Mercedes-Benz UK has created a social media first by using Twitter to allow viewers to select the ending of the recently launched TVC. Check out this video that shows the promotional trailer for the campaign. The ads, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, and aired during the X Factor, saw viewers drive the action of a [...]
Continue reading...7. March 2011
Here is another pretty cool campaign from AXA in Belgium on the back of some great recent work. It’s what they are calling an iMmercial, which makes no sense, but sounds fantastic, creating an interactive experience from a live TV ad using QR codes and your iPhone. When you scan the QR code during the TV [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2011
I thought it might be nice to start the week with something a little different, so here is the Old Spice behind the scenes video that was released last week, giving just a little insight into the Old Spice world while reminding us that there is still some cool stuff on the way. That’s a pretty cool [...]
Continue reading...8. February 2011
The Volkswagen Super Bowl spots, featuring the Beetle and the Passat, have gathered significant buzz from the TVC’s. The digital angle is via it’s offical YouTube page, capturing viewers looking for the ads and giving them more, the VW Academy. The idea of the academy is to push viewers to see how the VW stacks [...]
Continue reading...8. February 2010
So the Super Bowl came and went for another year and even if your team didn’t win, you may have at least found some enjoyment in the commercials. Commanding the most expensive prices of all airtime, great creative minds are put to work to come up with some of the best 15, 30 and 60 [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2009
There are two or three Bing commercials out at the moment, for Microsoft’s new decision engine, the first one is so bad I won’t post it here, but this one kinda made me smile. Note, I’m on day 4 of my one week trial of Bing and if nothing else, I’m really enjoying opening up [...]
Continue reading...1. April 2009
Tonight my agency, IdeaWorks, was featured on The Gruen Transfer Tv show in the hugely sort after “Pitch” section where two competing agencies are given the weirdest of weird briefs, with about $500 spending money to create a 60 second ad. Most agencies produce cheap, quirky little ads for a laugh and you can check them all out [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2009
Axe launched a new campaign website called ”The Fixer Show”. Its based on a talkshow which promises to fix everthing in your life with a funny presenter and hot brazilian girls. The TVC, yet another excellent production by Mekanism, has great viral potential in its own right. Actually I prefer the TVC (especially long version) [...]
Continue reading...5. March 2009
Comcast?s Dream Big Campaign, the new advertising campaign called ??Dream Big (Sing-a-Long)?? has great art direction and a brilliant idea at its core, with all illustrations prepared by ??This way up?? and the directors Smith & Foulkes have done an amazing job. It?s an integrated marketing campaign which includes a number of TV spots and an amazing website. The goal of [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2009
Hyundai will debut five new 30-second spots during the Super Bowl – featuring the Genesis Sedan & Genesis Coupe. The campaign includes a slick online component at www.EditYourOwn.com which allows visitors to create their own version of a Genesis Coupe ad called ?Epic Lap???, to be shared with friends and posted to social networking sites. Possibly one of the [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2009
New Lexus commercial continues the ?behind every detail, there?s a detail??? marketing campaign and for its ES vehicle features the work of Bryan Berg, a Guinness World Record holder for card stacking. The spot uses Berg?s incredible card stacking abilities to show how the new ES engine eliminates even the tiniest vibrations. You can find [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2009
A funny new Tv spot from Cadbury, the agency is Fallon London again. This one is as interesting as that Gorilla ad and has a real viral potential in it’s core concept.
Continue reading...12. January 2009
The Samsung Series 8 Campaign “design that performs” website is clean, sleek & progressively high-end with it’s classy delivery of content through a (slightly) unique style of navigation allowing you to match angles of the TV together to reveal video experiences of the new Samsung Series 8 LCD TV. Although not an amazing website, it’s a classy one [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2009
In this new campaign from WWF, Draft FCB, Toronto highlight the importance of making change at the highest level. WWF explains to consumers that with their support they work with government and industry to get to the core root of the issue. Because after all, an energy efficient light bulb can only be as efficient [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2009
Bartle Bogle Hegarty London published a new TV spot for Audi’s SUV, Q5. Its not a typical stylish car advertisement like Audi’s old TV spots, this one is more imaginative, with mixed cell and 3d animation brilliantly interlinked to create a stunning new (catchy) ad. To view the full credit list click here.
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