Tourism Australia has just launched a new advertising campaign and the style reverts to a more traditional format after the somewhat arthouse style of the previous Baz Luhrmann created ads. Unsurprisingly, there’s been a chorus of complaints from sections of the intelligentsia bewailing the “unsophisticated” image the ad presents. Here’s the ad “There’s Nothing Like […]
How To Flush $300m Down The Toilet…
Every now and again a major corporation really raises the bar in ludicrous advertising. And Microsoft has just stepped up and probably just flushed $300m down the toilet with it’s new advertising campaign (“Bill Gates And Seinfeld In Bizarre $300m Ad Campaign For Microsoft”). Briefly, the ad shows Jerry Seinfeld running into Bill Gates in […]
Why Do Big Financial Institutions Have Such Dumb Advertising?
In the City today I couldn’t help notice a new advertising campaign from BT Financial Group, one of the big local funds managers. It’s promoting their superannuation (retirement savings) products and the part that I saw was the outdoor display ads. There’s a whole series of these advertisements and they all have a question theme […]