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John West Salmon In Flying Tackle

John West Australia has launched a sequel to the classic salmon fisher vs bear TV ad, “Flying Fish Tackle”, set on Brooks Falls, in Katmai National Monument on the Alaskan Penninsula,

Salmon leap their way up a waterfall, awaited by eager bears. A keen salmon fisherman in yellow waders jumps in to grab his catch. He [...]

Dove Cream Oil Body Wash - Knowing You’re Beautiful

Dove launched its new Cream Oil Body Washes TV ad at the 2007 Academy Awards, featuring the work created by production assistant Lindsay Miller of Sherman Oaks, CA.
The brand known for embracing real women strengthened that commitment when it gave women creative control for the launch of its new product collection and its first appearance [...]

iGod Sermons Now Online At St Matthews In The City

St Matthew’s In The City, Auckland, advertised their podcast website with a billboard reading, “iGod - Sermons Now Online. Visit godcast.co.nz“.

The progressive Anglican church features mp3 versions of sermons from Christmas 2005 through to September 2006 with topics such as “Slow God”, “Presumption is the Mother of All Stuff-Ups” and “Sacred Cows Make the Best [...]

Apple iPhone Film Stars say Hello

Apple launched the first TV ad for the iPhone during the Academy Awards, with a montage of ‘hello’ moments from movies.

The 30 second ad begins in black and white with a phone shot from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie, “Dial M For Murder”. Lucille Ball answers a ringing rotary telephone, “Hello”. Characters from 31 movies and [...]

Hell Pizza Too Good for Some Evil Bastards

Hell Pizza’s billboard campaign linking George Bush with the phrase, “evil bastards”, has finally been found to be offensive by New Zealand’s Advertising Standards Complaints Board. The offensive billboard in question was part of an advertising campaign in Auckland and Wellington in August 2005, featuring two billboards with the phrases, “Hell - Too Good For [...]

School Principals on Speeding in NZ

School principals speak with gritty honesty about having a student struck down by a vehicle outside their school, in the NZ Police road safety campaign on speeding near schools. The TV ad, released this month, is part of an extensive advertising campaign introduced last year.
One teacher, pictured, tells about a road around the back of [...]

Get A PC from Vancouver

Laurie McGuinness has put together four spoofs of the “Get A Mac” advertising campaign. PC (Brent Chapman) is played as a Baby Boomer executive who contemptuously derides his Gen Y creative employee Mac (Evan Schulte).

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In this scenario Mac works for PC but isn’t too happy about how much he gets paid. “How am I supposed [...]

WWF China Charts Nature Maps

World Wildlife Fund China (WWF China) is hosting an advertising campaign that provides international perspectives on environmental policy. Each of the posters and print advertisements in the series shows a nature scene subtly portrayed in a map of a country.

In Congo, WWF constructs wonderful home for precious and rare wildlife animals.
Water buffalo drink at lake [...]

Volkswagen Jumper Coming Down

Volkswagen has agreed to withdraw its controversial TV commercial, Jumper, after protests from mental health advocacy groups. The TV ad, first aired on Monday February 12, features a man preparing to jump off a tall building. He is persuaded not to jump by the promise of an affordable Volkswagen car.

The man yells to the crowd [...]

ASICS Introduces My Running Partner

ASICS, the international sportswear company, is promoting running shoes in “My Running Partner”, a print advertising campaign being launched in March 2007.

My Running Partner has eight arms - a reference to the rowing fours team in the background
In 1949 Kihachiro Onitsuka took a good look around his native Kobe, Japan and came to a simple [...]