tentang Superbowl Ads 2011

so superbowl had passed and it was that time of year when great ads premiered in the same night. yeah for around USD 3 mil per slot, the ads better be good huh?

so i made this list last week but didnt do the writeup till today. dont know why i didnt publish it straight away. procrastination >_<. but anyway, these are the ads that i like the most. i have to admit i haven't watched all the superbowl ads but there so many that made my favs list anyway.

lots of other good and interesting ads that other people like but i prefer these. i was not too amused by the Doritos Pug ad which lots of people seem to love. and the Pepsi Can Thrower wasn't too amusing to me either. maybe i'm getting old

but anyway, enjoy these ads. more ads, just search youtube for superbowl 2011 ads or superbowl XLV ads or anything similar.

Doritos - House Sitting


Audi - Darth Vader


Doritos - Finger Licker


Pepsi Max - First Date


Audi - Release The Hounds

tentang Vintage Ads Malaysia

what makes an advertisement effective is that people will still remember it after even 10 years. and i hope we remember it because of the good things not the bad.

so i spent some time (and my limited download limit) to look for the ads that i remember and hoping that someone somehow did upload the vid on youtube or anywhere of equivalent. the first few titles were easy to find.. proves that the advertisement is indeed memorable and successful. the last few were unfortunately not available but i'll list it anyway.

so here's the ads that i remember most
counting down to my most favourite vintage malaysian advertisement (that i can find online):-

5 - Fernleaf

4 - KFC - 'Thats Where I Want to Be'

3 - Maggi

2 - Axion

1 - Trojan

it was a little hard to chose between the Axion ad and the Trojan ad but i decided that i love the Trojan ad better and i remember the words better than Axion's.

the ads that i tried to look for online but did not manage to find it are :
i) Follow Me talcum ad
the one where this guy was in his room (VO 'ku merindui mu') and his girlfriend came over to his house,rang the doorbell *dingdong* and his mum answered the door and says something like 'something.. something dah datang' can't remember the names. do u remember that one?

ii) KFC - Lets Go to The Zoo
yes that song. Lets go to the zoo, there's lots of things to do........ i think that's what is says.

iii) Malaysia Airlines ad
i don't remember when and any VO of it. neither the song. the only thing i remember vaguely is this massive futuristic looking plane (or a mothership? floating island?) the shape of MAS logo. it that a real advertisement or just a fraction of my imagination? i don't know




anyway, a quick thanks to those people who uploaded these wonderful ads. especially the person or people behind the channel 'abangcantik' (*facepalm). i am very grateful of all the vintage ads you uploaded

^^

tentang Fanta Advertisement

saw this awesome animation ad on tv for Fanta soft drink. very very clean concept.. very cute animation. me loike!



sorry it's not the english version that i saw on tv here in Australia but it is the same ad. if some time in the future someone uploaded the english vid on youtube, i'll update this post ^_^

wish i can read french >_>

tentang My First CPM Ad

i only signed up nuffnang last month and now i have not one but two CPM ads!! wow

but unfortunately that was only a dream i had last nite. i woke up this 'morning'.. logged in to nuffnang hoping that it was some kind of sign. u know.. maybe it is real and the dream was like a dream-notification thingy. but it was not true.

T_T

i have been reading about nuffnang but one thing i couldn't find is how long would a website normally wait to get their first CPM campaign? all blog posts about 'first nuffnang cheque' will say they had to wait very long (for the cheque.. not for the CPM). i assume it is around a year. but can anyone (who actually have experience) confirm this?

thanks!! ^_^

tentang Getting Some Nangs

no i am not referring to anything naughty lah!

i am still exploring and discovering stuff about Nuffnang today. i must say.. information on the nuffnang website is inadequate. but like i said in my previous post.. there's heaps of tips on other peoples' blogs. and i wanna say a big Thank You to these blogs for posting tips about Nuffnang and Innit.

