Do you remember the movie Fight Club with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton? The “parental advisory” and “don’t try this at home” signs on that video were needless. In New York a group called “Union Square Spartans” form a real-life fight club.
The fighters, most of whom are homeless, have names like “Spider”, “Shadow”, [...]
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Yesterday I watched a TV show which had Hans Klok as a guest. Hans Klok is a world-famous Dutch illusionist, the best of the best!
After his show during the opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, viewed by 500 million soccer fans in 152 countries, he went to Vegas. The place to be [...]
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Filed under: Celebrities, Controversial
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Rachael Matthews, a 31 year old knitting guru published some very sick knitting patterns. Patterns to create one’s very own cuddly Hitler, Pol Pot or Saddam.
Those patterns are included, together with instructions, in the new book of knitstress Rachael Matthews. There is no mention of ‘Knitler’ on [...]
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This controversial advertisement is part of the French promotional campaign for the Rugby World Cup in September. The advertisement has generated much sensation in the rugby world. Exactly what the creators wanted…
I don’t get the message they want to communicate. Are rugby players gay? Sure, some are, but rugby is one of the toughest sports [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Controversial, Parody, Picture, Sport, Weird
Jobseekers were speechlessness when they went along to their local job centre and found an advert for a kinky job. the company - called Knobs ‘n’ Knockers - was looking for applicants of both sexes to do washing-up and ironing in the nude.
The advert told hopeful candidates: ‘Required for household cleaning duties in [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Funny, Weird
Yesterday and the day before, I posted about religious groups and their effect on marketing and promotion. Today the final post about that subject. I could go on forever though… But this is a blog about marketing, not about religions and their intolerance and lacking ability to put things in perspective! Here’s another example of [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Religion
what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander! Yesterday Muslims, Christians today…
Dutch beer maker Heineken has withdrawn all advertising from a Spanish Network. They did so after receiving various complaints about the satirical religious show Salvados por la Iglesia (Saved by the Church) of Sexta TV.
In the show there was a scene in [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Beer, Controversial, Religion
Last week Dutch companies have given into a Jordanian boycott. The companies Zwanenberg and Friesland Foods have placed advertisements in Jordan newspapers saying they oppose the film Fitna by politician Geert Wilders.
The Messenger of Allah Unites Us, which had already mounted a boycott of Danish products because of the fantastic Muhammad cartoons, also began a [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Propaganda, Uncategorized
Do you know Amy Winehouse? For those who lived under a rock “Amy Jade Winehouse is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul, jazz and R&B. Amy Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of Enfield, London to a Jewish family who shared her love of jazz music”
Every [...]
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Filed under: Africa, Celebrities, Controversial, Drugs
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Spore is the latest, and suposedly ultimate, addition to Maxis‘ range of sim-everything games. I have some fond memories of games like Simcity and I bet many of our female readers spend many hours and much cash their social simulator “the Sims”.
Spore is an attempt to create [...]
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Filed under: Computers, Controversial, Funny
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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Subscribers to Top Gear Magazine, that drove less than five kph to fast when they were caught by a Speed camera, can send their speeding tickets to the car magazine. They will pay the fine!
Their reason:
“Since last April the fine for traffic offences went up [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Controversial, Propaganda
Lesbos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. Its population is approximately 90,000 and they are called Lesbians.
The word lesbian is derived from the poems of Sappho, born in Lesbos, which contain powerful emotional content directed toward other females and have frequently been interpreted as expressing homosexual love. Because of this association, [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Funny, Weird
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Did you see the clip whit Sharon Stone already? It’s doing the rounds like wildfire! In Cannes, during the film festival, Hong Kong Cable TV interviewed Sharon Stone and asked her for her opinion on the recent earthquake. The official death toll from the 7.9 magnitude [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Celebrities, Controversial
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An English father is giving Nintendo a hard time because its Wii Fit game branded his daughter a “fatty.” Tabea Scott-King, a healthy 11 years old girl from Spalding (GB) told her parents she was going on a diet. When her parents asked why, Tabea said, “Because [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Commercial, Controversial, Informative, Viral
PROMOpinion does not share the opinion of the next post, but we encourage anyone to speak out, therefore this interestingly different look on modern media and propaganda by Shane Lamotte.
Why have people unconsciously mutated into robots, living life as if they’re already dead? Why has the general public become slaves to their mind, blaming others [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, External, Informative, Propaganda
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A car dealer, selling both used and new vehicles, is holding a controversial promotion to boost sales. Until the end of this month Max Motors in Missouri is offering anyone who buys a car the choice of $250 in gas or a free semi-automatic handgun. So far [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, US presidential campaign, Weird
In order to promote the 2008 edition of reality show Big Brother in Australia, advertising agency Marketforce came up with an innovative and unique Bluetooth SMS campaign. The campaign embodied the famous quote from George Orwell’s book 1984 “Big Brother is watching you” which is the essence of the show.
Networtk TEN, the host of the [...]
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Filed under: Brilliant, Controversial, Picture, Weird
For the promotion of PROMOpinion I did some networking on sites like LinkedIn, Digg, Stumble Upon, etc. Now there is a controversial new site, called “Penisbook”.
