Space Chair: Toshiba Ad

Pretty cool:

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Captain Morgan campaign nixed by NFL

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Targeted Advertising

I went to the Mad Men page over at amctv.com this afternoon and this was the banner at the top - talk about nailing your target audience (click to biggify):



What a great banner ad.

Swear Jar

Comedy:

Adrants Interviews Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner

Read it here.

"Oh, that's right: a man wants to smell like a man!"

You really have no idea how much amusement Rigs and I got out of this last week:



Or, if you know us at all, you have a very good idea.

Via FJM.

Holiday Party Hijinks

A bit of internets fame for your host, courtesy of Adrants. From last week's holiday party.

Mad Men

Are you watching?

This is AMC's original series centered on the creative director of Sterling & Cooper, a Madison Avenue ad agency set in the 1960's. It's smart, it's funny, it's got great characters:

• Uber-asshole partner Sterling
  
• Debonair Don Draper
  
• Erudite-yet-insane Pete Campbell
  
• Girl-next-door-intelligent-and-li'l-bit-sassy-secretary Peggy
• Cadre of overpaid, underworked, soused, chauvanistic copywriters, ad execs, and oh - the blatantly gay Art Director
  
• Draper's beautiful, immature, under-medicated, blondified housewife
• The impossibly curvaceous Joanie, head secretary
  

The costume is incredible; the dialogue, save some absurd lines, is fantastic; the feel of the series is "Sixties" - and all that entails. The main character is a womanizer, a dick to his coworkers, and essentially a gigantic ego who is grossly overpaid and lives life without either moral or social checks and balances (admit it: most of you men want to be Don, and most of you women want to be with Don).

It works. Well. It's great stuff. Check it out.