Because nothing goes like sailors, rum and ass-shaking, 42 Below intro’s Tahiti Dark Rum to Auckland Harbor with the Tahiti Dark Maidens. And if you ever had a doubt, yes, the Pussy Galore indeed exists.
In one fell strip Tom Fishburne of Brand Camp fame depicts 8 types of bad creative critics. The Blender gave us the biggest stomachache.
HP makes its first viral, a random pseudo-European situational with classical music featuring the stodgy Berthold and Max, and we love it more than we should.
Geico gives its angry cavemen therapy. The caveman commercials are heralded as America’s favourite advertising and the perfect depiction of the “strong yet vulnerable male.” We don’t know about all that but we dig the cavemen too.
Sony Vaio launches a campaign in Brazil with this paper airplane thing.
Gaebler Ventures hides money in plain site to snag fledgling entrepreneurs – or at least some people hungry for Yemen’s gelt (a handy pre-Hannukah Yiddish phrase for hunting other people’s money).
Germany’s Haagen-Dazs hawks vanilla caramel brownie ice cream as Canada’s delicacy, which made us laugh because anything involving Canada makes us laugh including the notion that the linguistically-divided “Aye!”-chirping side of America has a national delicacy that happens to be purveyed by an ice cream company. And all this time we thought the US made brand-oriented individualism king. – Contributed by Angela Natividad
