Topless Nissin Cup Noodles Light commercial

While surfing yourtube I found this one. You guys all like Cup of Noodles right? :)



Would this commercial ever be allowed in America?

Asian Hottie Wanted for Photoshoot

Hahahaha saw this on Craigslist

Hi,

I'm looking for a hot asian female to pose next to my smoking Black Dodge Charger. I love this car & I Love Asian women, so why not combine the two in a commemorative photo? Please wear something sexy (up to your discretion) and be ready for a lovely summertime photo-shoot. You can keep digital copies of the photos for you portfolio, show off how good you look, show your grandchildren... Don't let your beauty fade without some type of historical proof! ;^)

Thank you.

* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: 100 Dollars cash bucks

Come on. That's ridiculous. $100? It might cost the girl $100 just to get there and back. Teenage girls might go for it? I don't know.. that's just not enough. Not even enough to buy a dress.

Japanese beer for kids

Source: Baltimore Sun

The Tomomasu company of Japan once made a non-alcoholic drink for kids chock full of the guarana (twice the caffeine of coffee), with enough kick to have the little ones running up the walls.

It didn't sell very well, so they put it in a brown bottle and changed the name to Kidsbeer.

Whoosh ... turning your kid into a kinder-meth-head is much more attractive when it seems like you're getting them drunk. All the chore-doing benefits of kiddie Red Bull combined with the gateway drug priming for later alcoholism.

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Phhhhhttt just give kids real beer. It's better for them.

"Olympics girl" now highest grossing Chinese child celebrity

Source: Yahoo

Lin Miaoke, the nine-year-old girl who lip-synced at the Beijing Olympics last year, is currently appearing on TV advertisements promoting a plasma television set. An advertiser revealed that the girl was paid a seven-figure sum to endorse the product; a humongous sum exceeding top Chinese celebrities like Fan Bingbing, Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun who averagely receive around S$1million for endorsements. The figure is also challenging Zhang Ziyi's RMB$10million price.
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According to the Beijing advertiser, the plasma TV company chose Lin to endorse their products because her healthy image and social influence are in line with the products. Moreover, the plasma TV mainly targets children and youths with its unique eyesight protection capability; as such Lin is thus a convincing and realistic endorsee.

The girl admitted on her blog that upon wrapping up her scenes in Dream of the Red Chamber, she received the invitation by the Sichuan company and agreed to the endorsement without hesitation. The entire process from the invitation to wrapping up the commercial shoot, only took three days.

When a Chinese reporter called up Lin's father to check if his daughter has truly received a seven-figure endorsement fee, he laughed, "How is that possible? It must be a rumour on the Internet. My daughter's endorsement fee is not that high." However, the man refused to reveal the actual figure that was received.

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Ah to be a cute kid. We all remember her in the opening ceremony. Much was made ot the lip-synching but there's no doubt that she's really cute and now making money!

Soo the Talking Cow

Here's a strange promotion and one of the candidates!


Youtube Link

Califonia California!


The Canadian Cow is great too!


Youtube Link

Go here to see the rest of the candidates.

Samsung's new touchscreen LCDs for your public smudging

Source: Engadget

The new touchscreen from Samsung. It's part of its new TS series of Magicinfo LCDs targeting businesses and digital advertising markets. The LCD panels measure 32-, 40-, 46-, 70-, and 82-inches and can be linked together to form a massive touch experience.

Men: Lots of things to touch here!

Sapporo Beer's 'Image Girl' for 2009 chosen

Source: Japan Today

TOKYO — Model Miyuki, 25, has been chosen as Sapporo Beer’s Image Girl for 2009. Miyuki made her debut at an event held this week at the Yebisu Beer Musuem. Miyuki is 169 cm tall, and has measurements of 83-59-86.

“We always drink Yebisu at home in Gifu,” she said. “I like beer and I’m studying to get my qualification as a beer adviser.”

Miyuki also expressed her aspiration to become an actress. “I hope to become an actress with individual flair like Hiromi Nagasaku or Eri Fukatsu.”

There are three problems with this selection:

1) An apron? How can you sell beer wearing an apron?
2) 83 is way to small of a bust to be selling anything. That must be why she's wearing an apron.
3) “I like beer and I’m studying to get my qualification as a beer adviser.” WHAT?

Whatever happened to busty, bikini-clad babes selling beer?
Sapporo Beer has really gone downhill I believe.

The Best Way to Introduce a New Hamburger in Japan

Source: Media Transparent

A new black and red storefront opens up in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s trendiest neighborhoods, with no description beyond the words “Quarter Pounder” in front. Inside the menu offers only two items: the Quarter Pounder and the Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

In Japan, the “Quarter Pounder” doesn’t exist (portions in Japan are much smaller than in “SuperSizeMe” US). My Tokyo-born wife, who has lived here in the US over 16 years did not know that the Quarter Pounder was a McDonald’s brand name.

So, to Japanese, this mysterious store didn’t seem to be associated with McDonalds, the largest American fast food chain in Japan. Instead, Tokyo’s hyper - cell phone culture buzzed up this unusual store with only two menu items. It’s pretty easy for Japanese youth to target a shop enmasse when they are all texting each other looking for a place to meet and eat.

The revelation didn’t seem to disappoint the consumer (as it potentially might in the US as a devious marketing trick), because McDonalds Japan then announced they would be closing the experimental shop some time before the end of the year. Now the trendsetter Japanese mentality kicks in, and lines still continue to form so the in-crowd can say: “Sure, I ate there…” while it was there (it’s the same reason why a Japanese tourist visits a different country every trip abroad).

CONCLUSIONS:

1. What a great way to introduce new products in Japan! Now, McDonalds can add the “Quarter Pounder” to the Japanese menu to great fanfare instead of explaining the heftier product to the Japanese (food quantity is not necessarily a selling point in Japan).
2. What a great way to leverage the cell phone culture. One wonders whether the “mystery shop” strategy would work in other cities around the world.
3. McDonalds Japan eventually got great mass media exposure from its initial buzz via a form of social media.
4. McDonalds Japan’s stunt paid for itself. Lease a storefront, cook up burgers they way they usually do, get lots of paying customers, forego the television ad buys.

Eat The Head!! - Yao Ming

What happens when you put Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade in a Chinese restaurant and then throw in Yao and some gigantic shrimp. Comedy of course! This is the new ad for T-mobile.



EAT THE HEAD!

Hanging Dummy

Source: Ananova

I've done marketing before and even on my worst and most evil-thinking days I couldn't even think of a idea like this. This is just pure evil.

Jiang Chengpu, the creative director behind the ad, says the aim was to catch people's attention, not to terrify them.

"We are making fun of the depressing stock market here. And the place the mannequin is hanging is right next to the stock index line," he said.

People committing suicide because of the stock market is no laughing matter. The stock market seems to crash every decade and I know many sad stories of people losing it all and committing suicide.. sometimes even murder-suicide!

In a reference to the global financial crisis, it reads: "It's better to invest money here than put it into the stock market."

All of sudden the ING "SAVE YOUR MONEY" ads don't seem so bad.