Absurd Adversiting

It's incredible how many products are on the market.  It's even more astonishing to consider how bombarded we are with advertisements for them.  Newspapers, magazines, TV shows, billboards, fliers, airplane banner-flying-things, and so many other outlets function as harbors for companies to shove their brand names in our faces.  Some do it with catchy jingles, clever mottoes, or images of famous people sporting their products.  Then, there are those advertisements which function merely to catch our attention, and do so in very obscure ways.  Many seem to advertise completely unrelated to what's actually being sold.

It's interesting to consider how businesses make their pitches.  No matter how ridiculous or unrelated some advertisement campaigns may seem, it's often the most obscure concepts than win us over.

Old Spice sells their soap by hitting you with this image.  Buy their suds and you're guaranteed feelings of shirtless bliss--riding a white horse, in tight capris, on the beach, glamorously striking a flamboyant pose.  Manly?

I love everything about Geico commercials.  Give them credit--they put huge googly eyes on a stack of fives and we think insurance.  They also use cavemen, geckos, and men who talk funny.  Brilliant.

A well-dressed, Jewish man in his sixties can only mean one thing:  Mexican beer!  Stay thirsty my friends.

Babies cracking jokes in their highchairs with adult voices.  Online stock broking, obviously.  Snaps to E*TRADE for pulling this one off.

Unfortunately the band is no longer together, but their random lyrics were catchy as ever, and they somehow managed to go electric in the most bizarre settings--unplugged, too!.  Interesting way to sell a credit score website.  "Freecreditreport.com...Tell your friends, tell your dad, tell your mom..."

"My name is Peggy".  Some people find these ones funny.  I'm not a fan.  Peggy plays the annoying phone operator, who bothers the caller for 20 seconds and then somehow we arrive at a Discover Card logo.  Go figure.

I've never been sure how to classify these barbaric vikings, or why they're the spokespeople for Capital One, so I did a little research. Apparently they're "Visigoths".  Do they make you want to drop everything and switch card companies?  "What's in your wallet?"

Those are just a few.  It's amazing how much our attention is worth, and just how far people will go to get a minute of it.

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