I’ve been an Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine reader for years and in the latest issue #191, May 2005, they have an advertisement for men’s cologne in the form of a black CD with the title “V.I.X.E.N.S” It looks like it is a very adult advertisement and when you put the CD in your player, it’s nothing more than an expensive commercial. Creative ad placement.

As a subscriber CDs typically don’t come inside the magazine. In fact this is the first one I remember inside an EGM magazine in a long time (maybe ever?). Sure, if you buy the mag at the store you can get other goodies in a nice plastic bag including CDs that subscribers do not receive, but then you pay the cover price which is usually significantly more than the subscriber price. I wonder why they don’t offer a higher subscription fee to cover including these extras? I bet some would pay the higher price. I might.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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