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The annual climax of the American football season, the Super Bowl, has become a traditional opportunity for advertisers to showcase their new television adverts for the first time. Last year’s game saw Volkswagen launch their now legendary...
The local division of the burgers and fries, I love it when you speak foreign, fast food restaurant chain Wimpy are all the talk in town today. This after a video showing their efforts at communicating with their blind customers went viral...
With the imminent release of the Apple iPhone 4S in South Africa on 16 December, this very funny ad is fairly topical. Released by Samsung a couple of weeks ago, the total campaign comprising a variety of clips raked up of 4.5 million views...
Who likes Christmas advertising? Thought so. The ridiculous adults in elf costumes; the plink-plonk of a cheap Casio keyboard renditions of “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells”; the gaudy streams of tinsel spelling the pseudo-word “Xmas”...
Loving this set of promo adverts that popular local news reader Riaan Cruywagen has done to help promote the upcoming annual Loerie Advertising Awards. Don’t be a hater yo! He’s in a Jacuzzi. “Champagne” “Bad Ads” The 33rd Annual...
Vodafone is bringing you closer to the action at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes through the launch of a new video media campaign. Check out the new video ad right here:
On 08 May 1886, 125 years ago today, John S. Pemberton created and served Coca-Cola for the first time at Jacobs’ Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta. In that year an average of just nine drinks a day were sold. 125 years later and the brand whose...
Everyone loves a good wedding video. And since Jill and Kevin’s’ now famous Wedding Entrance Dance Video, everyone wants to dance into the wedding. Will and Kate are no different it seems. Here is their Royal Wedding Entrance Dance video! Okay...
Red may well be hotter. It is possibly even simpler. Another thing that red definitely is becoming, in my mind, is annoying. Garishly, irritatingly annoyingly annoying. And Vodacom’s “is red” advertising campaign to promote their new corporate...
Spotted on Ads of the World, this collection of vintage style adverts were created by an agency named Moma in Sao Paulo. They were produced in order to promote Brazil’s MaxiMidia Seminar Series last year. I really like the juxtaposition of...
In an absolutely classical “lost in translation” story, an ‘entrepreneurial’ manufacturing company has failed dismally in its attempt to cash in on the upcoming Royal Nuptials of Prince William Windsor and Miss Katherine Middleton. The...
In an attempt to cash in on as many viral video meme’s as possible, Jennifer Aniston has been roped in by US bottled water company SmartWater to star in what they hope will be the next viral video. Well, to be fair, they’re not really ‘cashing...
Advertising during the annual Super Bowl television broadcast – the 45th edition of which took place yesterday in Texas – has always been a hot topic, with advertisers known to stall the launch of new brands until ‘Super Bowl Sunday’,...
This year sure started with a bang. Rapport phoned last week and asked if they could do a story about a Blink Stefanus design. I knew Rapport has many conservative readers but I didn’t know people would get aggressive about the drawing...
The music used in advertising can often help cement a brand or product in consumer consciousness. And right now the talk of the town ( ~ I see what you did there! Ed. ~ ) is “Hello”, the musical backing to the new 8.ta television ad campaign. It’s...
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