Nov 5th, 2011 at 9:00AM: South Africa Tourism (SAT) has launched their 20 Experiences in 10 Days campaign, and now they're looking for fresh faces to help spread the word. The program is designed to sell South Africa as an adventurous, romantic, and cultural destination amongst Americans and to that end, SAT is looking for a real-life American couple to star in a new television commercial that is set to air ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Wanted: American couple for South Africa Tourism commercial
Nov 5th, 2011 at 9:00AM: South Africa Tourism (SAT) has launched their 20 Experiences in 10 Days campaign, and now they're looking for fresh faces to help spread the word. The program is designed to sell South Africa as an adventurous, romantic, and cultural destination amongst Americans and to that end, SAT is looking for a real-life American couple to star in a new television commercial that is set to air ...Video of the Day - Summer in the Alps
Jul 5th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
If you could capture your favorite snippets of summer, what would they be? Backyard barbecues? Ambitious road trips? A visit to your favorite lake?
Today's Video of the Day is a gorgeous montage of summer moments from the French & Italian Alps, compiled by French filmmaker and mountain guide Sebastien Montaz-Rosset. Sebastien writes that he "filmed and edited what I personally ...
Video of the Day: Yao Ming PSA about shark fin soup
May 2nd, 2011 at 6:30PM:
We recently covered the controversy over shark fin soup, so no need to rehash that. However, we were interested in this video staring Yao Ming, arguably the most famous - and popular - Chinese national in the world. In the ad, diners decline to eat shark fin soup after witnessing just how inhumane it is.
Yao, of course, is the dominant center on the NBA's Houston Rockets. That's when he's ...
Echo chainsaw commercial shows TSA at their worst
Apr 19th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
Echo power tools has a new television ad for their chainsaws that takes some liberties - though some would say not many - with the intimacy of TSA pat downs. The comical commercial features a man passing through airport security being subjected to a fairly aggressive, yet thorough, pat down of his crotch. Meanwhile, inattentive agents allow his chainsaw to pass through the X-ray machine ...
Brand Wars: The Airline Booking Battle Will Be Televised
Dec 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
Online travel agencies have had a solid run over the past two years. They picked up some market share as would-be travelers were willing to poke around a little more to score cheap tickets. High rates of unemployment and under-employment and general economic uncertainty, of course, were enough to make consumers value every dollar a little more. This opened an opportunity for online travel ...Ten of the sexiest commercials in airline history
Sep 28th, 2009 at 11:00AM:
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Last year, we compiled a list of vintage airline commercials, and since the Internet is full of some of the greatest commercials commissioned by airlines, we picked "sexiest airline commercials" as the topic of this top ten lineup.
The list has some vintage ...Prudes take umbrage with Air New Zealand videos
Jul 13th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Last month, we told you about Air New Zealand's new in-flight safety video that features the flight crew in nothing but body paint. That, of course, came on the heels of their new ad campaign featuring their staff in - you guessed it - nothing but body paint. We thought the in-flight video and television commercial were innovative and quirky examples of an airline showing some actual personality. ...
Perfume ad or airline ad?
Oct 13th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Feast your eyes on this airline commercial for Korean Air. For the first 20 seconds of the clip, you'd be convinced you were watching an ad for a new kind of perfume, or an upscale escort agency. I'm guessing that this is what happens when you tell your ad agency to make something "different". Thankfully this ad is not as insane as the United Airlines commercial I posted last month, but I still ...
Plane Answers: Medical issues for pilots and the FAA
Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:00AM: Welcome to Gadling's feature, Plane Answers, where our resident airline pilot, Kent Wien, answers your questions about everything from takeoff to touchdown and beyond. Have a question of your own? Ask away! Tom asks an interesting question: Hi Kent, I am a big fan of your website and your weekly additions here. Great stuff. But my true question comes down to this. I had a seizure two weeks ago and ...New Mexico tourism commercials: good or bad?
Nov 26th, 2007 at 11:00PM: Apparently there's a big debate among tourism officials in New Mexico about a series of new commercials meant to urge potential tourists to visit the fifth largest state in the U.S. "Instead of highlighting New Mexico's picturesque desert landscapes, art galleries or centuries-old culture, the ads feature drooling, grotesque office workers from outer space chatting about their personal lives," ...
