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New iPod touch ad features new song, different apps, same ideas

Apple has released yet another iPod Touch advertisement. As is typical of all Apple iPhone and iPod Touch ads, this one features that perfect hand on a white background with nothing but the iPod Touch. This time around the ad has been titled “More Fun” and contains the background music of Franz Ferdinand’s “No You Girls” (look to see that one on the iTunes list any day now). The ad focuses on the concept of gaming again and features a variety of games on the App Store.

Interesting iPod touch gaming ad introduced on Yahoo!

Apple has been known to have created some fairly interesting web based ads that have most commonly appeared on the New York Times and other popular sites. Up until this point, these ads, unlike some ads, have been fairly unobtrusive and have remained within their little ad areas. However, Apple has now created a new iPod touch ad that doesn’t leave its area, but still manages to literally shake the whole Yahoo! games home page. Although the ad itself is familiar, this was a pretty interesting way of applying it.

Check it out after the break.

Interesting information on how Apple selects songs for their ads

If you remember the iPod touch ad that touted this musical device as being the “funnest iPod ever,” then you remember the song “Around The Bend” from Mette Lindberg and beatmaker Lars Iversen. Although one would expect there is a group of people over at Apple that pick the songs for the ads, or maybe even the marketing team itself, it may actually be Steve Jobs himself (which may not surprise some most people).

So, here’s the story…