The ad you see above has officially become my number one most hated type of ad. Here are just a few of my reasons: It pops up unexpectedly when opening up an app on your iPhone. It covers the whole screen making you uncertain if you are looking at the app or the app has crashed unexpectedly. The close this ad button is usually within the smallest area of the screen. On the iPhone in particularly the close button is hard to push because of the lack of physical buttons. Trying to close the ads sometime cause you to accidentally launch the ad. This is known as a miss-click and…

Image via Adfreak His name is Rich Will Wanket. He works in real estate and he is responsible for the advertisement above, published in July in the local edition of The Onion. The man featured in the ad is the man who created it. He has an extremely unique name and he decided to publish an advertisement that uses his name’s masturbation innuendoes to gain recognition for his company. The ad got him a lot of recognition but his real estate company didn’t appreciate it and promptly fired him.  The real estate company stated that, “It is not a message reflective our brand.” Let me ask you guys something. We all…

Yesterday, September 30th marked the 50th anniversary of the Flintstones cartoon. This was brought to my attention when I visited Google’s homepage and saw that they had put up a Google Doodle featuring a Flintstones theme. Yes, I know that it would have been better if I’d discussed this post on the day of the anniversary but it just couldn’t be done I was taking the GRE. The design is below. Upon further research I discovered that the Flintstones were not a children’s cartoon when they were first aired. The Flintstones were actually an adult sitcom much like The Simpsons and Family Guy. I know what you all are thinking…

Image via Adfreak If you are pretty, female, outgoing, need a job, and don’t mind the phrase “Double Down” written across your derriere, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has a job opportunity for you. The campaign’s objective is to tempt college guys into trying the company’s new bun-less sandwich. The job does require a uniform; really it’s just sweatpats sporting the phrase “Double Down” and the KFC logo. Ladies, the gig pays $500, which may help you forget about your feminist sensibilities for a little whileanyway. You can apply for the position to become a human billboard or what the company calls “Brand Ambassadors” by leaving them a message on their Facebook…

The Shake Weight, a dumbbell like piece of exercise equipment has enjoyed tremendous notoriety thanks to the suggestive-way the weight is held. The weight is an arm toning workout product. The way the product is held and used is very sexually suggestive. All you have to do to have a full understanding of what I am saying is watch one or both of the videos. “We never intended for the women’s device ad to have innuendo,” says Johann Verheem, the inventor of the Shake Weight according to Adfreak. Verheem goes on to say that if you use the product based on the three exercises provided, it’s not suggestive at all.…

A few days ago, I read an article in the Huffington Post that on a cartoon that was published in the Purdue University student paper known as The Exponent. The cartoon depicted a couple having sex doggy-style, while the man sneaks away he allows his friend to join in on the act without the woman’s knowledge according to the Jezebel article. The Purdue community was enraged and rightly so, we all should know, sex without consent is rape. I didn’t put an image of the cartoon with this post because I don’t want that sort of thing on my blog but you can see the cartoon via the Jezebel article.…

Craig Brimm, founder of the advertising blog Kiss My Black Ads, created the image above. I had to write about the ad because as a guy on the client service side of advertising. I felt truer words were never spoken. Plus, I really like the background design that the text lays on. Best, -A.B.

A sign in South Bend, Indiana. Photo By: Lee MacMillan The creators of the billboard above never had those weekly, Friday spelling tests when they were in school, I’m guessing. It’s even more embarrassing when your message is intended to celebrate your local— pathetic, public—school system. Yeah, a friend sent me this article from MSNBC. By Monday, responsibility for the error was taken by Blue Waters Group. They do feel bad, but they should be held responsible for the egg on their client’s face. And for those of you who didn’t catch the error, the word “Public” is missing an L on the billboard which makes “Pubic.” Best,-A.B.