rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

Oh nm, figured it out - it's Wilentz and Baker, featuring John Roland, compensated spokesperson.

or rather Wilens & Baker

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/23/23402/original/700.jpg?1695

o_O

classic

Oh nm, figured it out - it's Wilentz and Baker, featuring John Roland, compensated spokesperson.

That guy was an utterly banal local news anchor in the '80s and '90s. Trustworthy for life, obviously.

My fave EZ Pawn ad was the one featuring the beehived gal who looked like she was a 1964 Shirelles concert attendee.

yeah, something was so weirdly transfixing about that beehive girl!

I'm kind of mezmerized by vaguely evil uncle sam tbh

i saw it again on the way home, the 1964 girl is for GEM Pawnbrokers.

http://i.imgur.com/V2EfafO.jpg

http://www.legendarylifestylemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit-Kenneth-Branagh-2-590x860.jpg

https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorzizmor

http://i.imgur.com/V2EfafO.jpg

:( :( :(

not an ad, but i really truly hate that smug poem that ends with the line about roast chicken and red wine.

I hate all these "in the know new yorker" ads for seamless and flatrate and that other storage company. Really, really hate.

And also I agree about that roast chicken and red wine poem.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/21022/257959/hipster.jpg

wow freud so hipster very brooklyn

all these bushwick kids with their "worlds greatest grandpa" tees

are you in NYC Ryan?

yeah I live here now! texan in the big city midnight cowboy style. minus the cowboy hat.

In Texas is there lots of overly familiar "Yeehaw we're Texas, truckballs on my Ford amirite?" advertising? Cuz it seems like a symptom of that whole "I'm a New Yorker" thing that comes from really wanting to identify with here because you left somewhere else that was too boring or square.

it's literally inescapable in Texas, with bonus bashing of other places as in the famous picante sauce ad where the salsa is revealed to be made in *shudder* new york city.

I think part of what I hate about the NYC stuff is that it's mostly stuff that does not actually make me feel proud

tbf though most salsa made here is some bullshit

"We order lots of takeout because we can't cook for ourselves, our apartments are small and shitty, and we're shallow, superficial, judgmental and materialistic!"

Is there even a salsa industry in NYC anymore? I mean if there is I'm sure it's triple-priced craft salsa or w/e.

hurting 2 is burt stanton and i claim my $5

take out is by far the #1 reason to live in ny, just one of the greatest human achievements ever, and i cook for myself v well fwiw

wait not takeout DELIVERY

I'm probably just bitter because there's no good delivery in my hood now. It's like, uzbek kebab and that's it.

http://www.steinerfoods.com/images/brands/brooklyn_salsa.jpg

first time i saw this, thought of those "new york city!" ads

^lumpy ketchup in jar.

just kidding i havent had that one.

having brooklyn itself as a logo is not a smart graphic choice

is that john bull in profile dressed like a chicken?

BK salsa is okay.
amazing local salsa to be found here: http://www.bbg.org/visit/event/chile_pepper_festival_2013
Discovered this stuff there: http://www.redheadhotsauce.com/ which is concentrated awesome

will try. looks like it might make a good michelada as well.

i bought six bottles from that lady about a year ago; gave three away and have been working through the second one since. plan on having some around as long as she makes it.

lol the nadir of the "HEY YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK ADS" was those yankees themed... maybe budweiser? ads with mo rivera and the caption CLOSER IN A CITY OF CLOSERS

zizmor and the language schools are still the only subway ads i like

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_men8kbwwf11qaxc2so1_500.jpg

lol

snickers' tribute to dr zizmor was solid tho

http://brandmediaweek.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834519bc269e201156f51d44e970b-pi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ5eljJhYKY

zizmor and the language schools are still the only subway ads i like

― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:41 (5 hours ago) Permalink

i will always rep for john roland compensated spokesperson

I was alarmed to see that zizmor made an appearance in Bleeding Edge. id like to think the ad hasn't changed at all since 2001.

"the school of practical philosophy" is a cult right?

least fun cult ever

hugh jackman is into it!

iirc its just transcendetnal meditation

hope nobody has been #PouringOnThePounds recently, because there is an ad campaign directed squarely at YOU.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/images/pr2013/pr043-13-image.gif

Also, the West Village version of that HIPSTER CHECKLIST Flatrate ad is equally awful

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/21022/257959/westvillage_METRO_QTR_PG.jpg

Altho weird enough the version I saw had "Pet Stylist" or something as the 4th option.

Yeah as noted above, fuck those flatrate ads they're terrible. The concept is already bad, but the execution is so poor.

GrubHub is back on the "what up, fellow New Yorkers?" kick, with slogans like "When you're craving cake so badly, you'd crash a Central Park wedding to get it."

Also, I hate how every dumb campaign like this now has twenty variations of the same concept/joke plastered all over the same car. I know that's been a thing since at least the days of creepy Venmo Lucas, but it's just so dispiriting. Today's Zizmors stand no chance.

increasing amounts of AI slop these days. The Skechers ones have gotten the most online attention, but the trash ones for lawyer "THE BULL" are up there. There's one where he's in a Captain America costume and the New York streetscape behind him (a) collages numerous landmarks not possibly seen from the same vantage point; (b) has one mid-ground building with absolutely broken perspective; (c) flails about wildly with the Art Deco NY County Criminal Court building (essentially changing the width of every facade element from bay to bay); and (d) gives One World Trade some BIZARRE, horror-vacui fenestration, just doodling in window patterns randomly, not matching from left to right, etc. etc. I mean why even bother with the NYC landmarks theme? I'm amazed that the Statue of Liberty isn't missing her torch or something.