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Because Can You Honestly Say You Don't Want a Copy of 'Hey There, Sugar Britches'? No ad industry holiday is complete without a lovable mood-setting douchebag. This year Tom Fellow is ours. The guy had us from "felice navidado" and now we can't stop listening to his Christmas standards and watching him open presents while growling. Lavish in the Fellow aesthetic or watch with glee while Twitter catches on. Big THANKEE to @pjbfcp. CPX Throws Snow Balls, N64 Kid Promotes Ballet - CPX Interactive wishes everyone a happy holiday with Balls of Snow, an online snowball fight. - The Nutcracker Ballet at the Royal Opera gets Nintendo N64 Kid treatment. Weird. - Frederick Samuel who blogs over at Advertising/Design Goodness just found out he's one of the 3,500 Omnicom employees let go. Help a guy out if you can. Canada Finds Another Home For Its Surplus of Guns And here we thought Canadians were such a caring, giving people. So it comes with great sadness and shock to find the nation one of the least philanthropic in the world providing just 0.28 percent of it gross national income to countries in need. DC Snowboard Ads: Now Infused with Kitsch! They're versatile! They're powerful! They have beards and many adjectives! Lean back while this Al Borland-looking dude and his tanned-but-silent sidekick sell you a snowboard for all seasons. Look familiar? They should! Your host is Billy Mays, high king of insomnia-enabling infomercials, and his snowboarding homie is Iikka Backstrom. "Enjoy the ride more!" with DC's new line of snowboards and boots. More infomercial riffs here.
by Angela Natividad
Dec- 8-08
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Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity, Commercials, Online, Spoofs, Television Fawkes Talks, ad:tech Calls, Life Takes Shmuly - Piers Fawkes talks to creatives from Barbarian Group, Undercurrent, Naked and Electric Artists at Good Ideas 2009. - Premium Network has launched PremiumChannels, 45 category-specific sites offering contextual targeting. - ad:tech has launched its Call for Entries for its 2009 ad:tech Awards to be held during the San Francisco Conference in April. Entries are due January 23, 2009. - Jason Heller shares his not so pleasant recent experience buying a new BMW and how his experience relates to social media. Laptop Tattoos, Adult SocNets Exiled, Wal-Mart Roves for Digital Agency - Wal-Mart's looking to unload its $40 million digital ad account. The shortlist includes Resource, Digitas, MRM, R/GA and Razorfish. - Digital Mad Men! Watch. Watch. Because Vince Kartheiser talking Caturday is probably the funniest he's been in his short career so far. - Dell cracks open Design Studio -- where users can pay $75 to get a unique image "permanently tattoed" onto their laptop lids. o_O That's a slightly steeper commitment than the peel-off-friendly GelaSkins. - Arby's brings hard-ons. I really hope they don't put this on TV. - MySpace does video streaming on mobile phones. With ad support. - As of January 1, adult social networks will not be permitted on Ning. (Pretty good) reasons listed in the link. - YouTube cobbles together digital chamber music orchestra.
by Angela Natividad
Dec- 3-08
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Topic: Agencies, Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Consumer Created, Mobile/Wireless, Online, Spoofs, Strange, Television, Video Bart Says Everything Steve Jobs Probably Only Says, Off the Record, to NYT Reporters. Last Sunday The Simpsons took the piss out of Apple: the brand experience, the cult of the white earbuds and even Steve Jobs' sermons on the mount. To incentivize the watch for hardcore ad-heads, wait 'til the end, when a dude with a mallet recreates Apple's "1984." Magical. Experience Mapple -- "It's so sterile!" -- below the drop (courtesy of Hulu).
by Angela Natividad
Dec- 2-08
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Topic: Brands, Good, Spoofs, Television, Trends and Culture Stripvertising, Social Media Etiquette, Pot-Driven Cautionary Tales - Hurtin' for love? Advertise on a stripper's apple bottoms. Dolla make you holla! (Via.) - BU needs money too. - Mind your social media Ps and Qs. - The rumours are true: it snows in Switzerland. - Ivanka Trump blogs for Brides.com. - Bogus Nike discount code. Boooo. (Hoooo.) - Maybe that dam is somebody's house. - Possibly the best marijuana PSA evar. If you watch it while high on 4/20, the universe will fold in on itself. Also, just for the record, I have ironed my hair while under the influence. It is so, so dangerous.
by Angela Natividad
Dec- 1-08
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Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Cause, Guerilla, Promotions, Sponsorship, Spoofs, Strange, Video Watching Toyota's Saved by Zero Will Kill You Wow. Spoofs are getting better. Earlier today, we shared a hilarious rif on the Motrin babywearing commercial which highlighted the latest fad: really big boob jobs, the back pain they can cause and how Motrin can help. Now, we have a great spoof of that incredibly annoying Saved by Zero Toyota commercial that's had everyone ranting for weeks. It's done ingeniously with scenes from the movie The Ring. The Toyota folks must be loving all this hatred. Nothing like an annoying, shitty commercial that keeps going and going and going and...oh wait...that's kind of annoying too. And there's been plenty of spoofs on that one. Motrin Eases Pain of Women With Giant Breasts Motrin is getting its money's worth. In reaction to this past weekend's mommy blogger debacle which had babywearing moms rebelling against the company for its apparent belittling of the mommy/baby bonding practice, Motherhood Uncensored it out with a spoof of the notorious Motrin Babywearing ad. The spoof, in perfect homage to the original, advocates for women adopting yet another "fad," the boob job. The bigger, the better. And no matter what kind of type of boob job a woman gets or how big she gets them, Motrin will be there for her just like it was for al those women who engage in the "fad" known as babywearing. 
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