Well, this is sleazy Brazil we’re talking about. During Carnaval last month in Rio, I’m sure local eager-to-learn youngsters saw them lots of pussy, cock, and ass. And now, the 40-year-old Red Balloon Language School—teaching English for kids three and up—will educate children about their ABCs and apparently the double meaning of some of our popular cuss words (click the ads for a closer look). I’m sure parents, who have to be the target of this campaign, are fucking thrilled. After a few classes, maybe the little crianças can join these Dutch kids in singing the “I want to fuck you in the ass” song. |Images: IBIA|
Remember the episode of The Office when the ‘Nard Dog couldn’t remember the product name from the Kit Kat jingle? Well, I just wanted to put that tune in your mind to get you hankering for those créme-filled chocolate wafers. Are ya hankering? Now, make sure you’ve got a garbage can handy to boot into as you watch this video from Greenpeace UK. Read more »
This is why digital technology was invented: to make a Rubik’s Cube out of an English man’s big honkin’ head. It’s the latest spot in Drench’s “Brain’s perform best when they’re hydrated” campaign. It’s a fun spot, about the best I’ve seen since the Skittles “Touch” commercial. Read more »
Ask any ad creative about working on a Pharmaceutical account, and they will probably visibly wince. Drug company marketing directors are humorless automatons (they have to be) who approve work like “Viva Viagra.” I’m not saying this Bayer ad via Australia featuring a cheap joke with a cheap stock photo is an award-winner. But if this is in fact a produced and running ad (which it appears to be), Melbourne agency McCallum deserves to be toasted (heh) for getting this butt-head-level idea approved. Bayer is an ultra conservative German firm, and the third-largest pharmaceutical company in the world. But, they did use to sell heroin. And you can’t spell herbicide without herb. |Image: AOTW|
Oh, what a perfect idea for hand-wringing New Yorkers. It’s your chance to get a virtual homeless man off the streets, digitally. It’s a street video game where anybody can play, and everyone wins! Read more »
And, according to bandname.com, it’s available. AnyRetch, Paris music publication TRAX, “Le magazine des musiques electroniques,” features an ugly, sparse website. While on their even uglier myspace page, your ears are assaulted by a rather terrible French hip-hop track that is apparently titled “Drive-by Music”—which doesn’t seem related to Outerspace’s diddy of the same name. Read more »
Now here’s some very dubious and tenuous borrowed interest. World hero Muntadhar al-Zeidi suffers the indignation of having his holy shoes digitally replaced by flower bouquets in this spot for Blancox detergent with softener. Read more »
PETA’s Latest Doofy Disingenuous Stunt
Fake veggie porn Super Bowl ads. Fake bus beheading exploitation ads. The animals rights group constantly hatches fake concepts that they never intend to buy media for. But even more pathetic than the fake ideas, is their fake earnestness about their fake proposals. And these fake pot smuggling-related billboards aren’t even original. Read more »
Earth Hour, when the planet theoretically goes dark for 60 minutes, is at 8:30pm on March 27th. To promote it, The Belgian chapter of the WWF once again presents “Darth Fladder”—a skinny, tube-sock wearing dark lord with a zaftig blonde wife. Read more »
So Hip It Hurts—”Toronto’s best skate shop!!”—woos the local sk8tr boyzzz and girrrlz with blood and and teeth and bloody hair (what, no intestines?) and the promise of booze. This chick wouldn’t be seen dead there. Even lazier than the visuals is the headlines. The only ad of interest is the “80 proof malt liquor” one (malt liquor really comes in 80 proof?): They’re offering a “free shot” with a purchase over 80 bucks. A fucking shot? That’s it? For 80 bucks, I think a small bottle, at least, is warranted. Btw, the shop’s gallery of “famous friends” includes the dope Adam Sandler. Agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Toronto. |Images via: AOTW|
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