Finger-painting Bounty ad namechecks the East Village

EVG reader RobbieTheK spotted this ad the other day on the 2 train.

Finger painting playdates in East Village Apartments are tough
Bounty is tougher

So, East Village apartments are small, making them difficult (tough!) to have people over to finger paint? Is that the point? Are we talking children, or like, young adults on a date?

If we are taking children, then it would be tough for me to have a playdate in my EV apartment, mostly because all my friends who decided to become parents moved to Brooklyn/Queens/elsewhere because they couldn't afford the rent here any longer.

Anyway, don't you think there are tougher things to do in and around an East Village apartment that would require paper towels, Bounty or otherwise?

Rooftop ragers in East Village buildings with crumbling staircases are tough
Bounty is tougher

Giant pink sports bra will no longer be distracting motorists, pedestrians on Third Avenue

Flashback to the corner of Third Avenue and East 11th Street this past January...

And despite the role the Giant Pink Sports Bra filled in helping guide motorists down Third Avenue during the Great Whiteout of Jan. 21...

The Pink Sports Bra has, sadly, been retired.

The wall this weekend.

Feel free to share your favorite Giant Pink Sports Bra moments in the comments.

Noted

16 Handles ad on Second Avenue at East 12th Street.

Does this mean you'll have to sever your arm with a dull knife to eat Pizza Roma?

Spotted outside Whole Foods Bowery... Referencing "127 Hours" to sell pizza seems a little ... odd.

Naked bicycle dude replaces Wódka Vodka hooker ad on the Bowery

That Wódka Vodka ad didn't stick around too long here on the Bowery at Great Jones. We noticed it last week along with BoweryBoogie... This was the ad that got some Bronx community leaders in a snit last month... the vodka's marketing company agreed to remove the offending ad there ...

Dunno if anyone around here complained... but, as of yesterday, a new ad was in place...

Banned Bronx billboard on the Bowery

Well, it's not the same billboard here above the the Downtown Auto & Tire Center at Great Jones ... it's just the same ad for Wódka Vodka that angered Bronx community leaders after the billboard arrived over the Bruckner Expressway leading to Hunts Point, "an area still battling an image as a place to buy sex," as the Daily News reported.

After speaking with the local Community Board, the marketing company removed it last week. Per the marketing guy: "We wanted to help them out. We're going to get rid of the billboard and take it down, and we applaud them for what they're doing in their community."

Hmm.

Anyway, BoweryBoogie notes all this today ... and he has his own take. Meanwhile, we will be petitioning to have that "Rock Center with Brian Williams" ad below it removed ... We'll think of a reason why.

Today in new ads that poke fun of people from Des Moines

Yesterday, we noted the crane on Second Avenue and Second Street... where workers were putting up a new ad...

We went back to see what the ad was for...

There is an East Village in Des Moines too.

Today in ads for buying houses in New Jersey without any cash

Second Avenue and Ninth Street. Seems legit to me!

No shit

Third Avenue near 10th Street.

New ad campaign preys on our worst fears: terrorism, body odor

On the 4 train.

Stupid Diesel ads now with side boobage

Spotted on the Bowery at Fourth Street.

Related:
Don't be stupid (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Gentlemen, this is a post about the Gentlemen, this is vodka ad

The one at Sixth Street at Avenue A. Gone!



And now we look back fondly at the most pretentious of ads that graced Avenue A... with a subtle juxtaposition next to the sanitation truck....




Previously on EV Grieve:
Gentlemen, this is a headline

And I got no bra or shirt

Third Avenue near 12th Street.

Cemusa classes it up

Avenue A near Ninth Street.

During the recession, marketers turn their attention to yuppies, pervs

How else to explain these newish ads on 14th Street near Third Avenue?





Yeah! Get into it!

Drinking this new tea will give you that sexist pig feel

A new ad in the Cemusa shelter outside Lucy's on Avenue A.

Toothless children continue to be exploited by heartless orange juice company

You've likely seen Tropicana's new ads everywhere around the neighborhood in the last three months... the ones with the affluent, happy people snuggling. It makes me want to add more vodka to my orange juice.* The ads showed off Tropicana's new packaging. So how did the campaign go? As AdAge noted Thursday:

Tropicana's rebranding debacle did more than create a customer-relations fiasco. It hit the brand in the wallet. After its package redesign, sales of the Tropicana Pure Premium line plummeted 20% between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22, costing the brand tens of millions of dollars. On Feb. 23, the company announced it would bow to consumer demand and scrap the new packaging, designed by Peter Arnell. It had been on the market less than two months.

The ads, like the one up top spotted on Avenue C, remain around the neighborhood ... Enjoy them while you can! Remnants of a rebranding debacle from the recession. Or something.

* I haven't had a screwdriver since I was 18. Or 19.

Chewpid

As you know, in this recession, people are buying and, we assume, eating more candy. In turn, companies are spending big money on marketing such delights.

Stuart Elliott wrote about this in the Times on March 3:

It was only a year or so ago that the concept of affordable luxury meant a Coach bag, Tiffany bauble or Starbucks latte. Since then, the recession has defined splurging downward to the price level of a can of soda, pack of gum or candy bar.

That is why many marketers of those prosaic products are still spending like it’s 2007 when it comes to advertising. For instance, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola recently came out with new campaigns, as did several gum brands, among them Ice Breakers.

Another case in point is the confectionery behemoth Mars, which is introducing a major campaign for its best-selling candy brand, Snickers, that is centered on a make-believe language called Snacklish.

Snacklish is a humorous way of speaking that revises everyday words and phrases for a Snickers-centric world. To underscore their origin, they are printed in the typeface and colors of the Snickers brand logo.

The campaign is also purposely infused with a slapstick, yuk-yuk approach... That tack is meant to appeal to the target consumer for Snickers, defined ... as men ages 18 to 49 with “a bull’s-eye of 18 to 34.”

OK. I haven't eaten a Snickers since I was 14. But! I have been oddly curious/repelled by the Snickers snads around the neigh-bar-hood. (Sorry.)






Meanwhile, the Feast Village ad keeps eluding me...

New Diesel campaign has no regard for men's nipples

Suspenders without a shirt? Oh, the chafing! At 14th Street and Avenue A.

Have a Coke and a smile!

Oh, oops! Wrong soda slogan! At 14th Street and Avenue A.

Meanwhile, in 1980.