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Melody commercial #3: Violence Against Teachers?

As promised before, AdBlogArabia will be featuring a new Melody TV Network Commercial everyday, simply because these are really unconventional.

Here’s a ‘violent’ one, which should also cause a healthy dose of controversy.

1 comment March 5th, 2007

Melody TV humorous and cultrually daring station commercials

The people behind Melody TV Network, based in Egypt, are quite daring. The content of some of their station promotion commercials include Arab ladies in revealing wear, which promote concepts of sexual infatuation or comedy in the story line.

Although suitable for most of Melody’s liberal, western-minded viewers across the region; it cannot be considered ‘mainstream family viewing’ in an Arab country. Especially with the tweens and early teens usually watching Melody channels.

The first commercial features the Melody Man, an over-weight, uncool looking coach potato who is empowered by Melody to save the day. The second one is an ad for Melody Movies (aflam) showing a husband spurn his attractive wife’s advances.

Let me say that I am impressed by the production quality levels, and I’ll bring you more of the Melody commercials, although less controversial, but equally funny and entertaining in coming days. There are so many of them, I’ll call each Melody Commercial of the Day!

For now, take a look at these two ’sexually charged’ ones.

Via [ mediaME ]

2 comments March 3rd, 2007

We’ve heard of Fish breathe, but sock breathe?

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Agency: Mccann, Puerto Rico

Via [ Ad Goodness ]

2 comments February 16th, 2007

Campaign Middle East closes down?

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If reports by bloggers and various sources are to be believed, the marketing communications publication Campaign ME is officially shut down.

The blog of Flip Media reports that Haymarket, a UK based firm that holds the license for Campaign ME, has pulled the license from IITP the current publishing house of Campaign ME.

Campaign ME website was missing over the last weekend as reported by Farrukh Naeem, the website redirects the user to the website of Arabian Business, which is another publication by ITP.

At the beginning readers thought it’s a problem in the domain redirecting to another URL but apparently this is not the case.

Without a doubt, Campaign ME had carved a leading position as a premier source for all marketing and media professionals in the Middle East. The year 2006 was a successful one for the publication, as it organized creative and media awards events and also organized it’s first conference during the Media & Marketing Show 2006.

But unfortunately, the year 2007 seems to mark the end of this publications existence in the Middle East. Or maybe not? Stay tuned!

Via [ mediaME }

6 comments February 15th, 2007

World’s oldest newspaper now exists only online

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It’s a sign of the times. The world’s oldest newspaper, which has been in circulation since 1645 and founded by Sweden’s Queen Kristina, has dropped its paper edition and now exists only online!

It’s called Post-och Inrikes Tidningar and became a Web-only publication on January 1, 2007.

The first editions, which were more like pamphlets, were carried by courier and posted on note boards in cities and towns throughout Sweden. Today, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, which means “mail and domestic tidings,” runs legal announcements by corporations, courts and certain government agencies — about 1,500 a day.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry about this newspaper.

Danes also tired of Bush?

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This is an interesting advertisement published in the Tehran Times newspaper on behalf of a group called Danes for World Peace. AdPunch reveals that they’re actually a Danish street art group, Surrend.

The first letters of each statement (each line) read as ‘SWINE’.

Via [ AdPunch ][ Best Rejected Ads ]

1 comment February 1st, 2007