From the category archives:
New York City, who has been debating instituting a soda tax, has instead settled on running a shock ad campaign. Observe:
In theory, this seems like a good idea - though in general kids are rebellious and ad campaigns aimed at getting them to not do something aren’t always successful. For example, this study suggests that [...]
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Or at least, the new commercials would have you believe.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has a… department? … division? … group? … called The National Women’s Health Information Center (Office on Women’s Health) running a campaign: The Heart Truth.
Apparently they thought it would be a good idea to partner with…Diet Coke!?!?!…to remind [...]
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What do you get when you mix:
Creativity
The Matrix
Facts about industrial dairy farms
And a lot of time?
The Meatrix!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 2 1/2
So be thankful for living in the digital age, otherwise creative advertising like this wouldn’t exist!
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I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to check back in on our friends at Sweet Surprise. Perhaps I figured they’d give up on their advertising campaign promoting high fructose corn syrup? Thankfully not! If their last two commercials didn’t sway you, this one certainly will:
Sweet Surprise Ad 3 - Grab some popcorn (don’t [...]
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This is a continuation of A Tour through Food Headlines: 1935-1965. Using Google News Archive, I searched old newspaper archives for the phrase “healthy food” and took one of the first few relevant results from each of the last 8 decades.
In the first article, we caught glimpses of the important issues and general mindset of [...]
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