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Animal Liberation Movement No Caged Eggs

Animal Liberation Movement in New South Wales, Australia, has launched a viral campaign designed to expose cruelty to battery hens in Australia.

The spot features a woman preparing to fry an egg in her kitchen. Once she’s heated the oil in the frying pan she takes a miserable looking chicken and breaks it over the pan, [...]

Johnnie Walker Android On Being Human

Johnnie Walker’s latest television commercial comes from the future through the perspective of an android. The 60 second Scotch whisky TV advertisement, “Human”, provides an ambience consistent with that of Isaac Asimov’s story Bicentennial Man, directed as a film by Steven Spielberg, and Stanley Kubrick’s A.I.

An android (played by Aaron Cash) sits in a library [...]

Beware of the God in Auckland

St Matthew in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand, promoted their animal service with a sign reading, “Beware of the God”. The red sign, attached to a wire mesh fence and accompanied by a kennel, promoted a pet blessing service to be held on October 8.

Glynn Cardy, vicar at St [...]

Publishing TV Commercials on YouTube

YouTube is perhaps the fastest growing avenue for viral advertising available to advertising agencies today. However most of the ads being placed on YouTube are breaking YouTube’s copyright regulations, with the exception of a few uploaded by enterprising creatives…
Sprite’s Sublymonal campaign was leaked on to YouTube on May 23 by “Lymonatrix“. The YouTube videos in [...]

Nissan 4WD Naturally Capable Animals

Nissan Four Wheel Drive vehicles were promoted in September with an effects-driven television advertising campaign featuring computer generated puma, spider, crocodile and snake.

Scissor Sisters I Don’t Feel Like Dancing at the movies

Scissor Sisters launched “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing”, a single from their 2006 album, “Ta Dah”, with a movie-infused music video. The music, co-written by Elton John, reflects the American band’s disco/glam-rock/pop style. The song’s use of falsetto, along with subject matter, reminds many of Leo Sayer’s 1975 hit, “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing”.

The [...]

Avon Says Check Them Out

Avon Slovakia has a record of being up front when it comes to breast cancer awareness. This 2004 print advertisement challenged women to examine their own breasts.

Credits
The Avon campaign was developed at Vaculik Advertising, Bratislava, by creatives Milan Hladko, Martin Keder and Denisa Korenkova. Photographer was Zuzana Šulajová.

Japanese Girls Go Husky at Ajinomoto Stadium

Ajinomoto Stadium, home of Japanese football teams F.C. Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy 1969, was promoted in 2004/2005 with ‘Husky Girls’, a humorous television commercial designed to appeal to Japanese women.
A young male student arrives in Tokyo, in a Happy Moving Company removal truck. Driving through the streets he is overwhelmed by the beauty of [...]

Dove Little Girls Show Real Beauty in True Colors

Dove promoted its “Real Beauty” campaign with “Little Girls”, commonly known as “True Colors”. The 60 second ad features girls from a number of ethnic backgrounds who wish they look different. The ad calls on the public to affirm young girls in their unique sense of beauty.

Accompanied by Cyndi Lauper’s 1986 song, “True Colors”, we [...]

Calendar Girls in Derry Raise Funds For Breast Care Unit

Breast cancer survivors this month launched a calendar dedicated to raising funds for the Breast Care Unit at the Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, Northern Ireland and the Marie Keating Foundation in the Irish Republic.
Inspired by the Calendar Girls of Rylstone and District Women’s Institute, Londonderry resident Sandra Biddle gathered together ten other women between 42 [...]