A company in Thailand needed to get the word out about how great their detergent was, so they did what everyone else does and sent a package with a sampler of the product to households across the country. They did a little something extra though, they wrapped the package in a white t-shirt. As expected, the Thai postal service got the tees good and dirty, and what do you need to clean a t-shirt… detergent!

Advertising companies really are having to push themselves nowadays, aren’t they?

More pics, and the rest of the story, here. [via NotCot, which still has taste even if it doesn't have tastespotting]

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Tags » advertising • funny • notcot • T-shirts • Thailand

I totally forgot to mention the new sponsors here at HYA, Enclothe, who I’ve been a big fan of for a while (and have a few new designs out at the moment), and Spitefuls who I hadn’t heard of before they contacted me, but am proud to have them on the sidebar.

Check them both out.

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Just dropping a little note to say that I have now added syndication functionality to Hide Your Arms, I personally only use del.icio.us and enjoy being able to tag things from the Firefox toolbar, but I don’t know much about the other social bookmarking networks, so hopefully this will make it easier for you to remember your favourite Hide Your Arms posts (and digg me into bandwidth oblivion).

I have removed the AdBrite box saying ‘your ad here’, no one was biting, so there’s no point wasting space on the sidebar when it isn’t going to effective use. There is an advertising page now though, in case anyone wants to get their name out there, prices very flexible, if I like your company I might even give you a weeks skyscraper for free.

Thanks to the people I don’t know who added me as their friend on MySpace. I certainly was right about us being an attractive bunch!

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Okay, so no one’s jumping at the opportunity to advertise, so I’ve made it less of a commitment, I’ve dropped the mininum spend down to $1, yeah, that’s right $1. For that minimum spend you’d get a little under two days worth of traffic, and I’d get really excited that my writing is worth a dollar, its win win for everyone (but mostly me)!

Just so your visit wasn’t a total bust, check out the new Krudmart site.

Also, Britain’s The Sun newspaper has declared a series of face-covering hoodies as ’sick’. The French retailer they mention that sells them is Dadawan, and apparently its only a matter of time before they’re available in Britain, I presume that people at The Sun have forgotten that companies have the ability to send orders overseas. I actually saw these hoodies a couple of months ago, I was going to run them because of the sheer innovation, but didn’t bother in the end. I had considered what the anti-hoodie mob in the UK would think of them if they got into their radar, I guess I should have told them months ago, my first step on the journalistic ladder…

Have a good weekend everybody.

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Eagle-eyed readers may well have noticed the little black blue and white box on the sidebar offering to put your ad in it. Despite what you may think this is actually a good thing (yes, this is a suspension of belief moment), I’ve removed the PalmerCash.com ad from that spot, and replaced it with the adBrite service. This way I can decide what advertisers get to be featured on the site (if the adBrite box does well I’ll get rid of the AdSense) meaning that they will be selling products that are more suited to the audience, so it really is a good thing. Really.

I don’t really know what kind of rates that are average, so I’ve set it at $5 for 2,000 impressions, does that sound about right? If I’m way off could someone with greater knowledge than me leave a comment.

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