Happy People, Random Office Objects Make Mozart

Stretching the metaphor to the limit, Hewlett Packard has launched a small business campaign called Happy People which illustrates how a well- tuned office environment (courtesy of HP, natch) can conjure the brilliance of Mozart. If, in fact, the…

Creators of Wonderbra Spec Ad Beg For Coverage. We Relent

OK, OK OK! We don’t usually highlight spec ads but because no less than nine people have sent us this video, we guess there must be some kind of demand for it so here it it. Believe it or…

Teen Magazine Cover Gets Clearasil Zit Sticker

Either ingenious or just gross, Clearasil has placed a sticker that looks like a zit on German teen magazine stadtlichter. Created by Euro RSCG Duesseldorf, the sticker says “Get rid of it” and when removed from the magazine cover,…

HoneyShed Gets Weird Again in New Video Series

HoneyShed, that Droga5-created, brand-as-content site has some new videos out that are floating around YouTube. As whacky as the originals, these videos feature iPod silhouette-like female figures gyrating while HoneyShed voice mails are played, a woman in her underwear…

Nudity Doesn’t Always Equal Sexy in Advertising

Wow. Could this potentially sexy ad be any less sexy and more pedestrian that it is? To promote its full body blow dryer, Triton created a video featuring a nude model in her bathroom taking a shower and then…

Hair Club and Playboy Frolic Together With Before/After Game

When the vanity that is Hair Club for Men Hooks up with the vanity that is Playboy, it’s clear we’ve entered a new chapter in the book of cultural vanity. When otherwise perfectly good looking but folically challenged men…

Spoiled Kid Upset Wee Box Doesn’t Contain Wii

OK. Apart from the fact it’s sickening this kid is so materialistic, rude and un-thankful for the gift her grandparents got for her, this video for Reevoo is actually pretty hilarious. Though it’s hard to believe anyone would confuse…

Jet’s Pizza Lets You Have Your Cake With Just Deserts

Ever had that annoying co-worker or that pompous boss of yours walk into the lunch room and ask you for a slice of your pizza without the smallest hint of thanks or appreciation? You know you have and while…

Car Traverses Playboy Model’s Mountain Tops on Cover

So you’re going to accuse us of covering this news item simply because of our apparent penchant for all things racy? Please, please, please. Have more confidence in us that that! There isn’t even any nudity in this work….

Sergeant, Referee, Sexy Teacher Go Boneless For Thursdays

If you want to have some fun with your cube mates, check this Boneless Thursdays Wild Messages promotion for Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar. Click the sergeant. Click the referee. Click the stern looking, S&M-ish school teacher. See…

iPod Central in Teen Pedestrian Death Campiagn

While Apple certainly isn’t going to like this campaign, Sydney’s police department felt it necessary to call attention the the apparent epidemic of teenagers dying while crossing the street, unable to hear oncoming cars because they are using an…

Hair the New Currency for McDonald’s NHL Hockey Cards

Ew. I mean really. Hair swapping? That’s just gross! But it’s funny too. In this quirky McDonald’s spot created by Toronto’s Cossette and directed by OPC’s Brian Lee Hughes, two guys negotiate for an NHL hokey card in s…

Agency’s Orgiastic Imagery Plays Visual Trickery

Boulder agency TDA Advertising & Design, “a big advocate of, and more than willing to perform gay marriages, ” so says CD Jonathon Schoenberg, has created an interesting cover for quarterly elephant magazine, a guide to “The Mindful Life.”…

Samsung Teams With Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger For UGC Contest

Some might say user-generated ad campiagns are so 2007 but not Samsung who partnered with Brickfish to bring us a video contest in whick people can submit their own versions of Pussycat Doll lead singer Nicole Scherzinger’s single “baby…

Obama Girl Declares Love For Adrants

It’s not often one of the hottest women on the planet creates a personalized video just for you but that’s exactly what our fave political babe, Obama Girl, did for us today. In the video she calls for a…

ABC’s ‘Lost’ Launches Yet Another Alternate Reality Game

There is just way too much complexity to ABC’s Lost and everything that goes with it to actually attempt to describe and explain everything. However, while trolling Flickr, we found some images of billboards for Oceanic Airlines, the name…

Obama Win Repositions ‘Fearful America’ as ‘Young, Optimistic Country’

“And the people of Iowa heard him, and chose to roll the dice,” wrote Arianna Huffington last night, in a tone slightly reminiscent of the Old Testament. Having dived headfirst into the choppy seas of political advertising (with help…

After 14 Years, ‘ER’ Still Delivers Solid Drama

Fourteen years ago I started watching NBC’s ER. Fourteen years later I’m still watching. Despite Marc Berman’s continual trashing of the show in his MediaWeek column and his urging NBC to cancel, the show continues to shine. It’s had…

Chemistry.com Continues Attack on Homophobic eHarmony

Chemistry.com has launched a follow up to its Come as you Are campaign with two new print ads attacking eHarmony’s apparent refusal to allow gays and those who choose to have premarital sex to match using its dating service….

Robed Women Trek to Times Square For New Lifetime Series

To promote Carson Kressley’s new Lifetime series How to Look Good Naked, 160 women will parade their way to New York’s Times Square today via taxi and subway wearing bathrobes while conspicuously carrying their bras in one hand. One…