Anti-Fur Blood Bath Goes Cartoon in New Online Game

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Like that commercial years ago where the runway model, while wearing a fur coat, suddenly began spewing blood all over the audience, this new game from PETA lets you pick and animal, run around a Burberry store spray painting mannequins wearing fur while security guards attempt to hunt you down.

Anti-Fur Blood Bath Goes Cartoon in New Online Game9

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Like that commercial years ago where the runway model, while wearing a fur coat, suddenly began spewing blood all over the audience, this new game from PETA lets you pick and animal, run around a Burberry store spray painting mannequins wearing fur while security guards attempt to hunt you down.

If Slow Graceful Camera Work is Your Thing, You’ll Like This Lingerie Ad

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If you like watching commercials in which the camera slowly makes visual love to a beautiful woman, then you’ll love this new commercial for Livera Underwear

Cadbury Trades in Gorilla For Tricked Out Airport Vehicles

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ere’s Cadbury’s new ad, a follow up to that Gorilla ad in which a dude in a gorilla suit lets loose on a drum set to Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight.

Goodby and Silverstein Get Old, Like Young People, Party

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Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein celebrate their many years in the business by portraying a bunch of senile old men in a video invitation to the agency’s 25th anniversary party on May 8.

Energy Drink Has Nice Cans

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Ha, ha, ha. So funny. So witty. So done 6 billion times before.

Italian Mafia Meets New York Pizza in Holland

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What do you get when you mix a New York-style pizza brand…in Holland…with the Italian mafia?

Men Lost in Hairy Jungle Saved by Miss Epil

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Our first reaction after viewing these three new ads by Lowe Strateus for Miss Epil was “what the hell is that guy doing stuck in the jungle?”

Little Minx Experiments with Exquisite Corpse

and no, not in the PBS kind of way.

“Exquisite Corpse” is a game where words and images are assembled to make a new whole. Players must adhere to certain rules to keep the game going.
…and no, not in the “>PBS kind of way.

“Exquisite Corpse” is a game where words and images are assembled to make a new whole. Players must adhere to certain rules to keep the game going.

Guinness Mobile Application Speaks Cantonese

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OgilvyOne Hong Kong along with XS2TheWorld and the Hyperfactory, in partnership with rugby tournament Sevens, have created, for Guinness, what’s being touted as the first Cantonese-speaking mobile guide.

It’s a Flickr Search Tool for Art Directors!

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This … this is amazing.

SF-based junior art director Bryan Denman built a flickr search bar for the advertising community. “It pulls in a flickr feed at speed (w/ some other tricks) so that an AD can quickly scour the site as a source for reference material,” he wrote.

Toronto Blue Jays Bring Back Tube Socks, 80s Frill

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Isn’t it fun to look back to the childhood days of your favorite baseball players? Sometimes but not when it involves 1970’s-era shorts and tube socks.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Plaid Tour ’08!

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Remember that van that looked like it was dipped into the dyeing vat of a private school uniform purveyor? Last year it motored up and down the East Coast to convert heathens to Web 2.0; this year it’s going West.

Carlton Draught Follows Big Ad, Flashdance With Skytroopers

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There’s just something about follow ups to great work that, well, just fall flat. Not that this new Clemenger BBDO-created commercial for Carlton Draught is a bad ad but it’s no Big Ad.

CareerBuilder’s Lesson 32C Gauges Workplace Worth

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Created by Wieden + Kennedy, CareerBuilder has launched a four part video series called Office Worker Survival Series which aim to “humorously instruct the disgruntled worker how to navigate the treacherous waters of corporate America.”

Obama Girl Tells Hillary to Stop Hating on Barak.

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Who knew? Really. Who knew Obama Girl would amount to anything more than a one-off from some random YouTube chic with a “crush” on Obama.

Claussen Pickles Quench Oral Desires

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If you prefer things stiffly erect and throbbing with fullness rather than things that are flaccidly limp and not up for anything fun then Claussen is your brand of pickle.

Hypnotism Helps Eliminate Focus Group “Group Think’

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Writing in Brandweek, Kenneth Hein takes a look at Ero RSCG’s use of hypnotism in focus groups for client Volvo.

No! No! No! Fox is The Credible Network. Not CNBC

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Oops. What did you say about Bear Stearns, Jim Cramer?

‘But Sir, This Ain’t Tobacco. It’s Big League Chew.’

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This anti-tobacco effort (via The Media Artist) appeared on gas station dispensers in Wyoming. Above a bottle dripping sludge, a bright sign reads, “You’re not gonna sip this. But you’ll kiss where it came from?”