Pot Noodle’s latest spot (released just in time for St. Patrick’s Day!) isn’t super-appetizing, but it kept us watching. It’s a spoof on Guinness’ Tipping Point, where a domino effect travels from a luxe office to the seedy interior of a village overflowing with costumed extras from every movie set ever.
Test your breath, courtesy of Scope and the fine people at Dentsu, Canada and Crush, Toronto. What have you got to lose?
To show consumers their wannabe Hot Pockets are loaded with pizza stuff, Pizza Pops enlisted Cossette, Toronto, which got some boys that remind us of Smosh to star in these spots, Woodchipper and Campers.
– Check out the 2008 Sony Bravia ad teaser, pop-infused and action-packed with controversial bunnies.
– Support your local politician’s private life. Sport a Spitzer 9!
Check out the site and turn your mic on: http://www.testyourbreath.ca/
Creative Agency: Dentsu Canada, Toronto
President: Bob Shropshire
Creative Catalyst: Glen Hunt
Writers: Glen Hunt, Matt Williamson
Art Directors: Deborah Prenger, Carson Ting
Creative Director, Interactive: Michael Gramlow
Producer: Amanda Loughran
Account Supervisor: Stephen Kiely
Programmer: Relish Interactive, Toronto
Production Company: Sons and Daughters, Toronto
Director: David Hicks
Post Production: Crush, Toronto
Animators: Aylwin Fernando, Mark Irish and Chris Minos
Compositors: Greg Dunlop, Kaelem Cahill, Pat Moore
And he wants us to get some, too. O_O
For the Mercury Radio Awards, Goodby, Silverstein + Partners (SF) put together MakeRadio.org, where you (yes, YOU!) can put together a radio ad for Riccardi Scented Candles in exchange for the opportunity to win a Mini-Mercury Award in May.
Wanna see Sarah Chalke of Scrubs try shaking out a wedgie in public? Click on “See Sarah Shake It” at WedgieFree.com. Superfluous body-bends and orgasm faces come stock.
Following a decrease in CPM costs some months ago, MySpace’s prototypical True.com ads and Crush Calculators have been replaced with a dominant ad buy by Biola University, which is colonizing the social network for Christ.
…and it looks slightly left of lame.
Check out how many Chihuahuas can you fit into a van: http://www.pasthetindenemo.nl/
Advertising Agency: EuroRSCG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creatives: Joost van Praag Sigaar, Laurens Boschman
Production: eBoost
Agency Producers: Daniëlle Swagerman, Loes Plekker
Photographer: Marc van Oene
London-based Enter the Chapel swears it has an ad idea that’s instant Cannes-bait. But oops, the idea was castrated internally, so now it’s for sale on eBay.
BoingBoing TV put together a mockumentary outlining the history of internet trolls, or people who lurk on your site and leave castrating but generally incoherent commentary under the sweet sweet security blanket of anonymity.
Probably because it fears death by Google almost as much as it fears sexual ambiguity, Ask.com has decided to stop competing for all-purpose search engine renown.
Advertising Agency: Creative Circus Atlanta, USA
Art Director: Amarena Diaz
Copywriter: Lauren Byrne
Divinity Metrics has put together a chart measuring the top 20 brands in online video. It will be updated every week.
This is sort of neat. Watch the sped-up drama of your consumption patterns on The Story of Stuff.
Check out the microsite: http://www.fullofpotential.ca
Advertising Agency: Saatchi Toronto, Canada
ECD: Brett Channer
Deputy CD: Brent Choi
Art Director: Basil Cowieson
Writer: Brent Choi
Producer: phillip stainton/sumit ajwani
3D construction: Ignition Digital (Rob Clegg)
Developer: Socimedia
Sound: tattoo music
Make the Logo Bigger just introduced us to Mr. Robinson’s Driving School, an online campaign for Volvo that somehow bombs harder (and more expensively?) than when Tide did it.
Havas’ BLM Quantum has unleashed a make-your-own-video (remember when we had simpler names for things?) contest on MySpace.
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