Bing – official search engine of the dark side
It would seem that with Halloween approaching, Bing is the vampire’s search engine of choice.
And if you look carefully, you’ll spot a Sydney link to this US-based Bing ad.
Meanwhile, the Australian ads for Bing below are a few weeks old now, but they’ve just gone up on the Bing YouTube channel, which is a good excuse to give them an airing.
What’s with the vampire zeitgeist? Its even bigger than the zombie zeitgeist that peaked 3 years ago. Should we brace ourselves for the popularity of werewolves, metaphorically encouraging teen chastity and ironically marketing tofu?
I’m not sure I’d write off the zombie zeitgeist just yet, Turn Off.
I reckon there’ll be at least one zombie flashmob marketing stunt to mark Halloween. I’m thinking Federation Square & Martin Place.
In fact, I reckon the biggest risk is that more than one happens and we end up with somer sort of war of the rival branded zombie factions.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I was thinking of vampires generally in pop culture, but the zombie flashmob does have a fantastically bent logic. Certainly has more resonance than Tru Blood energy drinks and Twilight glittery dildos, though the latter might contribute to teen chastity…
at the end when she says “let’s eat” she’s looking left, but by then he is at her right in the last shot.
Was she looking in the mirror?
little bit of an aussie tie-in the US Bing ad — the background of the search page is a shot of the Sydney CBD, and also the winning photo from the Bing Facebook Photo Contest a few months back, by the massively talented (and a former colleague), Jeremy Somers (itsartdammit.com).
Hey, have a crack at vampires, zombies and fake furless twilight werewolves, some of us aren’t the cliche. 😉
Wolfie!