Technology
We’re really not that big of fans of holiday-themed commercials (yes, we remember what we wrote last week). Most of them have way too many jingle bells and soft-focus shots of houses in a perfect blanket of snow for our taste.
But given the crush of cookies and sweets in the office this week (our dentist will not love our workplace), we were pleased to see some treats that weren’t going to add to our gluttony.
Even if, sigh, they do work for AT&T.
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| AT&T |
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Though we have yet to hear “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” the bourbon and fruitcake bloat has put us in a holiday frame of mind. Not soon enough to complete all our shopping of course, but hey, we’ve got till Tuesday (possibly a commonly held sentiment).
Taking a quick spin through our inbox this morning, AdRants points out possibly our favorite seasonal commercial so far this year. It’s Canadian. Because heaven knows you can’t have fun with anyone’s holiday in this country. (Why are we so thin-skinned?)
Looks like Jesus got his groove on.
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Despite (wise) comments to the contrary, we actually had training in advertising – one survey course in college to be exact.
Our fondest memory: The professor tried to convince us that grubby, crowded U.S. 101 through California’s Bay Area Peninsula was superior to the sprawling, open and scenic U.S. 280 (on the Pacific side) because the former had billboards (lots of ‘em) and the latter didn’t, thus was “boring.”
So if you think we don’t know anything about advertising, we submit we were obviously taught by fools. And we still hate billboards. With the exception of this South African one.
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