that canadian girl

Category: Marketing & Advertising

  • Colours that stay longer – Brother Innobella printer advert

    So British… By Duval Guillaume Antwerp for Brother Innobella printers [Via Adverblog]

  • Cadbury Creme Eggs

    Since we’re all still feeling the stomach ache from eating one too many chocolate Easter bunnies, this sugary topic is particularly suitable… I’ve never been that keen on the Cadbury Creme Eggs, but the envy takes me around once a…

  • Ask.com Information Revolution campaign

    Since Ask.com’s good old Jeeves was fired a few months ago, it’s been clear that something was brewing behind closed doors and that a great relaunch was bound to happen soon. It’s now happened. A viral, out-of-the-box, really groundbreaking campaign…

  • Spending the week on Cloud Nine

    When I was a kid, I used to get this feeling all the time. This floating feeling that life’s great, like you could explode if it gets any better. As grownups, we’re busy, stressed, worried over all sorts of trivial…

  • When Hallmark should just keep out of it

    When You Care Enough About Someone’s Awkward Personal Problems to Send Them Costly Pieces of Mass-Produced Cardstock(tm) Certain things just shouldn’t be said with a printed greeting card…

  • Such a wonderful industry

    If you don’t work in media/marketing: Enjoy this video, which probably reinforces what you think of marketers. If you work in the industry: Can you honestly tell me this doesn’t remind you of at least a few current or past…

  • Over this way!

    A few days ago, I bought a new domain, thatcanadiangeek.co.uk, for a laugh. The plan, sort of, is to divide my marketing, advertising and techy banter from the personal thoughts, photos and other bits. At the moment, I’m using a…

  • Peps Media: Doing what we do best even better

    For the past few years, I’ve been thinking it’d be great to have my own business projects and work for myself. While I’m not there yet, we’ve taken our first steps towards it by setting up Peps Media, our own…

  • Brand envy: The innocent fruit drinks

    You know what, I think I’ve got brand envy. It’s a bit like penis envy, but it’s specific to marketers rather than men (though men working in marketing can have both, I imagine). I envy the innocent brand. There, I…

  • How clever!

    I truly love advertising campaigns that get noticed without being driven by a big budget, like the Logitech QuickCam YouTube girl or any good ol’ virals, but I’m also a sucker for the likes of the Bravia superballs and the…