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Mother London adds live-action arms and hands (along with some goofy and mildly smutty humor) into classic 1950s Christmas illustrations in these amusing 10-second spots for Schweppes tonic water in the U.K. The voice talent includes Martin Freeman, who played Tim on The Office . The ...
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Continuing with the butt theme, here's an absurd, NSFW video from Orangina featuring some impressive butt shaking, butt slapping and butt clapping. It advertises the drink brand's " Shake That Orangina " contest, which asks you to upload a video of yourself dancing (not ...
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It's tough to know what to say about these Italian print ads for Glassing Sunglasses , but I'll try. Some might find it objectionable, but it's offensive in a cartoony, memorable way, like naughty Mad magazine illustrations from 20 years ago, so folks might want to lighten up. Some Web ...
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I don't envy new grads trying to break into marketing and advertising. The intense competition for entry-level jobs is apparently forcing our next generation of leaders to humiliate themselves for the right to do menial tasks. Advertising Week created an entire entertainment program out ...
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Speaking of nutty holiday ad characters, Northlich introduces an overeager arts-and-crafts enthusiast in its new spots for the Ohio Lottery. One ad is posted below; see a bunch more here . The theme is "Makin' It Fun With Maggie." But in Ohio, as in Illinois and every other state, lottery ...
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Target is attempting to lure shoppers to its annual two-day sale with a cautionary tale about a Christmas-crazed housewife. Overzealous holiday shoppers are a fairly common theme, but rarely as they as serial-killery as this lady. She hasn't slept in days, she's convinced she'll "win ...
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For anyone in the advertising business, particularly those on the creative side, this Yahoo! video surely hits close to home. It touches on the big three broad ad caricatures: the cheesy, spineless account guy, the faux hipster creatives and the unreasonable clients. A personal favorite ...
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Benihana was hot in the '70s when it was a novelty for chefs to prepare food at your table. That's not so special now, and neither is this "Big Jump" spot via Wieden + Kennedy and Matt Lenski of Epoch Films. They use tiki-mug figurines to tell the tale of a self-styled Buddah Knievel with a ...
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The holiday season means traditions. One of the more recent that's fun to watch is the "war on Christmas," with advertisers taking flak for being too inclusive in their holiday messaging. Of course, they just want to sell more stuff. But that hasn't stopped the vigilant WOC shocktroops from ...
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When geek-culture blog Topless Robot dug up the Prime Computer ads above, from 1980, featuring Tom Baker's classic incarnation of Dr. Who (and his equally classic sidekick, Lalla Ward as Romana), I was shocked to see they were actually great commercials. They're clever, endearing and ...
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Tina Fey emceed the Ad Council's annual dinner last Wednesday. Here's a video of her amusing opening remarks, in which she bemoans NBC's fourth-place ratings ("Actually, we're in ninth place if you count the couple of radio stations that are ahead of us right now"), recalls some classic ...
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JCPenney had some success last year with its Beware of the Doghouse holiday campaign. The Web site got millions of views, but mostly I realized it had broken through when my father-in-law sent me the link, along with the message, "Too FUNNY !!!" So, natually, JCPenney and Saatchi & ...
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Saatchi & Saatchi
Ever wonder what a PETA Thanksgiving would be like? Of course not. But it turns out it's a serious downer , as we find out in this spot from ad agency Matter and director Dave Laden. The little girl asked to say grace ambushes the family: "Dear God. Thank you for the turkey we are about ...
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Smith Brothers Agency takes an offbeat approach to college advertising by creating the ultimate "everyschool" called Generic U , attended by dull, cliché-spouting plastic figures whose lives are going nowhere because their education is lacking. Sounds kind of like every college in ...
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Considering how much advertising gets squeezed into the holiday season, life for the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority must be hell from October to mid-March. They're already fielding complaints about this Marks & Spencer's Christmas ad , whose final scene is supposedly ...
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The U.K. is on a roll with its climate-change PSAs. First, there was the bedtime story about dogs drowning in rising seas . Now, we get this spot from Mother London (posted below) for PlaneStupid.com, in which polar bears fall from the sky to splattery deaths—to make some point about ...
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What's really inside your household cleaning products? It could be a bunch of dirty-minded chemicals, who are all bright and bubbly and innocent in TV commercials but who indulge in debauchery off camera, hanging around long after cleaning time to watch you give your naked bod a good scrub ...
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Considering how naughty Halloween has gotten, it was only a matter of time before someone took a crack at Thanksgiving. That someone is Muscle Milk, the athletic drink brand, which channels Justin Timberlake in this spoof hip-hop music video "Sexy Pilgrim" (posted below), courtesy of ad ...
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TBWA\Chiat\Day goes the high-testosterone vigilante route in this pair of anti-prostate-cancer PSAs. The guy in the cancerous-mass suit looks like an alien from '70s Dr. Who or the grotesque but misunderstood Horta from Star Trek . Sure, it strikes the first blow in the spot above. But ...
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I'd grown weary of American Legacy's fake-job-interview "Truth" spots from Arnold, but the latest iteration, this Web-only clip called "Nostradamus," ranks among the campaign's best. The phony Big Cig exec almost gets one-upped by a guy who frankly comes off more like a professional ...
