Mercedes is positioning its new A-Class as Alexa on wheels, thanks to its MBUX voice-activation system. Say “Hey Mercedes” and it does what you want (although not quite as much as it does in this Super Bowl ad from Merkely ...
Read More »Toyota’s Toni Harris lifts Super Bowl ads – with a little help from director Pytka
Toni Harris dreams of being the first woman NFL player and appears to be well on the way, with scholarship offers despite being just five and half feet tall. But she’s surmounted many things in her young life: adoption and ...
Read More »Snickers’ live Super Bowl ad collapses
Here’s one Super Bowl effort we didn’t see before the game for the very good reason that it’s live (or was), from BBDO New York for Snickers showing that things go wrong when you’re hungry, even live ads. Well it’s ...
Read More »Bud Light’s Super Bowl final needs a punchline
Wieden+Kennedy’s Bud Light Party for the Super Bowl is upon us (with Amy Schumer, Seth Rogen and now Paul Rudd and a cast of thousands) and…hmm. As with the teaser there’s a crescendo of hype. The problem with such an ...
Read More »GlobalHue wins W+K’s Chrysler Super Bowl gig
One of the more interesting aspects of the Super Bowl (stop yawning at the back) is not just which ads are best and do best but who gets the gig? Budweiser deployed Anomaly and BBDO (for Bud Light) for example. ...
Read More »VW strays to Argonaut for Super Bowl campaign
Here’s another early-breaking Super Bowl winner, this time for for Volkswagen, plugging the longevity of its cars. http://youtu.be/ns-p0BdUB5o Who said the Germans couldn’t laugh at themselves? Actually they do it quite a lot in car ads. Interestingly this rather finely-crafted ...
Read More »Jaguar buys A-list talent to give F-Type Super Bowl lift-off
The 2014 NFL Super Bowl, the world’s biggest adfest as spots go for $3m or so (probably more this year), is looming and Jaguar is pulling out all the cinematic stops for its debut. The car marque (part of Jaguar ...
Read More »Volkswagen and Deutsch LA unveil 2013 Super Bowl contender – it’s a winner mon
Alas it’s not the arrow at old Coke we anticipated, rather an equally audacious ‘Get Happy’ idea featuring a besuited executive talking in Jamaican patois. And hardly a car in sight. Volkswagen and Deutsch LA have produced two recent blockbusters ...
Read More »Is IPG’s Michael Roth planning to replace top agency bosses Nick Brien and Laurence Boschetto?
The rumour mill says he is, on account of his supposedly less than fulsome references to either in recent analyst calls. Back in March my colleague Stuart Smith reported that Nick Brien, head of McCann Worldgroup, would be on his ...
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