This N. C. Winters comic strip reveals another side of freelance copywriting . . .
This appeared earlier today on Freelance Switch, a great blog for any writer.
Archive for June, 2009
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Jun
Quizno’s. Burger King. And now dirty-minded Hardee’s chimes in.
Thanks to LA’s Mendelsohn Zien Advertising, we have a poppin’ fresh perversion for Biscuit Holes with a smutty spot that proves everyone goes Harlequin for Hardee’s.
In this commercial, passersby name these risqué rounds of dough.
I wonder which part of Hardee’s demographic will crave Goody Balls or Sugar Nuts. Young men? Older women? A bus load of 14 year-olds en route to an all-day field trip. That’s it.
Or maybe we’re all just perverted Biscuit Hole munchers at heart.
What does it really require to be an award-winning ad agency creative director these days? For the fast food franchises, smut experience is in. Good marketing sense is out.
I interned for Howard Stern; throw me a f@*#ing bone . . . or not.
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Jun
Yes, I know . . .
Michael Jackson is dead. So what?
I’m not a cold person, but the posthumous “I love the King of Pop” parade on Twitter is really starting to rot my crotch.
If we were tweeting about MJ yesterday, it certainly wouldn’t resemble today’s emotional fanfare. We’d be harsh, cruel, judgmental and on a witch-hunt to deck the off-white diva with a thing for kids, animals or perhaps just a 1988 bottle of Pepsi. Earlier today, @leica0000 provided a real break from the fake tears: “Jacko tried to get into heaven, but God told him to beat it.”
Crotch grabs. Makeup. Noses. You name it. This washed up, washed out pop star was an easy target, and we went for it.
And now, we’re sad? We’re so bad.
At least we’re funny.
24
Jun
Copyranter alerted me of this tasteless ad.
In Singapore—where all the funny (but ill-targeted) ads go—Burger King gets hard to combat hard times.
Perhaps the ad for Quizno’s 12-inch Toasty Torpedo could use a hand from this target-bouncing beauty.
Nice work, Bon-Foods PTE, Ltd.
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Jun
Venables, Bell + Partners sticks it to the Saudis with this new Audi TV ad.
This commercial introduces Audi’s turbo-direct injection clean diesel engine and shows how this technology can quicken US energy independence.
A slick move. It’ll go over nicely with Americans, but this spot smacks of the Louisville, KY pastor who’d rather watch over his lock, stock and barrel.
Jesus Chrysler, when are we going to start biking here, walking there and driving less? When will we stick it to our own gas/oil/diesel-guzzling ways?
Until we answer those questions, we’ll have to answer to someone for fuel.