Create Your Own Games – Playcrafter.com (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Playcrafter.com is a free site which lets you build and customize your own games based on five different templates including a brick, golf and marble game.

Sound boring? It is actually deceptively addictive…

ESPN: Rugby

Rugby

The sport you’re looking for and much more.
ESPN channels. We’re crazy about sports, like you.

Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Creative Directors: Márcio Ribas, Wilson Mateos
Art Director / Illustrator: Daniel Leitão
Copywriter: Marcelo Correa

ESPN: Soccer

Soccer

The sport you’re looking for and much more.
ESPN channels. We’re crazy about sports, like you.

Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Creative Directors: Márcio Ribas, Wilson Mateos
Art Director / Illustrator: Daniel Leitão
Copywriter: Marcelo Correa

ESPN: Golf

Golf

The sport you’re looking for and much more.
ESPN channels. We’re crazy about sports, like you.

Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Creative Directors: Márcio Ribas, Wilson Mateos
Art Director / Illustrator: Daniel Leitão
Copywriter: Marcelo Correa

ESPN: Pool

Pool

The sport you’re looking for and much more.
ESPN channels. We’re crazy about sports, like you.

Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Creative Directors: Márcio Ribas, Wilson Mateos
Art Director / Illustrator: Daniel Leitão
Copywriter: Marcelo Correa

ESPN: Tennis

Tennis

The sport you’re looking for and much more.
ESPN channels. We’re crazy about sports, like you.

Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Alexandre Gama
Creative Directors: Márcio Ribas, Wilson Mateos
Art Director / Illustrator: Daniel Leitão
Copywriter: Marcelo Correa

Lifetime Health / Evening Primrose Oil: Holiday

Holiday

For a less turbulent time of the month.

Advertising Agency: Ward 6, Sydney, Australia
Creative Directors: Hugh Fitzhardinge, Grant Foster
Art Directors: Grant Foster, Richard Price, Hamish Grieve
Copywriter: Hamish Grieve
Published: July 2008

Lifetime Health / Evening Primrose Oil: Supermarket

Supermarket

For a less turbulent time of the month.

Advertising Agency: Ward 6, Sydney, Australia
Creative Directors: Hugh Fitzhardinge, Grant Foster
Art Directors: Grant Foster, Richard Price, Hamish Grieve
Copywriter: Hamish Grieve
Published: July 2008

Lifetime Health / Evening Primrose Oil: House

House

For a less turbulent time of the month.

Advertising Agency: Ward 6, Sydney, Australia
Creative Directors: Hugh Fitzhardinge, Grant Foster
Art Directors: Grant Foster, Richard Price, Hamish Grieve
Copywriter: Hamish Grieve
Published: July 2008

Hip Recycling Campaigns – E-Donor by MTV & HP


E-Donor is a joint campaign by MTV and HP that raises awareness about recycling old technology. The initiative aims to educate people, particularly teenagers, about the different ways they can reduce their…

Scooters to Fight Oil Prices – US Scooter Sales Up 65.7 %

(TrendHunter.com) Record gas prices in the US mean big changes. Italy: prepare to be generous, because the US is moving in to take over one of your stereotypes!

In the first half of 2008, scooter sales are already up…

Guinness Sexed, 50 79’d, Mars Caves, Parker Pisses

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This fake Guinness commercial illustrates the pleasures of multitasking among friends…while naked…and having sex.

You Know You Wanna Be a Super Masher

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With help from a company called Involver, Serena Software launched a Facebook “super group” to promote its business Mashup Composer.

A post that’s not for the easily offended

Offended
Everyone is making offensive ads these days, if only because the public is so easily offended. Creating such ads, then pulling them amid profuse apologies, has become de rigeur. (I’m not sure what de rigeur means, but it’s French and sounds classy.) Maybe the summer heat is making tempers flare, but just this past week: Mars withdrew a U.K. Snickers commercial some called homophobic; New Yorkers worried about pro-Muslim ads set for display in the city’s subways; and animal rights groups complained about a Verizon spot starring a “junkyard dog.” So, here’s a lazy summer-Friday question: What was the most offensive ad (or ad campaign) of all time—and why? Go to the comments and share. Share, damn you! Links would also be nice. Oh, if you’re wondering about my personal choice(s) … I actually can’t afford the luxury of taking offense, since I’m so often offensive here on AdFreak. Heavy is the head, people. Hmm, I wonder if any French readers found my flippant use of de rigeur offensive. Do we have any French readers? Silly frogs. Crap, now they’ll really be offended. Jerks.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Raising Minimum Wages – US Federal Wage Now At $6.55 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Federal minimum wage is up 12% to $6.55 in the United States, meaning close to 2 million Americans will be getting a raise from the previous $5.85 hourly minimum.

That’s a shockingly high number of…

Create Your Own TV Commercials – Virgin Wants to know ‘What Happens Next?’


Australians have probably seen Virgin Mobile’s “All you can eat” campaign in online, TV and print ads, plastered everywhere lately. Virgin has come up with a competition to coincide with their campaign,…

Mr. T is homophobic? Mars pulls newest Snickers ad

Got a Penny? Go Buy Glue

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To show how the penny is shortchanged in the value hierarchy, Office Max launched a campaign called “Power to the Penny.”

Got a Penny? Go Buy Glue.

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To show how the penny is shortchanged in the value hierarchy, Office Max launched a campaign called “Power to the Penny.”

Chicago Ad Dude Questions His Worth

In a sort of funny, sort of lame, sort of introspective, sort of awkward, sort of cheesy, sort of insightful, sort of self-indulgent, this promotional video from Chicago Creative Partnership attempts to instill the notion the agency really, really does take the work it does for brands personally.