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Super Bowl Tech Ads: Survivors and Casualties over the Years
Every season, 32 teams hope to make it to the Super Bowl. In that spirit, here are 32 tech companies from Super Bowl ads over the years. Just like NFL teams, some of these companies have flourished; others haven’t fared nearly as well.
The 10 Most Memorable Apple Commercials
Steve Jobs may be gone, but he’ll be remembered for changing the way we thought about everything from computers to music and movies
First Verizon iPhone Ad Features Clocks And Waiting
Since DVRs have basically eliminated the need to sit through commercials, we turn our attention to YouTube. That’s where Verizon’s first iPhone commercial has cropped up. It’s 30 seconds of clocks ticking, fingers and toes tapping, and a girl who smiles when one of the clocks strikes midnight—presumably on February 10th when the …
Figures Sold Separately: Relive Your Star Wars Toy Commercial Youth
If you’re American and of a certain age, then your childhood was probably filled with Kenner’s Star Wars toys, and your memories filled with the commercials for them, which promised thrills, spills and lots of people to play with, even if batteries weren’t included. From the austere, uncertain beginnings of the Early Bird promotion and …
Taco Bell’s New Band Of Heroes: Super Delicious Ingredient Force
Clever marketing schemes get me every time.
To promote its new $2 Meal Deals, Taco Bell teamed up with ad giants DraftFCB Chicago to create the newest band of superheroes: The Super Delicious Ingredient Force. Created with a 60s-style superhero cartoon feel, the first episode of what promises to be at least a trilogy of animated …
Get A Mac: A Tribute Montage
Friday, we got word that Justin Long would Mac no more after Apple officially pulled the plug on the clever Mac vs. PC ad series. In tribute, the guys over at One More Thing Podcast have put together a montage of Apple’s Get A Mac commercials’ best moments. It makes me want to put on an American Apparel tee, nondescript hoodie and buy …
Apple Cancels “Hi, I’m a Mac” Commercials
It looks like Apple has finally shuttered its Get a Mac campaign once and for all, pulling it from its site today.
(More on Techland: Apple Now Accepts Cash For iPads)
Even the gallery of the Get a Mac ads, featuring personified versions of Mac (Justin Long) and PC (John Hodgman), were removed and instead, the site redirects to a …
Why The New Ford Fiesta Will Save Your Ass From The Zombie Apocalypse
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
A Hideous Brood of New SF Trailers Chews Its Way Out Through the Corpse of Another Super Bowl
Another year, another Super Bowl not watched. I know lots of nerds are actually into watching the Super Bowl. I could never get behind watching a game I don’t play, played by people with whom I don’t have very much in common. I suppose there are passionate regional loyalties in play, plus genuinely interesting strategic calculations. …