Here’s a story from the Washington Post about the polka scene in Chicago that mentions punk polka.  And here are a couple of videos featuring the genre:

Punk Polka by The Toons

And as long as we are being off-beat, here’s a polka version of techno band Kraftwerk’s Das Model

•  As a PDF
• Read the report online

And here’s an opinion piece from the New York Times on regulating marketing of food to kids:

• Mark Bittman: The Right To Sell Kids Junk

• The Official Subliminal Messaging Board
• MainStreet – The Craziest Subliminal Ads
  Note that this list contains the James Vicary popcorn message study that was a complete fabrication.

And finally, Saturday Night Live’s Mr. Subliminal.

Here’s a more recent urban marketing ad featuring Teyonah Paris from AMC’s Mad Men.  (And how meta is that?  An actress from a show about advertising in a McDonald’s ad…)

(Sorry about the poor quality on the video for this one.)

• Web Urbanist: 15 Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns
  Everything from razor blade signs with pretend cut-up pidgins to paint spilling down a building onto the sidewalk.
• Smashing Hub: Creative Outdoor Ad Campaigns
  A collection of 30 outdoor ads including neat transit ads that turn bus stops into art installations.
• Drew’s Marketing Minute: The most brilliant outdoor campaign ever
  A fantastic campaign from the late 1980s – early 1990s that tells the story of a romance at a local pub through an extended series of billboards.  And here’s the rest of the story.

• WPP
• Omnicon Group
• Publicis Groupe
• Interpublic Group of Companies

• David Ogilvy official corporate biography
• The First (and Last) Adman: Thoughts on the writer, rule-maker, and business genius
  A profile of Ogilvy at Ad Week by Michael Wolff.
• Past Perfect: Considering the highlights of David Ogilvy’s revolutionary work in context
  Steve Simpson analyzes several of Ogilvy’s famous ads from The New Yorker.
• Everything You Need To Know About David Ogilvy in Four Minutes

I would argue that for me, Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” campaign generated the best advertising catch phrase of my lifetime.  In fact, it’s good enough that Wendy’s revived it 30 years later!  Here’s a couple of examples:

Reintroducing “Where’s the beef?”

A multi-lingual “Where’s the beef?”

Here’s a list of more than 400 popular advertising catch phrases.  Which of them do you (or your parents!) remember?

• TV Commercial Advertising: Greatest Slogans, Jingles, Taglines & Catchphrases of All Time
• Advertising Age’s Top 10 Advertising Slogans of the 20th Century