One of the great sadnesses of watching the Kerry campaign in '04 was that he'd take five days to respond - badly - to attacks on his character. So it's great to see the Obama campaign getting their retaliation in first. McCain's campaign say there will put out loads of ads after Tuesday, linking Obama to some dodgy boys in Chicago. So the Obama campaign are heading this off at the pass with an...

I generally like the Judicial Confirmation Network, or at least the function they serve. But their latest ad on whether we can trust Obama to appoint judges beause of...

A candidate for Congress resurrects the Daisy Ad....

After last week’s release of our new anti-fur ad featuring Neighbours’ star, Imogen Bailey, I got thinking… That gal has done so much for PETA and its affiliates that I just had to share it all with you. A ‘Fish & Chimps Retrospective Look at Imogen Bailey’, if you will. But basically, it’s just a chance to admire the gorgeous looks and deep compassion of this Aussie model and actress. We want you to vote for your favourite in a poll! Leave us a comment below to tell us which one you like best and why. First things first, there is of course her brand new ad – ‘Earn Your Wings, Don’t Wear Fur’. Here she dons all white and a pair of angel’s wings, matching her angelic good looks. Then there was the saucy ‘Hands Off My...

The Obama campaign has a new ad, entitled "Parachute," which hammers home the economic populist message. “You’ve got corporate executives who are giving themselves million dollar golden parachutes and leaving workers high and dry,” Obama says in the ad. “That’s wrong. It’s an outrage.” The video includes a nice little dig on Carly...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could convince your competitors that they had to spend big in order to keep up with you? If they use SpyFu to estimate your ad spend and CPC then you can. I’ve looked at what SpyFu say about their own algorithm and techniques and then I’ve combined this knowledge with what I observed last week to come up with these ideas about how to turn SpyFu into a double agent. Firstly let’s look at how SpyFu calculate their Ad Spend and CPC estimates. Then I’ll show you how to use this knowledge to increase SpyFu’s estimates of your Ad Spend and CPC without spending any more money. How Does SpyFu Estimate Daily Ad Spend? The onsite help, also available in The SpyFu Instruction Manual says this about calculating Daily Ad Spend: When we...

More than $580m was invested into online advertising companies in the first half of 2008, according to new research to be released today, obtained exclusively by TechCrunch UK. Europe accounted for $258m of this, or 45% of the total. The research has been put together by venture capital house Advent Ventures and will be revealed in a speech today by partner Paul Fisher in a speech at 2pm at the Ad:Tech conference in London. It was put together using data from Venturesource, RealDeals and proprietary research. Fisher will point out that this $580m figure is pretty remarkable, since European VC typically only accounts for around 20% of the USA on an industry-wide basis. Although the Advert research only counts for the first half of this year and there is no informatoin on what happened last...

A new McCain-Palin ad says that "McCain and his congressional allies led" on the financial crisis while Obama was "mum." That's simply not true. Obama has in fact made several statements about the crisis on Wall Street in recent...

Depending on how you look at it this is either genius ad placement at Stockwell or pretty unfortunate. As the inquest into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell London Underground Station continues, leading to prosecution of the Met Police under the health & safety legislation, some eagle eyed person took the photo above. Thanks to David R for forwarding me the photo.The headline for the ad for De Niro & Pacino's new film Righteous Kill says "There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get...

If you giggled when Apple launched their ‘funniest iPod ever’ pitch then you will laugh out loud after watching this. The ad in my opinion, makes the G1 so much more desirable than it really is, probably over exaggerating the technology it actually has, don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad phone but no where near anything like what we have been anticipating for nearly a year… Remember: We hand out 'dofollow' links to top five commentators of our blog within our sidebar each month, so get commenting! Thanks for your support! Click and comment on the post you've just read: Video: T-Mobile G1 ad surfaces… Tags: G1, Google, Android...

Many of you may have already seen this on YouTube, but for those of us who have yet to see the ad here it is. It has been noted by The Guardian’s Peter Moore that the ad was ‘too risky’ to be shown on Television. So here it is, so enjoy - don’t worry there is nothing offensive in it, its just a few people having a friendly game of cops and robbers like when you were a kid…….ahhh the good old days Once you have viewed the ad why not let us know what you think by leaving us a comment, do you think this should have been allowed on TV, or should it have been up for an award? Let us know <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie”...

I sat down to write a post that highlights the really innovative new Apple ad running over two ad units on the New York Times (see video...

For those of you not in the loop, spyfu.com is a web service that provides information on who is bidding on what keywords as well as further information on competitors’ daily ad spend as well as their average CPC. The startup squad have a great article on what spyfu does and how it does it. No Mr Bond, I Expect you to Disagree. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how useful spyfu is, ranging from the standard “it works/doesn’t work for me” to the commonly held belief that it is only really useful for large accounts. People disagreeing on the Internet? It’s time to try science! The Experiment I selected 20 of SEOptimise’s clients, discarded two of them for using foreign currencies (spyfu has a UK and US version but I didn’t want the hassle of fiddling with exchange rates)...

Environment, science & technology: Microsoft launches post-Seinfeld stage of global ad campaign with a series of 'I'm a PC' TV spots, attempting to to beat...

