Hasta La Creative!

The consumer-created ad is back. Production company B-Reel and ad agency Eleven, Inc. recently teamed up to create a promotional campaign for Union Bank called Commercial by Design to highlight the bank’s Banking by Design product that lets customers customize their own checking accounts.

B-Reel director Roderick Fenske shot various comedy-driven scenes that site visitors can mix and match to create up to 40,000 different commercial, which will then be voted upon with winning favorites airing as a televised broadcast spot in 2013.

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There’s nothing really that special about this Canadian Doritos Viralocity submission from Aleysa Young in which various people get all hot and sweaty from eating Doritos Hot Stuff. But…
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While we are loathe to give GoDaddy any more publicity than it’s already achieved, our dedication to journalistic principles outweighs our knee jerk reaction to click delete on this one.
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Cue hungry agencies licking their lips over another opportunity to have interns enter a contest. 901 Tequila announces more loser-generated mayhem. Yawn. You know the drill: Create. Enter. Wait.

Cathay Pacific has teamed with the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens to hype the event at which teams from all over the world will compete at the Hong Kong Stadium March 27-29.

Consider this a warning to those that like to overpromise.

For even more horrific consumer-generated idiocy, be sure to check out ForRent.com’s video contest.

Ahhh. Nothing spells success like the obsessive, well-indexed and unquenchable hatred of an anti-corporate website.

Rejoining Starbucked, I Hate Microsoft, Untied and Comcast Must Die is Fucked Google, which was shafted in 2006.

If you’ve ever fantasized about a trip to Scotland, now may be the time to enter what may be the mother of all UGC contests: the Current and T-Mobile VCAM (“viewer-created ad messages”) Assignment. We just watched an entry…