Blog Marco

Have we been sold the biggest lie? Who coined the catchphrase Sex Sells? Who knows... but whenever we see an advertisement displaying something sexual we always attribute it to that one magic catchphrase "Sex Sells". But in reality sex doesn't sell.

Paris Hilton Sells Burgers; Pole Dancing Mum sells Chickens

We've seen advertisers the world over use sex to sell things that aren't even close to being sexual. We've got Miller light beer being sold with a catfight, a streetfair in San Francisco being marketed with a Mockup of the Last Supper and Sex Toys, Nando's (an Australian advertisment for a Portugese chicken restaurant) tried their hand with a pole dancing Mum enjoying a family meal at the restaurant, GoDaddy with their sexy girls (the Internet Registrar) and Carl's Jr. the burger joint (which are also called Hardee's on the East Coast of USA) - they were the one's responsible for the advertising campaign with Paris Hilton soaping a car in a sexy bathing suit while she was eating a hamburger. Even eBayers were getting into sexy advertising when they were selling Playstation 3 last year.

Blog Marco hits a million milestone... and I didn't even see it happen. Since I've installed the Google analytics software back on the 7th April 2006 till today, Blog Marco has had 711,468 visitors come through these very pages. About 5 percent of you came back for more. Where's the million milestone? It's in the pageviews. This blog has served 1,103,197 pageviews to its visitors since that date. Next milestone? The millionth visitor. It'll probably happen in the next quarter to a half year... Time to don the party hat and celebrate this great milestone!