Sure, creating a great commercial for the Superbowl is tough. But it may be even tougher to come up with truly awful stinkers like these five losers.
Superbowl XLVII had its share of great commercials, but these five hit new lows in wasted money, poor targeting, lack of imagination and sheer poor taste.
Creating commercials for the Superbowl is always tough. The need to stand out, make a splash and be remembered naturally conflicts with the high-stakes nature of the event.
This explains the yearly default to a short list of themes that always test well with consumers and clients alike: babies, animals, slapstick and iconic music, especially '70s classic rock.
The lineup for Superbowl XLVII was no different, but like every year, some brands found new and compelling ways to tell their stories and innovative ways to deliver them.
Here are the top five of this years ads - commercials that lived up to their presence on the world's biggest advertising stage.
While fashion-savvy individuals can’t wait to see the fashion items from the catwalk runways to the stores, webmasters are all too anticipant to know the best web designs that will be in and hot for the next year. Website designs now are not only there to look at but also to respond with. In this page, we will discuss the top 5 web designs we project for 2013.
For those who love everything about text, here are five top smartphone applications sure to tickle your font fancy.
With social media being such a large part of modern marketing campaigns, it’s important to maintain accounts through several platforms, and even multiple accounts in order to separate business from personal communication, or to keep different areas of your business separate. Managing multiple accounts can be exhausting and confusing, leaving little time for the actual running of your business. Social media management apps can help by allowing you to see, and manage all your accounts in one place. Which app is best for you? Here are five of the best-known, to help you decide.
Like discussing the birds and the bees or explaining the infield fly rule, having the ‘Facebook Talk’ is now one of parenting’s essential rites of passage. Your kids need to know the rules of the social media road and, more importantly, you need to know the rules – what you are and aren’t allowed to do in front of their 900 million closest friends. These rules will vary depending on your kids’ ages and personalities, so you’ll probably need to have this talk at least once a year. But here are five things you definitely should not do.
It’s been in our minds and thoughts to keep our wallets and money bags safe. For decades, people have not given up worrying about safeguarding anything that is MONEY. Everyone of us are undoubtedly careful while on making huge money transactions. At some instant, we might also tend to think that if something goes wrong with the transaction or if the cash has not been transferred, so and so. However, an online payment system wouldn’t bother you much on this, since the transactions made via these systems are acknowledged to be secure and trust-worthy. Right from the launch of these systems, they happen to be the perfect tool for any transaction that is made online. There are a plenty of online payment systems offered, among which Paypal, Google Checkout are among the popular and best used criteria. In this post, I’ve pulled the top 5 online payment system tools which can be trusted in every way.
By our lights, the notion of “creativity” can’t be separated from the skills required for creative execution. So our analysis of the characteristics crucial to creativity focuses particularly on the skills that facilitate putting ideas into action.
Below, we outline five key qualities of particularly productive creatives, followed by some recommendations for how to uncover them in potential hires, co-workers, and collaborators.
Think you're pretty great at Twitter? A pro at Facebook? Fact is, your social media strategy could use an upgrade. Here are five ways to fix the little things you're messing up.
Let’s be honest, we all get a little jealous when we see how young these billionaires really are and how much money they make. Most of us would have to work many lifetimes in order to come even close to what these five billionaires generate, but how do they make so much money?
Find out how each of these young billionaires made their billions through this very interesting infographic.
Some products sell well when first introduced. Many more fail miserably.
Very few of them sell so well that they fundamentally impact American culture. This is 24/7 Wall St.’s list of 10 products that did just that.
2012 will see some of the biggest releases ever in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre. GamesBeat has rounded up the most promising titles and asked their developers, “What makes your game unique?”
You’ll also find beta information, minimum system requirements, and preorder bonus/collector’s edition details if applicable. Let’s begin!
The US News and World Report publishes an annual review of US colleges and universities. Each college is chosen for the list based on the ranking of their fine arts program and the incorporation of elements of graphic design. Some schools teach graphic design in relation to architectural design, while others embrace the commercial aspects of the art.
Quiz time: Did you know that a burglary occurs every 14.6 seconds in America? With the average dollar loss from a robbery up to $2,119, homeowners and renters need to take caution. While there are many different security measures you can put into place, you need to make sure your home is properly protected. Today’s technology is improving at an increasing rate, and with these advances, new improvements are have also been made to security system technology. Here are the top five security systems for your home in 2012...
If you're driving and you need to use your mobile phone, most states in the US require you to use some kind of hands-free device to place or take calls. For most of us, that means some kind of Bluetooth headset. There was a time when those headsets were prohibitively expensive, but these days depending on the features and form factor you're looking for, they can come in super-cheap, or cost you a good bit of money. This week, we're going to look at five of the best, based on your nominations.
Frequent Facebook users have a love-hate relationship with the world's largest social network. It's hard not to worry about how Facebook is using the information we so freely feed it, yet the platform itself is so fun and enjoyable to use, oftentimes it's easier to overlook the bigger privacy picture for in-the-moment fun. Parents share images of their kids with friends and distant relatives. Artists trade links and images on Facebook, collaborating and curating ideas and interests. Yet the social networking comes with a price, as evidenced by the controversy caused by the Girls Around Me App, which uses public Foursquare and Facebook location data to map women nearby. And of course, it's easier to freak out about apps like this than to seriously consider what dumping your personal information onto Facebook itself means.
It’s the age-old question, especially for new business owners: How do I attract new clients? With that fresh-start mentality revving up and most companies and entrepreneurs setting goals for 2012, generating new business is on the brain. While no magic formula exists, and everyone’s views vary slightly, here are some reliable strategies to find logo design clients.
Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software package that can be used by experts and novices alike. Photoshop is used for editing images for Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. Serving since past five years it has been embraced by more than a million graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.
With cameras being fitted to nearly all electronic devices these days there has been a surge in popularity in image editing software. If it’s not touching up your snaps to give them that David Bailey look then it’s letting your creative juices boil through creating your own images, designs and graphics from scratch; image editing software offers you a wealth of possibilities. In this post we look at some of our favourite tools and what makes them so good.
