Sprite Shower Cools Rio de Janeiro Beach Goers

When we first took a look at this Sprite Shower work Ogilvy Brazil did for Sprite we wondered, "A Sprite shower? That would be a little sticky wouldn't it?" Well, luckily the fluid coming from the shower was water and not Sprite.

The installation was crafted to bring some relief to Rio do Janeiro beach goers who were sweltering under the sun. We suppose they could just go swimming in the water but whatever.

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McDonald's Happy Studio Makes Life Happy For Kids

Here's a video tour of Happy Studio, a virtual world for McDonald's in Europe for the brand's Happy Meal. The work was created by Fuel Industries and has gleaned 1.8 million users since its recent launch. Check it out. There's everything a kid could ever want.

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Sales Guy Proposes to His Agency Sweetheart...With An Ad Banner

Aw, how sweet. We've seen marriage proposals via billboards but not via online banners. In late April Martin Agency Digital Associate Media Director Erica Plotkin was asked to check out what she was told were some errors with one of her client's banners on BBC.com. Right after she saw the banners asking her to marry her ad salesman boyfriend, Scott Sklar, she was surprised by Sklar who walked into her office wearing a tux and made his proposal with help from two violinists.

Boob Job Now A Viable Concept to Sell Cars

Over at his new BuzzFeed ad commentator gig, Mark Duffy asks, "How the hell this sells Fiats is a mystery." And he's right. Check out this ad from Leo Burnett Argentina that centers on what is supposedly a quintessential moment in every relationship; the boob job discussion. It's like they filmed the thing in the vein of "Honey, I'm pregnant" but went the route of cleavage instead.

Once the women in the ad tells her man she's getting a bob job, we are treated to the man's long, slow, swan dive-like fantasy into...well...just watch the spot. You'll see what happens.

But should this man really be this happy? Hey, we like deliciously gigantic wobbling breasts that burst forth from their top and wobble tantalizingly with every movement a woman makes just as much as any other guy. But fake boobs? Is that really something to get excited about? Immovable objects that, well, look totally fake? To each their own we guess. Personally, we prefer the real thing.

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Ladies, A Man Maid Awaits This Mother's Day

This year, mom's can switch things up a bit and urge the man in their life to offer them something a bit different this Mother's Day. Mr. Clean is out with a promotion that aids women and men in getting and giving a Mother's Day gift with substance; a maid.

Of course, all of this is a bit sexist. After all, Mr. Clean is making a big assumption. They're assuming the woman in the relationship is the clean one. That's not always the case. Buy, hey, let's not get our panties in a bunch. Let's just appreciate the gesture.

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Eva Longoria Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Her Sheba Ad

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria will appear in a Sheba cat food commercial. In this behind the scenes look, Longoria talks about the plot of the commercial as well as the joys of working with her co-star, a cat.

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Marissa Miller Attempts to Sex Up Buick Enclave

Sports Illustrated model Marissa Miller has been tapped by Buick to lend a bit of sexiness to its Enclave. This behind the scenes look at the creation of the commercial gives us a glance at what Buick is going for. It's all about the distracting qualities of beauty. Although, if the commercial is to be taken literally, the Enclave is destined to cause disaster wherever it is seen.

What we love most about this behind the scenes look is the ceaseless verbal analogies the ad's creators spew likening the hotness of Miller to the hotness of the car. Of course their comments are politely couched and devoid of any tongue wagging that might normally coincide with the description of a supermodel.

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Faster Speed Still Causing A Bigger Mess

Borrowing the tagline from a 2005 Irish Road Safety Authority PSA, one of the best and most gut-wrenching we have ever seen, is a new PSA from the New Zealand Transportation Authority. The PSA focuses on the damage the bosy can sustain even when all the proper safety restraints are in place. All true but the PSA lacks the emotional impact of the Irish version which focused on the tragic human loss unsafe driving can cost.

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True Identity of Cornelius Trunchpole Revealed

Last night at Galapagos Art Space in New York, the long-awaited debut of the Cornelius Trunchpole documentary, Art & Corny, premiered. For over two years, Cornelius Trunchpole, famous ad man from the sixties, has been promising a comeback. And if the documentary is to be believed, the man has, indeed returned.

In the documentary, produced by contagiousLA, industry luminaries such as Lee Clow, Jeff Goodby, Steve Hayden, Gerry Graf, Barbara Lippert, Michael Wolf, J. Walter Thompson II and, yes, George Parker discuss the effect Trunchpole had on them.

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Two Fingers and a Thumb

- It's amazing what you can do with two fingers and a thumb...

- Tribal DDB Amsterdam just won three medals at the New York Festivals International Awards. A Silver and Bronze for Philips Obsessed with Sound and a Bronze for KLM Tile & Inspire.

- Funny.

- Admirable work from Leo Burnett Lisboa for the Portuguese Association for Missing Children.

- Check out McCann New York's Fountain of Electrolytenment for Nestle spring water.

Fiat New Uno Powered by Pee

Here's a fun one. To illustrate the Fiat Uno's great fuel economy, Leo Burnett Tailor Made in Brazil launched a campaign called If Pee Were Gas. The agency installed flow monitors of sorts in urinals. Based on the amount of pee dispensed by the urinal visitor, an image of the Uno on a flat screen mounted above the urinal would travel a certain distance. The more pee, the further the car would travel. Check out the case study video below.

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How Reading Digital Body Language Can Improve Inbound Marketing

Digital body language is the online equivalent of facial expressions revealed in the marketing and buying process. Before the internet, great marketing and sales people could easily determine purchase intent simply by observing their customer's nuances such as facial expression, body position and tone of voice.

This whitepaper, Digital Body Laguage, from Eloqua will teach you how leverage a person's digital body language to improve your marketing and sales efforts. Information gleaned from the websites customers visit to what they do when they visit to what online searches they perform to the newsletters they subscribe to can be used to fine tune online marketing programs.

Download this whitepaper to find out how reading digital body language can improve your online markering efforts.