I’ve noticed lately when I hear commercials for dog and cat food, they talk about the taste. How it tastes better than ever, how it’s the best food ever taste-wise. My question is, how do they know? It’s not like you can ask fido or spot which food he likes better and get a definitive …
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I’m Frightened
I had the TV on, and on came an ad for something called Fruit2O. It was apparently fruit-flavoured water that doesn’t have any juice and is 0 calories. They call it fresh-picked water. So what exactly is that? It says doing something good for yourself never tasted so good. But what exactly are you putting …
Stupid Commercials
I had the radio on and I heard a commercial that stopped me in my tracks. It was a commercial for some charity called Operation Eyesight. Apparently this dude feels like he’s making a difference because he’s giving money every month to them and they help prevent eye diseases in developing countries, and if he …
Something’s Wrong with this Picture
I was lying in bed last night and I had the TV on, and I heard something that kinda freaked me out. An oil of ole commercial came on, and that seemed ordinary enough, until I heard what they were selling. I think everybody knows what Oil of Ole is, right? They make stuff to …
Arthritis Pain? What Arthritis Pain?
I was watching some TV the other day, and one of those commercials came on for a prescription drug that comes on if you’re watching an American channel. Ya know the ones. Some music and a voice saying, “insert medical condition getting you down? Are you not able to do the things you could do …
Chilling Thoughts
I don’t know why I find this so scary. But here we go. Off on another strange jog through Carin’s mind. I had the TV on, and this commercial came on for this new weird thing that some company has that makes air fresheners. Anyway it’s a disk and you put it in this special …
Irony
As I look at our new fangled google ads framy thing, I am struck by something that makes me laugh. This is a site run by three people who couldn’t drive if they wanted to, at least I’m pretty sure that Matt couldn’t and if anyone gave either Steve or I a license, it would …
Why I’m Glad Christmas Is Over
It’s not the religion. It’s not those annoying songs. It’s not even that people become more fake than usual at this time of year because “it’s the holidays so we should all love one another.” No, my reason for being glad the holiday season is finally at it’s end is much worse than the horror …
Why Automatic Ad Targeting Will Never Be Perfect
When you type the words north pole into Google, the first sponsored ad you see is this one. “North PolePlan a vacation- Save time & moneyGreat hotel rates, reviews. Affwww.tripadvisor.com” If I have to explain this to you, you’ve probably already booked the trip.
Sure, boss.
I was watching TV the other day, and sometimes I wonder if advertisers think that the IQ of the average TV-watcher is at the same level as a turnip. I mean, they’d have to to produce some of the shit advertisements they do. Here’s one for ya. Chef Boyardee however ya spell it. *checks so …