Personality Prototype
Category: AdvertisingBy Candice on Feb 21, 2011 in Advertising, Google | 2 Comments
J-Walk, one of 8,000 blogs I read daily, posted an entry with a link to Google Ads Preferences, which endeavours to “make the ads you see on the web more interesting” by tracking your cookies and guessing at your interests and demographics. Here’s what Google thinks it knows about me, with the wrong bits crossed [...]
By Candice on Jun 15, 2010 in Advertising, Annoyances, This is unacceptable..., Twitter | 1 Comment
And I don’t work for free. (Although, to illustrate my point I will be breaking this rule a teensy bit and giving away some free and undeserved attention.) Down with this kind of thing: MTV wants me to advertise MTV and ZYNC. They want me to spam my Twitter followers and Facebook friends. They want [...]
By Candice on Mar 18, 2010 in Advertising | 0 Comments
This Kotex commercial has been making the rounds because it’s all snarky meta-commentary on how most feminine hygiene products have nothing to do with what they’re selling. Right. Because no one actually wants a commercial that says, “Put this in your cooze, it will plug things up for awhile.” — link I do. That’s why [...]
By Candice on Sep 11, 2007 in Advertising, Blogetization, Monetization, Money, Rants, Retarded, SEO, Signifies all that is wrong in the world..., This is unacceptable... | 18 Comments
How to Make Money With Your Blog. Blah. SEO. Blah. Monetization. Blah. Boring. Lame. Gay. Gay gay gay gay super gay. Here’s the only tip that matters: have a blog that doesn’t suck. Then make money as an afterthought. Preferably by supplementing your excellent content with more excellent content, in a form that people might [...]
By Candice on Apr 11, 2007 in Advertising | 2 Comments
So Dove… Are you saying that I don’t possess “real beauty” because I’m above average height, below average weight, and young? Who’s going to campaign for me, huh Dove? I feel so excluded… As for you, “The Learning Channel”… Life lessons: collect them all by watching TLC. Or alternatively, by getting a life.
By Candice on Dec 22, 2006 in Advertising, Television | 0 Comments
I’m getting an awful lot of hits lately for the search terms Uno Attack AIDS. I’m the number one result, hurrah. Apparently the commercial has been featured on VH1′s The Best Week Ever, and so, welp, here’s a video clip of the commercial for you guys, since it’s what most of you showing up here [...]
By Candice on Nov 22, 2006 in Advertising, Bullshit, Religion, War on Christmas | 6 Comments
I know several people (including my husband) that work at Starbucks, and I’ve been told by them that the word “Christmas” is off-limits this year, and that “holidays” has been suggested to them as an alternative. Indeed, itsredagain.com, Starbucks’ holiday website, doesn’t include the C-word anywhere (except where it’s been submitted by users). The whole [...]