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Carrot! aka: "Ads Are Dumb"

"It's not just a vegetable. It's what a vegetable should be." /via The Atlantic

If J.R.R. Tolkein worked in Advertising

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From Valerio Amaro , who loves advertising and Tolkein

Awesomeness in Advertising - Episode #113 (Rockwell International)

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This, from a series of ads in '86 via Lawyers Guns & Money

Truth in advertising - Butter

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To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi, this is true "From a certain point of view" :-) Butter is slippery That's why we eat as much as possible to lubricate our  arteries and veins Butter:  Good and good for you 

Yelp Ads. Relevant? Not So Much...

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Rocky Agrawal takes Yelp Ads to the cleaners , and the result is not too pretty. A few prize results I searched for mesothelioma, which is Internet advertising gold. (It’s an asbestos-related disease.) I got an ad for a bankruptcy attorney. Those are very different problems. a search for flowers returned an ad for mattresses.   Theres more - go check it out