advertising

An amazing set of ads for a country where guns are shunned.

Power Your Innovation? Dream You Life? Test your ad slogan knowledge.

It's interesting to see how the Internet continues to change the world we live in. In Japan, it's common for print advertisements and TV commercials to present viewers with a computer search box suggesting a keyword they might use to find the company's website later, a practice called uebu yudo or "web guidance" in the advertising industry here. [more]

Once thing I have noticed about Japanese adverts is that a lot of them show the search-word required to find their site on the web. I haven’t seen this in other countries and wondered what other people had seen around the world?

A new TV from Samsung has a camera that snaps a picture of who's watching. It then uses image analysis to determine the race of the viewer, as well as the gender and age. The "demographic" data for targeted advertising.

Funny Car Ad - probably will never run on TV!

Posters announcing the opening of a newly rennovated pachinko parlor in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Via Chiri mo tsumoreba

Domo-kun is the new image character for Target's Halloween campaign. When can we just build that trans-pacific bridge already?!

Here is a collection of a number of advertisements that use sumo to get their messages across. Insensitive? Demeaning? Or just plain funny?

Recruit Co is showing advertising videos for the cafes and restaurants in the underground mall of Tokyo Station by using a Scent-emitting LCD Display System developed by NTT Communications Corp.

A new high-tech Japanese electronic display can instantly identify people's sex or age range and target them with advertisements to suit them, maker NEC Corp. said. Those who are interested in what is being advertised can hold their cellphones over a special device, which feeds them a URL link, coupons and other information on the products.