Those of you who have been with me for a while may remember that I wrote a while back about the misleading nature of Allstate’s television ads. Today I came across a less detailed but still somewhat inaccurate bit of advertising from State Farm, courtesy of This Young Economist:
So many things to think about [...]
Tags: Advertising · Macroeconomics
When I posted before with the title “An Economist Reads The Newspaper”, I had no idea that it would be a theme…nor did I envision the theme taking a turn for the creepy this soon. Regardless, I was walking in the Harvard Science Center the other day and saw a poster that said the [...]
Tags: Advertising · Econ 101
I think I might be the only person to use my Tivo for the express purpose of watching commercials rather than skipping them. It’s my version of stopping to smell the roses, really…and if I hadn’t stopped, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon the following advertisement from T-Mobile, which really did speak to me (video [...]
Tags: Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while (and paying attention), you have probably noticed a few things about me: 1. My TV has a bizarre power over me, and 2. I procrastinate with everything, including going to sleep. These two facts imply that I see a lot of infomercials. [...]
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In pondering an earlier potential post I ended up doing a bit of research on Ben and Jerry’s. I had learned that April 21st was free cone day, and I was going to impart this oh-so-important knowledge on my lovely readers…but then I got disinterested in the post and it never got published. [...]
Tags: Advertising · Behavioral Econ · Econ 101