This vintage TV campaign from Lone Star Beer reminds me that computer generated images (CGI) have been in use by advertisers for years. It reminds me of popular TV shows from that time. The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched, in particular. It reminds me that making outrageous product claims has a long tradition. For […]
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Medium is taking a stand on AI-generated writing. An email from Medium arrived in my inbox a few days ago describing changes that are coming to the publishing platform. Beginning May 1, 2024, stories with AI-generated writing (disclosed as such or not) are not allowed to be paywalled as part of Medium’s Partner Program. Accounts […]
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Did you know that you can study the science of packaging at Michigan State University in East Lansing? In the fall of 1952, Packaging was created at Michigan State University as an academic discipline in the Department of Forest Products. The Packaging program was science and mathematics based with strong components in business, sociology and […]
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Major League Baseball will be back soon. A second spring training will begin next week, with opening day in late July. Is this an encouraging sign or a desperate plea to return to a normal that just isn’t there? Time will tell. Meanwhile, here in Texas, we’re experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases, and the […]
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Spiked seltzer is a billion-dollar industry. Sales of hard seltzer surged by nearly 200% in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to Nielsen. White Claw is the industry leader, commanding 58% of spiked seltzer sales. Now, Bud Light is making its move. https://youtu.be/m2PCmNIRRyU To support this product launch, Bud Light located the hamlet of […]
In years past, packaged goods have gotten a bad rap from certain creative elites who find the products boring and therefore can not imagine a creative way to display the product’s attributes to a public hungry for solutions to mundane problems like dirty dishes and upset stomachs. When the product doesn’t have cool built-in, what’s […]
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Product launches are such difficult affairs. When the new product is Kibu — One for All Life Mist (which SOLD OUT within seconds of being introduced this week) the process is even harder. Nevertheless, YACHT makes it look easy. Typically, a rock band uses their music video to “sell” their song. Placing an actual product […]
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I love to see brand marketers look inside their own company for inspiration. And when you happen to be an iconic brewer like Guinness, the riches to be found there are endless. Let’s learn more about malted barley from the masters of the art… “Two things have always been at the heart of the Guinness […]
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Denver Broncos linebacker and Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller has some big cleats to fill as the latest Old Spice guy, following popular pitchmen Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews as the star of Wieden + Kennedy’s high-profile ads for the P&G brand.
In a pair of spots tagged “Unforsweatable,” touting Old Spice’s Hardest Working Collection of deodorants and body washes, Miller quickly establishes his game plan. Less self-consciously suave than Mustafa, and way less manic than Crews (who came off like a crazed human cartoon character in some of his Old Spice appearances), Miller exudes a highly relatable vibe, and his confident charm really shines through.
The inside of my nose smells like South Park, and I’m worried it will never go away.
If you weren’t following the Olympics—which saturated all media—too closely, by now you probably know about Nosulus Rift, a bizarre odor-VR product created for Ubisoft’s latest South Park game by Paris agency Buzzman and its product arm, Productman, which launched in June.
Some background: The game, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, will be released in December, so it’s deep in promotions period. Demos are already circulating at conferences like Paris Games Week and Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.
In the story, all your favorite South Park characters have formed a superhero squad, and you’re the new kid, trying to fit in. You are also blessed with a unique superpower—magical farts, which enable you to fight enemies, piss off Cartman … and also travel in time.
Enter the Nosulus Rift, Productman’s first-ever product.
MeUndies, the makers of perfectly serviceable skivvies, just inked a sponsored ambassadorship with esports team the Immortals … after discovering that one of its members doesn’t own underwear. (Wait. We’ll get there.)
This week, they released an ’80s-style dating video about finding love. In your pants.
Titled “Perfect Pair: The Quest for Immortal Love,” it was shared on Facebook and features Huni, Reignover, WildTurtle, Pobelter and Adrian against a laser backdrop, the kind you probably chose for a school picture at some point, if you were stylin’.
Kleenex’s “Someone Needs One” campaign is back with an emotional back-to-school video designed to make you need some Kleenex.
Heading back to school is always an emotional time for kids, but the stakes are higher when you’re transitioning to a new school—so Kleenex targeted the switch from elementary to middle, which may well be the worst transition of them all.
Ready for a sunscreen-shitting seagull?
Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty and all-around advertising legend, was jury president of the Titanium and Integrated Lions at Cannes this year. And his jury recognized plenty of brilliant work, including the Titanium Grand Prix winner, REI’s #OptOutside campaign.
But at the press conference announcing the winners, Hegarty didn’t open his remarks by talking about the top-notch work. He opened by mentioning a Nivea campaign that was so shockingly wretched, it’s a wonder it was entered at Cannes at all. In fact, it’s a wonder it’s not a parody.
Cats have been known to wield an almost hypnotic power, controlling human behavior with a flick of the tail or the merest meow.