Visit it by clicking on the screenshot below. Surf the site or just watch the front-page for more than 10 seconds. I can hear you think “PenisBook, sounds filthy, I’m [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Controversial, Parody, Viral, Weird
Dying, I rather not talk about it. It scares me to death. Live is too much fun. The way I look at it right now, I don’t want to die ever! But, according to science, we all will and what are the odds that I will be an exception?
I’m 30 years old, so [...]
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Filed under: Beer, Controversial, Funny, Picture, Weird
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Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in New York recently put a 130 million years old prehistoric dinosaur dung under the hammer. The dung was identified by the auction house as Jurassic era coprolite, a rather euphemistic term for “shit”. It looks like a normal rock on [...]
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Filed under: Brilliant, Controversial, Weird
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Beijing’s loss of the 2000 Olympics Games to Sydney, Australia was attributed mainly to it’s poor human rights record. After sitting out the bidding for the 2004 Olympic events, China made a promise of improving it’s human rights record as the centerpiece of it’s successful bid for [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Controversial, External, Propaganda, Sport
(7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)
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Subliminal advertising is considered to be the most powerful representation of ideas that appeals to the emotional and unconscious mind. It is a response to a stimulus unknowingly. Normal level of thinking is not enough to perceive such advertisements as they are designed by experts, who have [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, External, Funny, Weird
Nadia Plesner is a Danish artist, making politically controversial artwork. She studies at the Rietveld academy in Amsterdam. With her latest works called “Simple Living” she shows the absurdity of modern life. The conflict in Sudan plays a central role in her illustrations. Her intention is to get attention for the continuing starvation [...]
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Filed under: Africa, Celebrities, Controversial, Picture
We often talk about global Promotion. But this time it’s all about a single handwritten ad!
Jack Hammond, 88 years old, recently moved into a care home near his family. He left all his old drinking friends and the local pub behind. In his current care home the only other male resident is not a [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Funny, Picture, Weird
Is he a lunatic or a caring daddy? Jason Niebling offers his face as a “human advertising billboard.” The highest bidder can have his brand/logo tattooed on the head of this man.
The 37-year-old man from Ipswich, Australia, doesn’t care if people think he’s an idiot as long as this crazy idea pays off and he [...]
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Filed under: Computers, Controversial, Funny, Uncategorized, Weird
(7 votes, average: 2.57 out of 5)
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Nike is legendary when it comes to marketing. Time and time again they create new hypes. This time they are talking about a running revolution. Now why would they do that? To sell extra shoes, sure, but do they realize that running isn’t as healthy as most [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Commercial, Controversial, Sport
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)
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Wine producer Ilja Gort insured his nose against the loss of sense or smell. Gort is the owner of Tulipe Wines. He claims that his nose can distinguish millions of different scents and is essential to guarantee the quality of his wine brewery. Lloyd’s of London [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Insurance, Viral, Weird
(7 votes, average: 2.43 out of 5)
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Coca Cola must be ashamed for sponsoring the Olympic games. Why else this compressed commercial? The voice-over would embarrass the speed rappers from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
With this ad Coca Cola is recruiting people that want to carry the Olympic Torch trough the U.S. The Olympic torch, [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Controversial
(13 votes, average: 4.92 out of 5)
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Co-blogger Benny is currently working so hard on a project that he sometimes has too less time to eat or sleep, even to write a post. But that’s one of the many reasons we have this blog together. So we can guarantee a 100% original post every [...]
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Filed under: Brilliant, Controversial, Funny, Weird
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Today there are elections in Zimbabwe (formerly known as Southern Rhodesia). The Zimbabwe’s election commission just announced the first results of the presidential election. It seems like it’s going to be a neck-and-neck race between Mugabe and Tsvangirai.
Of course the final result of the elections are a [...]
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Filed under: Africa, Controversial, Informative
(6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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Note: The original host of the movie decided to get it offline, click the video to see why. You can still see the movie here.
Over the last few months, not a day went by in my country (the Netherlands) in which it hasn’t been a point [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Informative, Propaganda, Uncategorized, Weird
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With 133 days to go until the Olympic games in China, more and more commercials, advertisements and promotional campaigns will use the event for marketing purposes. It has been like that for a long time and will be like that forever. Not all Olympic games are the [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Celebrities, Controversial, Propaganda
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Religions are a hot subject at the moment. From Obama’s United Church of Christ to the coming movie about Islam from right wing politician Geert Wilders called Fitna and the monks in Tibet.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Propaganda, US presidential campaign
An Icelandic telecommunications company has raised a few eyebrows. They made an advertisement using the biblical story of the Last Supper. Jesus calls Judas with the Síminn 3G Mobile phone, which supports video calling. This results in a hilarious ending of the commercial. I might have said it before, and probably will say it again, [...]
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Filed under: Beautiful, Brilliant, Controversial
This Intel Core 2 Duo ad caused quite some accusations. Look closely. What do you see? Why did Intel apologize for this ad? I didn’t find out until I read about it. Still, I don’t get it.What’s going on? The ad, which was for a new generation of micro-processors, shows six black sprinters in start [...]
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Filed under: Computers, Controversial, Picture
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