Posts Tagged "ads"

  • For once the Dark Side saves the planet

    Do all the best adverts come out of Belgium? Maybe so.
    Check out this one from WWF to support Earth Hour. The concept is simple; switch off the lights, go dark and help save the planet. Surely Darth makes an excellent spokesperson for this message?

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  • Not happy with how Final Fantasy XIII is being advertised in the UK? Blame OMD

    Square Enix UK have engaged in a bit of agency shuffling prior to the promotion of Final Fantasy XIII this year.
    The account is worth 6 figures – that’s a lot of money to the agency involved.
    Square Enix had been with MJ Media but Eidos, which Square Enix bought last year, had been using Manning Gottlieb [...]

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  • Funky stop motion Tatsunoko vs Capcom commercial

    I’m not a fan of cross-genre or ‘guest appearance’ beat ‘em ups. They seem to wreck the continuity of the game, messing with the mythos and shamelessly cashing in on fans loyalty to certain names. I’m not even that much of a fan of beat ‘em ups in the first place.
    I don’t think Tatsunoko [...]

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  • The Adidas goes Star Wars ad

    I don’t have much time for trainer junkies, or sports wear, or, well, sports in general – but Star Wars! Star Wars is another issue.
    So far I’ve resisted posting pictures of either Star Wars baseball caps or Star Wars shoes but this Star Wars / adidas Originals TV ad is too good to ignore. Even [...]

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  • Nintendo’s DS TV adverts rated in the top 10 most annoying

    A survey by TNS for Adwatch has revealed that Nintendo’s TV ad series for the DS is considered to be one of the most annoying on British TV. 25% of all respondents found the series produced by an agency called Karmarama to be irritating.
    One of the TV slots featured Star Trek actor and British hero [...]

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  • Buy a PS3 and trash everything else

    A pretty funky ad from Venezuela for the PlayStation 3 here. It gets your attention by trashing a lot of expensive looking stuff. Lots of broken glass. There’s a giant slingshot – in fact I think the ad is called “slingshot”.
    Oh, and there’s a PS3 too!

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  • Phones4u ad pokes fun at LARPers, rips off Boxwars?

    A recent TV ad from Phones4U suggests that people who dress up in homemade armour and whack each other with cardboard axes wouldn’t have enough friends to enjoy the popular tariffs.
    Does it? Kind of.
    The two combatants certainly aren’t traditional LARPers and resemble box carts more than anything else.

    Comments on one YouTube upload suggest that [...]

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  • Ad: Alan you are a guitar hero

    A rather odd but funky ad from Doritos in the United Kingdom. It follows the story of Alan, a frustrated guitar hero and successful zero, until his life takes a turn for the better in aisle eight.

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  • Michelin Man defeats Evil Gas Pump

    As part of a $20 million advertising push we have this new Michelin Man kaiju battle with a giant evil gas pump.
    It’s pretty funky and that’s even before we get onto the Fire Coming OUt of The Monkey’s Head.
    I think the vocal overlay to the Michelin Man’s battle with the evil gas pump is heavily [...]

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  • The American TV ad for the forthcoming Rock Band: The Beatles edition uses technology we’re all now familiar with to put old footage of long dead celebrities  into a clip.
    What do you think? Cool or creepy?

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