Yakima Yakimagrams Sell Roof Racks

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Automobile rack make Yakima has launched Yakimagrams. Created by Stick and Move, the site lets visitors create singing telegrams and send them to their friends. There's canned Yakimagrams as well as options to create customized versions. We didn't spend too much time with it but it looks amusing enough considering there's really nothing all that exciting about roof racks.

by Steve Hall    Jun-20-06    
Topic: Games, Good, Online



Golf Course Designed In Orbitz Game

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Travel site Orbitz has launched Orbitz Games, a community site on which people can help Orbitz build an 18-hole golf course by designing a golf hole and voting on those designed by others. By designing and voting, people can win airfare for two to anywhere in the U.S. It's sponsored by Golfsmith Golf & Tennis.

by Steve Hall    Jun-19-06    
Topic: Games, Good, Online



'Deadwood' Does Poker, True Eschews Bikinis

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- Artie Lange's promoting his upcoming movie with a NSFW pinball game which is actually kinda fun.

- Just as marketers are beginning to spread their seed all over MySpace, Thought of A Technocrat analyzes MySpace Bulletins and reminds us it can be a very seedy place indeed.

- HBO is promoting the last season of Deadwood with an online virtual poker saloon and game called Dead Man's Hand.

AdJab calls to our attention the stupidity of some of the latest work from Mike's Hard Lemonade which involves a guy holding a bottle in front of the camera and making it talk. With the word "hard" in the name, there's far better things they could have done than this.

- Once again, IKEA has taken its retail locations directly to people, this time dressing up trains as if they were one's living room.

In a newsflash of epic proportion, Copyranter reports online dating site True has placed an ad on the Internet that, stunningly, does not show a woman wearing a bikini.

by Steve Hall    Jun-12-06    
Topic: Games, Guerilla, Online



Absolut Games, Pepsi Plugs, Kittens Stick, Mexicans Invade

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- Similar to Virgin's find the bands game, Absolut has launched a game in which the player has to find 82 bottles in a busy streetscape. It's sort of like that guy that wrote all those Busy Town kid books.

- Everyone's buzzing about Pepsi' interactive outdoor/transit ad which allows people to plug their headphones right into the poster to sample tunes from Pepsi Access.

- Adopt a kitten door sticker campaign copies begging children door sticker campaign.

- Well, this is one way to get a lot of attention for your average warehouse sale.

- Here's one ad campaign that doesn't paint Mexicans in a very respectful manner.

by Steve Hall    Jun- 8-06    
Topic: Games, Online, Outdoor



Vodafone Mobile Office Solutions Destroys Desks

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To celebrate the uselessness of a desk in the of the mobile office, Vodafone is promoting its mobile office solutions with a site that lets you choose a desk and then watch it be destroyed by a compacting machine. Hey, it's something to do.

by Steve Hall    May-30-06    
Topic: Games, Good, Online



Bug Slapping Game Promotes Bug Eradicating Software

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Ever sit around on your couch slapping flies as they buzz around you? We didn't think so but McAfee thinks there's an analogy here between pesky flying bugs and the pesky kind of computer bugs its software can eradicate. Anyway, this little game allows you to slap bugs as they fly about your head while you hopefully make the connection between real bugs and computer bugs.

by Steve Hall    May-23-06    
Topic: Games, Online



Paper Toss Game Promotes Something

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We already forgot who this is for but it has something to do with soccer and it's a lot easier to play than the FIFA game.

by Steve Hall    May-22-06    
Topic: Games



Kick the Ball And Win FIFA World Cup Tickets

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If you like soccer (football to the rest of the world), you might like this new game from Philips which is promoting the game and providing a chance to win tickets to the FIFA World Cup Finals. While the game is supposed to be simple to play which just three clicks, we couldn't get it to work. But, don't let that stop you from tryting.

by Steve Hall    May-22-06    
Topic: Games



Don't Waste Your Time Working In Advertising

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- Unilever in Brazil is promoting its Rexona Sportfan deodorant with a site containing an amusing Atari game, a manifesto and videos.

- Sean Ganann points to an article in Australian Creative magazine by Glue Society's Jonathan Kneebone that says creatives shouldn't waste their time working in advertising but go out and do something really creative.

- Alan Taylor Communications, in the second of its Communicast podcasts, interviews Xbox Live Group Marketing Director Aaron Greenberg and how he's marketing Xbox Live.

- If you're into the whole Web 2.0 thing and don't want to miss any conference on the topic, Eric Weaver has put together a nice list of upcoming events.

- Starbucks "We Built This City" parody gets video.

by Steve Hall    May-18-06    
Topic: Games, Online



New Game to Hook Up With Fashion Labels, In-Store Shopping

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Eden Games has developed a game for Atari that takes in game advertising to a new level: in-store shopping while in the game. IGA will release the simultaneous-play game in September. In the game, Test Drive Unlimited, players, while driving around Hawaii in a selection of 100 customizable cars by Lamborghini, Feffari and Mercedes Benz, can stop and go into Ben Sherman and Marc Ecko stores and try on the fashion brands' clothing. The game will also interact with another game, Massively Open Online Racing.

IGA Worldwide CEO Justin Townsend says the company's Radial Network will track how often, when and where gamers are exposed to in-game ads.

by Steve Hall    May-15-06    
Topic: Games, Good