Only good TV lives
Advertising Agency: John St, Canada
Creative Directors: Stephen Jurisic, Angus Tucker
Art Director: Nellie Kim
Copywriter: Chris Hirsch
Photographer: Tyler Gray
Lowe Bangkok give us this graphic – without being “graphic”, geddit? – treatment for Pepper Spray. Now here’s a product I never thought I’d see advertised with shiny double-page spreads. Heck, when I invested in my first imported (seriously illegal) pepper spray many moons ago, the packaging text was all I needed. On my mates French police spray it read “paralyse” and 10%, on my 16% it read “paralyse constant” – sold! And yes, I’ve even had to use it. Apologies to the now probably blind guy but I told you to leave me the hell alone three times yet you followed me into the graveyard at four in the morning – be glad you’re still breathing.
BEIJING: Mengniu, the Mongolian dairy behemoth, has awarded the bulk of its ice cream business to Saatchi & Saatchi, which already handles the company’s white milk branding business.
KUALA LUMPUR – BOH Tea, Malaysia’s largest tea producer, is searching for an advertising agency as it prepares to launch a new product range later this year.
MIAMI – Young creatives are being given the chance to attend this year’s Clio Festival in Florida.
SHANGHAI – Leo Burnett China has secured the US$3.5 million account for Zhe Jiang Mobile’s Olympic branding campaign, following a four-way pitch.
LONDON – Fanta has partnered with online entertainment retailer to launched a new on-pack which will give consumers the opportunity to win a prize every 15 minutes.
Saatchi & Saatchi in Mumbai have cracked an Ariel brief with this very interesting, almost subliminal, execution. The tag “no stains, no memories” is illustrated by stains that tell you the story of how they came to be. In the lipstick stain, there’s scenes of love. Neat. Two other executions inside.
LONDON – Leo Burnett has released a new campaign to promote a new Monopoly promotion for McDonalds.
LONDON – Disney is to revive Enid Blyton’s Famous Five characters for a new TV series, which will see the offspring of Julian, Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Dog, battle a pirate DVD bootlegging operation.
LONDON – The BBC has won back the rights to broadcast Formula 1 motor racing from next year after signing a five-year deal for an undisclosed sum, replacing ITV, which has hosted the sport for the last 12 years.
LONDON – Lewis Hamilton has starred in another Vodafone Formula One sponsorship film that articulates the concept of “making the most of now”.
LONDON – Energy drink brand Red Bull has been forced to sell its Toro Rosso Formula One racing team due to a change in regulations.
Sorry about the blackout folks, Adland’s server has moved from one physical location to another with the rest of the big machines hosted by Memset last night – and I forgot to put up a post to warn you that we’d be offline during the night (for us). Just as we were getting ready to move, US traffic decided to march on in, so I’m sure a few of you wondered where the heck the site went. No matter what time I’d choose someone would see a blank nothing instead of the site – but at least I had a good nights sleep. 😉
The company behind a controversial web tracking devÂice has brought in heavyweight PR support as it struggles against a tidal wave of negative coverage.
Job losses are inevitable at PR agencies that focus heavily on IPO and M&A activity if markets continue to stall, according to senior consultants and analysts.
The former MG Rover direcÂtors accused of the firm’s Âcollapse have brought in PR agency support as a government Âinquiry into the episode reaches its conclusion.
Heather Mills’ failure to stop her divorce judgement from being made public is down
to poor media handling on her part, according to a top legal PR adviser.
City agency FD has continued its acquisition spree by buying up the second largest public affairs agency in Brussels – a move the agency said ‘completes the final piece of the jigsaw’.
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