Are lottery tickets recession proof?

Well if you win, you can afford to feed your family.

Today is the last day of the New York lottery's Turkey Raffle.

No Advertising Monday – The Total Bull Edition

Keep up the good fight, but the market still looks like...

Who needs a bailout?

Is this Hyundai ad a jab at the Big 3 Detroit automakers who went to Washington with hat in hand?

Don't think that was their intent, but the timing makes it funny.

Motrin campaign causes headaches

Maybe telling moms that their kids are a pain isn’t the best way to sell them a pain reliever.

Johnson & Johnson just pulled the campaign and issused this apology on their site.

You can read more in this Ad Age article, “How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign”

No Advertising Monday - The Change Edition

Here’s the change we need:

Obama Change Jar by Rob Walker at Murketing.com

Does artist expression make the world a better place?

Their tagline is “Different values make the world a better place” but I wonder how HSBC feels about Poster Boy repurposing two of their ads.


You can see the original ads here.

Who wants to be teased?

Yet another teaser ad.

This one for creepy lothario William Control.
Is it a movie? An album? An interactive thriller? Do you even care anymore?

¿Cómo se dice copywriter?

Q. A quick question - google can't seem to give me the answer - what is copywriter in Spanish please?
- Anonymous

A. OK Anónimo,
I tried a few free online translation sites and came up with “escritor de anuncios” - which translates back into English as “writer of ads.”
Sounds a bit clunky to me, so I asked Julian Garcia, a copywriter at Hispanic agency Dieste Harmel & Partners. Here’s his response:
"Escritor," which means "writer" in English. That's the term used in advertising agencies in South America and Spain.

No Advertising Monday – The Unintentional Art Edition

The party's over

Hopefully this is the last fake political ad I'll see for another four years.