Mercedes Benz released a new print ad commercial to communicate the new Mercedes Night View or Night Vision as it is more commonly known. Mercedes stickered the back of a bus to show us the idea of just how their new Night Vision system might work if you were behind the wheel.Advertising Agency: FHV BBDO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Creative Directors: Mark Muller, Bart Bus Art Director: Yona Hümmels Copywriter: Stef Jongenelen Account: Bas Verdoorn Published: September 2008
For those curious about the Night View by Mercedes, here is promo campaign released by Mercedes Benz last year.
Following up on the Doritos Crash The SuperBowl XLIII contest details from a few weeks ago, the entries are pouring in at the Doritos website. In case you missed it, Doritos is giving you a chance to win a cool million dollars if you can create a commercial that makes it onto the USA Today's Top Superbowl commercials list. With still plenty of time to enter I wanted to share my two favorite commercials entered so far. One Man Has A Bid Decision To MAke; Directed by David
To Buddies Get Ready To Watch The Big Game; Directed by Hasmorecoyne
Funny commercial from Amnesty International, "We Can Change What They Do". Award winning TV Spot by Scholz & Friends, Germany has us admiring the great present day world leaders and the message in this public awareness campaign: we can change what they do. Come on, it is pretty funny.
This spot was a 2008 ward show winner at the Cresta Awards 2008 TV/Cinema/Digital Winner. Credits: Agency: Scholz & Friends Creative Director: Oliver Handlos / Wolf Schneider / Matthias Spaetgens Copywriter: Edgar Linscheid / Fabio Straccia Art Director: Sara Vieira Agency Producer: Nina Heyn / Nele Juergens / Daniel Klessig Production Company: Markenfilm Berlin GmbH Director: Benjamin Wolff Cinematographer: Lutz Hattenhauer
The famous Budweiser Wassup commercial is back with "Wassup 8 Years Later". What a fantastic commercial. In support of Barack Obama and their powerful it's time for change, the wassup boys are at again.
Wassup 2008 True, 8 Years Later...Change That's Whats Up.
This is the original Budweiser True "Wassup" cmmercial with the 8 Years Later, It's Time For Change Wassup following right after.
Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.
Client: Wassup08.com Production Company: Believe Media Director: Charles Stone Director of Photography: Shane Hurlbut Producer: Katie Matson Walker VFX Company: Mass Market VFX Artist: Rich Rama Editorial Company: Union Editorial Editor: Nico Alba Sound Design: Bill Chesley, Henry Boy Sound Mix: Sound Lounge Mixer: Philip Loeb
Apple creates another funny commercial in the Mac VS PC advertising saga. The newest commercial release titled "Bean Counter" takes a good shot at Vista. Our favorite PC is sitting back adding more money to be spent on Vista advertising and very little to fixing all the problems with Vista. Of course, with the suggestion by Mac, PC decides to spend all the money on advertising and leave Vista just the way it is. It is a funny commercial.
Get A Mac Commercial Credits: Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab Chief Creative Officer: Lee Clow Executive Creative Directors: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum Creative Director: Jason Sperling ACD/Sr. AD: Chuck Monn, Jamie Reilly Senior Copywriters: Kevin Tenglin, Krista Wicklund Agency Producer: Serena Auroux Production Co: Epoch Films Director: Phil Morrison DP: Peter Donahue Editorial Co: Mad River Post Editor: Lucas Eskin Post Co: Company 3 Brian Robinson, Stefan Sonnenfeld
AWtech Car Polish Finish, Extreme Finish For Your Car.
These two print adverts were placed on consecutive pages in automotive magazines, the idea was to promote AWtech and their premium automotive products providing the highest level of shine and depth of polish to automotive finishes.Not only is the AWtech finish one brilliant shine, but judging by where their model landed it is one smooth finish. Funny adverts at its finest and one gorgeous car too.
The Brazilian Press Association commercial spot "The Comma". Who knew a comma could be so powerful. The Brazilian press Assoc. has been fighting for 100 years so know one will change a single comma from your information. This is brilliant how powerful the comma can be: A comma can be used as a pause, it can make your money disappear, a comma can accuse the wrong person, a comma can change everything.
