Quality iPad app Ads

I play a lot of Zynga games on my iPad - you know, Words/Hanging/Scramble with Friends. I don't pay for these games, so I get the ads in between plays. It's only a mild annoyance. Most of the ads look something like the one below:

This one, however, got my attention. Perhaps you've seen it too:

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You betcha I tapped the ad to get more info. The App Store brought up a game called Tap Paradise Cove by Pocket Gems. It didn't have a terrible landing page and looked, well, not as bad as the advertisement. I sent the good folks at Pocket Gems an email with the screen shot asking "what's the deal with this ad?" and received the following response: 

Thank you for the information, I am not certain as to that being one of our ads. Although, if you are playing Tap Paradise Cove I do hope you have fun!

Meh. I was really hoping to get a quippy reply. But wait, there's more! Just the other day this ad came into rotation:

I swear I made something like this in 1992. Totally retro!

say what?

I still listen to Atlanta's radio show "The Bert Show" every morning on my iPad. Here's a spot for Moe's Southwest Grill that's currently in rotation. Listen closely to the end of the ad.

Fresh hit, eh? Say that one a few times fast. 

Ok, now moving on to the awesomeness. One of my favorite songs is Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now." My friend Thom shared this youTube video with me the other day:

Mary Ellen, I expect you to be amused by this. I bet you're disappointed that I didn't come up with it first. 

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here are two recent ads that were on my facebook sidebar:

YIKES!!

wow, these ads really make me want to become a social worker. damn. and i'm really hoping that the image of the child in ad #2 was digitally altered. 

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now, for a bit more relevant information: it's freaking hot outside.  and my a/c stopped pumping out cold air.  thankfully my landlord got a repair guy there the next morning...and apparently the compressor in this brand new hvac unit broke. last night it was 86 degrees even with the ceiling fans on, which meant i hung out at andy's (and played snood for 3 hours).  i'm expecting a portable a/c in my unit when i get home from work, and i'm praying that the guy who set it up didn't leave it running all day.  that would deserve a kick in the nuts. 

summer rec league hockey starts this weekend and andy & i back on the stars roster.  i'll miss gossiping with pam & christine, but i look much better in black than in orange.  

also, i'm going to the beach next week for a family vacation. by family, i mean my brother & his girlfriend marissa, minus the rest of my family, and plus a bunch of his friends.  awesome.

making fun of other people's ads, part 3

this was in the "northside neighbor" community newspaper.  i think it's a nice-looking ad, but read the blurb: 

 a "lifetime" of experience, huh?  they must have used the wrong guy's headshot, because the guy i'm looking at can't be a day over 25.  

here's another ad for a children's consignment store (you may remember this one).  maybe i shouldn't put this on the list of bad ads since it's actually decent...all i'm gonna do is make fun of the business name.  why name it something that is not indicative of the products or services?  maybe i'm missing something.  this is like naming a donut shop "bells and whistles" or a pet store "ace hardware."  ok maybe not that bad, but you get it.

more awesome/awful ads

my friend melanie forwarded this to me in an email. she saw it on a poster at her daughter's elementary school (brookwood school in dalton) and couldn't resist taking a photo:

whoever designed this either is getting high-fives, or got fired. i mean really, it doesn't take a pervert to see that what we have here is a penis in a hat.

and this ad was in people magazine.  what the...? first of all, people magazine usually has very high-quality ads.  this one is just... bad. so bad, in fact, that i actually stopped flipping pages to look at it. so i guess in that respect it's effective?  *sigh.* their website really isn't much better.  i really didn't want to look at it, but my curiosity got the best of me... good job, crappy company.  but i assure you, my awareness won't result in a sale.

bad advertisement

here's an ad i found in an east cobb coupon/ad booklet.  it totally sucks.  i bet you a lot of money that the chick who created it thinks it's pretty fly.  and while it's true that i have little appreciation for photos of random people's kids, the main problem i have with this ad is that nowhere does it explicitly state what goods or services the company provides.

this is all well & good...but what do they sell?

after a few seconds of glancing at the ad i came to the conclusion that this store sells toys and possibly other items for children. but that's only an educated guess. since they don't tell me what their products or services are, here are other viable possibilities:

1. talent agency for kids
2. daycare/babysitting service
3. pest control
4. construction and heavy equipment rental (maybe)
5. coffee shop

maybe you are thinking, "who gives a rats ass, it's a stupid boutique store that you'll never visit," but let me tell you: this blog exists so that i have a public forum to make fun of dumb people and stupid stuff.