So what do you to to promote yet another shopping mall in a place as big and busy as Hong Kong? You have models dressed in the mall's latest fashions go all guerrilla and lay down on a busy sidewalk and take a nap, have a faux picnic in the middle of a cross walk and play little street games. Created by Leo Burnett Hong Kong for Delay No Mall, the campaign is supposed to exude the non-conformity of the mall by being, well, a bit non conformist in it s approach.
We've got images of the stunts here.
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Instead of putting together a slick campaign about the Philippines' wonder and majesty, the Philippine Department of Tourism has done something that we think is risky but probably worthwhile.
It invited HappySlip, a Filipino-American who built a YouTube following with her impersonations of family members, to visit the country on its tab.
Here's HappySlip's arrival video. It includes a link for Experience Philippines; we're guessing that'll appear on all the videos documenting her trip.
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For Think MTV (MTV's conscience?), Arnold produced two takes on what the Holocaust would be like if it happened today.
See Subway and Family Room. Tagline: "The Holocaust happened to people like us."
The spots scared us and filled us with quiet somber feelings. We don't even feel like making Hitler/Xbox jokes anymore.
To promote its all girl, all the time website ChickiPedia, somebody's created yet another PC versus Mac-style ad. This ad features a professorial type alongside a...well...hot chic type who each banter about what Wikipedia can offer versus what ChikiPedia can offer.
If you want to know about the population of Lima or the bat haired fox, you want WikiPedia. If you want to know about hot chicks like Adrianna Lima and Megan Fox, you want ChickiPedia. Can you guess which "pedia" will offer you Jessica Alba's measurements? Yes, we thought you could.
While this scenario is, at best, a bit of a stretch, the commercial in which the scenario plays out does a pretty good job commanding one's attention as one wonders just why the hell we are watching a guy shave his pubes. As the scenario progresses, the camera pans off the guy and to the right where...well...this is one of those commercial you just have to watch to fully appreciate.
Zune. Moon. It all makes perfect sense. Dog travels to moon. Dog gets goodies. Dog brings them back to share with other earth-bound dogs. Cute. Created by 72andSunny and directed by Curious Pictures' Rohitash Rao, the video follows the experience of Laika (the name of the dog the Russians sent into space in the fifties) as he explores the Zune's mythical landscape and returns to earth to the benefit of all doghood. See? The Zune really can save the world. Well, at least the dogs. The iPod's already got a handle on all the humans.
Now, to actually see this thing, you have to go to the Zune Arts website and click on the dog as it appears on the screen. Don't you love the navigational simplicity of this new fangled Flash thingy? Or you can screw all that nonsense and just view it over at AdGabber (though the aspect ratio is off).
You can react to this MacHeads movie trailer (yes, it is reportedly going to be a real movie) two ways. The first would be, "Oh for fuck's sake! Shut the hell up you lemming-like, religious freaks! It's just a fucking computer!" Or, you could stash away your negativity, open your mind and say, "OK, yea, it is just a computer but look what it has done to form an amazingly creative community that does and creates things that could never be done or created before."
The trailer for MacHeads features everyone you'd expect from Guy Kawasaki who says Mac users changed the world to some hippie lady who talks about how a Mac got her through a funeral to Violet Blue to adamantly states she'd never, ever knowingly sleep with a Windows user.
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Industree, a communications agency out of Reggio Emilia and Milan, put together this cute ad for the '07/'08 Panini Footballers.
The spot features a baby that prefers football paraphernalia to typical infant fare. Tres chouette. Oops, that's French.
In another nod to the "invisible" cause of domestic abuse and violence against women, this National Center for Domestic Violence commercial highlights the fact that, in the U.K., 330,000 injuries per year are blamed on kitchen cupboard doors.
While it's certain these domestic violence campiagns bring to light this terrible issue, it's not so clear they do anything to stop the violence. In fact, a current or potential abuser viewing this commercial now has yet another excuse to use when explaining away the situation.
It's unclear whether or not this Bud Light Ability to Talk to Animals spot will make an appearance during the Super Bowl but if it does, there could be a lot of sausage talk at the office the next day. Along with graceful shots of the product, this DDB Chicago-created Bud Light commercial starts off innocuously enough touting the beer's taste. It then suddenly shifts to a man and his dog in the kitchen. Sadly, it seems, Bud Light's ability to give one the power to talk to animals is no more. Sadly, the dog doesn't know this and continues to beg for sausages over and over and over...and over again.
It's stupid humor like this that gives this spot a chance at Wassup notoriety.
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