Here is the original version of "The Comma". Advertising pros are claiming the english version was done just in time to qualify for all the advertising awards, either way they are brilliant commercials.
Original Brazilian version credits Agency: Africa Sao Paulo Publicidade Ltda. Production: Visorama Diversões Eletrônicas Music: Sonido Produções Musicais
English version credits: Advertising Agency: Africa Sao Paulo, Brazil Creative Directors: Nizan Guanaes, Sergio Gordilho, Fabio Seidl, Bruno Brasil Art Director: Bruno Brazil Copywriters: Fabio Seidl, Luiz Gonzaga Saraiva Production Company: Visorama Director: Jose Bessa Aired: August 2008
Adidas "All Day I Dream About Sneakers". A few new print adverts for Adidas created by Dimitri Kalagas. These print ads were published in Australia and I believe they call sneakers trainers down under. Still, these are very unique, a whole new way of looking at your runners huh. I wonder what Nike could do with this idea.Advertising Agency: Lifelounge, Melbourne, Australia Creative Director: Daniel Pollock Associate Creative Director: David Ponce de Leon Art Director: Dimitri Kalagas Copywriter: Chris Cork Designers: Dimitri Kalagas, Yolanda Collins, Michael Pham Published: September 2008
New Beach commercial for the 2009 Volkswagen VW TDI Clean Diesel. If your a guy a commercial can never go wrong when you are standing along a beach and a beautiful woman is running towards you in a bikini. Volkswagen's new tagline for the TDI Clean Diesel "Power and The Environment, Together At Last".
Advertiser: Volkswagen Product: 2009 TDI Clean Diesel Agency: PALM Communication, Montréal Creative Director: Pascal De Decker Art Director: Ellie Roy Copywriter: Stuart Macmillan, Pascal De Decker, Marcus Hildebrandt Agency Producer: Marielle Mougeot Director: Matthieu Mantovani DoP: André Chemetoff Production Company: Films Traffik Country: Canada
The Mastercard priceless advertising campaign has thrilled us with some wonderful commercials, and they continue too. The two newest Matercard commercials: Pep Talk and TimeLine truly are priceless. If you are familiar with Bobby Orr then "TimeLine" will send shivers down your spine as it cronicles the career and injuries of Bobby Orr throughout his NHL career. The second Priceless TV spot entitled "Pep Talk" is just as good, I must warn you that if you have never played the game or been around hockey players you wont get the idea; for us that have: Priceless!
Above MasterCard Pep Talk Priceless commercial, and below the Bobby Orr TimeLine commercial.
Agency: MacLaren McCann, Toronto Group Creative Director / Art Director: Robert Kingston Group Creative Director / Writer: Wade Hesson V.P./ Dir. of Broadcast Services: Franca Piacente Producer: Angy Loftus Group Account Director: Ryan Timms Account Executive: Emily MacLaurin-King Production Company: Suneeva, Toronto Director: Laurence Thrush Executive Producers: Geoff Cornish, Michi Lepik-Stahl Producer: Gene Walker Director of Photography: Gary Young Editorial: Panic and Bob, Toronto Editor: David Baxter Visual Effects: Crush, Toronto Lead Compositer: David Whiteson Compositor: Pat Moore Executive Producer: Jo-ann Cook Producer: Debbie Cooke Music (Timeline): Vapor, Toronto
Sony Bravia Domino City Commercial, another beautiful commercial epic from Sony. The spot was shot entirely on location in India, and the Sony dominoes runs to the Taj Mahal in Agra. The music is beautiful, anyone know the artist.
