Recent Posts Tagged With Advertising

• 8 Racist Ads in a “Post-Racial” World

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 pm in Advertising ads racist cracked post-racial

  Cracked links to 8 racist ads broadcast over the past few years, including an Indian ad for a skin-whitening cream from Ponds.  I kid you not! ...

• Univision Fights to Survive

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 04:20 pm in TV Advertising media univision andrew hobson

  Univision reported a 7.8% drop in ad revenue for the fourth quarter today, bringing the company’s net 4Q08 loss to $1.99 billion.   The company has been mired in declining ad revenues, lawsuits, and longstanding debt obligations. While automob...

• Why the NY Post’s Advertisers are Today’s Racist Lynch Mob

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 10:53 am in politics Culture Advertising media obama

  A few weeks ago, I discussed five reasons why the media reform effort is the civil rights movement of our time.  In one example that I gave, I pointed out the similarities between the way Flavor Flav is depicted and the blackface tradition of vaudev...

• Work Opportunity: Rent Out Your Eyelids to Advertisers ;)

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 05:02 pm in Advertising wtf eyelid body advertising feelunique.com

  Feelunique.com, a beauty products website based in the UK, is offering models up to 100 British pounds ($156 US) to go around with the feelunique.com logo printed on their eyelids.  The “per wink” rate is 10 pence (not sure how they plan...