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From Valerie Riffe:
 

Spoofed

From Adam Ryan

 
Last week we spoke about the benefits and detriments of advertising spoofs and parodies.  This high quality parody, although a complete reversal of the Dove commercial, has a positive effect.  Dove is still pitched because the humor is lost without the original.  I hope that parodies will continue exist in the advertising world.  [...]

The Rocket

From Russ Razor:

 
 
This commercial drew me in because it is about the baseball player Roger Clemens. I chose this commercial because it plays on how Clemens came out of retirement last year, and the events that led up to it. This ad is an exaple of ambiguity. Clemens wife does not want him to come [...]

Tara wonders about this one

So this ad is particularly funny to me after we talked about degrading women in class today and whether or not it is okay.  When I first saw this commercial, I was mad because I was like “so typical…a beer commercial objectifying women as extremely sexual objects.”  I don’t want to ruin the commercial for people who [...]

Ashley will remember the Dew

From Ashley Smith:
 
 

When I first saw this ad, I had no clue what this commercial was going to be about.  Women were using metal objects during a lightning storm, purposefully trying to get struck by lightning. Were they crazy? However, the ad caught my attention even more when the fact was displayed that men are [...]

Max Ponders Offensiveness

From Max Radi:
 
 
Today in class, we briefly discussed stereotypes and offensiveness in advertisements.  When advertisers use these strategies they can offend a certain group in the population. In my first advertisement is a television commercial for Klondike, which stereotypes men. I am not an advocate for men’s rights, but I don’t find this commercial humorous [...]

All good.

From Anna Powaska
 
http://www.maxior.pl/film/81670/Reklama_browarka
 
I just love this ad.  I admire creativity of a person who came up with this idea.  I guess I’m a fan of beer commercials in general, but this one may be my favorite. I like how this ad doesn’t really propose any features or benefits of the product to the consumer.  Instead, [...]

Tool?

From Katharine Strother

This ad for Pepsi aired during the Super Bowl. Poor Justin Timberlake, he’s a tool in this ad. I think its hilarious how they use slapstick humor and basically beat Justin up to promote Pepsi Cola. Especially at the end when he gets knocked out by the plasma screen TV. Whether or not [...]

First Mrs. Butterworth, Then…

From Valerie Riffe:
I was thinking about how Geico has several different ads running for their ad campaign and whether or not that is an effective way to get their message across. I know that there most recent ad has sort of a animal planet feel to it with the British explorer that follows the gecko [...]

Lime in your beer?

From Andrew Rossi:

I have seen this ad a couple times now, as it seems the fad for this summer in the beer industry is lime-flavored beers. This is an advertisement for Bud Light Lime, and I found it interesting the way in which they are presenting it in the commercial. The first thing [...]