Hasta La Creative!

Converse, the quintessential anti-sports-shoe sneaker brand, recently tapped “anti-ad agency” Anomaly for some anti-advertising advertising.

Here’s a new Heineken commercial featuring a green-clad clan of “cops”

wo Arby’s roast beef sandwiches talk to each other. Yes, it’s an actual television commercial.

Here’s some behind the scenes footage of that foam shoot that bathed the streets of Miami with gallons and gallons of soap suds

… in the world according to Wienerschnitzel. (Push play on the right-hand side.)

“Jump,” featuring the furry friendly Gaspar, is an attempt by Dentsu Canada to push Vespa out of the “pseudo-bike” realm and into … well … hrm.

To hock its wares, Virgin always aims for just left of left-field. Looking for a flight? Seek thee out the least enthusiastic of the bunch. Need a mortgage? Geriatric sex should get you off. Investment aid? A pyromaniac ballerina can help you with that.

Here’s a story about a nifty ING campaign promoting “your number,” the dollar amount you want to save for retirement.

Having received 23 complaints — including one from the Archdeacon of Liverpool — the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided to pull GHD’s “A new religion for hair” campaign off the air.

In today’s environment, with technological advances, marketing strategies and celebrity endorsements, shoes have become much more than just footwear. Brands are scrambling to assert their top-dog status, and today finds Nike is in the midst of launching one of their broadest multimedia campaigns to date, including a :60 spot to air on American Idol and college basketball tournaments asserting that “my better is better than your better”:

The emerging Nike campaign is in direct response to the Under Armour Superbowl spot proclaiming “The Future is Ours,” announcing their entrance into the cross-trainer marketplace. Under Armour quickly rose to dominance in the “compression fitting apparel” category, and after entering the market less than a year ago, has taken a 1/5 market share of football cleats. An interesting article in today’s Oregonian has some interesting info and quotes regarding the Nike campaign and the shoe/athletic apparel battle:

“This was definitely an all-out attempt to stop Under Armour in its tracks,” said John Horan, publisher of trade newsletter Sporting Goods Intelligence. “They want to make sure they don’t get surprised on this category.”

Follow the jump for the Under Armour spot, a bit of Adidas, and some Pony action