by Jason Fox | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized |
BBDO has been doing some truly stellar work for FedEx over the last several years. Consistent in tone and tone and message, the work proves that giving a campaign legs doesn’t require annoying schtick like the Aflac duck. Huzzah. Instead, the FedEx spots rely on...
by Jason Fox | Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized |
If Old Spice had ponied up the dough to run this during the Super Bowl two days ago, they wouldn’t have won the Ad Meter – they would have melted it into a gooey pile of shame with its confidence and mawnsomeness (manly awesomeness, duh).Is this guy the black Bruce...
by Jason Fox | Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized |
While three weeks technically remain on the calendar first developed by Rome-based insurance salesman Stephanus “Stevie” Stephanius (“Life. Home. Chariot.”) in 24 B.C., I feel comfortable in revealing this year’s Worst of the Worst in TV...
by Jason Fox | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In the 3 1/2 years since I started the sporadic musifying that is The AdHole, I have promoted my own work only once. This has not been out of humility. Rather, the bulk of those 42 months was spent as a self-employed freelancer. As anyone who has freelanced knows,...
by Jason Fox | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Let me say up front that I am torn, like Natalie Imbruglia but without the naked floor writhing, by the new Verizon campaign for the Droid. Which is a phone that has long been sold exclusively to the moisture farmers of Tatooine. The campaign, which is meant to launch...
by Jason Fox | Nov 2, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Welcomes Simon Gabriel Fox into the world and is promptly served with a trademark infringement suit by moob enthusiast Simon Cowell. Gabe Kaplan accepts a note of apology from Epstein’s mom.