Bud Bowl: As Much a Super Bowl Sunday Institution as Football (Teasers Added)

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For its BudBowl.com campaign, Budweiser is letting Super Bowl audiences vote on each of its ads as they appear, via text message. Teasers added.

Online Degree Program Puts Graduates On Plastic Expressway

We can’t describe how heartily we dig that the Nextag online degree program makes career options look like our Barbie closet. Dress up like a nurse, a cop or “something else” — a category for which our imagination holds…

Anti-War Song (Again) Repurposed — for a Printer!

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Remember the repugnance that was All You Need is Luvs?

Install Facebook App. Win Communal Shark. Questions? DIE!

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Catch Up Lady let us in on the conception of Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die Facebook app.

The school with the most downloads wins a visit from the Funny or Die comedy tour and a hammerhead shark, possibly autographed by Ferrell and the cast of The Golden Girls…?

Clipcaster Gives US Users Shiny New Outlet for Inside Voices

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Clipcaster.TV, which did that funky videoke thing for Pisang Ambon’s Rock the Palace campaign, is now available for digital howlers Stateside.

Lesbian Site Gets Goofy With MySpace Avatar in Flickr Promotion

To help increase its membership, someone presumably behind the lesbian site BestforLESBIANS (NSFW) has created several humorous images (some NSFW) made up of random racy shots coupled with a MySpace avatar who comments on the imagery.

Cheetos Ditches Chester, Goes Underground

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Probably because Frito Lay has finally caught on to the creepiness that is Chester, it gives us Orange Underground (not to be confused with Weather Underground, the radical leftist terrorist org), courtesy of Goodby Silverstein.

Apple: New York Times Quote

Apple: New York Times Quote

Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab
Chief Creative Officer: Lee Clow
Executive Creative Directors: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum
Creative Director: Jason Sperling
ACD/Art Director: Chuck Monn
Copywriter: Alicia Dotter
Lead Interactive Designer: Ryan Conlan
Agency Broadcast Producers: Hank Zakroff, Perrin Rausch
Agency Interactive Producers: Zach Leary, Joannah Bryan

Production Co.: Epoch FIlms
Director: Phil Morrison
DP: Mott Hupfel

Editorial Co.: Mad River Post
Editor: Val Thrasher

Post Co.: Company 3
Scott Johnson, Stefan Sonnenfeld

AMC’s Breaking Bad: Teaser

AMC's Breaking Bad: Teaser

Watch the intriguing promo: http://breakingbad.com

Advertising Agency: mono, Minneapolis, USA
Additional credits: unit9.creative.production
Published: January 2008

Sometimes a Profession (First Mangles, then) Chooses You

A girl named Mandy promised this video would reveal the COOLEST ROBOT EVER! We were skeptical but later decided she was right. Sure it won’t shave your balls and get you off, but it will do a silly little…

Gondry Lays Waste to Internet for ‘Be Kind Rewind’

We used to be fans of Michel Gondry, the father of lush Levi’s commercials and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But then he came out with The Science of Sleep and shattered our childlike faith in his ability…

Obama the New LensCrafters Spokesman (OK, Not Really)

After seeing this LensCrafters ad on The New York Times homepage, one has to wonder if, perhaps, it was created specifically to get a bit of added awareness because, as one Adrants reader notes, it’s somewhat “Obama-esque.” Or, it…

The Phoenix Suns Invite You Into Their Locker Room

If you’re into the Phoenix Suns, you might like this new website called Suns Locker Room. On the site, you can snoop into player’s lockers, check out Head Coach Mike D’Antoni’s office, turn on his TV and read his…

Kensington Products: Trickedoutmouse.com

Kensington Products: Trickedoutmouse.com

Check out the microsite: http://Trickedoutmouse.com

Digital Agency: Singularitydesign.com
Creative Director: Joshua Cohen
Art Director: Owen Linton
Other Additional Credits: Jeff Greenhouse
Published: December 2007

Sixt: ASCII GTI

Sixt: ASCII GTI

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Stuttgart, Germany
Creative Director: Holger Oehrlich
Art Director: Matthias Erb
Programmer: Daniel Bretzmann
Screen Designers: Matthias Erb, Daniel Bretzmann

Ronzoni Gives Cows A Day Off With New Calcium-Infused Pasta

PETA’s gonna love this one. Ronzoni Smart Taste which contains as mush calcium as an 8 ounce glass of milk is celebrating its new pasta with the launch of Cow’s Day Off, a site on which people can give…

Contextual Advertising Adds Color to Matching Smarts

We all know contextual advertising has it’s ups and downs. Well, mostly downs. At least here on Adrants. We’ve had Do we really need killer values from supermarkets offered next to articles about Amish killings. We’ve had turpentine ads…

Emails Awarded, Whipple Squeezed, Conference Engages, Lynx Mobilizes

– January 11 is the deadline for entering MarketingSherpa’a 2008 Email Summit Awards which “recognize email campaigns that have outstanding measurable results.” – The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), announced today that entries are now being accepted for…

MTV/www.staying-alive.org: Counterstrike

MTV/www.staying-alive.org: Counterstrike

Kill as much as you can, but don’t be a fool and kill yourself.
Use a condom.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director / Copywriter / Art Director: Christian Seifert

Keep Shocks Sharp; a Squirrel Has So Much to Live For

Check your shocks. You’d hate to kill a squirrel, wouldn’t you? For client Monroe Shocks and Struts, Cramer-Krasselt is banking on it. Watch this web drama about a young squirrel with a bright future, nearly scraped on the roadside…