Stunts/japes on innocent members of the public are tricky – how do you know they’re ‘real,’ should you be doing it anyway? – but Carphone Warehouse’s Mobiles.co.uk seems to have produced a winner with this effort ‘The Phone Drop.’ Produced ...
Read More »Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ campaign goes into added time
More selfies, this time from Unilever’s Dove in another variation on its ‘Real Beauty’ campaign, this time from Ogilvy in the US. No-one would deny that this campaign has been a monster hit, with awards all over the place and, ...
Read More »Ecotricity bashes UK energy gang with windmills spin
Ecotricity, which describes itself as ‘the green energy company,’ has produced a neat little film taking a pop at the UK’s reviled ‘Big Six’ energy companies which, it claims, are “just after our money.” Which Ecotricity is too, presumably. But ...
Read More »Withings strips off in a good cause – but which one?
Here you go: this is very brave. Not on the part of the 100 or so people taking part who get their kit off (these days it’s harder to persuade people to keep it on) but on the part of ...
Read More »Sarah Lund sweaters up for Save The Children Xmas ad
Whatever happened to The Killing’s Sarah Lund? Last seen she was legging it to Iceland (I think) after overstepping the mark somewhat in the pursuit of truth and justice. But she’s back in this spoof by Contagious for Save The ...
Read More »Even the great Martin Scorsese stumbles on Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘Street of Dreams’
Is there something about the fashion/luxury category that makes even the best brains go soft? It also seems that the bigger the budget, the softer they get. Here’s a new one, ‘Street of Dreams,’ for Dolce & Gabbana’s new fragrance ...
Read More »Wes Anderson Prada car crash disappears
Well, there is indeed a film by celebrated film director Wes Anderson for Prada and it does feature a car crash (non-fatal version in the Mille Miglia car road race). And yesterday it was up on YouTube. but today it’s ...
Read More »Now’s Townshend crafts Louie the Loo for WaterAid
You would miss your loo if it wasn’t working for whatever reason – if you didn’t have one at all it would be life threatening. This is the theme of London agency Now creative director John Townshend’s film for tomorrow’s ...
Read More »Adland’s creativos behave badly for Shots
BETC London has produced a funny film, ‘The Good Loser,’ for the forthcoming Shots Awards, self-characterised as advertisings ‘biggest night of disappointment’ (why not ‘most disappointing..) as the magazine and website for creatives only picks a winner in each category, ...
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