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It seems like every advertising company and their mother is using "Coming Home" in their commercials. Is that song public domain now or something?Jedi Knight Luigi posted:"It's like we're not even taste buds...we're taste bros." Just think, someone at Sonic thought that people were craving these two in Sonic commercials. raditts posted:There are actually two different commercials for Cougarlife, each with their own unique half-assed song. One of them tries to lip-sync the song to stock video! That's just sad.
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Gaunab posted:These specialized dating sites are starting to get ridiculous. Just saw one for Cougarlife.com that came with it's own half-assed song. Is it wrong that the thing that pisses me off the most about the ad is that the song is a blatant ripoff of Metric's "Stadium Love"? Also I can't stand that new Levi's ad. "You're not a person. You're a string, sewn into a pair of pants, made by a third world orphan."
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Oct 11, 2012 03:42
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lelandjs posted:Is it wrong that the thing that pisses me off the most about the ad is that the song is a blatant ripoff of Metric's "Stadium Love"? haha, I didn't hear it until you said it but drat. That is pretty much "write me a song in under 24 hours or you're fired" plagiarism
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Oct 11, 2012 04:44
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Just what the world needed, a commercial that depicts Hot Pockets as phallic objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76LkYUyVzo And there's a new Western Sky commercial I can't seem to find online, but it looks like they gave the spokeswoman some meth, because she's disturbingly perky and keeps grinning like  .
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Oct 11, 2012 21:50
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Is there an "Ads you love" thread? Because I love the VW commercial with the guy air-drumming to Rush. 
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Oct 12, 2012 00:40
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There's a new Trop50 ad with Jane Krazinski... and a monkey. Did some insane NBC exec insist that the not only has to be a monkey in every new show but in the ads as well?
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Oct 12, 2012 01:10
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Is there an "Ads you love" thread? Because I love the VW commercial with the guy air-drumming to Rush. I second this. I don't know how they picked Fly By Night, but I'm glad they did
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Oct 12, 2012 01:44
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iamathousandapples posted:I second this. I don't know how they picked Fly By Night, but I'm glad they did Every time I hear that commercial I marvel that it isn't Tom Sawyer.
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Oct 12, 2012 01:47
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raditts posted:Just what the world needed, a commercial that depicts Hot Pockets as phallic objects. I found a picture of what I think you're talking about  Ignore the drawing.Also I just youtube searched for the commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qWoOljtjE What the gently caress is up with the comments?
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Oct 12, 2012 06:19
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"Hey, Velveeta Cheese, here. Y'know who's cool? That guy who works for minimum wage at the RC helicopter kiosk at the mall. He also eats gross microwavable mac & cheese during his lunchbreaks. That dude rules. You should totally be jealous of him." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXbApqTSgo
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Oct 12, 2012 06:23
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:I found a picture of what I think you're talking about Interest rate of ~90 percent, eh? I remember seeing one of their ads on Youtube where it was over 110 percent. Even so, the rates this organization charges would make Vegas loansharks weep in envy. As for the perky spokeswoman, I'd say it's less like meth and more like Smilex Gas. EDIT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA http://www.westernsky.com/General/Rates.aspx
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Oct 12, 2012 06:25
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Well yeah, that's how those places have to work if they are going to make any money at all. If a super short term loan doesn't have a ridiculous APR, they'll make jack poo poo on it when it's paid back.
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Oct 12, 2012 07:33
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I dunno, 84 monthly payments doesn't sound very short-term to me. If there's any excuse for such high rates it's that they don't expect a lot of people to pay anything back at all. Not that that's a good excuse for preying on the desperate and underinformed.
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Oct 12, 2012 09:48
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Yeah, Payday loan places usually have APRs in the range of 900%. You aren't supposed to take a year to pay it off so most people don't really notice how high it is. Those places are just legal loansharks.
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Oct 12, 2012 11:30
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Mozi posted:I dunno, 84 monthly payments doesn't sound very short-term to me. That's because you aren't supposed to take anywhere near 84 months to pay it back.
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:I found a picture of what I think you're talking about That's the older commercial, not the one I'm talking about. Those comments are pretty repulsive though, that's Youtube for ya.
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Oct 12, 2012 14:25
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BAD CREDIT, YOU RUIN MY GAME!!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxJkYKEoXeA
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Oct 12, 2012 19:48
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Why did they bring back the old freecreditscore.com band? Why? WHY?
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Oct 12, 2012 20:34
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squarerandom posted:One bought the rights to cowboys.com I was expecting the homepage to the Dallas Cowboys, not A dating site. Mister Kingdom posted:Why did they bring back the old freecreditscore.com band?
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Oct 13, 2012 03:11
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Y-Hat posted:They should have no freecreditscore.com That's better.
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Gonz posted:"Hey, Velveeta Cheese, here. Y'know who's cool? That guy who works for minimum wage at the RC helicopter kiosk at the mall. He also eats gross microwavable mac & cheese during his lunchbreaks. That dude rules. You should totally be jealous of him." The narrator sounds like a rejected character off of "Eastbound and Down".
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Oct 13, 2012 05:00
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Gonz posted:"Hey, Velveeta Cheese, here. Y'know who's cool? That guy who works for minimum wage at the RC helicopter kiosk at the mall. He also eats gross microwavable mac & cheese during his lunchbreaks. That dude rules. You should totally be jealous of him." You're taking this pretty literally dude. It's cheap-rear end dollar store ramen with cheese (here's where someone spergs out about how ITS NOT REAL CHEESE or something) and it's pretty clear they're marketing it as such.
