Moustache Mugs

Best idea ever, from Peter Bruegger.

Comcast - Rabbit

So this is the most awarded TV spot of the last award season according to Creativity Online. I can dig it.

Bud Light Lime - In The Can

This new DDB spot for Bud Light Lime cans reaches a new high for lowbrow humour and is sure to make the average beer drinker forget that beer always tastes like crap in a can. Love it.

Favourite Friday Ad - Revolving Restaurant - Playland

A classic Playland spot from Palmer Jarvis DDB (Now DDB Canada/Vancouver). Spinning is funny.

Met Police - Choose A Different Ending

Brilliant 'choose your adventure' style campaign from AMV/BBDO for the London Met Police aimed at reducing knife crime. Love the fact that they reward the user with a music video - although, from the comments, it sounds like this Chipmunk guy isn't everyone's favourite MC. Either way, an engrossing campaign that can actually make a real difference. It was the awarded the Creativeshowcase for August. Read about it here.

Favourite Friday Ad - Guinness noitulovE

A little late as I was entertaining family on Friday, but, as they say in this incredible spot for Guinness from AMV/BBDO in 2006, good things come to those who wait.

Das Ist Bad

Looks like I wasn't the only one to cringe at the AIDS 'Mass Murderer' campaign. Check out the Campaign article here.

DDB Brasil's Tsunami Ad for WWF

Or: The worst ad ever created.

Again, my apologies for posting this shite. For the full story and DDB's lame apology, click here.

NOTE: Looks like DDB Brasil has pulled the video off YouTube for... copyright issues. Yeah, that's it.

What Not To Do In Advertising

Headline: The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.

Advertising Agency: DDB Brazil
Executive Creative Directors: Sergio Valente, Rodolfo Sampaio, Julio Andery
Creative Directors: Sergio Valente, Rodolfo Sampaio, Julio Andery, Guilherme Jahara
Copywriters: Adriano Matos, Rodolfo Sampaio
Art Director: Guilherme Jahara

Advertising Agency: das comitee, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Director: Hans Weishäupl, Dirk Silz
Photographer: Uwe Düttmann
Published: September 2009


Not sure what's going on this week, but it seems like some ad agencies are on a mission to piss off the world. Don't we do that enough already? For what it's worth, WWF has denied any collaboration with the creators of the 9/11 ad. I'm sure the AIDS client will soon be saying the same. C'mon, guys. Have some damn taste. (I'm actually offended at myself for even posting these blights on humanity.)

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

So that's how they do it...

(Cheers, Allbrit)

Turn The Forecast Up To 11

Orange Mobile is most famous for their Orange Wednesday promotion in this country, which entitles any Orange subscriber to bring a friend to a movie for free. Every Wednesday around the mydeco office, you can hear non-Orangers on bended knee, beseeching their Orange friends to take them along to the latest movie screening. Now it looks like Orange is hoping to get people sharing music too.

While only available to Orange subscribers, the new Monkey tariff allows you to download free music onto your mobile and share it through playlists. To get the word out about Monkey, Fallon has created this mock TV weather forecast in which a rather bland weatherwoman describes the shifting trends in music and what to expect for the weekend.

As campaign longevity goes, this one could last forever. Checkmark for that. Also, I like how they contrast the staid weatherwoman with the cheeky writing; the spot sneaks up on you - kind of like the weather in this country, although this gave me a smile. Can't say the same about the near constant cloud cover and ever-impending rainfall.

There's also the strange last line from the weatherwoman, "Chicka-chick-ah." Something oddly intriguing about it that makes you ask yourself, "Did she just say that?" A small touch but a nice way of adding interest to what is a mostly deadpan delivery.

All in all, I think it's a winner; most importantly because people will be looking forward to the next report, and the next strange utterance from our forecaster. I'm predicting high praise over the coming weeks for Fallon and Orange.