Flint's Best Mix » advertisements http://wcrz.com Cars 108 Flint's Best Mix Tue, 21 May 2013 03:07:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 'No Smoking' Ad Go Too Far? http://wcrz.com/no-smoking-ad-go-too-far/ http://wcrz.com/no-smoking-ad-go-too-far/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:50:25 +0000 J. Patrick http://wcrz.com/?p=73205 If you are a smoker, or even an ex-smoker, you might want to have your voice heard about some new commercials that will soon be hitting the airwaves. Trying get people to stop smoking is what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does. Sometimes it takes scare tactics to wake someone up to the dangers of smoking. The CDC has a new ad out that some people think may be going too far!

There is a new $54 million national media campaign that has hit the airwaves in an effort to prompt smokers to quit and, what some are saying, scare people away from cigarettes.

]]> http://wcrz.com/no-smoking-ad-go-too-far/feed/ 0 CDC Supercut Alert — A Short History of Product Placement [VIDEO] http://wcrz.com/supercut-alert-%e2%80%94-a-short-history-of-product-placement-video/ http://wcrz.com/supercut-alert-%e2%80%94-a-short-history-of-product-placement-video/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:41:41 +0000 J. Patrick http://wcrz.com/?p=6982 Product placement has been a part of TV and movies since their beginnings, and finally someone's put together a video montage of laughably obvious placement moments  — for historical purposes, of course. Fred and Wilma Flintstone split a pack of Winstons while Bugs Bunny unironically urges the children of America to drink the Kool-Aid.

They're not all really product placements — some are just ads — but it's still a cool and creepy trip through the history of subliminal (and not so subliminal) marketing.Check it out after the jump:

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