Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, India
Executive Creative Director: Piyush Pandey
Creative Directors: Abhijit Avasthi, Jignesh Maniar
Art Directors: Ashish Naik, Surendra Gohey
Illustrator: Lokesh Karekar
Copywriters: Dharini Shah, Nasrulla Husami

And now, we head into the fourth and final quarter…this game seems to be moving awfully fast this year. Notables from the third quarter include, Career Builder and Vitamin Water.

Cars.com – “Witch Doctor” – :30 – Tiny heads – reminds me of a scene from “Beatlejuice”.
Agency: DDB, Chicago
Director/Production: Matt Aselton, Epoch Films
The spot takes place at a dealership and ends with the tagline “Confidence comes standard.” The ad ends with a “funny” “Plan B” the buyer had in mind if things went sour.

Salesgenie.com – “Pandas” – :30 – At least the animation makes this much better than last year…and this year they actually have a concept!
Agency: creative:mint
Animation: Geoff Callan and Daniel Grace, Creative Mint, San Francisco
The concept and copy for the spot was created by Vin Gupta, founder and chairman of the company.
Superadgrunts, see the spot below.

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We can’t believe Hyundai waffled over the inclusion of its ads in the Super Bowl this year, a decision (or lack of it) that build unmerited hype for what we thought to be a really boring brand.

Diana GP. A race with the best mares.

Advertising Agency: Neogamabbh, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Art Directors: Thiago Rocha, Renato Salzano, Felipe Zambom
Copywriter: Thomaz Dantas
Photographer: Marcus Hausser
Image Processing: William Teixeira
Published: October 2007

We all know sticking a baby in a commercial usually guarantees it to be a success so we figure this Etrade ad with a talking baby would follow that trend…until, of course, the baby puked.

Nothing says more about you.

Advertising Agency: Rai Communication, Brazil
Art Director: Jarede Brasil
Copywriter: Gera de Paula
Photographer: Saulo Smith

Nothing says more about you.

Advertising Agency: Rai Communication, Brazil
Art Director: Jarede Brasil
Copywriter: Gera de Paula
Photographer: Saulo Smith

We suppose there’s a legion of Carmen Elektra lovers out there but wasn’t she popular like ten years ago?

OK, so we finally get to see those cave me do their thing as they struggle to deliver the Bud Light to the party which becomes easier when another cave dude invents the wheel.

Don’t get us wrong. Richard Simmons impressions are funny. Richard Simmons in the flesh is funnier still.