Consumer Thoughts

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I just sent this in e-mail form to the Gawker blogs which I read:
“Can you please quit linking keywords in your posts to categories or tags? Especially ones that have only one post in their category, like Consumerist’s link today to Palatine. It really feels like that IntelliTxt advertising and is very annoying. [...]

I’m not sure I entirely understand this commercial. Is he supposed to be an actor? Why does he say the little rhyme once in a normal voice, then in his little boy voice?

I hereby award this Target commercial “Most Annoying Music in a Commercial” for Q1 2007.

I really like the song in this ad, and the ad itself as well (though I think they play it a bit too often). Well done, Old Navy.

I sent this to Consumerist, but since they haven’t published it, I’ll post it here.
I have a Sony Ericsson phone (z520a) with Cingular as my carrier, and I just found an interesting setting in my phone. Go to Messages -> Settings -> Multimedia Msg. and there’s an option that says Accept Messages. Clicking [...]

This Dunkin’ Donuts commercial for their Smoothies is very grating.  A mother is dropping her kids off at all their extracurricular activities, and the last one is karate.  They yell out “Kar-ah-TAY!” as though it’s being shouted during a karate move.  And then they have to repeat it.  This commercial has some weird power over [...]

Attention Burger King:
Subservient Chicken: Cool.
Chicken doing stunts on a motorcycle while easy listening music plays in the background: not cool.
Doing a play on the whole royalty thing: Cool.
Using a guy in a bizarre plastic head: Not cool, and for that matter, scary as heck.

Exactly what is Yahoo thinking with this new ad for Yahoo Videos?

The new ad I’ve been seeing for the Gap is awesome. It’s called Jeans Take Shape and features people dancing around with paper-looking blue swirls and stars flying around them. The effect is superb - it really does look like they’re interacting with the dancers!
Here’s the video as found on YouTube: