Portraying KFC’s Colonel as a sadistic prison warden, this new Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign from BooneOakley, in three videos, explores the supposed life of a chicken while under the control of KFC.
(TrendHunter.com) It’s got all the futuristic technology you could think of ironically packaged in a retro esque cube. The holocube is in fact a cube measuring 20â€, which displays holographic video. The video is stored on a built in 40 GB hard drive which holds up to 18 hours of holographic goodness. This little …
LA Times features Santa Monica agency, Secret Weapon, today.
It seems the SW principals took VW’s sage advice to “Think Small” to heart.
The independent Secret Weapon, with 25 employees, has by design at most three clients at any given time.
“I have friends who run big agencies, with 20 clients, and there’s always a fire to be put out somewhere,” Sittig, Secret Weapon’s founder and creative director, said recently. “We’re right smack in the middle of our clients’ business instead of delegating.”
Right now, Secret Weapon has contracts with two companies: San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc. and the Southern California Honda Dealers Assn.
Dick Sittig and Patrick Adams started Secret Weapon in 1997, when Sittig left ad giant TBWA/Chiat/Day with the Jack in the Box account in tow. He was joined by Adams, a former manager at El Segundo’s Team One Advertising, which handles ads for Lexus.
If you’re old enough to remember the early 80’s, then you may recall that Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart was a really revolutionary invention.
But Jarvik is now under fire for his ads promoting Lipitor. One ad features him rowing. Only it’s not him. It’s a body double, seen here:
As The New York Times reports:
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is looking into when and why Dr. Jarvik began taking Lipitor and whether the advertisements give the public a false impression, according to John D. Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who is the committee’s chairman.
“It seems that Pfizer’s No. 1 priority is to sell lots of Lipitor, by whatever means necessary, including misleading the American people,†Mr. Dingell said.
Lipitor, the world’s single best-selling drug, is Pfizer’s biggest product, generating sales of $12.7 billion last year. But as it has come under competition from cheaper generic alternatives, Pfizer has used the Jarvik campaign, introduced in early 2006, to help protect its Lipitor franchise.
To today’s stand-up comedians, drug ads are what airline food was 20 years ago. It’s easy to poke fun at ’em. But this is some serious deception. It makes everyone in advertising look bad. That’s why Congress is poking around in it.
Champion (is that what you call them?) Alesha Dixon of Strictly Come Dancing stars in this valium-esque Ford Focus ad, which debuted February 1st on Ford.co.uk. Cake masterminded it, tapping Alesha for her number-one status among the Brits, and included nifty knick-knacks like instruments made of real car parts.
Cutting trees cuts your life short. Recycle!
Advertising Agency: Odyssey Communication Srl, Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Valentin Suciu
Art Directors: Dan Panaitescu, Raluca Stroe
Copywriters: Alexandru Aron, Anca Baciu
Photographer: Cosmin Gogu
Via: elmaaltshift
Don’t cut the trees! Recycle!
Advertising Agency: Odyssey Communication Srl, Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Valentin Suciu
Art Directors: Dan Panaitescu, Raluca Stroe
Copywriters: Alexandru Aron, Anca Baciu
Photographer: Cosmin Gogu
Via: elmaaltshift
This ad for Reebok aired after the game ended on Super Bowl Sunday. It’s called “Giants, Welcome to Perfectville.”
Advertising Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Directors: Jay Benjamin, Andy DiLallo
Art Director: Paul Spelman
Photographer: Sean Izzard
Copywriter: Tom Hazledine
For an ironic peep inside the world of agency life, a new album, Straight Out of Winston, from Mullen Winston-Salem Copywriter “StrataG” and others from the agency peers inside the walls of agency life rapper-style.
Stop shouting your call transfers.
Advertising Agency: Fischer America, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Flavio Casarotti
Art Directors: Eduardo Freitas, Ronaldo Tavares
Copywriter: Guilherme Moreira
Photographer: Daniel Klajmick
Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Sweden
Stop the cycle. Agricultural chemical waste contaminates our drinking water.
Advertising Agency: Jimenez Basic, Makati city, The Philippines
Creative Director: Don Sevilla III
Art Directors: Joey Ong, Jess Villaruel, Kevin Sabino
Copywriter: Joey Ong
Illustrator: Kevin Sabino
Digital Imaging: Jess Villaruel
Published: December 2007
As a coda to one of the most reviled sets of Super Bowl ads, the CEO of Salesgenie.com has apologized for using stereotypical ethnic accents in the “Panda†and “Ramesh†spots. With the token comment that “we never thought anyone would be offended,†InfoUSA chief executive Vinod Gupta said he will stop running the panda ad. In defense of the spot, he told The New York Times: “The pandas are Chinese. They don’t speak German.†By that logic, shouldn’t they be speaking Chinese? As for “Ramesh,†Gupta says he loves when people make fun of his own Indian accent, so he’s going to keep the spot in rotation. (Though you have to wonder if that one would have slipped by unscathed if it weren’t for the “I have seven kids†line.) One uplifting tidbit for copywriters everywhere: Gupta says he wrote both ads himself.
—Posted by David Griner
Advertising Agency: TBWA Singapore
Executive Creative Director: Graham Kelly
Photographer: Roy Zhang
Art Director: Aaron Phua
Copywriter: Ed Cheong
Digital Imaging: Magic Cube
Advertising Agency: TBWA Singapore
Executive Creative Director: Graham Kelly
Photographer: Roy Zhang
Art Director: Aaron Phua
Copywriter: Ed Cheong
Digital Imaging: Magic Cube
Advertising Agency: TBWA Singapore
Executive Creative Director: Graham Kelly
Photographer: Roy Zhang
Art Director: Aaron Phua
Copywriter: Ed Cheong
Digital Imaging: Magic Cube
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Guangzhou, China
Creative Director: Amanda Yang
Art Directors: Henry Tsai Deng Jian Quan
Photographer: David Chen
Designer: Song Ruan
Copywriter: Joy Zou
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Guangzhou, China
Creative Director: Amanda Yang
Art Directors: Henry Tsai Deng Jian Quan
Photographer: David Chen
Designer: Song Ruan
Copywriter: Joy Zou
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