Confessional Blog

Seven Days till Facebook Armageddon

Friday, December 16 2011 - 1:05pm GMT

Warning: If you've ever put embarrassing photos or posts on Facebook, you have seven days before FaceBook will feature them front and center as part of its new default profile page.

Intern Sweatshop: Facebook: Awesome or Annoying?

Monday, December 12 2011 - 9:11pm GMT

It is annoying that Facebook is using other social media sites idea, but their privacy setting are my main bugaboo.

The Great White Coke Mistake

Wednesday, December 7 2011 - 5:29pm GMT

Coca cola is red,

Pepsi is blue,

But Diet is gray either way.

The Movember 2011

Wednesday, November 30 2011 - 2:31pm GMT

The fascination with facial hair and the ability to grow/not grow exquisite moustaches (and some beards) and was on the forefront of all Renegade minds coming into November... Or should we say, Mo-vember.

Hey, You Got Your Back To The Future In My Advertising

Thursday, September 8 2011 - 7:57pm GMT

Perhaps in preparation for reaching the year 2015, or better yet just by coincidence, themes and characters from the Back to the Future franchise have started to show up in innocuous places.

Cops Prove They Can Rhyme Again

Thursday, August 25 2011 - 7:38pm GMT

The following stills are either from an upcoming American remake of a Japanease Horror movie "Ghost Cop" or from three tv spots from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Labor Day campaign " Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over."

Is Viral Video the Future of Advertising?

Thursday, July 21 2011 - 5:46pm GMT

Viral video has long been regarded as a crap shoot advertising tactic.

C’mon, Brands!

Thursday, July 14 2011 - 6:33pm GMT

In a world where communications can happen instantly and literally everything you've done online has the potential to live eternally, why are brands/companies not giving their updates a second thought before hitting the post button?

Rally, Fans - Rally!

Thursday, May 26 2011 - 9:51pm GMT

In case you've been living under a rock for the past month, you may have heard about a massive hack perpetrated on Sony and their Qriocity service by a splinter group of the hacker collective, Anonymous.

A Creative So Nice They Had to Use It Twice

Wednesday, May 25 2011 - 5:55pm GMT

"The food your other food loves," is genius. I won't eat sour cream by itself, but I won't eat baked potatoes, burritos or nachos without it. Seriously, I stopped at Taco Bell this past Sunday on my trip from NJ back to MD and specifically looked for items with that contained cream.

Kegasus vs. Get Your Preak On

Monday, May 16 2011 - 4:07pm GMT

With the running of the 136th Preakness Stakes coming this weekend, I thought it might be fun to get people’s takes on Preakness advertising since it’s “Rebrand.” And when I say rebrand, I mean the advertising that’s supported the second leg of Horse Racing’s Triple Crown since it was transformed from a Bacchanal to just a big festival.

Animal Shelter Advertising: A New Contender

Thursday, May 5 2011 - 4:32pm GMT

If you've ever seen an advertisement for animal shelters or other related causes, if you were just listening to the spot's music, you'd expect it to be an ad for some anti-depressant.

Oh la la – French advertising

Monday, April 25 2011 - 8:56pm GMT

Tacos are 88% Beef, 12% Rude

Thursday, April 21 2011 - 7:36pm GMT

As someone who has (thankfully) never been on the receiving side of a lawsuit about the percentage of beef in my tacos, I guess I really can't judge how severe my feelings would be hurt if I did receive one.

How Are You Using Social Media?

Monday, April 18 2011 - 5:38pm GMT

Everyone is using social media today, and it is used for way more than just telling people what's on your mind or where you're going this Friday (Friday, Gotta Get Down...Sorry.)

Apparently Our Customers Like Our “Crappy” Commercials—Yours, 5-Hour Energy

Wednesday, March 30 2011 - 2:57pm GMT

While action sports advertising has been successful for energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster, you can’t take away anything from Living Essentials’ success. The company understands their consumers and, even with low-production value commercials, they get the message across clearly and (if sales numbers are any indication) effectively.

Visigoths Hate Nerds Too

Tuesday, March 29 2011 - 8:26pm GMT

There’s a good chance you’ve seen the “Visigoth Sports Net” spots, but you’ve probably only come across their Web content while streaming games this past March. The humor is right up there with so many of ESPN’s classic SportsCenter spots. Of course they’re silly, but the campaign also completely plays up the attitudes and often misplaced intensity we get from sports highlights shows.

Intern Sweatshop: The Rise and Fail of Advertising

Thursday, March 24 2011 - 2:07pm GMT

Are you becoming more annoyed instead of more interested with seeing the same commercials over and over? Do you think you’ll remember the Beiber vs. Ozzy Best Buy commercial six months down the road? The main question we have to ask ourselves is: Do commercials these days have any depth?

Avril La Product Placement

Monday, March 21 2011 - 8:04pm GMT

I went through Avril’s entire official video catalog, and outside of the occasional Marshal or Fender amp, this one video featured more obvious product placement than all of Avril’s previous videos combined. And that list includes her first song, “Complicated,” which was shot in a freakin’ mall! You have to make a serious effort to hide signage in a mall!

To Martha! Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Tuesday, March 15 2011 - 8:00pm GMT

Q. What’s the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral?

A. One less drunk.