I recorded a two-minute TV ad about our economy and my plan to solve this crisis:Barack Obama AD. Please tell me this is going to sovle...

I watched this ad the other night and could happily watch it over and over. Now that's something. Hovis bread has been around forever and their new ad takes you through the ages via a little boy going to the shop to buy some.Please take a look you will be blown...

The 30 second US campaign ad is rather restricting in terms of what can be communicated. Just a quick message and that's that. Barack Obama's latest TV ad is remarkable in that it is two minutes long and features just him talking to the camera about his economic plan. Needless to say, he approves this...

Factcheck.org does a fairly effective demolition job on the latest McCain ad which accuses Obama/Biden of being "disrespectful" to Sarah Palin but uses what Factcheck.org calls "distorted quotes" to make its case: The McCain-Palin campaign has released a new TV ad that distorts quotes from the Obama campaign. It takes words out of context to make it sound as though the Democratic ticket...

The controversial ad deal between Yahoo and Google will go ahead antitrust challenge or not said...

Forbes has reported that a video ad on the front page of YouTube costs $175,000 plus the advertiser must agree to spend a further $50,000 on ads on Google or YouTube. If you want a custom-branded channel it will set you back $200,000.......

Althouse points to a YouTube ad up on Hot Air that she calls...

A press recruitment ad for special police constables featuring a shop with a sign stating "sweets, mags, drugs" has been banned after a complaint that it implied local newsagents were involved in the drugs trade.The press ad, which ran in the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, was run by the National Policing Improvement Agency to try to recruit people to help reduce crime in their local community by becoming special constables.Shot in front of a newsagent, the ad featured a policeman entering the shop, which had signage stating "sweets, mags, drugs". A footnote said: "It's your community. See what's really happening."The Advertising Standards Authority received a complaint from the National Federation of Retail Newsagents that the ad was "offensive and misleading because it implied that small...

By Michelle Boorstein, from Washington Post, 14th August2008 “This may be a first for a presidential campaign: A debate about whether one of the candidates is the Antichrist. The latest round began with the McCain campaign Web ad released earlier this month called “The One.” The spot includes clips of Obama seeming to imply he is God’s choice, shots of Charlton Heston, stairs in the clouds (to heaven?) and images that some say are meant to mimic those in the wildly popular “Left Behind” book series about the end of the world that feature the Antichrist. Some Obama supporters pounced on the ad, which was released in early August, saying it deliberately was meant to stoke a debate that’s been going on among some Christians for months: Whether Obama is the Antichrist....

New ad for Jessica Simpson for Stampede Light Plus. Jessica says in the copy that she "likes a cold beer once in a while," and ever the entrepreneur, she holds 15% share in the brand. Yee haw! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Our beloved Stella McCartney is rightly outraged over the misuse of one of her designs.  It seems a sheer black bra from Stella’s lingerie collection was used - without Stella’s permission, of course - in an ad for a fur boutique. Stella, who is totally dedicated to her anti-fur and leather stance, only found out about the ad when she saw it in the latest issue of Vogue.  There it was:  one of her designs, partially covered by a ghastly mink coat and accessorised with a ghastly leather belt. Stella had lent the bra to a stylist for use in an editorial photo shoot, but the stylist “got mixed up” and used it for the advertisement instead, without seeking Stella’s permission. When Stella saw the ad, she “hit the roof and said that she planned to...

A heart charity has made a TV ad aimed to show there is more to a heart attack than 'Hollywood versions'...

Amanda Beard, the incredibly gorgeous U.S. swimmer, has posed naked for a brand new anti-fur ad, just as the Olympics kick-off in Beijing. The Olympic gold medalist unveiled the stunning ‘Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin’ ad just hours after Beijing officials stopped her from holding a news conference, reportedly for “safety” reasons. Hmm, what’s so dangerous about a naked lady?! So the swimmer simply moved location and revealed the stunning ad to a swarm of reporters and TV cameras. Given that Beijing is hosting the Summer Olympic Games this year and the horrific conditions that have been documented on Chinese fur farms, now is a great time to remind folks that animals grow fur to protect themselves from the elements, not to cover hundred-pound fashionistas from...

Jokes about Jonah Brown aside it is clear that McCain has now inched ahead of Obama since his world tour.Danny Finkelstein has been lambasting McCain's advertising. In fact everybody inside the Beltway and in the Westminster village has been saying the same to Guido. Hang on a second. Can even you political obssessives remember any of Obama's ads? "Hope, change, blah." No, thought not.McCain's ads may not work with the knowing, his early hero ad with footage of him as a prisoner of war might be a bit too cheesy for cynics, but how does that play in the heartlands? People will remember that he endured harsh treatment heroically. The Obama love ad on media favouritism was a little reminder, the Paris Hilton ad and "The One" ad are low intensity attacks on Obama's politics of empty...

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama hits back at a TV ad labelling him as a celebrity who may not be ready to lead....

Chevy just released a new ad for their Aveo, but that's not all, they're making fun of other people while they're at it. In this ad, Chevy makes fun of Citroen's previous advert of the dancing C4 transformer. I think it is funny to make fun of other brands like ......