BT seems to have been re-energised since landing at Saatchi & Saatchi (not before time you might say) and now it’s following its Broadband Nightmares campaign with a Halloween offer of “fully functional and custom wifi controlling Horror Dolls,” which ...
Read More »At last, Halloween ad that hits the right note
Usually run a mile from Halloween ads but US agency Red Tettemer O’Connell+Partners has produced a satisfyingly sour effort for Dietz & Watson, where even the bat (protected species, guys) gets it. Capicola, or gabagool as New Yorkers have it, ...
Read More »Is Burger King and David’s Halloween madness actually the new normal?
Hope they’re having a fun Halloween in France (as elsewhere) as President Macron’s new lockdown clamps down. Our correspondent Serge (on his second bottle already) tells us there are massive traffic jams as people try to escape the cities. Burger ...
Read More »Is adam&eve’s Halloween horror movie for Mars Temptations the cat’s whiskers?
No idea what adam&eveDDB has up its sleeve for John Lewis this Christmas but the agency has had another opportunity to flex its movie-making abilities. For Mars’ Temptations cat treats this Halloween. In the middle of an ambitious multi-media/social effort ...
Read More »Insurer Geico finds a witching use for Halloween
It’s nearly Halloween (alas) but at least Geico and The Martin Agency have found a way to shoehorn it to some use, to plug its renters insurance. Especially handy when your third room mate is a witch. There’ll be complaints ...
Read More »VML launches Halloween killer shocker – for charity
Pretty resistant to Halloween but lots of people (kids) seem to love it. This Halloween agency VML is supporting the Spitalfields Crypt Trust – which helps homeless people in East London – with this film The Killer 360 by Tom ...
Read More »George Parker: that was the Halloween that was – bet there are no Guy Fawkes ads
When I was a kid I grew up on Factory Lane, Manchester, yes, Factory fucking Lane, ‘cos at the bottom of the road was the ICI Dyestuffs Division sitting on the banks of the River Irk, which was a different ...
Read More »BBH scores for Tesco with Halloween ‘Spookermarket’
It will soon, you may have noticed, be Halloween – an occasion for groan-worthy marketing if ever there was one. But it’s big business these days it seems. Complete madness: I was in Stockholm at the weekend and there was ...
Read More »Halloween’s Silenced night
Never let it be said that MAA is too po-faced to enter into the spirit of the occasion. Here for your delight is the season’s spookiest Hallowe’en ad, as measured by YouTube hits (nearly 23 million). Produced by SuperHeroes for ...
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