The Now Network: Like a Wedding Planner in Your Pocket!

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In "Wedding," Goodby Silverstein & Partners explore what it'd be like if film crews ran the world. Gotta say, crucial moments in your life -- like your wedding, par instance -- would run a lot more smoothly. 'Specially if Hub-to-Be gets the cold feet.

"Need the stunt groom -- now!"

All this is to say that Sprint Nextel's Now Network can organize your life in such a way that you will feel like a film crew's behind the scenes, keeping the perilous course between your professional and private lives neat and tidy.

Weather machine probably costs extra though. ("No rain, no rainbows." Lawl.)

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Mojito at the Ready, Bacardi Saunters Through Time

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"Eras" marks the start of Bacardi's newest campaign. So many beautiful things are packed into it, and knitted together so nicely, that our cups runneth over. This is us, incoherently gushing.

We'll start with the end, because the end is the beginning: "Bacardi Mojito. Since 1862." Pan to the present, where a guy at a club realizes his mojito's spent, and walks to the bar for a fresh one. As he cuts unassumingly through the crowds, the decades slip slowly backward.

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by Angela Natividad    May- 5-09    
Topic: Best, Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Television



Rona Piggybacks Other Ads to Promote Recycling Program

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For client Rona, which recycles paint, the illuminated minds at Bos/Montreal erected a banner just beneath an iPod Nano billboard.

Remember those Nano-Chromatic iPod spots where the iPods bleed in technicolor? The banner includes a row of buckets that appear to be catching the seepage.

"Nous recuperons les restes de peinture" -- "We collect the leftover paint" -- the piggyback concludes, tying it all together. GENIAL. Nothing less than what we'd expect from this creative circle though. Bos is one of those agencies whose work is hit or miss, but always out-of-the-box; brave, unabashed, idealistic. And always singularly Bos.

by Angela Natividad    May- 5-09    
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Good, Outdoor



Rule of Thumb: Before Molesting Strangers with Nipple Tassles, Be Famous.

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Berlin agency Aimaq Rapp Stolle promotes HEAD's new "Speed" racquet with a little extra-extra action from Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic. Apparently Speed makes him so virile that he manages to run into the aisle and spit game at a blonde before the ball even returns to him.

But "spit game" is an understatement; the guy busts out with balloon animals (which would've been enough to impress us), boy band moves, nipple tassles, and seals (both animal and Navy).

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by Angela Natividad    May- 5-09    
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity, Sponsorship, Strange, Video, Viral



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One Club Releases Another Lust-Inducing Phallic Paperweight.

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The One Show is debuting a Green Pencil award to honour "the one piece or campaign that best represents the highest standards of excellence in the field of environmental advertising" (...aaaaaand rake in more preliminary entry dosh).

Actually, it was agency BooneOakley/Charlotte's idea. Hoping to keep the institution relevant, it came up with the Green Pencil concept: an award composed of recycled glass, made in Taiwan (natch!) by Tittot, a "lost wax casting" glass art studio. Rapper and Battleground Earth co-host Ludacris will present the award on April 6.

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by Angela Natividad    May- 5-09    
Topic: Brands, Industry Events, Magazine



(The End of) TwitteRFP, Creepy Diet Detectives, Sears Still Sucks

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- Current.tv's TwitteRFP goes to...

- Chanel No. 5, the film. (Magically delicious. Also see behind-the-scenes action with Audrey Tautou and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.)

- McDonald's does YouTube/McCafe thing.

- For those that tweet from the toilet.

- Sears still sucks, but it's trying not to.

- "I'm sure you were going for 'Guy looks at all of your daily food choices' but this one screams restraining order."

by Angela Natividad    May- 5-09    
Topic: Agencies, Brands, Commercials, Online, Social, Television, Video