Friday, May 28, 2010

Ad Speak is Invisible

For a while I have been telling you, "If it sounds like a commercial, it's not a good commercial."

Why? Because we live in an over-communicated world.
People ignore, and are tired of "Ad Speak".

George Carlin has a bit called "Advertising Lullaby". It is the best list of Ad-Speak ever created.

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It's our way of
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The more ad-speak you cram in your commercials, the more invisible they become. They are nothing but cliche's. Cliche's are over-used phrases no one believes.