Category Archives: Marketing & Advertising

Marketing and advertising news and tactics that caught my eye.

Buy a wife from Vietnam

Just an ad selling young girls from Vietnam. Wait a minute, wha???? WTF!?

Vietnamese girls
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Bansky on Advertising

Do you agree with this sentiment?

Bansky on Advertising
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Hunger Games movie announcement

An entertaining way to deal with limited tickets for The Hunger Games movie (and a favorite method for thinning out the Twilight herd).

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Gas prices in 1986

Gas prices in 1986
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Dos Cookies

Dos Cookies
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How to advertise a yoga center

Yoga Centre advertising idea by Leo Burnett Greater China.

Yoga Centre advertising idea by Leo Burnett Greater China

Yoga Centre advertising idea by Leo Burnett Greater China

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Movie trailer: Prometheus

Here is the trailer for Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated Alien prequel.

Plot summary:

As two superpowers fight each other on Earth for the remaining natural resources throughout the solar system, a giant spaceship, known as the Prometheus, is sent to the distant planet of Erix to terraform the world, but problems arise when the crew discover the uninhabitable planet’s indigenous life of bio-mechanoid killers.

The movie is set to be released on June 8th.

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A map of IKEA

Pleated Jeans provides us with this map of IKEA to help you get out once you enter the store. Study it, keep it in your wallet, and remember that this map may save your life one day.

Study it, keep it in your wallet, and remember that this map may save your life one day.

Tired of paying too much for shaving razor blades?

This is a real company and a real service. The commercial is perfect. I’ll be signing up. Pound sand Gillette and Schick. I quit you.

Dollar Shave Club couldn’t be simpler. Select one of our great razors, pay one low monthly fee, and we send ’em right to your door. No more over-paying for fancy brand name shave tech. No more forgetting to buy your blades. Check out dollarshaveclub.com

China Introduces Live Crab Vending Machines

Located in the Xinjiekou subway station, in Nanjing, China, this particular vending machine is full of live hairy crabs and crab vinegar, making it available to enjoy seafood on the go. Dumb idea? They are actually selling an impressive 200 crabs a day. They are generally cheaper than the crabs found at the local food markets, and buying them during their daily commute is saving precious time.

Depending on size, crabs can be bought for 10 RMB, 12 RMB, 25 RMB and 50 RMB. They all seem dead, but their actually just hibernating due to the low temperature in the vending machine.

My question is, how do they eat them on the go?

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(via Oddity Central)