While serious companies rarely rely on tear-off advertising, it must be the most often used and wide spread advertisement types among common people since the invention of telephone. Usually, it’s just a plain white paper with tear offs containing contact information. However, today we want to show that even the most boring communication medium like tear-off advertisement can be used in such a creative way that those ads can end up on thousands of websites around the world and reach much bigger audience than than initially expected.

Leonardo da Vinci once said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, and even after 500 this rule is still widely used in design and advertising. It may sound a bit contradictory, but simple things often require much more brain power to create than the most complicated stuff. And it always strikes you when something completely simple is capable of conveying so much more than you expect. Without further talks, let’s take a look at 26 most creative and clever examples of minimalist advertising.

The main difference between street art and street advertising is that one can lead you to jail, while another can even earn you money. Which one you choose is up to you, but from marketing point of view, street ads have a lot of benefits.

Because of the popularity of our last feature on Sexy Advertising we are really starting to think that our magazine is being read by more than pandas alone as we (pandas) have almost no interest in stuff like that. So, we are happy to show you 30 more Inappropriately Sexy Ads!

We’ve collected fifteen more clever examples of guerrilla advertising, so you can think of it as a “part III” of our creative advertising series. I promise – you’ll love it!

You’ve probably already seen our huge list of World’s Strangest Buildings, and now it’s time to see how buildings can be creatively used in advertising.

After looking at 33 Cool and Creative Bus Shelter Advertisements, it’s time to move inside and check some great interior transit advertising examples. To be more specific, we’re talking about creative bus and subway handle advertisements.

It’s been a long time since we had our last post on advertising, so it’s a perfect time to look into the world of bus shelter ads. However, before jumping to the real world examples, let’s talk about it first…

So, I went to some fast food places, and picked up burgers/tacos, so I could compare them with the ads. I brought the “food” home, tossed it into my photography studio, and did some ad-style shoots. Needless to say, the results of my little project were unsurprising… which shouldn’t be a surprise.

Needless to say, the results of my little project were unsurprising… which shouldn’t be a surprise.

It may be hard to believe, but an average North American sees 3,000 ads per day. They are everywhere – at the gas pumps, in a bathroom, in the movie theater, on a bus and in the bus – advertising is impossible to avoid. When traditional advertising mediums are loosing their effectiveness the answer is – ambient advertising.

It’s always funny to read old computer magazines, because nothing gets old faster than the technology news. Here are some very cool vintage computer ads for you – laugh while you can, because next time someone will be laughing at what you have right now.

Even today, advertising is far away from being in conformity with high moral standards, but after looking back to some offensive, racist and sexist vintage ads – today’s ads are as good as gold.