The Fast Food Sex Fest Continues
July 24, 2009 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
Hardee’s continues the fast food advertising SexFest with it’s Hardee’s Sexy French Maid video on YouTube.
The fast food feeders seem intent on seeing who can create the most controversy and offend the most sensibilities.
Is negative buzz better than no buzz at all?
Other entrants include:
Quiznos Sex Video Quiznos and Playboy teamed up to create an online video featuring Kari Nautique, Playboy Playmate Hiromi Oshima and the Quiznos Torpedo Sub to, supposedly, “show you what a HOT sandwich tastes like.”
HARDEE’S: A-Holes vs B-Holes Commercial Part of the anal-themed Hardee’s promotional launch of their biscuit holes product. This is one advertising concept …read more
Carl’s Jr. Viral Video Kicks Buns
June 11, 2009 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
Carl’s Jr. is kicking buns with this viral video promoting their Portobello Mushroom Burger… to the tune of 3.3 million views last week alone.
According to this post on Ad Age:
Carl’s Jr. tapped YouTube’s No. 2-most-subscribed channel, from a comedy group called Nigahiga, to push its new portobello-mushroom burger — and it has paid off, in 3.3 million views last week, according to Visible Measures data compiled for the weekly Viral Video Chart. And this is no subtle, where’s-the-brand sponsorship. The (burgerless?) burger is in just about every frame, and when it’s not, they’re talking about it.
The Carl’s Jr. performance was …read more




