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Explosion of Opinion Kills Agency Holiday Card Concept

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Clearly illustrating the humorous obsessiveness of your average ad agency and why most ad campaign fail due to analysis paralysis, New York agency AKQA struggles valiantly to create its Holiday card while, predictably, every person in the agency offers their insight and suggestions to a very frustrated Executive Creative Director.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Agencies



'Making of Christmas Card' Video Brings Back Memories

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Oh God. This brings back absolutely horrific memories of our time spent pontificating, kissing ass, interacting with idiots, trying to explain to primadonnas their ideas suck and generally snickering at the entire agency business model. That said, we miss it dearly which is why we like this "making of a Christmas card" video from communications agency Closerlook. If your jonesing for some hipster agency experience, wallow in the schadenfreude this merry wish provides.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Agencies



Kodak Takes Assvertising to Trade Show

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Way back in the day when marketers were reaching for any means necessary to attract attention, one company came up with the notion of assvertsing. The idea was simple. Place ad messages on the asses of hot woman and parage them around for all to gawk at. Well, as reported by The Spunker, Kodak has latched onto the tactic and recently hired some women in ridiculously short minis to bend over at photo trade show in Boston as if to pick something up only to reveal the word "Kodak" affixed to her panties.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Guerilla



Top Ten Thirty Adrants 2005 Sex-In-Advertising Stories

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As we endeavored to compile our list of the top ten sex-related advertising stories of 2005, we realized very quickly it would be impossible to limit the list to ten. After all, advertising and sex are so deeply intertwined it would be like coitus interruptus to place any limitations on such a project. So here, in no particular order, are the top sex-related advertising stories of 2005 for your multiple pleasures. We're sure we've missed some as there's only so many times a chap can go 'round.

British Hottie Says Hand in Pants Not Hard
Freakish Appendage Horrifies, Sells Shoes
Sex Sells...Until the Doors Close
GE Wins And Loses With 'Ecomagination' Campaign
Big Breasts And Suckling Babies Promote Food Bank


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Ass Pixel Advertising Hits Million Dollar Homepages
Condo Complex Encourages Loud Sex in Ad
Outdoor Campaign Teases
Nestle Drumstick Ad Over Sexed
Hot Models De-Cry Turtle Egg Aphrodisiac Consumption
Monitors Orgasm to Promote TVGuide Online
Shocker: Boobs Promote Advertising Week
American Apparel Hires Porn Star to Sell Tube Socks
Girl Grabs Crotch, Ad Gets Banned


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Paris Hilton Has Sex With Bentley For Carl's Jr.
BMW Launches Racy Motorcycle Mini-Movie Ad
American Apparel Ad Campaigns Dance With Porn
Very Pink Hotties Provide Football Fantasy
Alan Cumming Cums For Cumming
Book Promoted With 'TwattyGirl' Apparel
Jenna Jameson Launches Wireless 'Moantones'<
PR Firm Lures Survey Respondents with Striptease
Elevator Used to Recruit Pole Dancers
Wife Strips, Man Watches, Product Benefit Fulfilled
Manisms and Hot Women Sell Milwaukee's Best


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Provocative Imagery Promotes Holland Festival
Beer.com Launches Virtual Bartender II
McDonald's Wants People to Fornicate With Burgers
Big Boobs Sell Low Air Fares
Big Boobs Keep Foster's Beer Cold

And for one last go 'round, here's a few stories that sum up our industry's fixation with sex.

Advertisers: Wake Up And Smell The Sex
Marketers Push Sex Appeal
Group Says Too Much Sex on MTV

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Commercials, Trends and Culture



Ad Age Reveals Top Ten Most Watched Ads

Continuing the reveal of its 2005 Book of Tens, Ad Age has published its list of the Ten Most Watched Videos on AdAge.com. They include such wonders as the GoDaddy Super Bowl spot, the McDonald's Japan McHottie spot, the Pepsi Sumo Chickens, Anheuser-Busch's military Super Bowl tear jerker, the Honda Grr spot and more. Wallow in the glory that is advertising.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Commercials



Top Five 'Viral' Ads of 2005 named

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Eatmail.tv's Emily has put together the top five video clips of 2005 which include the Citroen C4 spoof, the Nut Bra, the Guinness Good Things Come to Those Who Wait ad, the Bill For First Lady political ad and Axe Deoderant's Ravenstoke Alaska news clip.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Online, Viral



Kate Moss Virgin Mobile Commercial Debuts

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A week ago we told you Virgin Mobile, treading where no other marketer dared, on December 20 would be launching a spot exclusively in the United Kingdom featuring alleged coke-snorting supermodel Kate Moss. Well, since the dawn of the Internet and sites like Japander, there is, of course, no such thing as a country-exclusive ad campaign so here we have Kate Mosss chatting on the phone with her hyped up agent in a Virgin Mobile shop.

by Steve Hall    Dec-20-05    
Topic: Celebrity, Commercials



Agency Says Christmas Needs to be More Commercialized

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Seattle-based agency Sedgwick Rd. crafted a unique Christmas campaign which pushes aside all that religious and politically correct crap in favor of the true meaning of Christmas: buying stuff. The agency highlights this campaign in its video Christmas card that outlines the agency's research and creative strategy in developing its "no room for anti-Christmas factions full of freaks with nothing to do other than attack America's favorite pass time - emptying Wal-mart warehouses full of crap no one really needs or wants which ultimately ends up clogging overflowing landfills" campaign. Oops, that was a little harsh. We jest.

by Steve Hall    Dec-19-05    
Topic: Agencies, Spoofs



Finance Company Taps Into World Opinion

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Financial services company has launched a truly interesting site, called Your Point of View, that intends to become a clearing house for world opinion and a celebration f differences in a world of sameness. Oops, that sounded like a press release. Sorry, but that's really what it's all about. The site lets you voice your opinion and drill down into the opinions of different cultures on the same topic. From cloning, to haute couture to wind farms to tattoos and modern art, the site present metrics for each category. While it's all tied to HBSC, it's nicely detached from any obvious product promotion except, of course, for its brilliant method of collecting varying cultural insight for use in defining the company's country-specific marketing.

by Steve Hall    Dec-19-05    
Topic: Online, Research



Dad Gets Over Excited About Child's Christmas Gift

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That's just so not the way to thrust readers into a Slate story about what gifts not to give. Or, maybe it is. After all, doing that to a puppy isn't exactly a nice gift to give now is it? Especially when your kid is watching. Courtesy Gawker.

by Steve Hall    Dec-19-05    
Topic: Online, Publishing, Strange



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