Vote for Your Favorite Slogan
Advertising Week is not a period of time but is instead an international conference of those in the advertising industry. Advertising Week 2006 is September 25-29 and will be held in New York City.
One of the events at the conference is the naming of "America’s Favorite Advertising Icon and Slogan." The winners are inducted into the advertising hall of fame. This honor is bestowed based on the results of a popularity contest...and you're invited to vote. Go here to vote for your favorite slogan, and here to vote for your favorite icon.
In the icon contest, there are 26 faces, ranging from Aunt Jemima to the Vlasic Stork. In an unbelievable oversight, neither the AFLAC duck nor the Geico gecko are nominated, which casts a serious pall over the legitimacy of this lineup. (OK, rather than playing true to type and expressing my patented Dismay of Ignorance, I tried doing a little research this time (ha! that's almost a slogan itself) and checked the Past Winners Gallery and found both of those, um, critters included. So, never mind.)
In the slogan race, we see Las Vegas ("What happens here, stays here") and 24 others slugging it out with the Great State of Texas ("Don't mess with you-know-who"). While the latter is a local and sentimental favorite, I sort of lean toward the classic "This is your brain; this is your brain on drugs" from the Partnership for a Drug Free America, due to the many ways it's been used and abused. The Las Vegas slogan will eventually claim that status, but it's just a 'ute compared to most of the others.
Anyway, go cast your vote. It's about time you got to participate in an election where the candidates had some creativity and flair behind them.
Jim, I'm not sure that Content Free is as much a slogan as it is a life philosophy.
Posted by: Eric at June 21, 2006 08:44 PMDid you say "ute"?
Posted by: beth at June 22, 2006 06:20 AMDid you say "ute"?
See: "My Cousin Vinny"
Posted by: Eric at June 22, 2006 06:33 AMMy mother was using, "from my 'ute!" long before MCV. I always tho't it was from Pogo or an old flick. Speaking of Pogo, if it wasn't the same and Albert in the reading, who was it? I don't have time to go borrow my folks old books and read them all. (Some of us still want to know.)
Posted by: Phyllis at June 22, 2006 08:40 AMPhyllis, Pogo was on one side of that conversation -- the skeptical side -- but it was Churchy LaFemme, not Albert, who was proposing the calendrical realignment.
In any event, I can't think of many more worthwhile summer activities than re-reading all the Pogo books you can get your hands on!
Posted by: Eric at June 22, 2006 09:16 AMI know...I adore MCV...the judge says, "The two, what? Did you say 'ute'?" "Oh, pardon me, your honor, the two youthhhhsssss."
I guess my southern accent didn't translate over so you knew I was quoting. :)
Posted by: beth at June 22, 2006 09:22 AMBeth, I just didn't see the implied quotation marks. My bad. ;-)
Posted by: Eric at June 22, 2006 09:26 AMI went with Charlie the Tuna and "Time to make the donuts." The former because I remember thinking he was a superior form of the Wile E. Coyote foil that informed all cartoon advertising characters of my day (the Trix rabbit, the Lucky Charms leprechaun, etc.), and the latter because I've used that term practically every morning for the last 20 years. (I don't actually make donuts, but I do eat them.)
I'm surprised to NOT see Morris the Cat on the list. And where's Herb?
Posted by: Bret at June 22, 2006 10:00 AMCtT is a superior selection, but the slogan you picked is just not a factor out in our neck of the woods. I don't even know where the closest Dunkin' Donuts is...maybe Lubbock?
I wonder if Morris is a previous inductee? I have no idea how long they've been conducting this contest.
And all I can think of with regard to Herb is Herb Kelleher. ;-)
Posted by: Eric at June 22, 2006 11:32 AMYep, same for us -- we've got a few Dunkin' Donuts down these parts, but not many. An artifact of my Virginia upbringing. (It was quite a shock to me to be considered a Yankee when I arrived on the Texas shores some 25+ years ago. News to Robert E. Lee as well.)
Remember Burger King's "Where's Herb?" campaign way back when? The guy who'd never eaten a whopper? (They lie -- I never have, either.) A classic critical success, commercial failure, as it failed to nudge sales at all.
Posted by: Bret at June 23, 2006 03:59 PMI've never been a BK fan...if we're up for burgers, it's either Whataburger or a local chain that makes killer jalapeño cheeseburgers. So, the "Where's Herb?" campaign just doesn't ring a bell at all. I guess I'm just out of it.
Posted by: Eric at June 23, 2006 04:11 PMAbout the publisher
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I vote for "content free," or, as an alternate choice, "cheap, yet not inexpensive."
Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2006 06:27 PM