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'Sex Sells' Blog Features Condom Ad Which Unsells Sex Without Condom

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From AdArena, a blog with the tagline "sex sells" comes a couple of ads for Legends condoms which does pretty good job unselling sex. That is, sex without a condom. Using the fear of children many people have before actually realizing children can actually be a good thing, Legends has captured a few kids behind its condom material horror movie poster style.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 5-06   Comments (8)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Campaigns, Good, Magazine

Wonderbra Censors Own UAE Ad In Nod to Local Culture

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As an inside joke and in a nod to the United Arab Emerites' practice of censoring magazine content the government doesn't like, Wonderbra has turned the tables and censored its own ad but with a twist. Because the Wonderbra worn by the model in this ad apparently made her breasts so big, it took much more black marker than usual to cover her protruding breasts. In an insiderish manner, it illustrates the wonders a Wonderbra can provide while living within the boundaries of the country's censors.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 3-06   Comments (4)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Good, Magazine, Trends and Culture

Girl Wearing Pink Sneaker Sucks Lollipop. Somehow Sells Shoes

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We know an ad with a girl dressed in pink sucking a lollipop seductively peering towards you as though she actually had an interest in you rather than the fact she's simply being paid for that look is nothing new. What is new is a girl sucking a lollipop seductively peering out at you while wearing a pink sneaker. This ad for Converse is just weird enough catch your attention while, at the same time, make you wonder what it would be like to untie that shoe.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 3-06   Comments (5)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Good, Magazine, Strange

Women Are Not the Only Sex Objectified in Ads

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For the sole purpose one sex is featured far more than the other here on Adrants, we bring you this ad campaign for Abercrombie & Fitch filled, as they always are, with hot guys who have nothing better to do than workout all day, stare at themselves in the mirror and gaze into the lens of cameras. See more of these ripped dudes here.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 3-06   Comments (1)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Campaigns, Good, Magazine

Hyundai Captures Attention With Bitchin' Booty Tuscon Tat

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Now here's an ad, or at least we think it's an ad, you don't see very often. Oh wait. Did we just forget we're talking about advertising here? Sorry. Of course we've seen all kinds of ads like this before tantalizingly displaying various body parts for the sole purpose of selling something. So it's without surprise that Hyundai has gone the bitchin' booty tat route. OK, so it's a more like a hip/thigh tattoo but that didn't make for a goor headline.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 3-06   Comments (2)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Good, Magazine

42below Illustrates Brilliance In Cannes-Winning Campaign

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Sometimes money doesn't yield the best creative and that was certainly true in this case whereby 42below vodka paid a creative team at Saatchi & Saatchi with truckloads of vodka instead of money for a campaign that is, indeed, very good and just won a Gold Lion at this year's Cannes for print and outdoor. The campaign illustrates, literally, the experiences one will have when drinking 42below vodka. While many of the are, of course sex-related, all are not including one with a Godfather theme and one with a Brokeback Mountain theme. See more here, here and here.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 3-06   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Campaigns, Good, Magazine, Outdoor

Animal Magazine Creates Celebimals For Latest Issue

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ANIMAL magazine refusing to grovel like Radar, finally, as we're told, scraped together enough money to print its seventh issue with 136 pages focusing on the theme of wildlife. Publisher Bucky Turco tells us, " While Bazaar attempts to shock with a naked pregnant Britney Spears on its cover, we instead titillate with our sexy full-lipped Brangelino cover featuring a parody of Brad Pitt (bird), Angelina Jolie (rhangelino), and nest of children represented as a 'limited edition shrunken heads necklace.'"

The cover, illustrated by gossipist-artisan "14" of GalleryoftheAbsurd , is part of the magazine's CELEBIMALS feature. The magazine asked "14" and writer Michael K. from Dlisted to create celebrity-ANIMAL hybrids of Hollywood's most talked about stars and recreated Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, George Clooney, and other Hollywood favorites. The magazine hit the streets and newsstands this weekend but can be download as a PDF here.

by Steve Hall    Jul- 2-06   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Celebrity, Good, Magazine

Grave Site Smoking Room Delivers Powerful Anti-Smoking Message

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Some ads try way too hard to deliver their message. Others, like this anti-smoking ad created by Mumbai, India-based agency Everest Brand Solution needn't try at all because it's a simple message delivered the most powerful of ways. Not a word needed. Except to say it is an outdoor installation and CoolzOr has the details and more images here. It won a Bronze Lion.

by Steve Hall    Jun-29-06   Comments (2)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Best, Magazine

'Arousing Technology' Bike Ads Not Arousing to Magazine

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If you work in media and you spend your days planning, negotiating, buying and sending out IOs you really don't even care what the agency production department is sending to an individual ad you bought. In fact, one can go years without ever having seen the actual ad they bought space for. But, on the other side- over at the magazine, they see every ad that comes in the door and sometimes they don't like what they see. Now, we're not talking about ads that are just plain crappy. We're talking about the ones that do not arouse good feelings when received. This was the case with a recent campaign created by TDA Advertising for Titus Cycles and sent to Mountain Bike Action magazine.

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by Steve Hall    Jun-28-06   Comments (3)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Campaigns, Magazine

Superman Tags Call Attention to Christopher Reeve Foundation

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Hoping to achieve the ubiquitous popularity the Lance Armstrong Foundation Livestrong bracelet did, the Christopher Reeve Foundation has launched a campaign to promote its Superman Tag, a dog tag-like item with the Superman S that can be worn on a necklace, on a key chain or on clothing. The campaign, which will include print, online, PSAs, cinema ads, blogger outreach and a MySpace page, intends to leverage the upcoming Superman Returns movie to build additional awareness of the tags which will carry the tagline, "Go Forward." Proceeds from the sale of the tags will go to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

Warner Brothers has allowed the campaign to use the S symbol royalty free for the duration of the campiagn which will run until February 2008.Euro RSCG 4D created the campaign and is urging sites to donate ad space for the campaign. HealthOrbit and Prevention have. Adrants will be donating space as well. If you are so inclined, ad banners are available on the SupermanTag site.

by Steve Hall    Jun-21-06   Comments (1)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Campaigns, Celebrity, Good, Magazine, Online, Television, Weblogs

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