Hasta La Creative!

An ad for Rodial body cream featuring Mila Kunis was banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards authority for claiming its cream will provide a “body to die for.” The ad, which took the form of an email, featured Mila Kunis from a recent Esquire shoot. In the ad, Kunis can be seen standing against a wall in her underwear. The headline reads, “Get a body to die for with 50% off body sculpture for 24 hours.”

Body copy read, in part, “Get Mila Kunis’ Esquire look with this intensive formula that helps reduce the appearance of cellulite fast.”

The Advertising Standards Authority, upon receiving complaints the ad was misleading and the cream couldn’t possibly give a person the figure of Mila Kunis and upon reviewing information provided by Rodial regarding the product’s ingredients, said claims were not “robust” enough to stand up to scrutiny.

In a statement, the ASA said, “Because robust evidence was not presented to demonstrate the implied efficacy claims for the product or that Mila Kunis had achieved the look featured in the photo as a result of using the product, we concluded that the ad was misleading.”

Courtesy of Adidas, we have the pleasure of viewing Snoop Dogg tell the story of Ebenezer Snoop, a hip-hoppity tale of the usual past present and future travails of those who don’t believe.

Now this is funny. Remember last year when William Shatner did a PSA for State Farm which shared safety tips for those planning to deep-fry their turkeys? Well, Shatner’s back and this time his PSA has been auto-tuned by John Boswell and the results are quite amusing. Give it a watch.

Inspired by Tom Brady’s tradition of giving UGG footwear to fellow players as a way to say thanks, UGG Australia has launched Pink Slip, a new ad, created by M&C Saatchi LA, which features Tom Brady offering a pair of UGG Ascot slippers to a rookie player.

The Pink Slip TV spot premiered on November 19 on ESPN, ESPN2 and NFL Network. On the day of launch, consumers received a dedicated e-mail directing them to view the commercial and behind the scenes video for Pink Slip on the UGG Australia web site and other social media platforms.

The digital portion of the campaign will run on CBS.com, Complex.com, Hulu.com, NFL.com, Pandora.com andYouTube.com. Print will include Details and GQ magazines. OOH will run in New York City in the form of bus shelters, as well as billboards in Los Angeles. The media was planned and purchased by KSL Media Los Angeles, and PR was overseen by M&C Saatchi PR New York.

Already a sensation because he was a member of the original Star Trek crew. Already a sensation because of his prominence in social media. And now a sensation for belting out a version of Aerosmith’s Armageddon theme, I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing during last night’s American Music Awards, George Takei touts Old Navy’s Cheermageddon, a holiday sale of epic proportion.

Takei appears in two spots, created by CP+B, for the brand; a special :60 which aired once during the awards and a :30 which will air throughout the holiday season. Each spot touts the brand’s Black Friday offerings.

As George would say, Oh my!

Seemingly uninterested in the prospect of playing yet another hottie with a hot body – this time a character who wears her underwear in space – Megan Fox has higher aspirations; marine Biology and the invention of a technology with which to speak to dolphins.

Yes, as a follow up to the brand’s wacky outing with Kiefer Sutherland, Acer is out with another Mother London-created spectacle which focuses on Fox’s desire to become a “brilliant” scientist with, of course, help from Acer’s Aspire S7 laptop.

In the ad, Fox teams with a group of entranced scientists (one in particular) who help her develop speech recognition software that enables communication with dolphins. Over the course of 103 days of hard work and a bit of Tolstoy, the team finally finds success.

We suppose it’s an inevitable move for a woman who has always been seen and labeled as a sex object all her adult life. and a fitting on as she heads towards parenthood. Still, we wouldn’t seeing her get on an off a motorcycle wearing short shorts or leaning over a car engine in a miniskirt and crop top from time to time.

Earlier this year, Megan Fox appeared in a sultry ad campaign for Sharper Image. Seems the folks over at the gadget brand liked working with Fox as she’s back and appearing in a new campaign. Fox, who was five months pregnant during the shoot. can be seen sitting on a Sharper Image bed, lounging in a chair and listening to music.

Of her Sharper Image work, Fox said, “I have always been a bit of a gadget geek and into different types of technology. The campaign is a good fit for me because I love electronics.” And we love you. Megan so keep doing your thing.

Even though he doesn’t even like football or play the game (at least in real life), actor Sean Astin – who played underdog Notre Dame football player Rudy Ruettiger in the 1993 film, Rudy – is a football expert in this Pepsi Max-sponsored video.

In the video, Astin sits down with this year’s crop of rookies for some innocuous and sometimes funny banter.

In one of the oddest “celebrity” endorsements we’ve seen in a while, Chuck Norris and his wife, Gina, talk about a “growing concern.” According to the Chuck and Gina, America is under attack and may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which we are headed.

That course change Norris advocates is a vote for Romney. As explanation for why Obama won in 2008, Gina says 30 million evangelical Christians stayed home on voting day which is why Obama won by 10 million votes. Are we to assume that all evangelical christians are republican. Maybe most are but her statement is a leap in logic.

Later in the video, in the midst of conjuring Reagan, Gina recalls Reagan’s statement given during a speech in support of Presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater in which he said, “We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”

So Obama will bring a thousand years of darkness and Romney will deliver our last best hope? Sounds like a battle of two Gods rather than two guys trying to run a country.

While no official word has handed down by the International Olympic Committee regarding Michael Phelps’ appearance in leaked photos of a Louis Vuitton ad inside the Rule 40 window barring appearance in non-Olympic sponsor ads between July 17 and August 15, the media has its panties in a bunch over the kerfuffle.

The ads, shot by Annie Liebowitz, feature Phelps in a bathtub wearing a Speedo and swim goggles and on a couch sitting next to Russian Olympian Larissa Latynina whose medal winning record Phelps just broke.

At issue is whether or not Phelps broke Rule 40 which “limits athletes competing in the Olympic Games from appearing in advertising during and shortly before the Games.” If the IOC feels an Olympian has crossed the rule, they can be issued “…wide ranging sanctions…” Though unlikely, some have said these sanctions could include being stripped of medals.

Many, including track Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross, claim the rule forces “hard working Olympians to leave the games with no financial support while $6 billion is earned around the games.”