Thank you Simple Blogger Tips - a lot of helpful tips and those basic explanations for nuffnang noobs like me ^^. recommended go to site for people discovering nuffnang

Thank you k-director.com for the article about Innit and Tips on how to get more Nangs.

and
Thank you JejakTrend for the very short yet useful Tips on getting CPM



Nangs
so what is a Nang? well in Nuffnang's blog aggregator Innit (sort of like Digg.com), nuffnang members can post their blog entries there to promote it and if people like it.. they'll click on the 'Nang It!' button. the more Nangs you get.. the more famous your entry is. and if you post crap.. people might Dang it and thats the opposite of Nang.

so in the future.. if you like my post please nang it mkay :D

tentang Nuffnang Ads

oh yes i now officially serve nuffnang ads. and so far.. i'm loving it.

nuffnang.com website is pretty to look at and very well organized. i love the layout but i am not a fan of fancy moving navigation bar. having said that.. their bar is responsive and have big icons which makes the thing bearable for me. unlike some sites that have moving navi + small link texts/icons forcing users to actually concentrate on where they click.

i know i may sound like an annoying old man who complains about everything but, why not just put the links on the page.. having users wait for an icon/link to appear is a waste of clicks and ultimately.. waste of the users' time. but yeah.. nuffnang's navigation is acceptable for me :P

the website does have those FAQs page to somehow guide newbies (like me) to understand how the whole thing works. but there is no short, quick tips at strategic spots to make stuff easier. not too big a deal.. there's heaps of guides and reviews on the web anyway. and even without much reading i think i understand most of the features they offer and how to use it.

i even put that Innit Widget (that thing at bottom right of this site) on my site now. i normally hate widgets like that. they tend to interfere with reading and could sometimes end up on top of another link preventing visitors to click on it. i bet advertisers wont be too happy if their ads got obstructed like that. but since my site has a very thin layout, the widget stays out of other links' and texts' way. i expect it to not be a nuisance at all.. except for visitors viewing from less than 640px width resolution browser.

i have only registered my nuffnang account yesterday and that night ads have already started running (good looking ads so far). and when i woke up this morning my account already got it's Glitterati (like a loyalty program) status which supposedly needed 3-4 days to get. and the ads are mostly malaysian and that makes me miss home a little less.

so far i am pleased with this service. why i decided to go with nuffnang is because i think they have a massive amout of malaysian subscriber.. and i hope to attract heaps more malaysian readers.. although i write in english. ^^

tentang Target Ad - "Every Colour You Can Dream Of"

my wife and i love this ad. it is cool. and fun! saw it on tv and just thought i'd share with everyone ^_^

blog layout adjustments

i had to make some adjustments to the blog's layout today because advertlets has gone gila!

what's been happening since abt a couple of days ago is that when i load up my blog.. it loads half way because ads are unable to load. tried to load friends' blog (who have advertlets) and same problem happens. same as bloggerunited.com which only loads the navigation and banner. well if i wait for 10-15 mins the page will eventually load but without the advertlet ads. (all approximation made while im pissed off.. subject to a little exaggeration)

i am not sure if i am the only person having this problem (because i dont live in asia) or their server actually did stuff up about a couple of days ago. there is no news on the net.. no notes on twitter abt any technical problems.. advertlets.com, u're a big name so please don't act like u're still some n00b company facing technical problems and hope people dont notice it.

so now i had to move the ads to the bottom of my blog so that other stuff that IS working properly will load.

pfftt!





EDIT:- abt 5 mins after this post is made the ads are fine again and advertlets.com is back online. whoa they work fast to fix that didnt they :P. owh now i have to move the ads back >_>

MORE EDIT:- and now.. advertlets.com and their ads are gone again!!! and i just moved the ads back >_<

'Four Seasons' - uniquely Rundle Mall

this is an advertisement made by thepra (the people's republic of animation), a local studio in Adelaide. cool name eh? they made some cool animation adverts as well.. check out their website

rundle mall is the shopping area in adelaide. a padestrian mall style shopping in the middle of the CBD. pretty cool place if u come to adelaide. not really for the shopping but for the people.. a lot of people. well i'd say people in midvalley megamall on a sunday supersale event would be a lot more but that's in KL.. it's different over there. Adelaide is a quiet country city, so.. that many people at one place is.. astonishing... in a way :D but the buskers there are always cool




hey i just realized these past few entries are in english. how cool is that?

Wrigley's ads yang ade animation cool ^_^

one of my favourite campaigns tahun 2008. cute characters.. style best.. ade banyak lagi iklan dlm campaign ni tapi yg dua ni paling aku suke lah. aku memang suke kot bile character yg comel tapi belagak cam cool

hmm.. aku tatau la ni iklan Aus/NZ je atau International

Origin Energy Australia cute ad

ad campaign by Origin Energy Australia. love the look n feel of it. kinda cute :D