Miele Outdoor Board Looks Photoshopped

Every ad blog today is loving this Mile vacuum cleaner billboard that illustrates the powerful suckage of Miele vacuums with the image of the vacuum cleaner pulling a hot air balloon out of the sky. It's a great looking billboard and a nice concept except we're not sure it ever physically appeared on a billboard. Look closely. The whole thing looks very Photoshopped. Anyone care to comment?

by Steve Hall    May-25-06   Comments (17)        
Topic: Opinion, Outdoor, Spoofs

Paris Hilton Lookalike Gets Ocean Spray Colonic

While Paris Hilton suddenly appears to have grown boobs, she's still waif thin and perhaps this Australian commercial for Ocean Spray explains why. In the ad a friend tells a Paris Hilton look-a-like that colonics are good but Ocean Spray is better. Hilton sort of gets the message but doesn't quite know through which orifice the Ocean Spray should be consumed. Also, the spoof was apparently created before Paris switched her catch phrase to "that's sexy."

by Steve Hall    May-17-06   Comments (4)        
Topic: Celebrity, Commercials, Good, Spoofs, Television

Video Collects Mindless Agency Blather

Here's a semi-funny video Buder Engel and Friends Partner/ Creative Director Vince Engel put together for his speech at the American Marketing Association's Vision Marketing Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. It combines every piece of meaningless blather you've ever read on an agency website or heard an agency person speak. One day, we'll learn to leave all that meaningless blather behind and justsay what we do: "We help you sell shit."

by Steve Hall    May-12-06   Comments (4)        
Topic: Agencies, Good, Spoofs

Agency Slams Own Ad to Gain More Publicity For It

Perhaps you've seen the Tango Clear spoof of the Sony Bravia ad which had colored balls roll down the hills of San Francisco. The Tango Clear ad does it with fruit and lots of it. Apparently, the ad, shot in Wales, has some residents in Swansea so upset, they've launched a cheesy looking website to protest against the damage all that fruit did in Wales and to state it will never happen in Swansea. Actually, a little Whois research points out the creators of the Tango Clear ad, Clemmow Hornby Inge, created the protest site apparently hoping to keep the fruit rolling a bit longer.

by Steve Hall    May-11-06   Comments (8)        
Topic: Agencies, Commercials, Spoofs

PC Gets Crapped On in Apple Spoofs

Following the long standing rule that all Apple ads will be spoofed, a guy named Reece James has created three spoofs of the current Apple campaign that compares the Apple to the PC. They're charmingly entitled Crap, Porn and Sharing. Give them a look over at Adland.

by Steve Hall    May-10-06   Comments (5)        
Topic: Commercials, Good, Spoofs

Oozinator Gets Cartooned, Moms Discuss Poop, Walmart Is Scary

Words and Pictures has given their cartoon treatment to the messy Hasbro Oozinator ad.

Club Mom has introduced the web's first social network for moms. Now discussion about the consistency of baby poop can be taken to a global level.

IQ Interactive and Arnold have created a virtual tour website for the recently launched Royal Caribbean ship Freed of the Seas.

Gatorade and Just Ad Orange think Americans should care more about World Cup football and this ad asks them to consider it.

The growth of Walmart is scary, Really scary.

AdFreak asks, Is there anything breasts can't sell?

AdJab analyzes a Suzuki Forenza ad and wonders what a "smoking hot" woman stripping in an elevator has to do with selling cars.

by Steve Hall    May- 8-06   Comments ()        
Topic: Commercials, Online, Spoofs

'People Ready' Microsoft Ad Gets Reality Treatment

Angered as we are with the blandness of Microsoft advertising and its recent mean-nothing positioning of itself as "people ready" and its knack for portrating fake companies and fake people in its ads, Copyranter decided to edit the ad a bit and bring some reality to the models standing in for real people in the ad. See the full sized ad here.

by Steve Hall    May- 2-06   Comments (1)        
Topic: Brands, Spoofs

Tom Cruise Runs For Nike

Out since March 1, perhaps you've seen this already but we haven't so, while Bert Fields might not like it, we thought we'd share since sneaker man Al Cabino sent it our way. Inspired by the Nike Awake commercial in which people wake up, grab their Nike Air Max 360 trainers and hit the day running, this spoof by Curiousfury pays homage to the Tom Cruise running trend. The spot weaves together the many Tom Cruise movie scenes in which he's always running with some pained look on his face. Curious fury promises another clip called "Tomarathon." It's supposed to be a longer, 26 minute version of this spoof crafted as an exercise video.

by Steve Hall    Apr-26-06   Comments (2)        
Topic: Celebrity, Commercials, Good, Spoofs

Student Ad Campaign For Designer Features Leaky Breast

So there's a series of really weird ads up on Flickr for fashion label Raoul. The ads are spec work done by students in an advertising class in Singapore. As Flickr user skaplan explains, "some of my friends in Singapore asked some of the exchange kids to be white people in their concept ads they made for class." Hmm. While the ads are refreshingly un ad-like, this one in particular really makes one wonder what they were thinking when they created it. Then again, these are college students and they aren't all hung up on corporate culture that constrains creativity.

by Steve Hall    Apr-24-06   Comments (6)        
Topic: Campaigns, Good, Spoofs

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Site Gets Spoofed

Some in Canada are, apparently, taking issue with the representation of the country's indigenous people and have created a spoof site to call attention to the issue. While we don't claim to know a thing about Canadian politics nor what the site is trying to accomplish, we love spoofs and we know our neighbors to the North will explain it for us.

by Steve Hall    Apr-14-06   Comments ()        
Topic: Online, Spoofs