Wool the New Billboard Ingredient

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Yup. Hand knitted.

Samsung Drag and Drops Perfect World

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Samsung’s got a new video out promoting the life-altering power of the Samsung F480’s drag and drop screen.

That Dog Really, Really Likes That Leg

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OK so there’s nothing new about a horny dog humping a person’s leg.

Yawn. Hot Asses, Big Boobs Promote…Wait, Whoa! What Was That?

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In some sort of protest against the current state of football TV rights, Burger King has launched Football Your Way with, of course, hot women in cropped tops and shorts shorts getting camera love.

Skydivers to Spell ‘Honda’ On Live Commercial Break

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Tonight, at 8:10PM on London’s Channel 4, 19 skydivers will spend three minutes and 20 seconds attempting to spell out the word Honda.

Stand Up to Cancer Gets ‘We Are the World’ Celebu-Treatment

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Not usually a fan of weepy PSA’s for cancer, this one from non-profit Stand Up to Cancer directed by David Fincher and voiced by Sydney Poitier caught my attention.

Crocs Alligator Bites Tail of Shark That Jumped It, Succeeds

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The beauty, and success, of Crocs shoes (no, we never owned a pair, thank God) came mostly from word of mouth and the desire to be cool because you wore strange looking shoes that squeaked.

Deep Focus CEO Auctions Off Experimental Twitter Sponsorship

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Deep Focus CEO and avid Twitter user Ian Schafer is, as an experiment, auctioning off sponsorship of his Twitter profile and feed.

Polaroid Comes to Aid of Pervy, Digitally Illiterate Uncle, Doting Gramma

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You’ve got to hand it to Polaroid for this one.

Even Rich People Need A Place to Live

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So how do you sell homes to people with boatloads of money when the homes aren’t even built yet?

Shaved Primates Become Human In Braun Campaign

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I don’t know what’s worse, having so much facial hair you need a big ass electric razor to handle it or being cast in a big ass electric razor campaign because you look like a primate.

Adrants Sleeps Through Barnes & Noble Quamut Promotion

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Sometimes public relations professionals send things a bit early in the game so as to favor you with a scoop of sorts.

Apples Continues to Receive Consumer-Generated Love

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Not that we one more proof point to solidify the fact people who love Macs love Macs and people who…well…let’s just say there’s no love at all on the PC side of thing, but here is yet another consumer-created ode to Apple greatness.

Asthma Attack Powerfully Delivered

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Along the lines of Meth and workplace safety ads, this commercial for the American Asthma Foundation dramatically illustrates what it’s like to experience an asthma attack.

Oh Look! It’s Another Ass Selling Things!

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OK, then. After having crapped all over sexism in the office place, why not jump right back into reality: the use of sex to sell stuff.

Live Performance at Airport Touts Travel Site

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What opportunity does the fact people routinely skip ads and the fact sitting in an airport waiting area is excruciatingly boring present?

Outdoor Campaign Mirrors Yellow Pages Categories

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A recent Israeli campaign for Yellow Pages created individual boards for specific yellow pages categories

Lamborghini Brings Italy With it Everywhere it Travels

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From Philipp und Keuntje GmbH in Hamburg comes a campaign for Lamborghini which doesn’t attempt to illustrate what is already known – that Lamborghinis are really fast Italian sports cars.

Industry Suffers From Adbesity. Visit to Outhouse Cures All Ills

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There was a wee bit of excitement when first visiting OvercomeAdbesity and that excitement was warranted.

Painted Hotties Hand Out Free Hotel Room Keys For Harrah’s

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So how to you promote the opening of a new tower at Harrah’s hotel in Atlantic City? You hire hot models, have an artist paint their bodies and parade them around cities across the Northeast, of course.