Friday, January 13, 2012

New Milwaukee Public Library ads mock facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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Yay Literacy! Good for them. I'm sure these are/will be flying all over the Web via facebook status updates and tweets. Note: An Israeli bookstore chain did this exact idea two years ago. Repeat, ad infinitum: There are no new advertising ideas, etc.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

...only clever repeats of old ideas.

I-)

3:15 PM  
Anonymous RobbieR said...

I these ads.

Not clever, not interesting looking. Really studenty.

And not one reason for me to pick up a book.

Compare with this:

http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_49/494155/file/waterstones-book-store-anywhere-small-45305.jpg and gives me good reason to.

12:01 PM  
Anonymous RobbieR said...

Never try to comment while high on meth :(

12:38 PM  
Blogger copyranter said...

Yeah I don't like em on their own either, I just appreciate the effort...I often post drunk, really.

12:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to be fair, no one in milwaukee has ever heard of israel, they're too busy facebooking

8:40 PM  

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