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Geico Caveman Crib Ready For Party

Geico Insurance has taken the Caveman campaign online with the launch of Caveman’s Crib, www.cavemanscrib.com.
Visitors to Caveman’s Crib soon discover that Geico Caveman is getting ready for a party. On the front door there’s a sign, “1231 Party’s Here”. We’re invited to join the party at the caveman’s crib. We can sample the tunes, tour [...]

Vaseline Sea of Skin

Vaseline Sea is a celebration of the human skin, using choreographed naked human bodies in a television commercial shown around the world.

The Sea of Skin spot begins with landscapes alongside close-ups of human skin. We’re finally introduced to the stars - a team of men and women without clothes, standing in a forest. As the [...]

LG Show Us Your Set for Super Bowl

LG Electronics Canada is linking up with the NFL Super Bowl with an advertising campaign in which viewers are invited to “show us your set”. The campaign is being opened with a TV ad in which a man watching a rock concert on TV notices a woman wearing a red shirt emblazoned with a star. [...]

NHS Get Unhooked From Smoking

The UK’s Department of Health and Smoke Free recently commissioned an advertising campaign warning about the addictive power of nicotine and encouraging smokers to kick their habit for the New Year.
See the four posters from the print campaign .

Office
An office worker is on the phone, arranging to see someone on the 9th. As he puts [...]

Apple Get a Mac Cloned for UK

Apple UK has produced a British version of the ‘Get A Mac’ TV ads, featuring Peep Show stars David Mitchell (PC) and Robert Webb (Mac). As with the USA-based ads, the spots are all available in quicktime at www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/
The six ads available at this point: Pie Chart, Tentacle, Trust Mac, Virus, Restarting, and Office at [...]

Super Bowl 2007 TV Advertising

Where to view the Super Bowl 2007 TV Ads after the game? Here’s a few places to check out:
Adforum offer the ads in mpeg format, for a cost of $20 US. The price is good value - it covers ads for the past 5 years as well as the 2007 ads aired on February 4th.
iFilm [...]

Chevy College Car Wash Filmed by Student

Chevrolet’s Super Bowl advertising campaign this year includes “Car Wash”, an ad emerging from a creativity competition involving teams of fulltime students.
Chevrolet in September 2006 invited students to create an idea for a commercial promoting Chevrolet’s bold new designs and innovative lineup of cars and crossovers, specifically the Aveo, Cobalt, HHR and Equinox.
The five finalist [...]

Rexona Dolls Do You Wanna Come With Me

Out of Argentina comes Muñecos (Dolls), a spot for Unilever’s deodorant Rexona Citrus Fresh Intense soap.
Human-size doll figures spill out of a train and into the hot city. Businessmen and businesswomen dolls in suits, nuns in habits, fast food workers, shoppers - all face the heat of the day. We get an insight into what’s [...]

Celebrity Photographs Make Trade Fair

Oxfam’s set of celebrity dump photographs continues to pay dividends in the campaign for fair trade around the world. Colin Firth, Antonio Banderas, Gael Bernal Garcia, Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn and Jamelia are being joined by other singers and actors in a series coordinated by photographer/creative director Greg Williams. The photographs [...]

Song for Australia in Fair Dinkum Aussie Taxi

Manjit Boparai has put together a music video for his multicultural song, “Song Australia”. Boparai, originally a teacher and author in India, emigrated to Australia in 1988. He took up the job of taxi driver in the mid 1990s when he and his family moved to Brisbane. The new job gave him an opportunity to [...]