Sonal Dabral, of Bates141, Singapore, explains the idea behind the Sony Domino's commercial: “In this commercial we introduce the large dominoes into the setting with an intriguing chemistry of hyper-real dominoes set against the exotic naturalism of the location. The vibrancy and accuracy of the new BRAVIA is perfectly illustrated by the colorful dominoes. These dominoes are the full gambit – the full spectrum of colour, seen in among the hennas and browns and ivories of this earthy place. The environment offered a great canvas for us to reinforce the spectrum of color for BRAVIA, set against the primarily sepia, monochromatic locations.” Agency: Bates141, Singapore Executive Creative Director: Sonal Dabral Creative Director: Travis Sorge, general advertising manager Edward Pank and account director Sharon Sarinas. Filming by: Nic Finlayson of Film Construction Executive Producer: Roy De Giorgio Produced by: Phil Liefting.
This fall Nissan Europe will be launching 2 new models: the New Murano (in October) and the New Qashqai+2 (in September). With the launch of Qashqai in 2007, these 2 new models will make Nissan the first car manufacturer to have a unique Crossover range. In a soon-to-be cluttered segment by 2010 where competitors will have more media fire power, the strategic challenge was to benefit from a first entrant advantage and establish a clear positioning for Nissan crossovers with the aim to be perceived as the most daring ones. The comms strategy was to leverage Qashqai’s urbanproof positioning and extend it to the whole range to fit the same target mindset: people who embrace the unexpected, thrive on novelty and love to anticipate change. Nissan crossovers share the same urban proof attitude.
TBWA\G1 and TBWA\Paris took on the challenge and found a creative idea that would allow individual cars from the range to express their unique personality yet be part of the same family. What if Murano and Qashqai were actually two Gangs from a City … Murano comes from the upscale part of the city while Qashqai and Qashqai +2 come from the more gritty areas. Murano is refined and imposing while Qashqai is quick and agile. These two gangs like to challenge each other but as they both own the city, they also share similar values and respect each other. They will settle their differences through a dance battle where each of their moves reflect their respective attitude and personality before ending in a beautifully choreographed finale inspired from classic American musicals.
TBWA\ and Nissan have chosen the famous French director Frederic Planchon to shoot this TVC. The film was shot in Berlin for 5 days. All post-production work including CGI was handled by BUF in Paris, taking almost 2 months for completion.
The campaign will be aired in 25 European countries from October 2008 in 60 sec, 40 and 30 sec formats.
Client : Nissan Europe Jean-Pierre Diernaz : Marketing Communications General Manager Caroline Mechaï : Advertising & Media Manager Lisette Nieuwenhuis : Advertising Section Manager Agency: TBWA\G1 and TBWA\Paris Erik Vervroegen : Executive Creative Director Parag Tembulkar : European Creative Director Ewan Veitch : Executive Managing Director Marianne Fonferrier : Art Director Ghislaine De Germon : Copy Writer Maxime Boiron : Head of TV Virginie Chalard : TV Producer Alexandre Fay Keller : Head of sound department Benoit Dunaigre : Sound producer Guillaume Chupeau : Account Director Céline Duval : Account Manager Raphaël Bouquillon : Account Executive Filippo Dell’Osso : Planning Director
Two hundred million of us fell in love with the freckle-faced little Mikey whose older brothers made him a guinea pig for a new Life cereal in this incredibly popular commercial. On a personal note and at the risk of aging myself it was this commercial that started my love for advertising. Quaker Oats Life Cereal Agency: Doyle Dane Bernbach Writer: Bob Levinson 1972-1987
In 1984, back when the Macintosh was considered a subversive, counter-culture tool (which of course it was), Apple Computer launched the Mac with a single broadcast of the now famous $1.5 million commercial based on George Orwell's 1984, and directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven).
The commercial was broadcast during the 1984 Super Bowl XVIII. Steve Jobs' intention with the ad was to equate Big Brother with the IBM PCand a nameless female action hero, portrayed by Anya Major, with the Macintosh. The 1984 Apple ad was a subset of Ridley's direction of Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford.
Today Blade Runner is considered one of the most important science fiction films of the 20th century and is usually discussed along with William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as initiating the cyberpunk genre.
Scott personally supervised a digitally restored Blade Runner and approved the Final Cut, which is to be finally released in 2007.
Zales Jewelers Love Rocks commercial titled "String".
