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Top Ten Most Offensive Israeli Ads - Part 2

February 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · venting

Over the years, the Israeli ad agencies seem less and less connected to the human experience and more and more willing to use anything to sell everything. In this list I attempt to countdown the most offensive advertisements created in Israel in recent years, in the hope of using shame as an incentive to be [...]

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Walking Without Excessories Is Like Walking Around Naked

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

In the last couple of years it became common practice for Israeli newspapers to stuff themselves with supplements which look at first like genuine newspaper addition, but are actually just advertisements posing as articles. This is an effort, I assume, to give the inherit deceitful nature of advertising an air of objective news coverage.

There is one [...]

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Israeli Domino’s Pizza Enlarges Your Pizza and Much More

January 14th, 2008 · No Comments · venting

The Israeli Domino’s Pizza franchise has released its D-Crust Heroes advertisement campaign, a spin off the ol’ Little Red Riding Hood tale: in the TV commercial we meet some superheros, each of them had one of its organs enlarged: one got a big nose for smelling the garlic on the pizza, another got a big mouth [...]

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Heap of Garbage – Israeli YouTube-Wannabe and Its Pathetic Promotional Campaign

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I have noticed a recent trend with the ads I am being shown while surfing. Whether I am on Gmail, YouTube or MySpace, I often see ads for heep.co.il, a lame Israeli YouTube-wannabe, and those ads always leave a bitter after-taste. While each ad might be different, they have something in common: all of them [...]

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