Ah…the fist bump. It has nothing to do with homophobia, as some have dubbed it when called a “fist kiss” in this Shaquille O’Neal and Mike Breen ESPN commercial, and everything to do with some men’s odd desire to appear “yo, dude” cool or something. It’s just dumb.
With a supremely effective visual, this PSA for the United Nations World Food Program in which Sean Penn illustrates how, comparatively speaking, cheap it would be to feed every hungry school child for a year makes a powerful statement.
“Carry the Torch” is an animated cause spot meant to encourage Canadians to “Create a better Canada.”
“That’s Dan. And I’m Dan’s pancreatic cancer.”
Recently the American Association of Shit-Canned Media Elites held a party for those who have found themselves without employment. Now the organization is out with Obama-style t-shirts which read, “Yes, We Canned.”
– Hit the honeys where it hurts.
The American Family Association, which was described as “a puritanical national nanny” by the ED of The Truth Wins Out (a gay advocacy group), convinced Heinz to suppress a Deli Mayo ad that hasn’t appeared on American TV.
Philly’s doing this “single-stream recycling” thing to get its inhabitants to clean up. Single-stream recycling is when you take all recyclable goods and put them in one bin.
In this charming new spot for its “Save Today, Save Tomorrow” campaign (an unwieldy URL if you ask me), EDF Energy enlisted Miklha Singh, Anne Packer and Sammy Lee to reflect on their Olympic glories, using “recycled” footage of them in their prime.
In “School,” a Greenpeace ad by DDB/Paris, a teacher poses this timeless question to her students: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Here’s an interesting one. Apparently, drinking alcohol makes women ugly.
In the style of punters, desktop hijackers and Trojan horses circa 1998, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation is circulating this “viral.” (Get it? GET IT?!!!)
For its song All I Need off the In Rainbows album, Radiohead teamed up with MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) to create a cause-oriented music video.
This campaign won a Gold Clio in the Content & Contact category.
– Saatchi Singapore adds what AdFreak calls a bit of Evil Dead to a domestic abuse campaign which focuses on verbal abuse.
Somewhere in the bowels of my memory is a man with a ‘fro, a soothing voice and a paintbrush. As a kid I watched him on TV, mesmerized as he effortlessly whispered magic onto canvas.
Few things are more irritating than a manufactured crisis intended to scare you straight — in this case, using the human tendency to rubberneck to guilt drivers into slowing down in less dire situations. Then again, few things are more provocative.
The Max Havelaar Foundation, a coalition of fair trade producers and initiatives worldwide, is using this video to promote fair trade practices.
Whether you’re an air traffic controller or some random kid in Toledo, Burma could use your help tackling that slippery “human rights” concept.
In tangent with Cat Fancy, Petfinder.com has launched “Cats Rule!”, an ad contest that aims to do two things.
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