Divorcing advertising

Incredible but true. A great ad from Microsoft.

The Break Up
Uploaded by geertdesager

Not everyone who gets hit by a drunk driver dies

A powerful message against drunk driving.

Swear Jar

At last a TV commercial that legitimizes swear words. From Bud.tv





Tip of the hat to Peter Griffin.

Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan at the stockmarket

This spot for Ventura Securities parodies Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to get its point across.




Client: Ventura Securities
Ad Agency: Concept Communication
Producer/Director: Sanjay Sure
Art Director: Sanjay Sure
Copywriter: Vivek Suchanti/Sunil Shibad

Haryana call center

Absolutely hilarious!

Cake

Fallon, London, bakes a simple and elegant tv commercial for Skoda Fabia. The soundtrack by Julie Andrews takes me down memory lane.

The blurred outdoors

This Ford Mustang billboard isn’t painted - it was created using a special type of semi-transparent material, that blurs the background to make it look like you are driving really fast.

McCann fakes Benetton ad

Jill Miller has exposed ( in a manner of speaking) McCann Erickson for coming up with a fake ad for Benetton on the issue of domestic violence.

The model is South Asian and the photographer, Jatin Kampani, and copywriter, Denzil Machado, are both Indians. Did it emanate from the McCann India office? In fact this site credits the ad in question to McCann India.

Here is a letter to Jill from Benetton's PR manager.

Dear Jill,

Thank you for you email. I would like to inform you that the images you
are refering to with the logo "Domestic Colors of Violence" are a FAKE and
are NOT an adverting campaign of Benetton Group.

The ONLY project Benetton has done on domestic violence was in 2003,
created and developed by Fabrica (Benetton's communication research center)
and Colors Magazine (part of the publishing activities at Fabrica). Please
see the attached link for further information
http://www.benetton.com/colorspress/56/.

Thank you for contacting us.

Best regards.

Anissa Nouhi
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Anissa Nouhi
Senior Fashion Public Relations Manager
Benetton USA Corporation
601 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel. 212-593-0290 ext.337
Fax. 212-371-1438
anouhi@benettonusa.com

Oh dear, the ghost ad syndrome continues to haunt us.