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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive

By fpp ⋅ 29-March-2008 at 12:35 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.

The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.

More information and a video…

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Leo Burnett: Future trends in advertising

By fpp ⋅ 22-March-2008 at 18:27 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A typographic video about the latest advertising trends predictions report from Leo Burnett / Arc.

The report was created by Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett (London). The predictions in the video include…

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Advertising: Everyone makes mistakes

By fpp ⋅ 27-February-2008 at 19:17 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Great advertising for erasable pens. Interesting ambiguity.
Punchline: Everyone makes mistakes

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Six more couples Jimmy Kimmel should do videos with

By fpp ⋅ 26-February-2008 at 18:48 (UTC) ⋅ One comment

With Hollywood movies stars like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck sending each other public video messages in Jimmy Kimmel’s talkshow we are looking forward that this becomes a new trend.

Three things:

First, carry on these two were really funny.

Matt Damon will have to work really hard to top the Ben Affleck response video.
(with Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Robin Williams, Don Cheadle, Pete Wentz, Perry Farrell, Benji and Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Huey Lewis, Josh Groban, McLovin, Christina Applegate, Rebecca Romijn, Dominic Monaghan, Meatloaf and of course Ben Affleck himself.)

We suggest an Ocean Fourteen response…

Second, let’s have a look who might be next. Our top suggestions for Jimmy Kimmel…

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Guerrilla Advertising: Obey in Toronto

By fpp ⋅ 18-February-2008 at 22:37 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A series of strange ads have been popping up in Toronto, Canada during the last days advertising for a product called “Obey” and linked to a group calling itself “WhyBecauseISaidSo”

The punch line on one of the ads reads as following:
My son had ideas of his own.
Obay put a stop to that.

The idea behind it - while this is definitely a teaser campaign - is thrilling and scary at the same time. How many people are actually already using drugs to sedate their children and to make them more compliant? And this at times when governments in western countries are passing laws to create a new form of political correctness or citizenship…

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Animation: Kit Kat

By fpp ⋅ 9-February-2008 at 22:04 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

This might have been what the guy from Soc.Gen in Paris was hoping for after he lost 8 Billions of the bank’s money.

Great animation from “AkamaStudio”…

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Advertising: Toyota Prius into a bright future…

By fpp ⋅ 10-November-2007 at 21:31 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

From a Toyota advertising for the new Prius:
“…In the future the worst crime imaginable will be telemarketing.
Parking tickets will be written by only the finest comedians
…gas stations will become nothing more than low budget tourist stops…”

Nice idea - but where’s the car that fits this future? Bring it on…

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