All posts for the month July, 2011

Meet The Newest Old Spice Guy: Fabio

The iconic Italian model appears in four new ads by Wieden + Kennedy on a YouTube channel called NewOldSpiceGuyFabio. He’s borderline unintelligible, although that seems to be the bulk of the joke. View the others below.

Toshiba Promises Laptops and TVs That Won’t Cause Zombie Apocalypse

Two spots show a Toshiba executive being told he can ship the company’s new laptops and TVs early, if he skimps on a few things. But then he daydreams about the possible domino effect such skimping would have around the world, and indeed into space—a comically destructive set of events leading to nothing less than [...]

Ad Age Trawls the Trends for What’s Current

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Spartan Goes To College In New Microsoft Halo Ad

Client: Microsoft Product: Halo Spots: “Halo Graduation,” “Halo Tour” Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo. Associate Creative Director: Andrew Lincoln, Matt Talbot Copywriter: Matt Talbot Art Director: Andrew Lincoln Executive Integrated Agency Producer: Tony Tung Producer: Sloan Schroeder

Nigerian Creative Talent Wins Miami Ad School Prize

For his immense talent, Adebola Babatunde, one of the most awarded lone creatives at the Lagos State Advertising and Ideas Festival, LAIF has been endowed with a prize scholarship by the Miami Ad School, Europe, the prestigious school of pop culture engineering. Babatunde says that in recent times the mentality of playing provincial is old [...]

MTN Aids Optimum Exposures Expose Africa’s Biggest Billboard

MTN rallied behind Optimum Exposures, an outdoor advertising company, in the bid to achieve the outdoor company’s dream of erecting the biggest billboard in Africa. Lere Alimi, managing director, Optimum Exposures, paid tribute to MTN on the feat, in a statement made available to M2. The city of Lagos hosts the mega billboard which stands [...]

Absolut ‘Absolut Blank’ by The Absolut Company

Absolut Vodka has launched a creative marketing campaign that will bring together emerging artists from across the globe. The Absolut Blank initiative which launches on July 20, comprises of 18 artist collaborations, from different disciplines including; drawing, painting, sculpting, print making, film making and digital art. An outline of the vodka bottle is make into [...]

10 Sexist Ads Made by Total Pigs

As advertising has become less blatantly sexist, more ads than ever are being called sexist. Check out the 10 TV spots below—from the 1950s to today—which are all, to a greater or lesser degree, anti-woman (or anti-girl) courtesy of Adweek. 10. Allstate Let’s start off mild. This Allstate “Mayhem” spot is more anti-youth than anti-girl, [...]

The Kickin’ Chicken Rebrands

With the first location opened in 1997, The Kickin’ Chicken is a full service, full bar, full menu restaurant featuring chicken wings, tenders, wraps, sandwiches and burgers. (Hungry and thirsty yet?). The Kickin’ Chicken now has seven locations in North and South Carolina and is revving up their franchising business so they needed an overhaul [...]

National Maritime Museum Gets Splashy

Established in 1937, the National Maritime Museum (NMN) in Greenwich, England is one of the largest museums in the world on this theme and one of the most popular attractions in the UK. Along with the NMN sit the The Royal Observatory, which happens to the epicenter of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and The Queen’s [...]