Category Archives: Marketing

Apple 2007 Teaser

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: January 1, 2007

Apple sets the bar pretty high for 2007, offering a teaser on their home page a week before the Macworld Expo and Conference. Mac Rumors offers a list of often discussed hardware and software expected this year including: Apple Phone New Mac Pro iTV Leopard New Displays iLife ’07 New Video iPod I fear it’s [...]

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Beautiful New Bravia Paint Ad

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: October 16, 2006

70,000 litres of paint 358 single bottle bombs 33 sextuple air cluster bombs 22 Triple hung cluster bombs 268 mortars 33 Triple Mortars 22 Double mortars 358 meters of weld 330 meters of steel pipe 57 km of copper wire Sound fun? Sony Bravia finally released Paint, a highly anticipated follow-up advertisement to their bouncing [...]

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2006 Super Bowl XL Commercials Fast Review

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: February 6, 2006

Download and watch all the Super Bowl Commercials on google or ifilm. Here’s my brief recap: Best Humor Delivery FedEx: Caveman (yea, it’s a pun, deal with it) Cavemen, dinosaurs, animal cruelty and retribution. Good stuff. Funny Runner-up Ameriquest Mortgage Co: That Killed Him Because joking about death is wrong, but killing a fly with [...]

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Red Stripe

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: August 31, 2005

It’s Beer! Hooray Beer! I love these commercials! (Drink Responsibly)

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Because I am a Firefly fanboy

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 26, 2005

In 24 hours I will be in line to see a (“can’t stop the signal“) Advance Preview Screening of Serenity, the film based on Joss Whedon’s Firefly. Who want’s to touch me?! Serenity officially releases September 30, so I’m somewhat excited. We’re such freaks about this, the fact that it’s showing in another city is [...]

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Email Spam Poetry

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: March 11, 2004

Perhaps email spammers were inspired by SatireWire‘s Annual Poetry Spam Contest, and have adopted more “creative” tactics for evading spam filters. So far this morning I’ve received 3 emails containing random prose. They’re HTML formatted messages with references to images on domains that don’t currently resolve, so I don’t get to see what they’re selling. [...]

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Spider-Man 2 Teaser Trailer

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: December 16, 2003

The teaser trailer has been released on the official Spider-Man movie website, though copies of Spider-Man 2 have already been available for download on the web. I like having movies to look forward to.