Case in point—the feline fiend in “What Cats Want,” BBDO’s latest campaign for Sheba cat food. With just a longing look, little Tabby lures a libidinous lunkhead away from his date mid-makeout so he can serve up some product, haute cuisine style:
After so many years of its signature quirky advertising, it’s tempting to think of the Old Spice work as dated. But then “Rocket Car” plays for a full house at the Cannes Lions Film awards, to the absolute delight of the crowd, and you remember that this is a campaign that stays fresh not by reinventing itself regularly—but by fully committing to its bizarre ideas and executing to perfection.
A new Old Spice campaign by Wieden + Kennedy Portland for the Old Spice Swagger line broke during the Cannes festival with a spot called “Five Year Plan.” It stars a brand new Old Spice guy, actor Thomas Beaudoin, who emerges victorious in the most anatomically freaky job interview you’ll ever see.
In partnership with Norman Walsh, a British sports shoe brand, McCann London has created the Herbrand Seven-Eleven, a pair of sneakers inspired by the agency’s own art-deco-style building at 7-11 Herbrand Street.
The limited-edition shoes, manufactured by hand in Norman Walsh’s factory in Bolton—where the brand’s been based since 1961—bear the distinctive white and green colors of the McCann building. They went live Wednesday at an agency exhibit celebrating Norman Walsh’s history.
It’s been more than six years since Old Spice advertising started getting very peculiar indeed, with help from Isaiah Mustafa and, particularly, Terry Crews. But Wieden + Kennedy Portland has now outdone itself in the oddities department, taking two strange Old Spice spots from last year and remixing them, with help from video artist Nick DenBoer, into—in the brand’s own words—a “horrifying mutant nightmare abomination.”
Here’s a gum for people who feel they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.
Wrigley’s Orbit is rolling out a new campaign tagged “Time to Shine,” a shift from the brand’s familiar “Just brushed clean feeling” to something more aspirational.
“The idea is that when you have a clean mouth or fresh breath, you feel more confident,” John Starkey, regional vice president of marketing at Wrigley Americas, tells AdFreak. “The scripts are a celebration of what can happen when you feel ready to take on your ‘Time to Shine’ moment.”
Meet Plip and Plop, the anthropomorphized piles of feces who star in this ad for Dude Wipes. After exiting a giant butt crack with some unsavory jets of brown liquid and plopping into a pool below, Plip and Plop let us know what’s up. If you want a clean butt, you need to use Dude Wipes. Your asshole will thank you—as he does in this highly sharable video.
And young dudes probably will share it, because it shows grown men dressed as turds and falling into a pool in the name of a product hilariously called Dude Wipes. Dude Wipes are exactly what they sound like: baby wipes in masculine packaging that aim to protect the fragile male ego from the shame of purchasing pre-moistened toilettes with a picture of Winnie the Pooh on the box.
There’s nothing unique about the wipes themselves, but sometimes you have to sell the category in order to sell the product. Coincidentally, America is pretty sold on the category right now, with adults are creating a huge boost in baby-wipe sales as popular opinion shifts to suggest mere toilet paper isn’t enough.
According to Mintel, wipe sales grew 23 percent from 2008 to 2013. But this sudden uptake in butt-crack hygiene is also clogging sewage systems across the nation, as lazy-ass Americans have taken to flushing their non-flushable wipes right down the crapper.
So, if you require a refreshing Dude Wipe to tame the devilment of Plip and Plop, toss it in the trash after your done. Don’t let it dance around in the pool like the unnamed wipe in this ad. Remember, dudes don’t let dudes flush their Dude Wipes.
Kudos to Procter & Gamble brand Lenor (known in the U.S. as Downy) for managing to eroticize fabric softener in surprisingly poetic fashion.
Each of these four long-form ads from Grey Dusseldorf delivers a cheeky ode to a different type of garment—skirts, trousers, shirts and scarves.
The first may be the wittiest, but overall they feature some of the richest copy in recent years, full of little twists and turns perfectly juxtaposed with a wildly varied montage that splices contemporary footage with older live clips, stills and cartoons spanning the better part of a century—not to mention a few much older works of art. (Modern highlights include a nod to the No Pants Subway Ride, and a sideswipe at Americans for misusing the word “pants” altogether.)
Even when the prose does get a bit purple, it stays oddly delightful. That’s in large part because, despite reveling in its own wordplay, it hews pretty closely to a truth-telling tone—not in a myopic, product-peddling kind of way but in a broader, clever and observational sense.
“So let’s not skirt around the subject,” explains the voiceover in a quirky Icelandic accent that doesn’t hurt the work’s charm any, either. “You turn heads, drop jaws and make grown men speechless. You help us in our search for Mr. Right, but locate so many Mr. Wrongs.”
In other words, it doesn’t always take the most progressive tack, but the whole thing is credible and entertaining enough to make you feel like Lenor doesn’t just want to reach into your pocket and pull out the cash (along with whatever blue lint it can find).
Rather, it wants to share the secrets to a life well lived. Because what is doing laundry about, if not the meaning of existence?
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