George Tannenbaum on the future of advertising,
the decline of the English Language and other frivolities. 100% jargon free.
A Business Insider "Most Influential" blog.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
The Future Ain't What it Used to Be.
An agency will win an award for an ad that actually runs. Even odder, that award will run the 50-yard-dash.
Mark Read and David Droga will be photographed smiling. The photos will look identical to pictures of them scowling.
For just $8/month, Twitter will give you a MyPillow with a blue checkmark on it.
DNA analysis will reveal that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Seth Green and Lorne Greene all have a common ancestor: the Jolly Green Giant.
Chat GPT will be renamed Khat KPT--the Kardashian years.
IPG will re-brand bagels as "Circular Agency-Culture Bread."
With every account loss, BBDO will add another B to its name and DDB will add another D. They will end the year BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBDO and DDDDDDDDDDDDB.
The two Omnicom agencies will later merge becoming BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBDDDDDDDDDDDDO.
Burger King's moldy whopper will become America's best-selling pathogen. "Would you like to Salmonella-ize that for just 99-cents™" becomes the QSR's new tagline.
A CMO for Pepsi will keep their job long-enough to have announced they got the job.
A world-wide balloon shortage cripples the auto industry as sale-a-brations and -athons grind to a halt.
Greta Thunberg is arrested in Cannes having torpedoed 19 agency yachts and causing a 14-mile-wide Rosé-wine slick.
Sam Bankman-Fried will raise billions of dollars selling Crypto-Ampersands, propelling yet another wave of agency merger-mania.
Hemorrhaging billions because no one wants to wear Oculus VR headsets, Zuck redesigns the headsets into underwear. Boxulus VR dominates the Metaverse.
A nuclear deal is made. In return for disarmament, Cracker Jacks will change its name to Cracker-Jongs and include a North Korean ballistic missile as the prize inside.
Ad Agency Crispin will disrupt the world again by creating a non-fossil-fuel car that runs solely on Kraft Mac 'n Cheese. Trouble follows because the car gets only two-infarctions per gallon.
Home Depot will change its name to Home Despot, continuing its support of authoritarian political candidates.
IBM and IHOP will merge, becoming the International House of Business Pancakes.
In an effort to further reduce overhead, agencies will switch from 'hot desking' to 'magma desking.' Their new tagline? “Get burned at work.”
The industry reaches "peak award" when the Ozempic jingle wins the "Best Original Song," in the Internal Bleeding and Heart Failure category at the Grammys.
42% of commercials will feature Kevin Hart. 39% of commercials will feature people dancing. 11% of commercials will exhort people to 'hurry in, these savings can't last.' And 61% of commercials will feature all three.
Half of all commercials featuring celebrities will feature celebrities who people over 50 can't 'pick out of a lineup.'
18% of all commercials will say, 'you be you,' and not a single person will be.
Those stupid ads for GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company will be written exclusively by AI.
Outside of the improvement, no one will be able to tell the difference.
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