the worst banner ad i have ever seen

this must be a joke. i don’t have any idea why anyone would click on this ad. this is even worst that those stock dancing flash movies used in other crappy banners. first of all, the NYS driver’s license looks nothing like that. second, could they have used a worst image? this guy looks like he was born in 1884 not 1984 and drives a mule, not a car.

it only takes 3 dollars to buy an image from istock.com folks.  the ad agency responsible for this should be fired - along with the client’s marketing department. c’mon people…all this money spent on media buys and this is the best creative you could get. the only thing they can probably say in their defense is that they save you money cause they don’t spend it on creative.

anybody have any worst banners…send them over.

niko and mini virus

the visual mercenary group spent the past weekend in the suburbs of columbus, ohio shooting a small documentary video. we can’t really tell you what it’s about yet, but let’s just say that it involves an irish guy, a vertically challenged wrestler and a one-armed man. i’ll tell you…you just can’t make this shit up, art does imitate life. we’ll keep you informed of the progress.

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i love social networking. believe me, i really do. i believe that social networks and social media marketing play a very important role in today’s completely wired (and/or wireless) world. but looking at the image above - which i must admit i don’t remember what website i took the screen shot from - it seems that we’re getting to the point of ridiculousness. when i came across this, i seriously could not believe the amount of icons on that page.

i understand that a couple of them may be foreign (ie, not USA) sites (segnalo.com - yes, netvouz.com - no), but my question is where do we draw the line? i’m all for free market economies and building a better mousetrap (or social network in this case), but over 6 social bookmarking sites on the same links page? do we really need backflip, link-a-gogo, spurl and yardbarker? c’mon, yardbarker?

am i the only one who feels like this? oh yeah, and don’t forget to post, re-post, share and link to this article…