Posts tagged as "advertising"

Posted by Markus on 25th September 2009

Technology or Business?

After you’ve figured out that you really want and need a web site, you come to a very important crossroad. This fork has two different paths and usually people don’t even realize the existence of the other. Let’s go back a bit. Imagine you walk to an advertising agency to do a print campaign. Do [...]

Posted by Markus on 7th May 2009

Our rock stars

Went to see some rock stars doing stand-up comedy at Manala’s English Comedy Club and it was well worth the 7 euro admission and I guess I’ll be spending more time there and I was even asked to go and try out on their English open mic night coming soon… Scary thought. I know. But [...]

Posted by Markus on 3rd May 2009

The week on Varha.com 27th April – 3rd May

Whew, what a week! We had an excellent Vappu weekend with good weather – so if you’ve been boozing for the last three days, here’s something for you to do while lying on the sofa going cold turkey. eBooking it up The amazing tales of eBook reading continues, part two of a continuing series. Good [...]

Posted by Markus on 29th April 2009

Good Advertising – Makita Drill Ad

I’m going to start another series, that will be titled Good Advertising – which will naturally get stuck with any adblocker out there. If you’ve been reading this blog for any time, you’ll notice that I whine and moan quite a bit about advertising and the industry in general. This comes from the fact, that [...]

Posted by Markus on 24th April 2009

How to make your video viral!

How to turn lead into gold! Here’s how Advertising Age starts their article: How to Make Your Online Video Go Viral Here’s the Magic Formula to Get Your Push Embraced, and Avoid Being Stalled at the Gate The emphasis on the topic is mine, but it tells an amazing story. Does one of the leading [...]

Posted by Markus on 20th April 2009

The Beckham Terminator

Ad agencies, brand building, ooh, aah. I’d like to see the effect on business this advertising campaign has. David Beckham rubbing himself with a phone that looks like a, um, I don’t know – a lady shaver? Still, it doesn’t tell anything about the product, its price, when it’s coming out, what does it do [...]

Posted by Markus on 19th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 13th to 19th

Oy vey, interesting week behind us again and here’s a collection of articles from Varha.com that have been very popular this week. Seems like people are more interested in the small, quick things, pictures and videos instead of the longer “articles” that you actually have to spend more than two minutes watching. Finland gets nuked [...]

Posted by Markus on 16th April 2009

BMW’s checkmate to Audi

This was going around in IRC yesterday and since I’ve already shown it to many people in the office, why not put it up here as well. I think this is not only a beautiful ad, it is very innovative and has humor. Also, I have to say that the BMW ad is better since [...]

Posted by Markus on 14th April 2009

Slow motion bullets

Well we’ve been talking about the Matrix, shown you slow-motion videos and I don’t see any reason not to show you more. I found this excellent video from Youtube that is actually a great example of material that has the capability to go viral. It is well done, has a point and captures the viewer [...]

Posted by Markus on 12th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th

Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]