Top 7 Spontaneous Public Spectacles – Improv Everywhere (SUPER GALLERY) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I’m even more convinced that Improv Everywhere is the world’s most creative guerrilla marketing company!

“GuerilLA had folks who seemed like strangers spontaneously come together for a game of Follow The Leader at the Getty Center,” Improv Everywhere explains.

Another project was Human Dominoes …

Newspapers With Moles – Guerrilla Skin Cancer Ads

(TrendHunter.com) Down under, they’ve found an innovative way to raise awareness for skin cancer, as melanoma is quite a frequent cancer in countries as sunny as Australia. The Campaign Palace created special newspaper ads that featured a 3-D image of a mole. When the readers ran their fingers over the moles, they fe…

Cheeky Software Ads – Digital: Perfect Images for a Not-So-Perfect World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve got a good, slightly crude, sense of humor, then you’ll appreciate these ads for Digital, a photo retouching software.

The “Perfect images for a not-so-perfect world” ad campaign by Leo Burnett, Brazil features two images, side-by-side, the left being the original, and the right the digi…

Environmental Sexvertising – Big Boobs Encourage Recycling (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Here at Trend Hunter, we have already established that sex is one of the most effective ways to motivate men to do a good deed or have a healthy lifestyle.

From attractive girls on your fat belly to a promise of prolonged and improved love making. When it comes to men, sex is king.

But this is th…

Human Rights Ads – Amnesty International “Make Some Noise” Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These ads, featuring US president George Bush, Kim Jong II, the leader of North Korea, and Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s dictator, are for an upcoming Amnesty International concert in Hungary.

Millions of people have complained to these leaders about their human rights records, but these political figu…

Fashion Pop – Coca-Cola Fashion Week Collector’s Bottles

(TrendHunter.com) Who says Art and packaging design are hard to combine?
Each year during the Fashion Week in São Paulo, Coca-Cola Brazil launches its limited-edition Coca-Cola Light bottle decorated with a full-body shrink film from Sleever Intl.

The 237-mL glass bottle exclusively distributed during the Fashion…

Anti-American Advertising – Sunnex Jeans (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “Not made in America. Thankfully.”

That is the slogan of the Mumbai jeans brand, Sunnex Jeans.

The slogan is accompanied with powerful statements in the print ads, such as: “America is the police of the world. Don’t wear its uniform.” and “If you were reading this on a New York street, you would …

Pregnant Men – In an Absolut World, Men Have the Babies

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish vodka company, Absolut, has run some pretty creative ad campaigns, but this one’s rather fitting after the recent news broke of the world’s first pregnant man.

This ad implies that in an Absolut world, men would be pregnant. Now wouldn’t that be a joy! Where’s the portal into this Absolut …

Sexvertising Gym Memberships – Aerobics First, Improve Your Sex Life Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It seems sex is the most effective way to persuade guys to join gyms or buy sports equipment.

While the gym ads that Trend Hunter recently featured implied to men that losing weight gets them the girls they want, this Aerobics First running and ski shop ad campaign promises a better time in the sa…

Controversial Vodka Ads – Absolut World Mexico

(TrendHunter.com) Absolut Vodka launched a global campaign called “Absolut World,” and while we’ve featured some awesome ads from the campaign already, we haven’t yet shown you this controversial Mexican border ad which ran in Mexican magazines.

It features a skewed Mexican border, showing a huge chunk of the southe…

Life-Sized Cars on Walls 2 – Gigantic BMW Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is one of the biggest ads in Russia. Located right in the center of Moscow, this ad features full-sized BMWs like the Z4 M Coupe, M3, M5 and the M6 cars with headlights that turn on in the evening stuck on the wall. The cars are full-sized but they are not real and the ad measures more than one…

Advertising on Toilet Paper – JustToiletPaper isn’t Just Toilet Paper (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen 10 amazing toilet paper designs which prove toilet paper is for more than just wiping. Justtoiletpaper.com realized the same thing. The company launched a line of printed toilet paper, perfect for advertising or delivering a personal message!

“On the average, people go to the bathroom 6…

Hygienic Shockvertising – Ads Show Value of Sanitizers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This ad from the advertising agency Euro RSCG out of Mumbai, India is just plain nasty. The message has to do with hygiene and a liquid hand wash and the shock value of the visuals clearly goes through the roof so I thought I’d share the pain with as many folks as possible. Enjoy.

Bed Bug Blasters – Ray Cop Kills Them and Sucks Them Away (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Brits have bugs in their beds. Mites actually, as does every single one of us with skin on our bodies that sleeps in a bed. Don’t let the bed bugs bite — blast them before they get a chance!

Mites can cause real problems for allergies, so RayCop made a gadget to sterilize your bed and kill bacteri…

Supportive Ads – Target Maternity Bras: Cranes

(TrendHunter.com) To show their clever innovations in supportive technology for maternity bras, The Campaign Palace created this ad campaign for Target.

The Melbourne, Australia-based advertising agency aptly titled the campaign “Cranes,” as it features a woman in a white Target bra and two small, Target-branded cra…

Big Brand Hoaxes – BMW Dog Zapper

(TrendHunter.com) Earlier this week, a new BMW ad ran in British newspapers and it offered quite a shock to dog lovers. Why? Because the new BMW is not a canine lover, on the contrary. It contains a system that prevents any dog from releasing itself on your car. The system administrates a 220 volts electric shock to …

Designer ArtVertising (UPDATE) – HUGO Create Winners (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hugo has announced the winners of round 1 of the creative Hugo Create contest on 1 April, 2008. The 10 winners will recieve $500 each and will have the chance to be printed in I-D magazine or even used in an official Hugo campaign.

The ten winning designs are: Tom Moran (UK), Ashley Paul Smith (UK)…

Customized Scentvertising – Nose Knows Consulting

(TrendHunter.com) Scent marketing, which we’ve covered a few times as “scentvertising”, is a form of advertising that targets the sense of smell. Nose Knows Consulting is a Canadian company that focuses on the olfactory elements of a project to maximize the impact of the product or message.

Nose Knows offers scent …

Brand Personalization – Scion Speak

(TrendHunter.com) It’s all you, you, you. Well for Scion anyway, which is launching Scion Speak, which allows the car brand’s enthusiasts to personalize their vehicles yet further with custom-made modern age heraldic crests reflecting their lifestyle and passions. Designed in consultation with the fiercely loyal Scio…

Advergaming – Coke Zero UEFA 2008 Game

(TrendHunter.com) The hottest trend in ads right now is advergaming; basically building your brand in the gaming sphere. There’s the good the bad and the downright ugly in this field, but notable examples, including the brilliant PlayStation-based BK Games from last year, raise sales, cash and awareness in the noto…