Now here is an Ad which I think now sucks big time: Product – Nokia 6600, Medium – TV. “Insaan phone sirf bat karne ke liye nahin kharidta – Mere papakabhi nahin badlenge” (Hindi) which means “A person does’nt buy a phone just to talk, my dad will never change from his age old thinking”

Came across this nice piece of platform for firefox called Greasemonkey, tried my hands a little on this now and I am blown away by its power. It allows one to customize at the browser end how a page looks or is rendered. It works with Firefox. Here is ascript that hides google ads. ( via Jeremy Z)

Check out this ad, where my name appears. It’s just Wow !! ( via AJ )

I have previously blogged that I love Ads as much as I love technology & music. I get a thrill/kick when I watch real cool Ads but then also my blood boils when I see a lousy Ad.

The latest Pepsi Ad airing on all major TV channels these days called “Bubli” is one of most lousiest Ad that I have seen in the recent time. First of all I am no big fan of Shah Rukh Khan but even if rest that fact aside for a moment I still can’t figure out what this Ad is all about.

Ad’s by the likes of big companies are basically a big brand building activity. Well to begin with the concept of brand itself is shallow. ( because brands try to associate meaning with the products rather than trying to discover the true meaning & portray them). But even if Ads( a methodology/mechanism for brand building) are just about association of meaning I still love it because of the potential creativity or coolness that are brought into it many a times.

In this pepsi’s Ad every thing around SRK ( teenage girl’s navel, guitar’s mouth, dolls, garage ….) everybody seem to be saying “bubbli” when they see a pepsi bottle, now I don’t know whatever it means. I don’t see anything coool about this ad or any coolness attached to it. Everytime I see this Ad running on TV , I just feel like smashing the TV. Incidentally I was disucssing this with a couple of friends and everybody unanimously poohed poohed the Ad.

Normally when I buy a soft drink I have no preference about coke/pepsi. Whatever I utter first I buy that drink . If I recall it is was equal probability I got both of the drinks. But now thanks to this Ad, I will make sure that I never buy Pepsi even if there is no stock of any other soft drink.

I would really like to meet the great genius who devised this Ad, I want to give him a piece of my mind.

Note to Pepsi: Now that I have pledged not to buy your drink why don’t you think different win a customer base that can become a loyal (or hyper-loyal) to you.

We are in 2005 and get to see such lousy Ads , 21 years Apple made this terrific Ad called “1984” which was the genesis & catalyst of the mac fanatacism of the mac lovers. Absolutely Brilliant Ad !! A must see if you have’nt seen it before.

Apart from technology I just love ad’s ( especially creative ads). I never miss the supplement of the wednesday edition of Economic times which critiques Ad’s although many times I don’t agree with their voting of ‘Best’ and the ‘Bekaar’
Two of the TV ad’s that I cherish so still
1. Diary Milk Ad ” Kuch Khaaas hai zindagi mein” ( created by Alyque Padmasee)
2. “Ciagrette in My hand”

I read a post on AJ’s blog about the ‘Cigarette in my hand’ ad. He has posted the lyrics of the ad song, as like him I am like for the song/vidz of the ad. Inface if any one has any of the two above Ad song/vidz please let know.