"Åtta oumbärliga sajter - this translates to: Eight websites you can not do without.
"Here you'll find the commercials from 32 years of Superbowls. Here you'll find 35000 memebrs hanging out, which makes this probably the worlds largest community for advertising and marketing. Adland is run by a swede, Åsk Wäppling alias Dabitch, who lives in Copenhagen. The site is a miracle of functionality and a great example that hard perserverance creates wonders on the web - Åsk Wäppling started the site already back in 1996. Here you'll find plagiators revealed, and here all aspects of commercials are discussed. The archive is enormous, at least 17000 films available for a low fee."
Adland was also scored on design, structure, and content, with 5 being the best:
Aaaah, well it's as if people ganged up on me and decided to pass these things on while I Was off(line). Or perhaps it's a swift (and well deserved) kick in the butt to update this old thing? ;)
Gareth Kay from Brand New has passed me a musical baton that has come from interesting sources like Russel Davies and Dear Caff at Cup Of Java who also passed it onto other prominent ad and creative blogging types.
This leaves me with very few people to pass it onto, serves me right for entering the game late, but oh well here goes. ;)
Total volume of music on my computer: 0k. I literally just reformatted my hard drive. Ask again tomorrow. ;) Before the reformat there was at least 45 full albums on here. But I listen to music on physical media.
The last CD I bought Hahahahahaha, I don't buy CD's. No seriously. Vinyl all the way baby. Last vinyl? Hard to tell, I consume many and buy in bulk when I feel rich dragging home several bags or boxes in one go. It might have been the Select Cuts from blood and fire, chapter three, or the Nag Nag Nag album, or it might have been the Tom Tom Club album which I scored on an online auction for only 25 Danish Kronor. :)
Song playing right now: | Boogie with canned heat: On the road again. (on a turntable, of course.) | Five songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me: That's not right - five songs I listen to a lot? When? This year? In my life? Ok, let's do the latter.
"I wanna be Evil" by Eartha Kitt.
"I can't give you anything but Love baby", sung by Ella Fitzgerald in Berlin on her 50th birthday, she does a great Louis Armstrong impression in the song.
"Papa was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations, was number one on the hitlist for six weeks in June/July 1972 when I was born, and my mother used to dance with me to the radio. When I got older I always had a strange deja-vu-like feeling when I heard the song before I finally figured out that it is indeed lodged deep in the baby part of my brain memory, and I love every note of it. I always will.
David Byrne's cover of "I wanna dance with somebody" is great. The first time that I heard it was at a concert in the Paradiso in Amsterdam. I was dancing front and middle at the stage, jumping up and down like the starstruck puppie I was.
indeed Five people I'm passing this on to: Holy cow, I hafta pass this on? I don't think I have five people to tag now that I just tagged a few, so I'll try with Researcher (2), Mats "Klocklös" Andersson and Martin Utsikt från enetta i Ronneby that I recently had a few (alcohol-free) brews with at the Bloggforum 2.0 afterparty.
Who Writes It: A community Web log, AdLand allows posts from anyone who registers. The site’s proprietress, Ask Waeppling, a freelance art director known on the site as Dabitch, seems to write most often.
Why You Should Read It: The group blog approach generates a more diverse array of insight and opinions from registered users, called “adgrunts,” who can view and post comments. The well-designed blog, created in 2000, also offers forums and an ad archive, the latter available for a small fee.
God Jul och gott nytt önskar "Copenhagens coolest turtle" Graham, till er alla. Detta är en liten film som jag gjorde häromåret, med sköldpadds-stjärnan.
Ja han är sådär hyperaktiv ungefär hela tiden, men värre blir han om man ger honom lite enrisrökt renkött, för det är hans absoluta favoritmat.
The world's largest advertising community rounds out 35,000 users
The world's largest online community of advertisers, www.ad-rag.com, has around 35,000 members. The site is managed by Swede Åsk Wäppling from Copenhagen, and it has always been her goal to keep the community funded by membership and not advertising. It has succeeded.
www.ad-rag.com has become the preferred virtual venue for advertisers worldwide. The archives contain more than 17,000 commercials, extensive news channels, forums and networking opportunities. 13 million people use the site in their work and leisure. More and more people come daily.
It is free to register as a user, but if you want unlimited access to all commercials, it costs two euros a month, says Åsk Wäppling, who from the center of Copenhagen spends most of his time servicing users and maintaining the servers.
“You just donate for the time you use the system. All revenue goes to the vast amounts of bandwidth, development and hardware. It works, and I think the many advertisers who populate the site appreciate an "advertising-free" breathing hole, "says Åsk Wäppling, who started the site in 1996 in San Francisco.
One of the big hits on the site is the complete archive of commercials for the American Super Bowl of the past 30 years. It does not exist anywhere else and attracts millions of users during the main season.
The many committed users are responsible for keeping a large news flow going. In this way, www.ad-rag.com has become a widely used alternative to the traditional industry media available internationally for the advertising and marketing industry.
Danish:
Verdens største online community for reklamefolk, www.ad-rag.com, har rundet 35.000 medlemmer. Sitet styres af svenskeren Åsk Wäppling fra København, og det har altid været hendes mål at holde fællesskabet finansieret af medlemskab og ikke reklame. Det er lykkedes.
www.ad-rag.com er blevet det foretrukne virtuelle mødested for reklamefolk verden over. Arkiverne indeholder flere end 17.000 reklamefilm, omfattende nyhedskanaler, fora og netværksmuligheder. 13 mio. mennesker bruger sitet i deres arbejde og fritid. Flere og flere kommer dagligt til.
Det er gratis at melde sig til som bruger, men vil man have ubegrænset adgang til alle reklamefilm, koster det to euro om måneden, fortæller Åsk Wäppling, der fra centrum af København bruger det meste af sin tid på at servicere brugerne og vedligeholde serverne.
”Man donerer blot for den tid, man bruger systemet. Alle indtægter går til de store mængder båndbredde, udvikling og hardware. Det fungerer, og jeg tror, at de mange reklamefolk, som befolker sitet, sætter pris på et ”reklamefrit” åndehul,” siger Åsk Wäppling, der startede sitet i 1996 i San Francisco.
Et af de helt store hits på sitet er det komplette arkiv over reklamefilm for det amerikanske Super Bowl fra de seneste 30 år. Det findes ingen andre steder og tiltrækker i hovedsæsonen millioner af brugere.
De mange engagerede brugere står selv for at holde et stort nyhedsflow kørende. På den måde er www.ad-rag.com blevet et meget benyttet alternativ til de traditionelle branchemedier, der findes internationalt for reklame- og markedsføringsbranchen.
I just learned that I may have been in trouble with the "reclamecommissie" in the Netherlands.
It is an organ of the Dutch Advertising Code Foundation that assesses whether one advertisement meets the Dutch Advertising Code. A bit like the ASA in the UK and various similar organisations around the ad-world.
It's Marco Derksen who revealed it, I was just reading his post here where he links people to my "Fonk for thoughts" interview.
Marcel’s slowly vanishing image? Damn, dat die poster door de reclamecommissie is gekomen 🙂
That's him noting that I made that campaign and that it has been reported to the reclamecommissie, holy moly! Maybe it was the penis? I would think so....
(I did keep them away from areas where kids would obviously be, and more appeared in areas where the red light district or porn shops were.)
