Bridgestone ~ For drivers who want their cars to get washed up and stuck on the beach

The reflection concept in this ad is kind of interesting, but it leaves you scratching your head when you think about why you would want a nice Mercedes looking like it washed up on the beach without its tires.  If it’s either Bridgestone or nothing, don’t show a car with nothing.
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workopolis vs. Phase 2 International ~ or ordinary job beach vs. sassy entrepreneurship bikini

Yahoo occasionally has really weird paradise ads.  Here’s a new one from workopoplis and Yahoo Canada:

Can you think of a blander way to market your career site?  Surely you’re something more than just a simple resume database?  You seem to be marketing to women, so are you sure the things you show are what they’re [...]

Harvard Business School 2 + 2 ~ Summer = Beach

The Harvard Business School has launched a new program called “HBS 2+2″ in which undergraduates in their third year apply for admission into the two-year MBA program. The students must first work for two years prior to making their way to the Boston campus.
You may have already seen this ad with the repetitive Crimson [...]

If you had to choose between eye sight and islands

Here’s a special new ad from CareCredit (click to enlarge):

What makes this one interesting is that they’re not trying to equate LASIK with a tropical island, just telling you that you can have both good eye sight and a tropical vacation.  CareCredit offers financing for healthcare procedures that insurance doesn’t necessarily cover.  It is a [...]

CMC Markets ~ Put on your suit and surf that online trading market

"Woo hoo!" that’s what your trader says just before he reaches the top of this chart from an animated ad for CMC Markets:

Online trading is just like surfing the North Shore in a suit.  And to "ride the market without the risk" that’s, well, probably a humongous stretch of an ad.
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Find the treasure ~ lower my bills

LowerMyBills.com has this animated Flash auto insurance ad floating out there (found on CNN.com):

Those look like pirate ships to me.  Do you really want to represent your company as a couple of pirate ships on a treasure hunt?  And those creatures jumping out of the water could be sharks.  Even the best case scenario is [...]

Ford Escape Hybrid ‘most fuel-efficient SUV’

You wouldn’t know that this opening shot of a Flash ad from NationalGeographic.com is for an SUV:

Just because a car is more fuel efficient than others doesn’t make it fuel efficient or green.  But Ford wants us to believe that the Escape literally sits in a beautiful field of sunflowers:

I’m not buying it.  Literally.  I’m [...]

Cigar-smoking penguins

I’m guessing that these penguins are supposed to indicate that it’s winter time (at least in the northern hemisphere), but they otherwise make no sense (click to enlarge):

This web page is from the company that brought us the worst print ad of the year.  You can see the same creepy guy in the lower right-hand [...]

HP Mediasmart Home Server

Okay, you spend $2,000 to fly to Tahiti, and you feel so homesick that you have to beam your reruns of Martin and Gilmore Girls to your hotel room:

In other words, you can now escape from your escape by going home whenever you please.  Thanks HP Mediasmart Home Server for making this possible??
God forbid we [...]

A cell phone is not an ocean or a surf shop, Helio

I have pondered for a long time now why the Korean company Helio would name their mobile power center phone the "Ocean."  But the images don’t stop there.  The company has put an ad up on BoingBoing for the phones very cool one click search function.  See:

This is a really great feature.  All you do [...]

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