Y&H is old enough to remember drive-ins and some of the classic intermission advertisements that these operations showed between flicks. But Serious Eats has unearthed even older trailers dating back to when movie houses used to have intermissions. These clips are delightfully cheesy. They make me wonder what Don Draper would think of them. Not [...]
As AdFreak.com noted, this video is part of Domino's current marketing strategy to argue that its pizzas are so perfect and tasty, right out of the oven, that they don't need any food-porn, food-stylist manipulation. You can even submit photos of your Domino's pie to try to prove the chain's point. That's all well and [...]
If the Super Delicious Ingredient Force is part of Taco Bell's plan to build an icon as cuddly to kids as Ronald McDonald, I have just one small piece of advice: You might want to rethink the cartoon character that looks like it was pinched out by a Labrador. I mean, seriously, doesn't Commander Seasoned [...]
There seems to be a difference in the way Nando's markets itself in the states vs. Down Under, where this commercial aired. Is it because America's more uptight about sex...or we have better taste?
"Alcohol — enemy of production" By Internet magic, a friend of a friend sent me this link to The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters, a collection of Soviet anti-alcohol propaganda. Throughout Russian history, vodka has been alternately a source of pride and a social ill, a state-owned industry and a health hazard. Loads of cool retro [...]
The Baltimore Sun's Rob Kasper pointed me to a New York Times piece yesterday that brings up the potential nomenclature scrum over the nickname "Natty," between canned beers National Bohemian and Natural Light. (Props to Kasper for calling them both "thin beers" even though Natty Boh is a Charm City hometown favorite.) In the piece, [...]
