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Hardee''s Wants You to Have Sex With It''s Mega-Burger
It's one thing to use a sexy, scantily clad woman to, by association, promote your mega-burger of the month. It's another thing entirely to liken the eating of that mega-burger to the eating...uh...spending intimate time with that sexy, scantily-clad...
Release of Unapproved Ads Get Saatchi Fired
The ongoing uproar over the Saatchi and Saatchi London-created ads for Dr. Martens which showed various rock artists sitting in heaven wearing the brand's steel toed boots has resulted in Dr. Martens parent company AirWair Ltd. firing Saatchi. The...
Bald Man Goes to Great Lengths to Get Girl
Here's the second installment of Keta Keta's work for hair loss treatment Propecia. The first explored the unfortunate events caused by a chrome dome. The new entry does a comical reverse Folger's Coffee thing with a guy doing anything...
''Flight of the Conchords'' Get Game For HBO Show
Courtesy of Deep-Focus, here's an absolutely whacked promotional site for the absolutely whacked upcoming HBO show Flight of the Comchords. The show follows the trials and tribulations of the New Zealand-based digi-folk band as they, Bret McKenzie on guitar...
Bud.tv Dies, Online Ads Live, Carat Loses, Office Cools
- Cynopsis reports, "The disappointing Bud.tv may "fade away" later this year, admitted Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV in a conference call to analysts" and "Rupert Murdoch's bid to acquire the Dow Jones & Co., which includes The Wall...
Mini Skirted Policewomen Spray, Attack AXE-Wearing Men
Just like our imagined world peace courtesy of the Svedka Vodka Fembots, a world with police officers dressed like these Axe Body Spray police women just might be a far less violent place. For the pure visual shock value...
Dirty Floormat Likened to Dirty Lungs in Anti-Smoking Effort
Hmm. We thought America was the only place that viciously castrates tobacco companies with anti-smoking efforts. Not so. In Cairo's Sawy Cultural Center, an anti-smoking doormat, by the dirt that collects on it, illustrates what happens to lungs when...
Mylanta Campaign Borrows From Harry Potter
Looks like someone watched a Harry Potter movie right before concepting this ad campaign for Mylanta. Just as Harry blew up his aunt until she floated away in the second (I think) Harry Potter movie, Colenso BBDO, who, we're...
Apple Unhappy With iPod As Sex Toy Enabler
It seems the iPod is becoming a very popular sex toy enabler. First, it was Soft Paris which released its Oh My God-inducing OhMiBod iPod plug in that, well, plugs in to a woman to deliver that special Oh...
Trafalgar Square Gets Turfed
Hmm. It would be nice if, perhaps, someone would do this to Times Square. In an effort to promote London's open green space movement, Cake, last night, turfed the entire surface of London's Trafalgar Square. You can watch a...
Svedka Operates Beyond Realm of Human Understanding
We don't claim to understand Svedka's ad campaigns. To be honest, we don't even really want to, because it would force us to think too hard, and that would probably be playing right into the hands of the more...
Ray Ban Will Do Anything to Keep You Watching
Here we have another Ray Ban video for the Never Hide campaign. Continuing down the path of arbitrary-but-watchable, a couple makes out all over town. Yeah, that's the whole ad. And before you go, "WTF, dude, why is that...
Candystand Brings Steve-O Out to Play
Candystand keeps us occupied through the night with a new ad featuring Steve-O of Jackass. Watch Steve-O get buried in sand. We're kind of amused, but not as much as we were when he pierced his ass cheeks together....
Sanjaya Wants to Be LonelyGirl15 Really, Really Badly
Worse than watching the fall of a child star is watching the fall of a dirt clod that tried really, really hard to be a star but failed to make it past orbit. In a video leaked to Defamer...
UK Mac vs PC Ads Even Less Palatable than US Variations
Update. We're not too keen on the UK variations on Apple's Mac vs PC campaign, but user comments suggest they're really rather awesome in a UK kind of way. Guess you have to be there. On this side of...
