Group 3: AdFreak

Hey! The blog site that we found is called AdFreak. It is a blog that shows the best in advertising and some of the worst of advertising. They both praise and critique them. The contributors to the site are Tim Nudd, David Gianatasio, David Griner, David Kiefaber, T.L. Stanley, Rebecca Cullers, and Gabriel Beltrone. It is edited by Adweek's Tim Nudd. The contributors philosophies are all pretty similar. I believe that they are trying to, as I mentioned before, the best and worst in modern advertising. These writers try to invoke their beliefs into a lot of their posts through their many times dry and sarcastic. I also see that many of them put some of their humor into the posts, especially when they blog about some of the "worst" ads. So I believe that these authors are attempting to show some of the insanity of our modern ads through the humor in their posts. What do you guys think? How do the writers invoke their opinions, experiences, education in the posts? What community is this made for? Are the same philosophies used throughout the blogs? Enjoy!

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak

Group Two: AdPulp

Site Link: http://www.adpulp.com/

Hello, everyone! The blog we have chosen to do our presentation on is AdPulp. This blog is ran by three men named Shawn, Dan, and David. They are very interested in improving communication and that is why they "nit-pick" at advertisements, and a variety of them. The guys seem very respectable because they do not attack advertisement companies in a vigorous way. AdPulp claims to have never received any sort of spam comments (although, it seems as if there is hardly any at all) and that they have been quoted by the Wall Street Journal. They say what they feel and keep it short, sweet, and to the point. We hope you like the blog we have chosen and let us know what you think!

Copyranter-Meredith Wagner

In this blog the author seems to take an aggressive and almost negative view on all the advertising he is blogging about. Some posts seem to be sarcastic like the advertisement about the Twitter pen, and in the other posts the author voices his opinion strongly with foul and inappropriate language. I don't feel like he is forcing his opinions on the readers though. He says how he feels, but as I was reading the posts and looking at the advertiesments he is analyzing, I think he is trying to get us to think about the topics in a different light. Advertising that is posted on Copyranter involves a lot of sexual topics and sexual innuendos such as the advertisement for the "Bouncing Boobs Sell Earplugs" and "FEMEN protest corruption with cupcake boobies."In our society I think people tend to overlook these controversial topics because they are uncomfortable talking about them. The author is bringing these topics up to get people thinking and allow them to see how sexuality is commonly used in advertising and how sex sells. Also, some of the commercials that involve women include stereotypes and show that women are used for their sexuality to advertise. I believe this blog has an effect on people's knowledge and ideas about uncommon sexual topics. Like I have said, sex is something people are not always comfortable talking about and this blog really makes people think hard and question there views on sex used in advertisement.