March 11, 2009
Deutsch is doing some pretty clever projection advertising for Tylenol PM around New York City. The video here, from Flickr users Steve and Sara, shows a parade of sheep bouncing off a "Sleep tight" headline on a blank wall in Brooklyn. The New York Times has a short piece on another execution in Ma...
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At last, some bank advertising that tells it like it is! No vanilla platitudes here! In ads from Y&R Lima, Banco Financiero faces the truth about the world today: that we are (or might as well be) under assault from rampant meteor strikes and roaming dinosaurs, terrible storms and rising sea lev...
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Americans, here's your tax dollars at work: In the U.K., Liverpool's football team has just signed up Bank of America as a major sponsor. BofA, which has received about $45 billion in U.S. federal rescue money after its acquisition of Merrill Lynch and its toxic assets, is the parent of MBNA, which ...
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March 10, 2009
Go Daddy, which is always faux bitching and moaning about its bad luck when it comes to marketing (particularly the censors), is uncharacteristically upbeat this week after its newest spokesbabe, poker pro Vanessa Rousso, went on an impressive run at NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Rouss...
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March 09, 2009
Michael Jansen and Bas Kirsten, co-founders of Selmore and former ecds at DDB's operations in Holland, today launched a new shop in Amsterdam called Nothing. It's built almost entirely of cardboard. Says Jansen: "Nothing is about the power of ideas, about how a single idea can transform nothing into...
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March 06, 2009
Former Bartle Bogle Hegarty U.S. chairman Cindy Gallop gave Wired a sneak peak of her new venture. She's planning to launch IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a Web site to help people organize do-gooder projects. The idea is to use social networking to turn altruism into action on a big scale. Rather than just j...
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March 05, 2009
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has created a bunch of new spots for Comcast featuring a groovy mix of live action and animation, with characters singing about the cable company in a Moldy Peaches/Juno-esque hipster monotone. See just a whole assload of them here. They've also set aside a piece o...
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March 03, 2009
There's a problem with this "Feel the bubbles" spot by JWT London for candy bar Aero, and it has nothing to do with the controversy AgencySpy is reporting—that hard-core skaters are angry that the idea was lifted from some skateboarding film. No, as usual, the IQ-challenged, scabby-kneed kids (the...
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Social media has opened up a seemingly endless number of new venues for advertising. You can buy a Twitter background, or get your name into all those free iPhone apps, or slather yourself all over a YouTube clip. But it's all fun and games until you whisper the phrase "sponsored post." Paying blogg...
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German ad agency Scholz & Friends has gone all political on us with this campaign for Becks modeling clay, a kind of European Play-Doh. Using the slogan "Let the kids build a better world," the ads featuring cool clay dioramas showing unlikely friendships: Jews and Arabs re-enacting Saturday Nig...
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