You come home from work. SHIT! Your apartment/home is being robbed! You have a massive heart attack. You die on your doorstep. Oopsie! It was just a humorous piece of Ad Creep stuck in your door by a local home security company. Ha good one! I’m laughing all the way to the netherworld.

Austrian ad agency Marinas created this invasive fake crowbar for Schlüssel & Schloss. The German headline on the reverse side reads: “Make your home secure.” The agency claims that the piece caused 43 homes in Innsbruck to call S&S for a free home security check. No word on how many pairs of pants were shitted. Imagine this stunt being executed in NYC. This is even creepier than those fake car damage sticker ads by Zurich Insurance. |Images: AOTW|

Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement into every nook and cranny of your daily life. How Panasonic was able to pull this off dumbfounds me. But, apparently they actually did it. Saatchi & Saatchi erected these electrically hazardous ads (click gallery) in some Indonesian city to indelibly sell the need for its nose hair trimmer safety cutting system. From the press notes: “With thousands of sensory nerves fibers in the nostrils, trimming nose hairs can be as risky as cutting live wires.” Yeah, not quite, but point taken. I would have gone with photos of real men to make the effort fully disgusting. |Images via: comunicadores|

Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement into every nook and cranny of your daily life. You want the window seat? It’s all yours, pal. Vaude—a mountain sports equipment company—and TUIfly airlines—a small German carrier with a stupid smiley face logo—have combined to creep out skittish passengers with these unsettling wing stickers. One hopes this is a one time ad buy. But with so many airlines struggling, I fear it’s just the beginning. Imagine the possibilities: William Shatner’s fat head staring at you at 35,000 feet and asking, “You paid WHAT for that seat?”….Coming soon: Snakes On A Plane II…Is Winger still together? |Image: coloribus|

Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement seeping into every nook and cranny of your daily life. Sure, you’ve seen ads as beach blankets before—say for Budweiser or some other piss beer. But this instance, via New Zealand, is much more insidious. Weekend Murders is a UK drama currently running on Saturday nights on Prime in NZ. To promote the show, DraftFCB Auckland handed out these irregularly-shaped blood-pool blankets to beach-going pawns to plop down dead on. Looks like scenes outta Surf Nazis Must Die (nsfw). Look at those pathetic consumer fleas helping Prime avoid spending money on media placement (Actually, most of them are probably agency employees.). Jump for an even more annoying Ad Creep: a fake bourbon vending machine via Louisville. Why was this thing not immediately destroyed by town hobos?!?

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Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement seeping into every nook and cranny of your daily life. It’s getting baaad (sorry) out there with the ambient ad animal abuse. Dogs forced to be walking dog food billboards. Black cats selling scary video games. Cows being branded with branding. Even humans are unwittingly getting turned into ad fleas. What’s next? Bald Eagles carrying Hair Club for Men banners? Now, UK online ticket seller thetrainline.com is humiliating sheep in what they’re calling “the UK’s first lambient media campaign.” The be-jacketed ewes, located in a field near Gatwick airport, are promoting the fact that train passengers can save up to 43% on their fare by booking it online. Iain Hildreth, marketing director of thetrainline.com, says “The sheep seem to be quite enjoying the experience…” Tell that to Lulabelle! If the campaign is a success, The creepy Hildreth says they’ll be looking to roll it out in fields all over the UK. How depressing. Sounds like the plot for a sequel to Orwell’s Animal Farm. |Video: Brand Republic|

Ad Creep Update is a regular feature on ANIMAL documenting the spreading epidemic of advertising media placement seeping into every nook and cranny of your daily life. Remember the old dog food taste test commercials, where you just knew that Alpo or whoever soaked their by-products slop in steak juice so’s the doggie would go right for the right bowl? Well, this stunt hatched in Johannesburg by Saatchi & Saatchi for Procter & Gamble brand Eukanuba is more dastardly. First, they trained a pack of canines to carry bags of the dog food. Then, they released the hounds in busy shopping centers, much to the bemusement of passersby. Evil! What next? Training dogs to bark dog food brand names? Though, if Eukanuba could teach dogs to bark their name, hats off to them. So, what’s worse? This, or the fake crying baby Ad Creep? |Video: BestAdsOnTv|