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Oct 13, 2012 13:54
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Sony is suing the actor who played that fictional Sony exec in Playstation commercials. Why? Because he had the nerve to be in other ads. Ads for tires!  quote:Sony's PlayStation would-be mascot Kevin Butler was sued by his former employers for playing Mario Kart in a Bridgestone tires commercial. http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/fake-playstation-exec-kevin-butler-sued-for-promoting-nintendo-wii/#ixzz29CERN1OT
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Oct 13, 2012 17:13
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What Sony Execs See: Their fictional character Kevin Butler playing a Wii game which will completely confuse people and hurt the Sony brand. What Everyone Else Sees: Oh cool, it's that actor that played Kevin Butler. He was pretty funny in those commercials, I'm glad to see he got more work. What? Sony is suing him? WTF Sony, remind me again why I keep buying your products? Oh Sony, keep on trucking doing everything possible to make people annoyed with you.
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Oct 13, 2012 17:20
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http://youtu.be/BgSvb_3Yt3E Sandra Lee of Food Network talking about the Renewal by Anderson Windows is her best decision ever. Not signing a contract with FN to get sloshed while frosting twinkies?
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bull3964 posted:Oh Sony, keep on trucking doing everything possible to make people annoyed with you. That's a slam dunk trademark case and if they don't sue it can be held against them in the future. Same thing when big time pro and college sports teams sue high schools for copying their logos without permission. Jerry Lambert's agent should have known better.
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Yea trademarks have to be aggressive just due to how the laws work, the agent should have known that.
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ElwoodCuse posted:That's a slam dunk trademark case and if they don't sue it can be held against them in the future. Same thing when big time pro and college sports teams sue high schools for copying their logos without permission. That's the thing, Jerry Lambert's agent is... Jerry Lambert. quote:On September 11, Sony filed a lawsuit against Bridgestone Tires and Wildcat Creek, an advertising agency for which Lambert is actually president.
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DJExile posted:You're taking this pretty literally dude. It's cheap-rear end dollar store ramen with cheese (here's where someone spergs out about how ITS NOT REAL CHEESE or something) and it's pretty clear they're marketing it as such. What they don't show you is the part of that guy's day that the voice-over doesn't tell you about is where the guy goes home to his one-room studio apartment after his day of making no sales on his mall-kiosk helicopters and stands in front of the mirror for 10 minutes with a gun in his mouth, because his situation is so hopeless that he has to borrow water from his buddy in the food court for his daily meal of a lovely box of noodles. Eat like that guy, viewing audience. ElwoodCuse posted:That's a slam dunk trademark case and if they don't sue it can be held against them in the future. Same thing when big time pro and college sports teams sue high schools for copying their logos without permission. What? How is that even remotely the same thing? He's not playing the character "Kevin Butler" in the Bridgestone commercial, is he? Just some guy who happens to look like Kevin Butler since they're the same loving actor, right? Or, as one of the comments in that article put it: quote:Perhaps as a follow up George Lucas plans to sue Harrison Ford for his later roles not playing a starship captain? raditts fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Oct 13, 2012 |
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docputer posted:http://youtu.be/BgSvb_3Yt3E
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Mister Kingdom posted:Why did they bring back the old freecreditscore.com band? Haters best get to bloggin.  ... 
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raditts posted:What? How is that even remotely the same thing? He's not playing the character "Kevin Butler" in the Bridgestone commercial, is he? Just some guy who happens to look like Kevin Butler since they're the same loving actor, right? He doesn't have to be. The issue is not that he's in another commercial, it's that he's in another commercial using the product of their direct competitor. quote:Or, as one of the comments in that article put it: This is a pretty awful analogy unless Harrison Ford is pitching Battlestar Galactica DVDs or something
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ElwoodCuse posted:This is a pretty awful analogy unless Harrison Ford is pitching Battlestar Galactica DVDs or something Even if Harrison Ford was pitching Battlestar Galactica DVDs, he should be completely free to do so unless he's being specifically portrayed as the likeness of Han Solo in the process. Harrison Ford is an actor, not a brand, and neither is this guy. An actor being in an role doesn't make his mere existence in another role a trademark case. Sony just handed Bridgestone and Nintendo a ton of free publicity and themselves another helping of egg on their face.
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McSpanky posted:Even if Harrison Ford was pitching Battlestar Galactica DVDs, he should be completely free to do so unless he's being specifically portrayed as the likeness of Han Solo in the process. He's absolutely not, that would be another very easy "likelihood of confusion" Lanham Act claim.
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You can't paint an airliner gray because you could, in theory, confuse it for a United Airlines plane. Who doesn't even paint them gray any more. That's how powerful and aggressive trademark law is.
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I mute whenever the Cosmopolitan Vegas hotel commercial comes on. The one where some Guy Ritchie thugs confront a Hollywood tool and recite Bohemian Rhapsody. Something about it just makes me want to smack everyone across the face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xa7cYMD-Dc I swear it's as if #YOLO was a commercial
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Oct 14, 2012 07:49
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Because when I think Vegas, I think British metrosexuals singing Freddie Mercury songs.
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I don't recall seeing this one mentioned yet, but that goddamn cell phone one with the prick dad deciding who gets the most data on the shared plan is getting old.. MOSHT DENTAL WORK! I must see it at least four times a night during primetime TV... ugh.
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WescottF1 posted:I don't recall seeing this one mentioned yet, but that goddamn cell phone one with the prick dad deciding who gets the most data on the shared plan is getting old.. "I just want to take a bath..." ARE YOU EVER GOING TO TAKE A drat BATH? YOU KEEP COMPLAINING ABOUT IT BUT YOUR DUMB rear end IS ETERNALLY AT THE COUNTER. Aggh that commercial gets on my nerves too.
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Sad thing is, I honestly couldn't say offhand what cell company it's for. So much for it at least being effective while annoying at the same time.
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