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Client Places Ad to Thank DDB Seattle For Account Work AdPulp points us to an ad placed in AdWeek by Exclusive Resorts outlining the success of its recent advertising and thanking its agency, DDB Seattle, for the work it did on the account. AdPulp hopes, as do we, that our industry isn't completely made up of selfless, ego-driven cretins and that this isn't some sort of prank by DDB to achieve a clandestine, third-party high-five by placing the ad itself. Online Magazine Extends Spoof of MPA Campaign When the Magazine Publishers of America launched an ad campaign that illustrated even though life would be very different in the future and that people would still be reading magazines, online magazine ZOOZOOM spoofed the campaign and talked about how life is right now and that people are reading magazines online right now. ZOOZOOM has extended that spoof into a real campaign, taglined "Doing It," which shows people online in various scenes. There's also a video that illustrates how magazines aren't even good at killing a fly anymore. Interpublic Files Suit Against Frank Lowe, Pointlessness Ensues It's sort of pointless for an agency to take legal action against a former employee if they end up going to another agency or starting their own agency and a few clients and former employees follow. First, no one forces an employee or a client to shift from the previous agency to the new agency. Agency people are big enough to make that decision on their own. Second, once a client makes the decision to leave, it's not like legal action is going to make them go back. And when the agency decides to somehow legally force an employee to stay when they've decided to leave and join the new agency, that's kind of pointless too. Short of shackles and a police escort, if someone doesn't want to show up for work, there just not going to. 'Blender' Teams With Absolut, Budweiser, Yahoo At Sundance Blender magazine, Dennis Publishing's music magazine, and TAO Las Vegas are teaming to bring Blender Sessions at TAO Nightclub to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah from January 19th-23rd. The nightly series of live music performances for celebrities, filmmakers and film industry executives will be sponsored by Absolut, Budweiser and Yahoo and take place in the Asian inspired Park City satellite of Las Vegas' Tao at The Venetian Hotel. Human Choir Provides Sound For Honda Civic Ad Eschewing the usual source for sound effects, Wieden + Kennedy London has created a two minute commercial for Honda UK and used a choir of humans to generate all the sounds in an ad for the new Honda Civic. The ad will be available, beginning today, as a video podcast. A microsite accompanies the ad which features a 3D-ish model of the car that people can view from different angles, a "making of" video and a service where visitors can sign up for a test drive. Greenpeace Trots Out 911 For Anti-Nuclear Power Ad Capitalizing on Friday the 13th fears, Greenpeace, through The Viral Chart, has released an online video (here too) that, with compelling imagery, claims building more nuclear plants is an invitation to terrorists 911-style. Sarah North, head of Greenpeace's nuclear campaign, said, "Millions of people could die as a result of a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant. This is a totally unacceptable risk. This film shows that building new nuclear power stations is a catastrophic gift to terrorists." Jeep Bounces, Boobs Don't, Message Weak Here's another one of those ads (found on Adland) creative types dream up while "concepting" in a dream world without clients. While the bouncing breasts thing will never get old, the least these creatives could have done was use a model that actually had breasts that bounced. Actually, the "model" is likely the female creative partner behind this who is perfectly satisfied with her breast size and agreed with her male partner to be in the spec spot, much to the male partner's glee. ABC Rejects GoDaddy Ads, Everyone to See Them Anyway ABC has rejected nine version of GoDaddy's Super Bowl commercial and GoDaddy CEO Bob Parson's says ABC is being hypocritical in its decision by citing the network's racy Desperate Housewives. Currently, GoDaddy ran its window Washer ad featuring Candice Michelle during the NFC WildCard game on FOX. Parson's has a verbal agreement with ABC for a placement in the game but nothing official has been signed. Likely, we won't know what the decision is until a day or two before the game. All GoDaddy's ads can be seen online here. UPDATE: Marcus Rhatigan from GoDaddy, who wrote and produced the Window Washer spot, wrote to assure us there was no consistency error writing, "There is no plain white shirt without a logo; didn't shoot one, there wasn't even one on the set." It was a lighting issue. The logo's there. We apologize for the error and look forward to seeing that logo all over Candice's chest during the Super Bowl. GoDaddy is currently reshooting for the Super Bowl. Come on, ABC, don't ruin the party. Deutsch Back From Dead With IKEA Woe was Donny this past Summer with account losses from Monster, Old Navy, and Revlon not to mention that Speedo picture but things are looking up for his agency Deutsch which, today, was awarded with the return of its former $60 million client IKEA. Most recently, IKEA was with Secret Weapon and has returned to Deutsch without a review. Welcome back, Donny. S&M, Spanking, Scantily-Clad Women Promote Lingirie A couple years ago, Kylie Minogue did a lingerie ad for Agent Provocateur in which, after seductively writhing atopa mechanical horse, she wonders why the guys watching her can't stand up. Now, according to Eatmail, Agent Provocateur, apparently, is at it again with an even more tantilizing commercial called Spank. Eatmail's Emily teases us by offering up only a short, unbranded version of the spot so we'll just have to wait for the full version if and when it's released. 
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