Balloon Advertising

Summary: Remember when Super Bowl commercials were simply Super Bowl commercials — i.e. spots that ran during the actual Super Bowl? They’re becoming a rather distant memory these days, as more and more brands take to tweeting, teasing, and even previewing their spots well before the big game.

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Summary: Though Absinthe, the infamous green elixir with nicknames like “the Green Fairy” and “the Green Menace,” has been available around the world for some time, there hasn’t been a brand ready to make a global push to market and distribute the drink. Enter Pernod-Ricard, the drink maker that says it was one of the first that made absinthe commercially available in 1805, is planning a global campaign to introduce its absinthe brand, Supéri-eure. Pernod-Ricard claims that its brand was the one go-to absinthe for the artists Van Gogh and Picasso. In fact, it plans on emphasizing its cultural impact by collaborating with artists and musicians.

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Summary: The fun thing about the Super Bowl is that when it comes near, mainstream media shifts its coverage to advertising. Advertising gets hit from all angles by the media, too: what’s good advertising, what’s bad advertising, why does our society need advertising, the invasiveness of advertising, and so on. Many pieces are off point, and some are not. It is important, though, for the advertising industry to speak up when such media critics pop their heads into our domain to give their two cents about advertising. One such head is Esquire’s Stephen Marche, who wrote a piece today about bringing back good advertising.

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