The Official Subliminal Messaging Blog

The first research into subliminal messaging was done by James Vicary – in his famous “subliminal movie theatre experiment“. This research was the first of its kind and established subliminal messaging, and showed the influence it could have on peoples behavior. However this study on its own was not enough to ban subliminal messages – [...]

Some adverts are more subtle… well no they’re not – this advert has a pretty air hostess standing next to a big tower… So is the message they are trying to communicate “fly with Glengarry as our air hostesses like big “towers” “? All advertisers are guilty of using some form of subliminal suggestion, it [...]

Here is a new product launch from Skittles (a division of Mars inc.), their new Sour Berry flavour skittles. This is the Spanish release of the sour berry flavours, and its blatently obvious they have tried to spell the word SEX by putting a skittle with an S on it next to the word explosion: [...]

This is a hugely famous coca cola advert – because of the “subliminal” message it carries – look in the bottom right corner, its a picture of a woman giving a blowjob hidden within the ice! It was released in southern Australia in the 1980s, but had to be called back from over 10,000 retailers [...]

There has been a lot of controvosy about subliminal messages in the past – espeically in the 1970s when some of the first research was conducted in to subliminal messaging in advertising. It was around this time when legislation was brought in to place to ban the use of subliminal messages in advertising. This was [...]