Adrants Salutes the (Predictable) Downfall of (that Other) Cocaine
That Cocaine energy drink that's been getting heat is finally dropping off the face of the earth. Redux Beverages has agreed to change the name of the drink, which they claim they originally chose to assuage cocaine use, not...
Slow Site Load Accompanied With Perfect Music
The musical track played during load time, alone, make this site worth the visit. So apropos. Apparently, a dude is waiting for your phone call and will pick up the phone at the exact time you call. Why? We...
Bouncing Breasts (Yes, Still) Used to Sell Stuff
Well, our diatribe against the objectification of women in advertising didn't last long. Now we've got bulbous, bouncing, bikinied breasts helping explain the many meanings of the Australian term "mate." It's all to promote the Australian barbecue club www.aussiebarbie.com.au...
Losers Generate, Thoughts Advertise, Cannes Bingoed, Reebok Pukes
- We all know about consumer-generated content. Well, now we have loser-generated content. - First there was Voicevertising. Now there's ThoughtVertising. On eBay, no less! - Bored? Want to go to Cannes but can't? No worries. Forget that ego-fest,...
Beer Hunk Ad Results in Formation of Canexico, BJs For Every Man
What? Wait a minute. This just isn't right. Have we finally realized women aren't the only objects that can be used to sell beer? Is it possible a hot guy could attract as much attention as a hot girl?...
YouTube Viewer Counts Scammed, DTC Does TV, Godzilla Gets Indigestion
- Saatchi & Saatchi X opens in China. Forgets to include Chinese. - Just like click fraud, that high YouTube video viewership count might not be all it's cracked up to be. - Direct to Consumer drug advertising insanity...
Women Wearing Jeans, Heels Sticks Head in Ground. Causes WTF Moment
Every once in a while you pass by an ad, do a double take and let out a WTF!?!? This is one such ad. Of course, we didn't physically pass by it. Rather, it flashed before our eyes during...
Text-Rich Ads Promote A/V Orgy
We thought this campaign, developed by JWT, Dubai for Pause & Play International Film Festival, was neat. The theme, "Tired of watching the same Hollywood cliches," corresponds to the tagline, "Not the usual fare." We were pretty surprised by...
Get Hypothetically Knocked Up for ''Knocked Up''
For upcoming film Knocked Up, a story about a one-night-stand pregnancy and the unlikely couple that decides to go it together, ad firm ADD has built the Knocked Up Babymaker. The site enables users to upload images of two...
Texting Makes Good if You''re Scantily Clad
Shake Well Before Use points us to a campaign for plus-sized lingerie shop Bravissimo. The firm, which specializes in unmentionables in D-JJ cups, conducted a traditional media campaign with multiple calls to action, including television, web and text-based ones....
KFC Saves Money, Debuts CGM-Powered Commercial
Here's that new KFC spot that will debut during tonight's American Idol. If you recall, it's the spot that's made up entirely of consumer-generated content found on YouTube and MySpace. Hmm. Way to keep that production budget down, guys....
FedEx Talks Back to ''Net-Surfing Time-Wasters
We were skulking around the Internet when we came across this hourglass-shaped FedEx banner. It turned on its own a few times, then invited us to flip it ourselves. So we did and it said something really snarky like,...
Calvert DeForest, advertising punch line
For a moment in the early ’90s, advertisers loved Calvert DeForest, aka Larry “Bud” Melman, the David Letterman regular who died this week at 85. I remember this 1-800-COLLECT spot in particular (it’s a Real Player file), where Calvert is...
100 Calorie Crooner Sparks Dilemma Between Cupcakes and Culture
We've since relegated Hostess to the banks of childhood memory along with Pixie Stix, Kool-Aid and other non-food food, but we actually did swoon when we saw this promotion for their new 100 Calorie Packs. Plug in your Calorie...
100 Calorie Crooner Sparks Dilemma Between Cupcakes and Culture
We've since relegated Hostess to the banks of childhood memory along with Pixie Stix, Kool-Aid and other non-food food, but we actually did swoon when we saw this promotion for their new 100 Calorie Packs. Plug in your Calorie...


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