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Advertising = Recycling

Posted on | April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

As everybody knows, despite it being commonly cited as a ‘creative’ industry, advertising is in essence collecting, analyzing, recycling, fusing, mixing and matching existing events and phenomena in pop culture, music, current affairs, movies, great moments, comedy, horror, job, relationships – life in general.

Sometimes advertising can also be directly recycling other advertising. Or what do you think (click images for larger versions):

“It’s the hat.” (Hut Weber)

“8 GB of classic comedies.” (HP)

“8 GB of political speeches.” (HP)

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One Response to “Advertising = Recycling”

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