BMWpedia.org » advertising http://www.bmwpedia.org BMW News, Reviews, Picture, Videos and BMW Dealers Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:02:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 People in CT Think Someone Would Die for Their BMW http://www.bmwpedia.org/people-in-ct-think-someone-would-die-for-their-bmw http://www.bmwpedia.org/people-in-ct-think-someone-would-die-for-their-bmw#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:39:59 +0000 admin http://www.bmwpedia.org/?p=476

When you have to explain the joke, it’s never funny. When you think a mannequin is going to kill itself, you should probably just give up all together. These clever billboards on I-95 for BMW of Bridgeport, out in Connect-i-cut, feature several fake-people (and one large teddybear) checking out their local BMW dealership. But not everyone passing by figured these were not real humans.

According to local rag newspaper Hartford Courant 911 dispatchers have received various phone calls from passer-bys and also local residents, claiming they saw a man about to jump off a billboard. 911 operators have been explaining these are not real people, but advertisements and the billboards have been up for some time.

I really, really hope someone thought this guy with the #1 oversized foam finger was a suicide case. Is a BMW really worth dying for? In CT, maybe a Saab. Stay classy, New England.

The Source: Jalopnik

]]> http://www.bmwpedia.org/people-in-ct-think-someone-would-die-for-their-bmw/feed 0 Mad Men Bring BMW to the 1960′s http://www.bmwpedia.org/mad-men-bring-bmw-to-the-1960s http://www.bmwpedia.org/mad-men-bring-bmw-to-the-1960s#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:21:59 +0000 admin http://www.bmwpedia.org/?p=281 Despite the dramatic innovations in diesel technology, America’s perceptions of diesel is still stuck in the 1960’s. To play off of this antiquated view, BMW partnered with Mad Men and Vanity Fair to create a 5 page pictorial as part of the automaker’s Advanced Diesel initiative. Shot on the Mad Men set and collaborating with the show’s stylists and art director, BMW placed a 2009 335d Advanced Diesel in the center of 1960’s Madison Avenue to juxtapose diesel’s perception with reality. The pictorial fold-out precedes Vanity Fair’s Mad Men article shot by Annie Leibovitz in this month’s Style Issue.
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Full Sized Ad can be seen Here: Mad Men BMW Pull-out

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