Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Humpday Humor: Beer is a Drug


It turns out that drugs are already legal.  Some of them at least.

The late, great Bill Hicks explains more to CNN in 1991...





Saturday, July 19, 2014

The Purpose of Television


Actor Richard Kind explains the entire purpose of television in under 20 seconds...




Clip from Kevin Pollak's Chat Show


Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The Greatest Investment Return on Earth


The Interpublic Group is one of the world's largest advertising agencies and is parent company of McCann.  OpenSecrets.org tells us that Interpublic invested about $800,000 in political bribes during the 2012 U.S. election cycle.  Add another $100,000 per year in non-election campaign style bribes and they are looking at an investment of almost one million dollars.

So what does Interpublic/McCann receive for these bribes?

Would you believe $565,128,853?

From an April 2013 U.S. Army press release:

               McCann World Group Inc., New York, N.Y., was awarded a modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-award-fee contract, with a maximum value of $192,114,076 for professional marketing and advertising services in support of personnel recruitment and retention programs throughout the Army.  The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $565,128,853.   

IPG investors and executives are getting a return on their money of 565-fold in just twelve months.

The U.S. Department of Defense is providing their favored investors with the greatest investment return on Earth.