The ad is supposed to show in movie theaters in select Canadian cities, but they are actually on TV. It’s also on Facebook and on YouTube. You can see the full version of the new ad below:

Now, a bit of digging through YouTube shows that the Doritos Collisions product has been around for a couple of years - at least in the U.S. In fact, here’s a Missy Elliot commercial for the same product:

Okay, I like Missy Elliot - always have. But the new ad is much funnier, and after several years of Doritos ad silliness, the “battle in a bag” concept is much funnier and more effective. Have a look at one of the ads for the “Indian spice flavor” of a few years ago:

Maybe it’s just me but funny commercials are much more likely to get me to buy something than serious or pretentious commercials. (Car commercials are amongst the most pretentious.) Unintentionally funny commercials don’t count though.

What do you think? Would any of these commercials make you go out and buy Doritos? Or do you prefer to buy two bags and dump them into a single bowl like everyone else? (And has anyone outside of Canada seen the battle in a bag ads?)

One aspect of business marketing is obviously advertising. AdSavvy is a new site that covers the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of specific ads. There’s a fair bit of focus on TV advertising, though print ads are discussed as well.

The contributors are web publishers, and  at least one contributor regularly sells and buys online advertising. They’re all experienced bloggers with a strong presence in the blogosphere, so the opinions expressed at AdSavvy go beyond “armchair”.

Something worth checking out is the new AdSavvy Show, a short online video show, hosted on YouTube, that analyzes advertising in a humorous manner. The first episode of the AdSavvy show has already been posted.

Don’t have a business but want to work on the Internet? Many people are taking up blogging in the hopes of a full-time online career, though there are alternatives for earning online.

What can you do about the bum deal American Internet users have been handed? It’s probably not likely you’ll want to pick up and move to Japan just for the great Internet access. One way we can all help ourselves is for website owners to optimize their pages for ultimate speed and usability. If you can improve the quality and speed of your site, it will be easier for everyone to access. If we’ve got to pay more and wait longer to see your site, at least make sure it’s high quality work.

Another way to fight back against low quality, high price internet is to not purchase it at all. That’s right. Give up on having an Internet connection at home. Wi-fi is a growing phenomenon that many businesses and even municipalities are starting to embrace. Check out websites that can locate wi-fi hotspots for you, then patronize them. Even if you don’t want to buy a cup of coffee for your Internet connection, there are still options. Check out your local library for wi-fi and encourage your city to adopt a free municipal network. Of course, if all else fails, you can always just bum off of your neighbor’s unsecured connection. Even if it is overpriced and slow. [Editor’s note: bumming Wi-Fi from your neighbor is illegal in many places.]

But, first we need to define the difference between a blog and website. A website is a internet application that contains web pages, images, videos and other digital assets. It is hosted on the World Wide Web. Whereas, a blog is part of website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order. It is sometimes known as an online journal.

I will discuss the pros and cons of both. The choice is yours.

First, I will cover blogging.

If you have little or no computer knowledge and even less money. Blogging is the way to go. You can get a free blog from blogger.com or wordpress.com. These are the two more popular choices. They will host and maintain your blog for you. You can customize your blog from their selection of templates. Just write and post and you have your blog. You can post your own content, advertise your own goods and services. Also, you can advertise goods and services of others as an affiliate.

A blog will allow communications between visitor and writer where they can exchanges opinions on certain issues. Whereas, in a website, a visitor can only read and not offer comments or suggestions to the writer or other visitors.

The cons to blogging is that you have write many articles to get your business going. However, you can hire a ghost writer to write articles for you. Later, when the blog becomes very successful, you may want to upgrade which will cost money.

Second, I will cover using a website.

A website allows you to have complete control over your content and is the fastest way to advertise. However, there are cost involved with setting up a website. You will need hosting, a domain name and maybe a custom built website. Or you may decide to build your own site. A user friendly program for creating your own website is Microsoft Frontpages. Last, you will need a Autoresponder.

A disadvantage of building your own website is that you are responsible for taking care of any problems that may arise.

Also, you may need to consider whether you need a website in the first place. Maybe a blog is all you need for the present time. Can you explain to someone else the advantages that you will have with a website and what it will do for you?

Whether you decide to use a blog or website, you cannot just sit back and relax. You have to market it and build traffic. You have to promote it. If your goal is internet marketing, you will never make any money if you just submit it to a few search engines and do nothing else. Traffic or having visitors go to your site is a major component that makes your blog or website valuable.

It is well worth a read as this is a guy that went $18000 over his target for the year. Here in the UK that is halfed, but it is certainly not a number to sniff at considering he makes most of it via AIS (Automated Income Streams). Catch Burts’ breakdown on his blog.

In fairness, other times he treats a situation perfectly, though I don’t wish to point to any examples as it is open to personal opinion as is all of this mess.

It is my hope that everything will come up roses from this, but I have a nasty feeling it wont, especially not for the regular readers who have been rubbed the wrong way by this most recent event.

1) I used to be a graphic designer before I became an SEO Specialist. During this time I did work for Disney, The BAFTA Awards, Snatch the Movie, and more. It was all very exciting.

2) I saw many parts of Finding Nemo a year or two before it came out as it was having some DVD editing done by the guy next to me at work.

3) I have been racing for over 15 years in karts. I have won many trophys (got a hundred or so boxed up in the loft now) and enjoy it greatly. I now also run kartingextra.com as a community for all the racers from around the world.

4) I don’t like tomatoes. I love ketchup, but just can’t eat the squishy little beasts in their natural state. Horrid!

5) My musical idle is James Taylor. A fantastic song writer and performer. I have seen him live, have all his music, and he helped me meet my wonderful better half, GuinchoGirl. Obviously that is not her real name

So, I guess it is my turn to tag a few people? This has been going on a little while so it may be tough to find people that have not been tagged already… lets see.

MattCutts (lets see if he plays), Dean Hunt, Ewan (great blog if you like mobiles), and Quadzilla (for a little light xmas fun from his side).