Hasta La Creative!

There are no women wearing bikinis in this commercial. There are no guys doing stupid tricks. No one is throwing a phone. There is no mud wrestling.

Yea, You wish.

“The Bicycle Factory” is an uplifting piece about the many uses of bicycles in Africa. Under the weight of a single enterprising pedaler, a single bike can deliver food and water, or play the roles of ambulance and school bus.

Is it really so hard to create a simple, basic product and market it for what it is rather than layering on useless features and making exaggerated marketing claims?

As David Gianatasio writes on AdFreak, faux-newscasts do, indeed, trivialize the profession but, as always, they do provide lazy creatives an easy out when there’s just no energy left to come up with anything new.

If you liked Happiness Factory and the Eepy Bird Diet Coke/Mentos thing, you’ll love this new Organ Player commercial.

As if there weren’t already enough to do with your “there’s an app for that” iPhone.

Thank you, ShaveWet. We were beginning to think sex had stopped selling.

Consumer Reports is having a lot of fun these days with its online video product reviews.

We’d expect nothing less from a purveyor of lingerie fixated on sexualizing anything and everything to sell some bras and underwear.