(TrendHunter.com) Remember that movie, Coneheads from the 90s? Well, the cone look has made its way into real life fashion, but these days it’s not through warped skulls, but incredibly tall hair styles.
For the longest…
Leagas Delaney in London has some fun at the expense of an oblivious elderly woman driver in this commercial for Goodyear tires—which apparently hold up better than human beings over time. And for a more sober view of the dangers of old people driving, there’s this PSA.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
(TrendHunter.com) This morning’s big story is about Michelle Obama, who quipped about buying clothes online on the set of “The Tonight Show” just hours after hearing news about a murder plot white supremacists had staged…
LONDON – US firm Maritz Research has recruited Millward Brown’s Roger Sant to run its brand research division in Europe.
LONDON – Mustoes has won the integrated advertising account for LA Fitness following a review handled by Creativebrief.
(TrendHunter.com) Kidney stones are a massive pain in the stomach, and now for children as young as age 5 too. Formerly, this disease was known for affecting middle-aged people over 50. Now a frightening US survey discovered…
The German ad agency Scholz & Friends created this goofy PSA for Amnesty International, in which George Bush, Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad take a break from destroying civilization and embrace gentler pursuits: origami, balloon animals, and crocheting. “We can change what they do,” says the tagline at the end. Just not necessarily for the better.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
Two av’rage Joes, Bergwood and Ham, kick off college football season by living large with the money Allstate saved them on car insurance.
(TrendHunter.com) This month, in the Republic of Artsakh, 700 young couples celebrated a bizarre mass wedding which saw them joined in holy matrimony at the exact same time.
The huge combined ceremony was sponsored by…
If you switch on the radio at all this season, you might come across a handful of ads encouraging you to buy everyone you know an HD Radio.
(TrendHunter.com) If I was to say subliminal imaging is hidden on packaging you would expect something spy-like, risque or dangerous. Unfortunately, you won’t be getting that here, but you’ll see something else equally…
Sheraton’s Ultimate Paper Football Challenge is a little mindless fun for a slow workday.
(TrendHunter.com) No longer can a city win the Olympics without a wholesale spending of tax dollars to make the city pedestrian and athlete friendly. The first permanent bridge has been installed for the London 2012 Summer…
Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment uses the image of a coffin nail to declare, “The Cigarette is Dead!”
It seems I have an unexpected ally in my disdain for Baz Luhrmann’s Australian tourism ads. As much as it pains me, I share my opinion with Paul “Crocodile Dundee” Hogan, who claims that the ads “make the common mistake of focusing on … beaches and the Outback,” instead of more specific elements of Australian culture. It’s worth noting that the former movie star and current alleged tax evader was in the wildly popular “shrimp on the barbie” ads that portrayed Australians as dim, ineloquent ruralites who nevertheless understood the finer points of relaxation. Of course, he also bagged Linda Kozlowski with that act, so maybe he was on to something.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
LONDON – Work Club is the first advertising agency to use a new Facebook application that allows users to interact with their Facebok friends on other websites.
How long can libraries—repositories for the print pages that become more outdated every day—last in the age of instant information? They’re probably already as marginalized as the morning newspaper in terms of usefulness and functionality. Allen & Gerritsen does a good job of putting human faces on the brick-and-mortar neighborhood knowledge banks in a campaign touting the historic Boston Public Library system. The ads star real librarians as “heroes” willing to share what they know with smiles and good humor. (No stereotypical stern-faced patron-shushers here.) The effort subtly celebrates libraries’ heritage as a vibrant part of the communities they serve and focuses on the dedication, knowledge and courtesy of the BPL staff. People sharing what they know, rather than Googling until their fingers go numb, is what this campaign is about. Still, I can’t help feeling a bit sorry for learned folks whose value to society is cloesly tied to their performances at the local bar’s trivia night. The ads ask, almost wistfully, “What do you want to know?” There’s no need to inquire about the future of libraries. We already have the answer.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
LONDON – IDS, the sales house for Virgin Media TV, UKTV and Setanta Sports, has negotiated a six-figure sponsorship deal with the COI, on behalf of The Royal Marines, promoting careers across three separate TV channels.
An old saying goes that soccer (or rather, football) is a game watched by gentlemen and played by thugs, while rugby is a game watched by thugs and played by gentlemen. However, this humorous commercial promoting the Czech rugby league would like to clarify that soccer is played not by gentlemen or thugs … but by a bunch of girls worried about how their hair looks. Spot by Mather Communications in Prague.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
LONDON – The BBC has suspended Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross from broadcasting with immediate effect after a decision by director-general Mark Thompson, hitting a number of shows from tomorrow.
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