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Nokia N95 - What Computers Have Become

Nokia has launched the N95 computer with a television advertisement with the tagline, “It’s what computers have become”, with the voice of Harry Dean Stanton.
Here’s the Nokia N95 TV ad launched in 2006, featuring the Moby track, In My Heart, from the 2002 album 18. “In My Heart” has been used for the whole N [...]

Steve Irwin in his last TV ad

The last television commercial Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin filmed for Australia Zoo will air in Queensland from this weekend, according to the Brisbane Times. The “It’s All About You” ad was the last Irwin filmed for Australia Zoo before leaving on the documentary expedition on which he died, in September 2006.
John Stainton, Irwin’s friend and [...]

Modest Mouse Lands Big Fish in Dashboard

Modest Mouse bring a fisherman’s tall tale to life in their live action/animation music video for Dashboard. The music video, produced at Motion Theory, premiered online on February 27 at VH1, MTV 2, Fuse and MTV-U, as well as on the Modest Mouse MySpace site. Dashboard was the first single from the band’s album, We [...]

Ryabushka Eggs - Let Them Sleep

Ryabushka Eggs, a Russian poultry firm, were promoted as a humane company in “Asleep”, an award-winning TV advertisement in 2006.

An old man and woman walk across the snow-covered fields at dawn. The woman sings what sounds to be a Russian lullaby. As they enter the home we see chickens snuggled up in beds, covered with [...]

Would you advertise another TV network?

Shawn writes:
My friend and I got into an argument the other day about whether or not a ‘Network Television Station’ would play a advertisement for another network station. An example would be if FOX played an ad on CBS advertising one of their shows. If you could give me any information as to if this [...]

Edenor urges Victor Sueiro to turn Light off

Edenor Electricity, Argentina power company, has been encouraging customer to save electricity, using a TV ad featuring Victor Suero, author of “Mas Alla De LA Vida” (Beyond This Life). The well known Catholic journalist and television presenter has written extensively on his life-after-death experiences. He appears in this advertisement in a light-hearted treatment of a [...]

Real Estate Fate Is Pretty Rare

Realestate.com.au, an Australian web site dedicated to connecting home buyers with home vendors, spins a yarn showing how unlikely it is we’ll ‘just find’ our dream home through the intervention of fate.

A blonde woman drives her convertible sports car along leafy avenues in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne on an early Autumn day, the sun [...]

New Era Cap Line promoted by Spike Lee

New Era Cap launched its new “Authentic Collection” on-field cap with a television advertising campaign designed, directed and produced by film maker Spike Lee. New Era Cap, the official on-field cap of Major League Baseball (MLB), New Era Cap Company hired Spike DDB, a minority- owned, full-service advertising agency founded by world-renowned film director Spike [...]

Vote Different Takes Hillary Clinton Back to Apple 1984

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton inadvertently tangled with Apple and YouTube this month with the viral release of a remake of Apple’s 1984 TV ad, featuring the speeches of Clinton and a challenge to vote Obama, vote different.
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube

The ‘Vote Different’ ad, a rehash of the [...]

Kevin Roberts is now blogging

Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, has started up a blog, KR CONNECT.

So far Kevin’s written up his reflections on the passing of Italian Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Paolo Ettore, a living giant doll in Japan, the Crystal Bridges museum in Bentonville Arksansas, long lasting songs, the Starbucks Coffee Break, Manchester United, the [...]