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The Forehead Ad Blocker™
Posted on 01/25/2005 7:42:17 AM PST by Middle-O-Road
OMAHA, Neb. - A Web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head.
Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop.
Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month.
"I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew — a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said.
"People will always comment on something out of the ordinary," Fischer said in his sales pitch. "People like weird."
But there were limits: He refused from the outset to be the conduit for any message or product deemed tasteless or unacceptable in traditional advertising formats.
I am really surprised this has not caught on with the NBA -- all those opportunities for "NIKE" tats.
They are not paying for the man's forehead.
They are paying a stupid sum of money to be in the news.
And thus discussed by Leno, Letterman, and us. Which what they really pay for.
Ya, google up "bodypaint" or similar (not worksafe lol for sure) and you'll get bodypaint advertising, much of it from Europe or Australia.
I have seen paint ads at tradeshows and once at the beach at a volleyball tournement.
You gotta have the body, though, not merely area, so unfortunately I must still work for a living.
This is actually probably a good investment for a company like SnoreStop..
Tired of seeing advertising everywhere you go? From billboards to
commercials, advertising has invaded our precious time with no end in sight.
However, mankind has always had the option of ignoring these ads. Don't like
a commercial? Change the channel! Don't like a print ad? Flip the page!
But there is a new type of advertising that is rapidly gaining ground:
forehead advertising. These ads will be inescapable, especially if you have
to visually interact with that soulless human posing as a walking billboard.
That is, unless you have:
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Features:
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* Patent-pending technology!
Don't waste your time viewing forehead advertising. Order The Forehead Ad
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The Forehead Ad Blocker™
LOL!
That guy is a trip. And he got paid $37,000 for it, too!
The next Jim Carrey, no doubt.
Saatchi, Saatchi, Witherspoon, McPherson, McDonald, Schwarzenegger and Sons want to take out an ad on my p@nis.
Might be okay if it's an attractive chick putting the ad there, but if not ...
Well, Bubba Jailbird might get a LITTLE rough.
$37K was paid because it's the first time it's been done and the news press received will be worth 100 times that amount.
Let everyone start doing it and the price will drop 1000 fold.
Yeah, me too. LOL It's pretty sad when you can do the forehead thing but not the body thing... :D
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