XBox Singing Lips Take On Me

Microsoft’s XBox Singing Lips is being promoted in an online video featuring a pair of lips singing Aha’s “Take On Me” as he walks through the streets. Shades of the Tooheys Extra Dry Tongue ad from Australia?

Natural Confectionery Company Sweets Chatting

Cadbury is launching sweets from Australian Natural Confectionery Company in the UK with a television and online advertising campaign in which sweets come to life to chat about their naturalness.

The Contemplative Sweets campaign builds on Australia’s heritage of lighthearted playfulness by developing a “kidult” tone of voice, which is at once charming and edgy. [...]

Kuntz Manor

Today’s Site of the Day is Kuntz Manor, the personal archive of Tom Kuntz, commercial and music video director represented globally with MJZ and in Canada with Suneeva.

Kuntz has many of his commercials and videos available for viewing, stored in FLV and viewed in Flash. They include the Axe Chocolate Man, Fedex Pigeons and Chameleons, [...]

Sorbent Homecoming

The most recent television ad for Sorbent toilet paper features news from Channel 12 that the boy famously lost fifteen years ago has been found alive, living with wild dogs.

As Toby returns to his parents he’s reintroduced to the comforts of home, like meatloaf his favourite. The emotional climax however is in the bathroom…
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Axe Dark Chocolate Man

Axe Dark Temptation Deodorant is promoted as a fragrance irresistible to women in “Chocolate Man”, a TV ad from Argentina.

The spot from Unilever begins with a man spraying himself with the Dark Temptation. As he walks through the day we see he’s turned into a man of chocolate. Women can’t get enough of him. The [...]

Altoids A Slap to the Cerebellum

Altoids, the strong mints, are promoted as a slap to the cerebellum since 1780 in a campaign out of the dark ages.

The three TV ads in the campaign are set in London in the 1780s, the place and time in which Altoids were first developed as a stomach calmative by Smith & Company. It was [...]

Fedex or Carrier Pigeons?

Fedex asks us What will it be? Carrier pigeons equipped with GPS and night vision? Giant pigeons who can carry (and drop) large objects? Or Fedex?

An office worker in charge of dispatch assures his boss that the new scheme is working wonders. Carrier pigeons are given electronic instructions relating to their destination. The large packages, [...]

Man with the Skittles Touch

Skittles, the chocolate confectionery, is introduced as a product worth its weight in gold in a TV ad with references to the legendary King Midas whose touch turned everything to gold.

Tim shows Joel how everything he touches turns to skittles, in the same way King Midas turned everything he touched to gold. But is it [...]

Tooheys Tall Men Throw Street Party with Tom Jones

Tooheys New introduced a street party to Australian television screens tonight, featuring multi-coloured wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube men (tall men) grooving to the sounds of Tom Jones’ 1968 hit “Help Yourself”. This is the second instalment in the “For The Love Of Beer” advertising campaign, following the Catapult ad which was launched in February 2006.

The [...]

William Shatner Priceline Negotiator

William Shatner marks his ten years of advertising work with travel agency, Priceline, with a new campaign released this last week.

Shatner first started working with Priceline in 1997 to promote the “Name Your Own Price” travel service, launching the first TV ad in April 1998.
“We were looking for a figure who was trustworthy, known for [...]

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