Here’s Wieden+Kennedy’s Oreo Super Bowl ad for Mondelez, with the obligatory consumer competition this time using Instagram. As everybody expected it’s a cookies vs cream bunfight, appropriately over the top and set in a library. And the verdict? It’s OK, ...
Read More »Super Bowl 2013: Mercedes CLA offers a Faustian pact while Go Daddy isn’t rude at all
OK, here’s Merkley & Partner’s Super Bowl effort for the Mercedes CLA. This version anyway is 5×30 seconds, which comes in at about $20m on airtime (maybe they’re getting a volume discount). And surely the voiceover says you can get ...
Read More »Super Bowl 2013: Now Hyundai US enters the lists
Earlier today we had Hyundai Canada’s Super Bowl contender, now here’s the US version (these South Koreans really buy into that Super Bowl vibe – $4m for thirty seconds). This is for the Santa Fe SUV and you can see ...
Read More »More contenders for the great Super Bowl adfest – Taco Bell and Hyundai Canada
Here we go: Deutsch LA have been busy bees; producing VW’s Jamaican-themed opus for the Super Bowl on Sunday and also this one for Taco Bell showing a bunch of senior citizens partying at the popular eaterie. Deutsch recently muscled ...
Read More »VW’s Super bowl ad will be the world’s most expensive at $10m – but will it do the business?
Roll up, roll up, for the most expensive ad in the world. Volkswagen is about to spend $10m on a single, minute-long airtime execution. Why so pricey? Well, it’s not production values that make it so – however meticulous the ...
Read More »It’s a spaceman with everything for Unilever’s Axe and Super Bowl agency BBH
BBH London must have been quite chuffed when they got the gig to produce Axe’s first Super Bowl spot – and then they discovered it had to star a bloody astronaut. Axe owner Unilever has launched a space promotion for ...
Read More »Mercedes in the US polishes up its pre-Super Bowl act with Kate Upton and a wet windscreen
It’s cars all the way at MAA right now after Jerry Judge and Paul Simons put the cat among the pigeons about car ads. We’re also looking forward to lots of metal-pushing petrol head stuff to come in the Super ...
Read More »Are VW and Deutsch planning to take aim at famous old Coke ad in 2013 Super Bowl extravaganza?
Volkswagen and agency Deutsch have a lot to live up to each time the Super Bowl comes around (February 3, if you’ve been living in a cave) following the success of ‘Young Darth Vader’ two years ago and ‘The Bark ...
Read More »Will any Super Bowl advertiser be brave enough to match Axe’s ‘wash your balls?’
I’ve just come across this funny viral from BBH New York back in 2010 – for Axe’s ‘Free Detailer,’ with which you wash your (sports) balls. With the Super Bowl ad fest creeping up on us (if you read the ...
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