Entries Categorized as 'About:Advertising'

Probably The Most Time Difficult Billboard To Put Up In The World!

Date March 6, 2008

To announce that Carlsberg beer now comes in a new shape bottle, an impressive amount of these bottles were used to form the Carlsberg logo

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Madrid Metro Ad Looks Up.

Date February 28, 2008

Take a look at this great advert directed by Gabe Ibañez for the Madrid Metro system.

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Human Ford Car.

Date February 26, 2008

Some exceptional dancers and contortionists feature in the latest advert for Ford Canada as they bend and stretch to recreate the shape of their car…very clever!

I feel sorry for the guy inside who has the responsibility of recreating the gear stick. via

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Freeze your knockers off this winter…be a penguin!

Date February 22, 2008

Environmental Agency PSA in the UK are encouraging Brits to do the green thing and turn down the heating this winter and use your body heat for warmth. Much like the penguin.

To accompany this campaign, they have produce this great little funny promo featuring a great Attenborough-esqe voice over and a lot of naked people […]

Sleevefacing goes mainstream with ripped-off ad campaign.

Date February 17, 2008

Sleevefacing, the craze that originated in a bar here in Cardiff would you believe, has gone mainstream with a series of ads, taking “inspiration” shall we say, from their orginal concept…

The ads were “created” by an agency in madrid called Kitchen for “fnac”, the french retail store, who are still selling vinyl records.
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Obama wears Axe Deodorant

Date February 13, 2008

What do you think; a clever viral campaign by Axe (Lynx if your in the UK) or an Obama fan photoshop jobby?

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Escalator hairstyles

Date February 13, 2008

A genius marketing campaign from Rediffusion in Mumbai, India. GENIUS!
To advertise the wide variety of hairstyling options available at a hair salon called Juice Salon, a picture of a man up to his forehead was pasted on the base of the escalator and then a different hairstyle was stuck on to each of its steps. […]

Ride Donald Duck!

Date February 13, 2008

How did this get through the door!?
It must be photoshop surely! Good job if it is!
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Giant iPod Earbuds in Murder Shock Horror!

Date February 13, 2008

Nope, its not a scare campaign by the music industry into preventing music piracy, its one advert in a gruesome series for a safety campaign in Canada.

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Color by Numbers with Gum

Date February 5, 2008

A new advertising campaign for Hubba Bubba in Sydney invites passers by to stick their used gum on to “paint by numbers” style posters in areas corresponding to the colour/flavour of their chewy.
Maybe they should try the same campaign in Seattle. Home of the famous wall of gum.

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