Articles on Commercials

View at own risk: Five insanely addictive Japanese commercials - Jul 6, 2009

Blogs Since coming to Japan I've been trying to watch as much television as possible in the hopes that the language might gradually seep into my brain. Unfortunately, by doing so, I've ... Read story »

Softbank ads getting stranger and stranger - Sep 21, 2009

Blogs Many of you might have already seen the unusual Softbank ad portraying Brad Pitt as a sumo wrestler's personal assistant. If that's not weird enough for you, the latest batch of ... Read story »

Toshiba releases 25 HDTVs - Sep 18, 2009

Crave Toshiba has just unveiled 25 Regza LCD TVs in Japan with panel sizes scaling from three petite 19-inchers to a 55-inch whopper. Among the new entries is the LED-backlit ZX9000 ... Read story »

HTC's product excellence "tip jar" - Nov 6, 2009

Crave HTC CEO Peter Chou unveiling the "quietly brilliant" tagline. We pointed out recently that HTC changed its tagline from "HTC Innovation" to "quietly brilliant". What we did not know then was ... Read story »

Sandara Park: From Philippine showbiz to Korean girl group 2NE1 - May 9, 2009

Blogs Once a fixture in the Philippine entertainment world where she was involved in movies, TV shows, commercials and music albums, Korean Sandara Park made a decision in 2007 to leave the ... Read story »

Super-wide 43-inch NEC display is super-expensive - Jun 5, 2009

Crave Remember those "wider is better" Pontiac commercials from several years back? NEC will probably need a marketing campaign at least as effective (was that one even effective?) to sell the following ... Read story »

Ako Mismo advocacy for change in the Philippines taps Old and New Media - May 4, 2009

Blogs Amid the terrible deluge of commercials unleashed during the free TV broadcast of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton bout, one advertisement stood out and actually gave hope to thousands of ... Read story »

AkoMismo.org--Great advocacy campaign or failed attempt? - May 14, 2009

Blogs When Manny Pacquiao beat the living daylights out of The Hitman Hatton last week, the Philippines practically stood still. Everyone was glued to his set or listening to the radio for ... Read story »

Motorola Droid "Stealth" commercial - Nov 4, 2009

Crave The always-impressive Boy Genius Report has gotten its hands on a copy of Verizon and Google's newest commercial for the Droid (its GSM cousin is the Milestone). The commercial's called Stealth, ... Read story »

Virgin Galactic unveils sub-orbital spacecraft - Dec 8, 2009

Features Virgin Galactic on Monday unveiled the world's first commercial manned spaceship in Mojave, Calif.  Read story »

Samsung proclaims laptops with OLED screens in 2010 - Sep 8, 2009

Crave Consumers will see the first commercial OLED laptops a year from now, Samsung said this week at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany. Kyu Uhm, head of worldwide sales and marketing ... Read story »

Bridgestone unveils flexible e-book reader prototype - Nov 2, 2009

Crave When not making tires, Bridgestone is working on e-book readers so flexible they'd probably survive being driven over. They've even got a prototype ready for testing, but no plans to ... Read story »

Virgin Galactic unveils rocket plane thrill ride - Dec 8, 2009

Crave California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Virgin founder Richard Branson, right, inspect a model of SpaceShipTwo Monday before the craft's roll-out. Designer Burt Rutan looks on from the left. MOJAVE, Calif.--Virgin ... Read story »

Flickr deepen photo-licensing relationship with Getty - Nov 6, 2009

Crave Yahoo's Flickr site has deepened its relationship with photo-licensing power Getty Images so photographers can nominate their own photos for inclusion in Getty's Flickr Collection. Previously, Getty decided which images it ... Read story »

Harnessing the sun's energy to power the world - Sep 30, 2009

Crave Sun Catalytix is pursuing a breakthrough system that would use cheap solar panels to produce hydrogen, which would be stored and then used to produce electricity in a fuel cell. ... Read story »

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