Ad Brilliance
Way too many men trying to figure out how to be men on the Superbowl.
The Superbowl got awfully confusing there at the end of the 1st quarter and into the 2nd with a flurry of ads that seemed so similar we wondered whether it was a zeitgeist or dumb coincidence. Adiocracy kept guessing Dockers (DraftFCB) on ads that turned out to be for Dodge (Weiden & Kennedy) and Dove… Read More »
Safe sex ad from France shows cartoon penis the way home.
We’re really enjoying this spirited bit of animation by TBWA, Paris on behalf of AIDS awareness brought to our attention by the folks at Creativity. First of all, we’re suckers for animation, and second, we love animation that keeps a serious subject light enough to want to follow. Enjoy!
When campaigns collide: Yahoo! & htc pick ‘You’.
It’s an ongoing nightmare in the ad biz. Agency and client work hard to find a position and an expression of that position that will set them apart. The campaign goes out and… low and behold, another campaign is out there looking just like yours. It happens more often than you might think. Here’s an… Read More »
Fun with nose hair!
What a great way to use those unsightly old fashioned telephone wires. Done for Panasonic by Saatchi & Saatchi, Indonesia. AD: Audy Sutama CW: Pancaputera. Illustrator: Rudy Harianto of DeadWolf Studio. Thanks to our friends at scaryideas.com for finding this:
Dockers tries to man up. Shoots self in groin.
We love a good repositioning. And we’re always rooting for a brand attempting to wrestle a challenged image. But this campaign for Dockers feels like a humorless cross between Canadian Club’s 70’s dad campaign (commented here in Nov 08) and the oddly anachronistic choice of (Dockers parent) Levi’s ‘Go Forth’ campaign which employs the now… Read More »
Dear Radio Shack: Stop trying to be all familiar with us. Remember The Hut (as in Pizza)?
We’ve held off logging in on this, because everybody’s been having their fun with The Shack. But also out of respect. We’ve been going to Radio Shack since forever, not that we ever end up buying anything, but it’s a great place to waste time — especially those strange back aisles filled with connectors and… Read More »
Salvation Army touches even most cynical.
An understated emotional ad by The Salvation Army on behalf of their disaster relief efforts. Simple. And sweet. Their site is salvationarmyusa.org.
Insurance tales told via diagrams.
How delightful that in a business known for its dull charts and diagrams, an insurance company has used diagrams to tell light-hearted tales of woe. Delicious simple visuals, funny little stories, and you know exactly how DEVK fits into the picture. We love these ads, which we found on scaryideas and tweeted about some time… Read More »
IBM confuses kitten videos and Facebook lists with intelligence.
In this long copy ad for IBM’s business analytics systems, IBM claims that our planet is getting smarter. This assumption is based on observing the sheer glut of data we generate everyday. 43,000 gigs of it. Yes technically, ‘Waiting in line at pharmacy and am sooo bored’ tweets and ‘Kittens Inspired by Kittens’ parody videos… Read More »
Land Of Beef Gets More Appetite Appeal
Back in February, we were appalled by the Cattlemen’s Beef and Board and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’beef as land-mass’ campaign. But we recently came across this sweet meat scene which caught the eye of our salivary glands (yes, they have eyes). It reminds us of places in the Pacific Northwest where mountains drop off to delicious licks… Read More »
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