What’s more agonizing than listening to McDonald’s new ad on radio is probably just watching it on TV!!
No matter how good or bad their service is, I just love MTC Touch’s 3G ads!
Seems like Beyonce’s new Heat perfume ads were too provocative for some people! I was on my way to work this morning when I noticed they were vandalized overnight at Dora highway. (Same as what happened to Marie France’s ads back in May)
The act is pretty weird though… there are much more other explicit ads all over the country, why did they decide to just target this one?
Anyway, it’s good no one thought of playing the video commercial of the perfume at one of the newly installed outdoor giant screens!
I just got the below ad in a spam e-mail via “ePublicities Lebanon” promoting “Hot Nurses” nights at the Excalibur Super Night Club!
I was of course shocked when I first saw the e-mail, but then again with all the provocative billboards on our highways, we’ll get acquainted with such ads in no time! And it wont be very surprising if we start seeing them on TV anytime soon… don’t you think?
Anyway, if hot nurses is your thing, you know what to do this weekend!
I saw the below letter as a note on Facebook written by Mr. Nazih Sanjakdar criticizing BankMed’s latest advertisement promoting a car loan, and I thought of sharing it with you as it speaks my mind with every word.
The advertisement on TV shows a guy who feels embarrassed in front of a girl because he doesn’t have a car! BankMed then of course offers to help by selling him a loan to buy a car and therefore make him look like a real man!
Dear BankMED,
Without elaboration, because I believe that if you think it over just a little bit, you would find that this is correct. Your Car loan advertisement is stupid and disrespectful. I cannot believe how low a bank would sink to sell a service !
The ad is based on a social prejudicial assumption. The bank is directly and shamelessly adopting a social vice and a tremendous mistake in the way people are currently considering things. A car, by definition is a mean of transportation and not in any way a social or masculine instrument to attack success, or the other sex.
Your ad is incorrect, disrespectful and is a clear sign of the bank’s immoral approach towards its customers. I believe and I know that if you show such ad here in Europe people would laugh at your bank and boycott it.
Thank you. And have good day.
Nazih SANJAKDAR
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Thésard en droit international public.
École doctorale Sciences Juridiques – Grenoble.
Photo via Beirutiyat
Tnein bi 15? Yalla!! Ahh tnein subscriptions…
This is a new billboard advertisement for CableVision that is all over the streets now.
Joe has already pointed out that it’s a copycat, but I would like to add that the use of a hot girl in such ad is VERY cheap!
Ziad being great as usual!
If you have passed by Dora in the last few days then you must have noticed the new Marie France ads displayed all over the highway, there are tens of them on the road!
On my way back from work yesterday I was surprised to see each and every one of these ads ripped in the middle (right on the chest area)!
Apparently someone felt irritated of this campaign and decided to take matters into his own hands! We’re actually used to these acts from time to time in other areas where provocative ads get covered with black spray, but not in Dora.
So who could be the one this time? I doubt it’s a religious extremist group, I say it might be some feminist movement…
I was at Idriss Supermarket (Hamra) few days ago when I noticed a new soft drink on the shelves, and the brand name is “Kazouza”. I’m sure you have heard the word “kazouz” before, referring to carbonated soft drinks, so here you go a Kazouza!
I personally liked the name and the design of the bottle. However, the producers claim to have existed since 1941, do you have any info about that? Darine from Identity Chef blog is also wondering about it!
Usually you have 1001 reason to leave this country! (Electricity, water, mobile network, slow internet, Ammar Houri, etc…) But for some reason I find myself attached to it, and more precisely addicted to its capital Beirut.
Below is a nice short video found on Twitter promoting Lebanon and showing how charming this country is despite all its problems!
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