March 2011 (5)

Tennis on the Wing – Bold Filmmaking

Here is some bold filmmaking. Have you ever played tennis at 1500 feet and at 80 mph?  Novak Djokovic did flying on the wing of a biplane.  Check out the way they have to hit the ball to get it across the wing.  Wild stuff.  Not sure I would have the cajones to play that […]

13 years ago 1 Comment Wild Video
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Adidas Megalizer: Music and Hip-hop lovers listen up

Here’s a high energy new spot from Adidas called Megalyzer.  Nice way to pump up the Adidas brand without the use of any words.

13 years ago Leave a reply Creative Advertising
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Skittles Touch the Rainbow: Odd, very odd

Here’s a peculiar (read odd) commercial from Skittles called Touch the Rainbow. Is it effective? Or just weird for the sake of weird? You be the judge. This seems to be a strategy growing in popularity, at least among advertisers. For some it seems like the stranger the concept, the better – sense be forgotten! I […]

13 years ago Leave a reply Creative Advertising
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SkyTV: 60 Seconds – Fun, fast film

Here’s a clever Kiwi ad from SkyTV that offers 60 alternatives for a husband to watching TV. Interesting direction for an advertisement for a Television network. It certainly is memorable, though!

13 years ago Leave a reply Creative Advertising
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Always Open: Denny’s Original Programming

Here’s an intriguing cross promotion of comedic original programming and eating… set in a Denny’s. Branded content gets no clearer when the set is in a Denny’s restaurant.  Arrested Development fans should get a kick out of this launch episode, all three + minutes of it.  Jason Bateman and Dave Koechner have at it in […]

13 years ago Leave a reply Branded Content, Creative Advertising, Web Campaign
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Logitech Kevin Bacon Long Cut

Here’s 3 minutes of Logitech’s Ivan Cobenk commercial – Kevin Bacon on Kevin Bacon.  Kevin actually plays Bacon obsessed fan Ivan Cobenk who lives a Kevin Bacon inspired life.  This is the long cut version of the commercial that started getting airplay in December.  It’s kind of skeezy, but then kind of funny once you […]

13 years ago Leave a reply VIral Video, Web Campaign
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Old Navy Goes Viral: Is it a Commercial, or a Video?

Here’s a new ‘hot’ viral production done by Audio Threadz… it’s called Super Cute.  It’s a mini-music video targeting the teen set.  But is it a commercial or is it a video?  Sure looks to me like it’s both.

13 years ago Leave a reply VIral Video, Web Campaign
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Simple Animation – Really Catchy Stuff

Simple animation can do amazing things. Here are three stunningly clever and, more importantly, FUN animated videos created for a ‘creativity contest’ being held by the AICP soliciting submissions of advertising. Perhaps the ads stretch the truth a bit, but that makes them even more fun to watch. The ads themselves will hopefully not overshadow […]

14 years ago 1 Comment Animation, creative ad
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