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I have been listening with great frustration to the Pepsi radio advert campaign. I am frustrated because I actually prefer drinking Pepsi to Coke.

The adverts on the radio sound something like this:

I Love Pepsi, but what if we Pepsi together and our Pepsi doesn’t Pepsi properly then we’ll have a Pepsi and our Pepsi’s will be Pepsied. So lets not Pepsi tonight, let’s wait till the Pepsi and Pepsi when we are properly Pepsied. But the Pepsi might not be Pepsi then and our Pepsi will be Pepsied for Pepsi. What a Pepsi if our Pepsi doesn’t Pepsi like it used to Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi.

You get the idea.

I think it so unbelievably ridiculous that this actually counts as advertising. This is subliminal advertising without the subliminal part. This campaign shamelessly lacks creativity and innovation in my opinion. It simply spews out mindless words that force you to say the word Pepsi, think the word Pepsi and talk about the stupid advert from Pepsi. There is no choice here, there is no option, there is no thought behind it there is just…Pepsi. And it disappoints me.

There will be those people responding to this post who will argue that the advert does its job because even though I hate it, I am still posting about it. True. The advert does its job, and oh so well but this is what I find problematic. As consumers we love stupid things like this, we allow marketers to make us look moronic and mindless. We (myself included) do not stand up and shun the advert, complain or boycott the product.

I am not an idiot and refuse to let marketers and brand managers at Pepsi think that I am one. I will not be drinking Pepsi, they have lost a client and I hope I am not alone on this one.

I just received this email from a “revolutionary advertising option for blogs”:

Dear Nic Haralambous,

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I am impressed with the personalised touch, but if I wanted to sell ads I would be doing so. Should this be taken as a compliment? Is it really possible that a company would make real people (not bots) troll sites and get details from the sites to send a pitch to? I am again, impressed by the effort if this is the case. I am not sold however. Thanks Kumomo.com, but no thanks.

Unless I have been sleep-social-networking lately I haven’t noticed any adverts on Facebook. Until recently that is. For weeks I have been trying to figure out how they make their money.

I read somewhere that the following Windex ad has been voted the best by the American public. I am close to agreeing but haven’t seen the alternatives so I can’t say for certain. Watch it and decide for yourself.

Now watch the next ad from about a million years ago and see how far we have come in the advertising world.