Hasta La Creative!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Get ready for a scolding about drug use when you're most likely to be in a mood for humor, surprise and a couple of stiff drinks. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, which has a history of running grim, discomforting commercials during the joyous Super Bowl, is planning a return to the big game, according to people familiar with the situation.

The particularly quiet cleaners from Siemens.
The future moving in.
Siemens

Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany

Advertising Agency: BVK, Milwauukee, USA
Creative Director: Gary Mueller
Art Directors: Brent Goral, Giho Lee
Copywriters: Mike Holicek, Jeff Ericksen
Photographer: Tim MacPherson
Published: December 2007

Advertising Agency: BVK, Milwauukee, USA
Creative Director: Gary Mueller
Art Directors: Brent Goral, Giho Lee
Copywriters: Mike Holicek, Jeff Ericksen
Photographer: Tim MacPherson
Published: December 2007

46″ is the new 42″.

Advertising Agency: Della Femina Rothschild Jeary & Partners, New York, USA
Creative Director:Jerry Della Femina
ACD/Art Director: Jason Rogers
ACD/Copywriter: Mac McLaurin
Photographer: Lendon Flanagan
Digital Imaging: Brad Palm

People are always trying to lose weight. There are millions of books written to help people lose weight. We have health clubs on every corner. And we have an endless supply or advertising urging us to do the wackiest…

New York state’s latest anti-smoking ads, featuring Skip Legault, the guy whose tobacco habit cost him most of his right leg, leave out an interesting fact: Legault still smokes half a pack of cigarettes a day! This curious tidbit was dug up by the New York Daily News, which is showing Legault’s TV commercial and his print ads on its Web site. Legault, 48, says his neighbors in upstate New York are confused—understandably so. “They wonder why I’m doing what I’m doing and I’m still smoking and telling everybody to quit,” he says. It almost sounds like Legault thinks cigarettes bring him good luck as well as bad. “I’ve lived longer than the doctors told me and it’s tough to change something while you’re still going,” he says, somewhat ludicrously. Though it’s not exactly false advertising, Legault does sound guilty about continuing to puff away while doing the ads. “The more I watch my commercials, the sicker it makes me feel,” he says. Well, he’s not alone there. The next thing you know, Throat Hole Guy will fall off the wagon.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

The phone goof thing can go either way. Unfortunately, in real life, phone calls like this actually do happen so it’s not surprising Hoboken New Jersey agency Hammerhead Advertising (nope, we’ve never heard of them either) used the goof…

LONDON – Ipsos Mori has revamped its senior management team with managing director Mike Everett taking over as CEO from Brian Gosschalk, who has been promoted to CEO of Ipsos Western Europe.