK, lives may be hyperbolic — probably just acting careers. The Human Rights Campaign dug up audition reels from the National Organization for Marriage's new ad campaign opposing gay marriage, proving beliefs can be bought.
More in Misguided Obama Ads: Russia Gets It Wrong
Busy week on the unintentionally-racist-foreign-marketing beat! An ad agency in Russia unveiled the racially flavored ad of our week. But like Germany, Russia didn't mean it.
Lighten Up! Indiana Casino Bets Obama Will Bring Gamblers
In honor of the Indiana Live! Casino's grand opening, advertisers created a TV ad featuring an endorsement by someone who sounds a lot like Barack Obama. The fake-Obama voiceover says: "Months ago we began the work of making sure that the Indiana!
Briefing Book! NBC Rejects Obama/Abortion Super Bowl Ad
- Abortion: NBC rejects Obama/aboriton ad that claims unwanted babies can grow up to be president, just like Obama. CatholicVote was ready to spend $1.5 million to air it during Super Bowl. — Jezebel
- Technology: "I'm sorry for any incontinence."
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