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Salacious Nudity the Obvious Choice to Market Liquor

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This Cabana Cachaca campaign with shots of a naked woman juxtaposed with a liquor bottle has been covered everywhere. So why would Adrants cover it now? For the sake of completeness and journalistic integrity, of course. Oh, and to fulfill the required daily quota of hot, barely dressed woman who appear in advertising for no apparent reason. Enjoy

by Steve Hall    May- 9-08   Comments (5)    File: Good, Racy, Strange AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

'Get the %#*&% Out of My Office Before I M16 Your Ass!'

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If you're a media planner or buyer, you're gonna love this new online game from Intergi. Are you sick of sales people bugging you? Tired of self-important AE demanding you revise that media schedule one more time so there's one m ore line on the flow chart between the online portion of the buy and the offline? Ready to tear the head off that pompous creative who thinks he knows media?

Having fun yet? :-)

by Steve Hall    May- 8-08   Comments (2)    File: Agencies, Games, Good AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Fiat Messes With Nature to Sell Cars

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And now, for the final act, Fiat will pull a rabbit out of a...tortoise shell? Damn. Why do marketers always have to go a mess with magical metaphors just to create strange looking ad campaigns? Oh well. All in good fun. Oh and to sell a few cars as well.

Along with a rabbit shacking up in tortoise shell, the campaign offer an owl sprouting peacock feathers and a spider sporting a beetle shell. Somehow this sells cars. Giovanni + DraftFcb, São Paulo created.

by Steve Hall    May- 8-08   Comments (0)    File: Campaigns, Good, Magazine AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Publicity Ploy Gets Worst Copywriter Hired, Nets Agency Press

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Oh the games people play to get their name in the press or to land that dream job. For Yutaka Tsujino, the "disastrous" two years he spent at Crispin Porter + Bogusky wasn't enough to quench his creative needs. Now, after dubbing himself the World's Worst Copywriter and launching Yutaka Sucks, he's landed a job at Seattle's Creature because, well, Creature Co-Founder and Creative Director Jim Haven thought the job search effort didn't suck.

In the press release which had to be a nice break for the writer from the daily grind of monotonously shilling corporate dreck, Haven said, "Rarely do these kinds of stunts work unless they are brilliant. After visiting Yutaka's website and learning about his background and experience, we knew he was a perfect fit for Creature. We thought he was hilarious."

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by Steve Hall    May- 8-08   Comments (4)    File: Agencies, Good, Strange AddThis Social Bookmark Button   
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Honda Has A Choir, Audi Has Gymnasts

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OK so we've had an entire choir imitate the sound a Honda makes. Now we have an army of gymnasts doing a routine to the actual and mixed sounds of to Audi R6. Created by BBH London and edited by Cut + Run, the spot is airing in the UK and is said to debut in the US shortly. Nicely done.

by Steve Hall    May- 8-08   Comments (1)    File: Commercials, Good AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

GM's Aveo Robot Beats Old Joke to Death

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OK so BMW did the Mini robot thing. Then Citroen did it. Then it got spoofed. Then Sony spoofed it to promote a game. Then some kid spoofed the Sony Spoof. Then Citroen returned with a skating robot. Then...nothing happend for two years.

Now, moving only as quickly as GM can, Chevrolet is out with its own nod to the roof top dancing car robot thing turning the whole thing into a lame, two years too late joke. OK, so it's a little bit funny. Strawberry Frog Amsterdam created it.

by Steve Hall    May- 7-08   Comments (3)    File: Bad, Brands, Good, Video AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Site Helps You Remember What Happened in Vegas

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Deep Focus just launched a promotional site for the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher movie, What Happens in Vegas, called What Happened That Night, which aims to help you remember what you did in Vegas the night before. It's one of those answer a few questions, upload a picture and get a customized, forwardable message in return things.

by Steve Hall    May- 6-08   Comments (1)    File: Good, Online AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Billboards Take Time Out With Pessek Zman Cut Outs

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So yea, billboard cut outs. You've seen them before but maybe not exactly like this campaign from Y&R Tell Aviv for Pessek Zman Elite chocolate. Pessek Zman means "time out" in English and the cut outs next to these billboards are, yes, taking a time out. Not bad.

by Steve Hall    May- 6-08   Comments (0)    File: Good, Outdoor AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Axe Angels In Need of Men

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After all these years of creating unattainable fantasy, Axe wants to deliver the real thing. With a new commercial tagged, "You're needed at the Axe cottage" which has gorgeous bored women wishing there were men around, Axe is offering four winners a stay at the Axe cottage in Canada's Muskoka Lakes region complete with home theater, personal chef, waterfront, hot tub and the Axe Angels. Where does one enter?

by Steve Hall    May- 6-08   Comments (0)    File: Commercials, Good AddThis Social Bookmark Button   

Wild Posting Wordplay Delivers the Beef

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So...how do you get the word out about your grass-fed meat? No, not that kind of meat you vegan sicko! Beef meat. From cattle. That kind. OK, so how do you get the word out? Well, you slap wild posting up all over the city, of course. And, you tweak your copy so it mirrors lines from popular movies, song lyrics and ad slogans.

This approach yields "I love the smell of grass-fed beef in the morning," So grass-fed a caveman would eat it" and "Say hello to my grass-fed friend." The work was created by Olive for La Cense Beef. There's also a microsite with even more wordy witticisms.

by Steve Hall    May- 6-08   Comments (2)    File: Good, Poster AddThis Social Bookmark Button