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Google Toilet

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, they know more about you than your significant other. They know what you’re searching for and when, what sites you visit, who you email, who you constantly check up on, who you ignore, and who knows what else. With all that data sitting on a server somewhere, they all try to do the same thing: sell you more junk.

http://www.intomobile.com/2011/01/03/google-toilet/
Filed under: Advertising Data Google Internet Privacy
 

Northern Lights
Northern-lights

How do you brand a substance once outlawed to the masses? If California's Prop 19 had passed, you can bet that ad firms, growers, and anybody else who wanted to cash in would have been scrambling for the best design. But what would government-sanctioned weed look like? We asked two New York ad agencies -- Pentagram and Mother -- to humor us.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/25/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-branded.html
Filed under: Advertising Brand Cannabis Marijuana Marketing Prop 19
 

Delivery device for nicotine

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At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone toddler's condition is set to rapidly deteriorate. Ardi, who is rarely seen without a cigarette, insists on the same brand, which costs his parents £3.78 a day.

Local officials offered to buy the family a new car if the boy quits, but Ardi's parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they do not indulge him. "He is totally addicted. If he does not get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall," Ardi's mother wept.

Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25% of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2% of those active smokers. The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4% in 2001 to 2.8% in 2004, the agency reported.

Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke and the pressure to smoke. One-third of Indonesians smoke tobacco. Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281538/Smoking-year-old-Ardi-Rizal-40-cigarettes-day.html?printingPage=true

Filed under: Advertising Business Children Indonesia Tobacco WTF
 

Vintage Ad Browser

Gold-dust

Philipp Lenssen has assembled more than 100,000 print ads from the last 150 years into a tagged, searchable database. The ad images come from books, comic books, auction web sites, Google's online book and magazine offerings, and wherever else Lenssen could find them. The home page is sorted by category, but you can search through titles and tags using text terms at each page bottom.

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

Filed under: Advertising Design Vintage
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