At final count, I only saw 7 chimps (in Castrol ad) and 1 monkey (Doritos). I was anticipating this chimp-focused ad in the fourth quarter, but this just didn’t make it in:
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Chimp Turnout Low at the ’09 Superbowl
On February 1, 2009
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Jack-in-the-Box Loses Out During Super Bowl
This is not what Jack-in-the-Box wanted you to see when they dropped 3 million on a Super Bowl Ad with a URL call-to-action. Hangintherejack.com could have used a decent load balanced server as Super Bowl traffic overwhelmed the site and rendered this page:
Decent ad, poor server.
Why America is…
Excuse the language in this video, but I love what Aaron Draplin has to say about design:
I’ve had two projects this past year based in 50s/60s/70s signage. I uploaded some of my favorite signs I’ve used for research here:
Was Plinko Rigged?
It seems that our recent trip to the Price is Right made some waves with TMZ and ET:
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/08/64081/index.html
The kind staff at the Price is Right helped us rig the Plinko machine for the video game commercial shoot. Unfortunately, someone removed the note labeled “This game is rigged” and pushed the game out for a shoot. Three chip drops and $30,000 dollars later they figured out the mistake. For those of you wishing to start rumors about rigged games, it is fairly obvious if Plinko is rigged – the chip occasionally “slides” along fishing line instead of bouncing.
The Plinko game on the official site is not rigged (shameless plug for the site):
http://www.thepriceisrightvideogame.com/
