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 [...]

Wachovia ~ or surf over ya

If you thought that the Pepsi Dare for More campaign was great, then you’ll love this new little banner ad from Wachovia in Los Angeles: It’s an animated Flash ad that I pulled out the boundaries on so that you could see the little animated surfers sitting off the stage after floating by to form [...]

Bank of America: Come back please ~ to the beach

Bank of America finally sent out apology letters to people who were booted off of their auto-pay system and charged fees and higher interest rates.  They said they would correct the situation. Too bad they already lost a ton of customers.  Well, they’re still trying to win us back with more futile beach advertising, not [...]

China Discover ~ an interesting Google ad

Most people don’t think of Google ads as being very beautiful, but check this one out: I thought at first that it was an additional, and a little out of place, Pepsi ad on the page I was linking to at I Believe in Advertising when I was researching the Pepsi post.  Of course I [...]

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