Archive for the ‘television’ Category

Rick Ardon so needs this

Now you probably want the link to the pitch-altering phase vocoder.

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Media Watch described last week the unsuccessful attempts of the not half bad Bazura Project to get itself noticed by TV Week’s Logie Awards. It’s a movie show not shown on WA TV. There should be more of that. Anyhow, here they are receiving their Antenna Awards at Melbourne Community TV’s annual Gongs:

Vegetarians: “we can do dumb sexist ads too”

Another ad “too hot for TV” but you can watch it on the internets. Did you hear they’ve taken the word ‘gullible’ out of the Dictionary? Below is the PETA ad featuring models in underwear with vegetables, reputedly banned from the Superbowl. About as sexy as a Playboy Centrefold. ‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl [...]

Move your arms! Use your hands!

The Snuggie is America’s latest direct response TV phenomenon. It’s a cheap blanket with SLEEVES. That’s it basically. And yet, they can spin that into a two minute ad that makes you want to kill puppies. Impressive. Only 4 million sold so far. Not jealous; perfectly calm.

Are the children okay?

Never mind if the children are okay; is the PRODUCER okay? Poor man. My heart goes out to him.

The 1st Nike cricket ad

No wonder we’re getting caned.

Sarah Palin in a swimsuit

It’s probably a bit down-market for our readers but here is a video of Sarah Palin at the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant: You might wonder, what sort of dork keeps a videotape of a 1984 beauty contest. Well, that’s him in the video. Here’s his MySpace account. 100% class. While you’re at it, have a [...]

Microsoft unplugged

A somewhat disrespectful re-interpretation of the first Gates-Seinfeld comedy TVC. LOOK; we don’t make ‘em, we just link to the suckers.

Mad Men

The drama about the 60s ad industry is becoming a major US television property.

TV and online together

UK research commissioned by Thinkbox and the Internet Ad Bureau looked at detailed behaviour of ‘tech-savvy’ users as an indication of future media patterns. Interesting conclusions: Purchase and usage intent increase by 50% where consumers access both media. Half of respondents are online while watching TV. Every day. Our industry partners Foxtel are very strong [...]