"Hey Adrants! I don't know if you'd be interested or not, but this homebuilder is hip." (Signed "anon.")
An email like the one above is a really good way of guaranteeing we will quietly hate your company even before we're exposed to its creative. Anyway, check out Shapell Matchmaker, a Shapell Homes campaign that pairs people to their ideal corner of suburbia.
See cheesy video. (Was Bruce Campbell busy?) I took the website quiz, which was kind of fun. My perfect match was the Glens in Gilroy.
So not hip.
Adult Swin, those crazy folks who bring us Aqua Teen Hunger Force has teamed with Honda for a T-shirt contest to promote the auto maker's Fit. Dubbed Adult Tees, the contents asks viewers to design t-shirts inspired by Adult Swim. The winner of the contest, which runs from May 12 for seven weeks with the sweepstakes portion from June 30 to July 7.
To promote the contest, Adult Swim will air "Fit is Go" themed on-air promotions and :30's which will encourage people to visit adultswim.com to upload their t-shirt designs and to check out other contestant's submissions. Oh, and Honda branding and videos will be all over the Adult Swim website, natch.
Oddly, as of today, there's no mention of the contest on the website yet.
This was probably fun to film but, um, huh? OK, so it's kind of fun but to promote a new phone, the Samsung Soul? Two minutes later, you don't even care what it's for. Oh the not so minor detail the Song site is down doesn't help.
Deep Focus just launched a promotional site for the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher movie, What Happens in Vegas, called What Happened That Night, which aims to help you remember what you did in Vegas the night before. It's one of those answer a few questions, upload a picture and get a customized, forwardable message in return things.
- It's got to be a creepy thing to use one's daughter's ass in one's corporate advertising but there it is: the ass of 36 year old Laurie Adams, daughter of Georgi vodka CEO.
- Following AdWeek, MediWeek has unveiled its new website which mirrors the look of the new AdWeek quite closely.
- Previously a no no, yesterday's change in Google's terms and conditions now allows brands to mention competing brand names in their ads.
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To illustrate the benefits of it GPS device, Israel's Ituran, with help from Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Tel Aviv, created a GPS-like visual search engine. Using offline GPS technology, Ituran mapped 300 Israeli sites, their relationships to one another and "mapped" it all for easy navigation.
While we can't read a thing on any of he sites, the process seems to work quite well offering up an alternative to the typical way of browsing the web and searching for destinations. This video explains it all.
I spent most of the weekend catching up on Desperate Housewives and Lost on ABC.com. As a result, I got really chummy with Charles Schwab's "Talk to Chuck" campaign.
"Talk to Chuck" brings interpolated rotoscoping -- the process of animating over live action -- to a fresh audience. (Think Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. All the effects without the substance abuse!)
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The College of Notre Dame takes lessons from the surrealists to draw students to its desks -- or, well, "rockets."
Some things are better left to the imagination. Can you imagine how crappy it would have been if Magritte had elaborated on his "not a pipe" concept? "This is not a pipe. It's a funnel! A schoolbus! A sneak-peek into your soul!"
You may feel finished with 2007, but that doesn't mean you've seen the last of its advertising. (Far from it, actually.)
Visit OneShow.TV to vote for one of the top 100 TV spots of 2007. We've seen most of them (remember Skittles Touch and Levi's Dangerous Liaisons?), and probably trashed a lot of them, but hey, it isn't ultimately us that ends up doling out the One Show People's Choice Award.
The Cadbury gorilla ad by Fallon -- the one with that catchy Phil Collins song -- is currently leading the audience sentiment race.
The People's Choice Award winner will be announced this Wednesday on May 7 at One Show.
Talk about an emotional roller coaster. Discussions between heads of Microsoft and Yahoo on Saturday concluded with the two companies deciding they don't mesh well after all.
After company insiders divulged Microsoft and Yahoo were in decidedly harmonious merger talks, Steve Ballmer has formally withdrawn his bid. There will be no board ousting and no bid to meet Yahoo's lofty expectations of $37 per share.
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