Turkish Bank Ad Does Mass Choreography Thing

We have no idea what's going on in the this Turkish ad for AKBANK but we do know it looks very similar to the British Airways and Carlton Big Ad ads. Still, the choreography in this ad is truly amazing.

Animal Magazine Creates Celebimals For Latest Issue

ANIMAL magazine refusing to grovel like Radar, finally, as we're told, scraped together enough money to print its seventh issue with 136 pages focusing on the theme of wildlife. Publisher Bucky Turco tells us, " While Bazaar attempts to shock with a naked pregnant Britney Spears on its cover, we instead titillate with our sexy full-lipped Brangelino cover featuring a parody of Brad Pitt (bird), Angelina Jolie (rhangelino), and nest of children represented as a 'limited edition shrunken heads necklace.'"

The cover, illustrated by gossipist-artisan "14" of GalleryoftheAbsurd , is part of the magazine's CELEBIMALS feature. The magazine asked "14" and writer Michael K. from Dlisted to create celebrity-ANIMAL hybrids of Hollywood's most talked about stars and recreated Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, George Clooney, and other Hollywood favorites. The magazine hit the streets and newsstands this weekend but can be download as a PDF here.

Candystand Debuts Monster Truck Game

Keeping up the action on its Candystand site, WM. Wrigley Jr. Company has released a new advergame created by Stimunation. The game is called Monster Trucks and you get to brand your truck and drive it over all kinds of obstacles and, best of all, crash it. Mmm. Going out to buy some Lifesavers now.

Second Snickers Hip Hop Heroes Episode Debuts

Earlier, we said, "We're not a teen and we're not going to try to pretend we know who will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo and apl.de.ap are because, well, we're already only almost sorta hip and we don't want to slide over into the tragically un-hip column." So, again, we're not going to try. We'll just say this is part two of Instant Def, an online video series featuring the artists as superheroes. Oh, and the picture of Fergie in stockings pushing a hospital bed? As we've said many times before, we don't create this stuff. We just share what the PR types end us. Of course, it's always our pleasure to share images like this one with readers because we know you appreciate it. Well, some of you, at least. To the others, we offer our sincere apology on behalf of the entire sex-fixated advertising industry.

Some Agency Created A Cuervo SportsCenter Parody

You know some creatives are having a lot of fun when they string together the words "visibly excited" and "cocktail" together which is what was done in this SportsCenter parody for Cuervo. The person who sent it to us, telling us her company created it, apparently doesn't realize proper publicity can only come when we actually know the name of the company. Perhaps she'll let us know.

UPDATE: She did. It's Tribal DDB.

According to HP, Those With Glasses Aren't Personal

Acknowledging the power of online communities, blogs and social media, HP is releasing the next series of its "The Computer is Personal Again" campaign online before it hits TV. Unfortunately, the three commercials, starring Mark Burnett, Pharrell Williams and Mark Cuban, will not take full advantage of the web's viral capabilities as, according to the press release, the spots will be released on the HP website and, apparently, not simply seeded out to YouTube, a far faster method of spreading them around. Surely, they will end up there anyway, but HP has chosen to launch them from a site that, on the plus side and the reason they are hosted initially on HP's site, is said allow people to create personalized versions of the spots to feature on blogs or to send to a friend. This, of course, follows nicely with the personalization focus of the campaign.

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