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Charlie Brooker isn’t a fan of the iPad

Tom — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:09:27 +0000

First he did a nice piece on Newswipe (the example of content delivery is nice):

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And then last night on 10 O’Clock Live was quick to jump on the iPad 2 launch (who DOES applaud a cable?!):

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Apple launch events must induce a strange mix of hysterical laughter and violent face palming in the Brooker household. I bet Konnie Huq’s got an iPad though.

When the great sell out: Airside reuse Lemon Jelly for advert

Tom — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:32:06 +0000

I saw an advert on TV over the weekend for SimplyHealth, which looked very familiar. It’s been created by Airside and has been titled “Always there”. Also featured on Behance, it copies everything, down to the little rabbits hoping about, from Airside’s previous work for the Lemon Jelly video “Nice weather for ducks”. It’s a shame to see an idea reused with such little new thought and effort.

Simply health advert

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Nice weather for ducks

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Blackadder meets iPad

Tom — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:36:47 +0000

Samuel Johnson
“I hope, sir, that you are not using the world’s first ~~dictionary~~ iPad to look up rude words!”

Edmund Blackadder
“I wouldn’t be so hopeful. That’s what all the others will be used for.”

Remixed iPad advert via www.woostercollective.com and http://blog.rocketboom.com

Thanks to www.woostercollective.com and http://blog.rocketboom.com

We live in financial times – Obama and the FT

Tom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:46:44 +0000

On a massive billboard at Victoria Station there is an advertisement for the Financial Times. It features an excellent photograph of a huge crowd with a little figure in the corner speaking to them with the title “Who does the man everyone listens to, listen to?”

Apparently the answer is the Financial Times. Either way, it’s a great photo and intelligent advertising aimed perfectly at its audience.

Found on animalnewyork.com and reclamewereld.blog.nl

A captive audience

Tom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:23:09 +0000

Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the tube on the platforms.

Large projectors were set up at Euston which would project silent videos onto the wall across from where people stand waiting for the tube. The silent video is very powerful, whatever is showing you can’t help but let your eyes get drawn to it and before you realise you’re staring at the moving pictures, lost in a trance (Ben Elton once did an excellent sketch on this but I can’t find any trace of it on the web.).

Both Diamond Geezer and The Londonist have written more about this but the point that sticks with me is the lack of choice you have about viewing these adverts, particularly on the tube, everywhere you look there is an advert. At a station like Euston where the platform is 5 people deep at rush hour you have no option but to look straight ahead as you’re crushed from every other side and let the the slogans, straplines associations and brand from the adverts stare you in the face.

But if a lack of adverts meant a substantial increase in fares, then the companies win and we will have to watch what they have to say.

HD Sunglasses

Tom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:09:24 +0000

An excellent example of a company jumping on the latest technology bandwagon to promote something completely unrelated.

I guess they wouldn’t do it if people didn’t buy it.