Hasta La Creative!

Way, way way back in the Day, Dove did that thing where they revealed the extreme photoshopping that goes into the presentation of most models. Since then they’ve done several other stunts which focus on the perception of beauty. They usually focus on how many women do not view themselves as good looking as others do.

This stunt from comedy group Above Average creates yet another spoof but this one goes a bit further creating its own full blown experiment spoof illustrating how real women might react to the tricks Dove plays on them in their stunts.

The reactions are, as another brand says, priceless. Give it a watch.

With the increased focus on capturing data while running, RooBand CEO Frank Hammond thinks we’ve taken the fun out of running. In an effort to bring back the joy, Hammond is unveiling the RooBand, the world’s first analog wearable fitness tracker.

So how does it work? As described on the product’s Indiegogo page, the ROOband is in direct contact with your your skin. When running, your body will start to emit “effort,” commonly called “sweat.” Your effort will be absorbed by the Rooband. Then, after each session, you can squeeze the ROOband to output your effort, allowing you to measure your progress with an easily quantifiable result.

No, really. It’s that simple.

But Why? Well, because as Hammond shows us, running was more fun back in the pre-digital days of 1979:

So, yea, maybe running was more fun back in 1979 but back in 2009, this beautiful woman presented us with our very own ROOBand…all before a RooBand was ROOBand. It was a memorable night.

Here’s the explainer video:

Here’s a “banned commercial” from China that touts a product that is guaranteed to protect women from rape and abduction. The translation to English is almost as funny as the video itself. Pick up a pair, ladies. It will scare the crap out of the creeps (well, most of them) away and keep you safe. Via.

Oh and Recommended Videos spits out this oddity afterwards.

They’re coming out of the woodwork. Or, rather, infesting YouTube with their incredible lameness. Just today, we had this overly long SausageCopter deal. And now we have an even more lame Root Beer Float Drone Project from A&W Root Beer which claims to have been given birth in 2005.

We think it’s time for all these spoofs to quietly dismiss themselves to the flashmob archive where they will make friends with prankvertising, assvertising, the Million Dollar Homepage, this guy, this girl, Second Life and Courtney Van Dunk.

If you ever need to explain big data to someone and demonstrate how powerful it can be in advancing a cause, be sure to point them to this Girls Are Assholes video in which a guy, seemingly with access to some kind of big data warehouse, has all the data he needs to pick up a girl in less than 30 seconds.

Really. Forget all the business buzzwords and mumbo jumbo. This creepy dude has it down to a science. If only consumers were as pliable and compliant and the woman in this ad, brands would be getting laid whenever they felt like it.

A video entitled “UFO at Baseball Game” was uploaded to YouTube on September 5 and, to date, has been seen by 245,184 people. In the video, what is purported to be a UFO is seen hovering in the sky just beyond the outfield of Vancouver’s Nat Bailey Stadium during a September 3rd Vancouver Canadians game.

The sighting received boatloads of press but, predictably, turned out to be a marketing stunt organized by the H.R. MacMillan Space Center. The stunt was created by MacLaren McCann to hype an upgrade to the Space Center’s Planetarium Theater.

Of the stunt, Space Center Executive Director Rob Appleton said, “We wanted to show Vancouver, B.C. and the world that you can truly have a rare experience by exploring the exciting new shows and state of the art projection system.”

The video wasn’t altered to include a visual of a UFO. The creative team at MacLaren McCann launched an actual fake spaceship from a hill just beyond the stadium so everyone could see it in addition to it being filmed.

Having a bit of fun at the expense of sext-o-holic Anthony Weiner, the folks over at Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners created this MINI ad which they tweeted from a Twitter account they created called @CarlosDMotor. “Wanna get your hands on my stick?”

The ad and the tweet mocks the pseudonym Weiner chose for himself, Carlos Danger, when he sent naked pictures of himself to younger women.

With just 37 followers, the @CarlosDMotor Twitter account isn’t gaining much ground but, hey, it’s a nice diversion on a Friday.

Wanna get your hands on my stick? pic.twitter.com/ZpDQbUnWB8

— Carlos D. Motor (@CarlosDMotor) July 26, 2013

The hatred and vitriol aimed at cable companies is the stuff of legend. Wouldn’t it be nice in once, just once, a cable company would tell it like it is? Act like it knows just how bad its service is? Acknowledges it doesn’t give a shit what you think about its pricing?

This ExtremelyDecentFilm video begins as your typical cable company commercial promising the world but soon turns completely honest in a way that, well, a cable company would never actually act.

So today is April Fool’s Day and we are destined for a bunch of silliness. Courtesy of HubSpot comes SprocketVision, a “revolutionary new product that will change marketing forever.”

What could possibly change marketing forever? SprocketVision, of course! SprocketVision is a pair of high tech glasses that help you find qualified leads for your business just by wearing them and walking around.

With “real-time inbound marketing” SprocketVision guides the user through the process of qualifying a lead in the real world.

HubSpot’s Director of Product Management Christopher O’Donnell sums up the offering best saying, “Our technology for detecting the most qualified prospects in your field of vision is nearly perfect…minus a few kinks we’re still trying to work out.”

If you think SprocketVision will help you generate leads, head over to HubSpot’s HubShop and buy a pair…or at least try to…the glasses are on backorder until 2020. Or you can tweet using hashtag SprocketVision what you would do with the glasses if HubSpot gave them to you.

Well that didn’t take long. Following the controversial Tiger Woods Nike ad which carried the “Winning Takes Care of Everything” headline, spoofs featuring Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius, Michael Vick and, while not ever endorsed by Nike, OJ Simpson have surfaced.

Just what would Don Draper think having millions of people instantly mock his work the second after he created it?