Category Archives: Advertising and Marketing

Beijing’s toilet travails and a foreskin poem

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Ichabod

The framed advertisement to the left has appeared above urinals in public toilets around Beijing. It promotes the services of the Dongda Hospital for Anus and Intestinal Diseases and contains a poem. The poem is about misshapen foreskins.

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Martin Sorrell: Prepare for Online and Mobile Ad Boom

Posted on 2006-07-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Sir Martin: Internet and mobile will all be mine, mine I tell you Martin Sorrell, the head honcho of advertising behemoth WPP, was last mentioned on Danwei in the article Socialistic anarchists eating our own babies, which quotes him criticizing … Continue reading →

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Vaginal speculums and string panties

Posted on 2006-07-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

European Style The country’s state-owned media organs continue to entertain their hapless readers, usually for the wrong reasons. Such as this one: The China Daily website’s homepage features keyword advertisements by Ali Baba, the online marketplace where Chinese companies offer … Continue reading →

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Ads on the Qinghai-Tibet railroad

Posted on 2006-07-07 by Joel Martinsen

Translations from the Chinese press on (a) the loss predictions for the Qinghai-Tibet railroad (青藏铁路), and (b) the banning of commercial ads on the trains.

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Jissbon condoms’ dodgy logo

Posted on 2006-06-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In 2004, Danwei looked at the Chinese condom brand Jissbon, and the striking similarity of the Jissbon logo to the Durex logo. However you interpret the scary English name Jissbon, the Chinese jie shi bang (杰士邦) uses the same characters … Continue reading →

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Organs and murder for sale

Posted on 2006-06-21 by Joel Martinsen

Illegal ads for organ sales and murder in Beijing and Harbin.

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Those happy days when books cost half a kuai

Posted on 2006-06-15 by Joel Martinsen

Looking back at a series of 0.5 RMB books.

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Budgets and boring TV

Posted on 2006-06-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Sam Flemming and Larry Rinaldi in AdAge.

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Bilingual brands: Love in the time of IKEA

Posted on 2006-05-09 by Dror Poleg

Is IKEA china playing love games with its local competitor? IKEA opened its first store in China in 1998. AIKA, one of its biggest local competitors, uses a brand name that is disturbingly similar to that of the Swedish giant. … Continue reading →

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Wait, what’s the name of this magazine again?

Posted on 2006-05-08 by Joel Martinsen

How publishers manipulate publication licenses (国内统一刊号), along with an interactive gallery of Chinese magazine covers.

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