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Magic for Vodafone Launch Video

Posted on 18 Feb 2009 in General

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Heineken – Housewarming

Posted on 17 Jan 2009 in General

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T-Mobile Ad Liverpool Street Station

Posted on 17 Jan 2009 in General

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Durex Get It On!

Posted on 14 Jan 2009 in General

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Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

Posted on 13 Dec 2008 in General

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Britvic Drench ‘Brains’

Posted on 13 Dec 2008 in General

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Toshiba Timesculpture Advert

Posted on 12 Dec 2008 in General

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New Hovis Advert In Full HD Stereo – Sept 2008

Posted on 12 Dec 2008 in General

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Make Me Dirty

Posted on 11 Dec 2008 in General

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I love this ad campaign. Snapped this picture at Waterloo Station over 12 months ago, and saw it on a bus for the first time yesterday too.

Adverts jolt smokers into action

Posted on 02 Nov 2004 in General

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That heart wrenching Anthony Hicks UK anti-smoking ad seems to be having a good effect. I wonder how the My House ad for road safety is going, not as shocking of course, but very well done.

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/ukandworld/tm_objectid=14820112&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=adverts-jolt-smokers-into-action-name_page.html

Die spammers..

Posted on 06 Sep 2003 in General

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Pet hate: when spammers use your personal email address in the sender field of their viagra spams. As a result my inbox is filling up with all these delivery failures of emails susposedly from me.

The Cog

Posted on 09 Apr 2003 in General

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Very cool movie plugging the new Honda Accord, highly recommended – very clever. [via jwz]

http://www.honda.co.uk/newcars/accord100k.html

Bmwfilms

Posted on 09 Nov 2002 in General, Pop Culture

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I’ve been a bit slow to pickup on the BMW short films site, I’ve been meaning to visit it for ages. Well I finally downloaded one of the films, and then proceeded to download the other six. It’s a series of short films that feature Clive Owen as The Driver, he is basically a man for hire who will drive important people to a particular destination, whatever the cost. Most of the films star well known actors, but more importantly are directed by the likes of Ang Lee, John Woo, John Frankenheimer, and Guy Ritchie. Obviously they’re funded by BMW as a promotional vehicle to sell cars, but they’re certainly not ads. Most of action scenes are fast paced and movie quality, with a reasonable underlying story line. Highly recommended. Ah, but don’t bother downloading anything but the full 65MB-75MB versions. Tel$tra subscribers can download them for free here.

http://intl.bmwfilms.com/clap.asp?template=index&country=australia&film=

BMW Short Film – Ticker

Posted on 08 Nov 2002 in General, Pop Culture

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Excellent: “The driver rescues a mysterious messenger carrying an even more mysterious briefcase after an ambush on a rural highway. As a helicopter gunman relentlessly pursues them, a game of political intrigue plays out, with an unforeseen ending. Acclaimed new director Joe Carnahan helms Clive Owen, Don Cheadle, and F. Murray Abraham in this thrilling race against time.”

http://games.telstra.com/gamearena/resources/files/?action=details&id=3868

Google AdWords results

Posted on 17 Apr 2002 in General

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Ok then, experiment over. For a US$15 campaign that resulted in 1,712 impressions of my ad, I achieved a 0.64% click-thru rate or 11 visits. Two of those visits don’t count as they were made by people I know testing the ad, so it’s actually 9 visits. See the full report.

http://anthonyjhicks.com/stuff/AdWordsAdvertisingProgram1.html

Google AdWords fun

Posted on 16 Apr 2002 in General

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I was just procrastinating from a uni essay I’m supposed to be writing, so I thought I’d blow US$15 and have a play with the Google AdWords system. I’ve posted 1,000 impressions for “blogs”, “blog”, “weblog”, “weblogs”, “australian weblogs”, “australian blogs”, “technology blog” and “technology weblog” to see what I get through. Hello if you clicked my Google Ad, yes, I’ve been blogging for years and I’m desperate for your readership.. heh, not. Thanks for participating in my little experiment.

Superbowl XXXVI Commercials

Posted on 07 Feb 2002 in General

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If you’re having AdCritic withdrawl (like me), checkout FilePlanet’s small selection of commercials from Superbowl XXXVI, available for download.

http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?section=1385

Just Choose It Later

Posted on 20 Dec 2001 in General

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Bugger! One of my favourite sites has shutdown! Blurb from their site: “AdCritic.com has enjoyed a sucessful life as a leader in the area of archiving television and radio advertising and related information for both consumers and the advertising industry. Our business, although strong, has been unable to weather the current economic realities beseiging the United States today. The short answer: we became so popular so fast that we couldn’t stay afloat!”

http://www.adcritic.com/why/

Speculation Ad – Old World: Roof Sex

Posted on 11 Dec 2001 in General

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http://www.adcritic.com/content/spec-oldworld-roofsex.html

It’s no fun without the ads!

Posted on 14 May 2001 in General

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See how dull CNN is without the ads? Interesting approach though, I’ve never seen a site redirect to a separate personalised site just for web crawlers. I’d be adding a user-agent detection in there to block anyone who’s clearly a web browser user though.

http://robots.cnn.com/

Budweiser Alien Ad

Posted on 08 Mar 2001 in General

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Hah, the Budweiser Alien ad broadcast during this years Super Bowl is worth a look. [via RV]

http://www.adcritic.com/content/budweiser-alien-wazzup.html

More BigFatRadio praise

Posted on 30 Aug 2000 in General

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Once again, I’m VERY impressed with BigFatRadio, they’ve started doing advertising, but they’re doing it in a way I’ve never seen on any other web site.

Instead of relying solely on an audio voice over to plug their advertisers, or displaying banner ads on the site, they actually display the site they’re plugging in the site frame. As they’re discussing items for sale they go to the pages with that information, the voice over is completely synchronised with the web pages pushed to the listener.

This has to be one of the MOST effective forms of web advertising yet, telling the listener about the site and taking them to it, all while making the experience relatively palatable as listening to BigFatRadio is all about having sites pushed to listeners as they talk about them.

This may well become a very popular technique for advertisers and broadcasters on the net in the future. BFR rock!

http://www.bigfatradio.com