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Corporate Advertising Wants Your Soul

By jonathan | Published: February 28, 2012

In this remix, reminiscent of some older EBN videos, MrMondialisation borrows fragments from hundreds of corporate TV commercials to illustrate the song “We want your soul” by English DJ Adam Freeland. It’s noteworthy that MrMondialisation also manages to avoid the “blame the people” trope (which some political mashup artists fall into) by having the perspective of the remix be that of a manipulative corporate propaganda machine repeating the montra [...]

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Levi’s: Go Forth and Revolt?

By jonathan | Published: October 5, 2011

Here is a remixed ad-jamming response to Levi’s recent Go Forth “revolution chic” advertizing campaign. The mashup adds a new layer of text to re-re-contextualize the commercial’s message turning it (back) into a rallying cry for youth revolt. I say “turning it back” because the Levi’s ad, called Levi’s Legacy shamelessly co-opts Charles Bukowski’s anti-establishment [...]

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E-Trade Baby Loses Everything (Again)

By jonathan | Published: August 10, 2011

In honor of the ever worsening economic crisis in the United States I thought I’d post this College Humor remix of the SuperBowl XLII E-trade investor baby commercial overdubbed with a new identity correcting voice. This time America’s favorite stock trading infant looses his entire life savings by investing in credit default swaps. Too bad [...]

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Help Fix YouTube’s Copyright School Fail

By elisa | Published: April 22, 2011

Our friends over at Public Knowledge are holding a remix video contest in response to last week’s, YouTube “Copyright School”. Meant to reform violators of uploaded infringements by educating and then testing them on YouTube’s copyright policy, the school also does a pretty good job of pushing fair use out of the picture. Literally. As [...]

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Reasons to Remix Chevron’s New TV Commericals

By ikat381 | Published: November 22, 2010

The discussion below borrows its theoretical framework from Naomi Klein’s seminal text, No Logo. Last month, the Yes Men and RAN preemptively hijacked Chevron’s greenwashed “We Agree” campaign, which Elisa’s last post detailed. In her post she mentions that part of the project involves a video remix competition for the best jammed Chevron TV ad. [...]

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There’s Nothing the Chinese Red Army Can’t Sing

By jonathan | Published: August 16, 2010

UPDATE: Looks like Tudou.com has followed the US entertainment industry lead and instituted its own geoblocking system. For all the Red Army Sings remixes we now get a message saying “对不起，你所在的地区不能观看这个视频” (Sorry, this video is not available for viewing in your country). We are looking for a way around this issues. Check back from more [...]

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BP Remix Video Roundup

By jonathan | Published: June 22, 2010

The internets have been busy over the past couple months creatively re-branding and correcting the corporate identity of the company formally known at British Petroleum. We have seen some hilarious logo re-design, mock print ads and of course the ever entertaining BPGlobalPR spoof Twitter feed. Not to be outdone online video remix has also played a [...]

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Dove Onslaught(er)

By jonathan | Published: March 10, 2010

Can a political remix video help effect actual change in the world? YES! Unilever’s personal care brand Dove is the again target, this time being called out by GreenPeace for the corporation’s role as the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world, and thus, a major contributor to the destruction of rainforests because [...]

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A Message From Unilever

By jonathan | Published: March 6, 2010

Over the past two years the Unilever corporation has been one of the favorite targets for parody videos online. This is primarily do to the fact that the multinational company makes both Dove and Axe, two brands that present diametrically opposing values and views of women. In 2004, Unilever launched their Dove Campaign for Real [...]

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More Honest World Economic Leaders

By jonathan | Published: March 1, 2010

Our favorite political pranksters The Yes Men have spoofed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with an official looking imaginary website. As part of the project they have also created these fantastic re-dubbed video interviews with global economic, government and corporate leaders where each appear to speak in brutally honest ways about real problems [...]

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