An absolutely beautiful commercial for Zales Jewelers, featuring the music of Robert Francis. The original romantic ballad is written by Robert entitled "Don't Forget Love" and he sings it beautifully. Nicole Dionne of PrimalScream, the Music's creative director said: "I knew that Robert was the ideal choice to elicit the emotional overtones of the spot. He is an incredibly talented songwriter and his authentic, acoustic style perfectly captures the raw emotion and longing required to underscore the visuals."
Well done, The Richards Group should be present at the advertising award shows for sure this year. I'm sure thanks to the Zales commercial we will be hearing more music from Robert Francis.
Client: Zales Spots Title(s): String First Air Date: 10/13/08 Agency: The Richards Group Writer: Mike Duckworth Agency Senior Producer: David Rucker Art Director: Terence Reynolds Creative Director: Chris Smith Production Company: MJZ Director: Ray Dillman DP: Pieter Vermeer EP(s): Jeff Scrutin Producer: Phillip Ruddy Music: PrimalScream Music Executive Music Producer: Nicole Dionne Producer: Scott Burton
Great new Pepsi commercial "Kung Fu Fighting", directed by Fredrik Bond for Almap BBDO Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nothing beats a good fight/dancing scheme with Kung Fu Fighting playing in the background of a crowed city street, and of course enjoying a Pepsi. I love this commercial it is funny, all the little things going are hilarious in this Pepsi Spot.
Pepsi Express More...Kung Fu Fighting.
Credits: Advertiser: Pepsi Agency: Almap BBDO São Paulo Creative Director: Luiz Sanches Art Director: Luiz Sanches Copywriter: Tales Bahu Agency Producer: Egisto Betti Producer: Ran Holst Director: Fredrik Bond Editor: Tim Thornton-Allan DoP: Toby Irwin Production Company: Sonny London Country: United Kingdom
New from Cadbury, Roses Chocolate commercial. I love these simple sweet feel good commercials. While a woman waits at a bus stop she is showered with Cadbury Roses. The tag line: "Cadbury Roses, Give A Little Thanks"
Advertiser: Cadbury Schweppes Brand: Cadbury Roses Agency: Publicis Mojo Melbourne Editor: Simon Njoo @ Guillotine Executive Creative Director: Darren Spiller Creative Director: Leon Wilson Art Director: Rob Beamish Copywriter: Sean Larkin & Michelle Withers Agency Producer: Corey Essey Producer: Oliver Lawrance Director: Scott Otto Anderson Production Company: Independent Films, Sydney Post Production: Fin Design & Effects Music Production : Level Two Music Line Producer: Florence Tourbier DOP: Oliver Lawrance
Who will have the best Super Bowl ad this year? Doritos is putting up $1,000,000 that says you will. So, arm chair advertising fans here is your chance to show the big advertising giants that a commercial written, directed and made by you can be better than theirs at the 2009 Super Bowl. Shoot it, submit it and make it as one of the five finalists and win $25,000. If America votes it their favorite your commercial video it will air as a Doritos Brand commercial during the 2009 Super Bowl XLIII. Here is the good part if the commercial you create gets top spot on the USA TODAY Ad Meter, Doritos will give you a $1,000,000 bonus.
From Ann Mukherjee, group vice president, marketing, Doritos. "We've always believed our fans have the talent and passion to compete at the highest level, and we are putting $1 million on the table to demonstrate our confidence and also help our winner fulfill their own destiny. Whether it goes toward funding a short film, opening an advertising agency or anything in between, we’re empowering them with an unmatched stage to compete on and a motivation to make it happen." Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” contest details include: Participants can upload :30 commercials that share their love for Doritos tortilla chips to www.crashthesuperbowl.com from October 3, 2008 to November 16, 2008 to be considered for the coveted Super Bowl spot Five finalists’ ads will be announced in January 2009 It then will be up to fans to vote for their favorite ad online and determine the winning Doritos spot to air during the Super Bowl XLIII broadcast on February 1, 2009 on NBC Each of the five finalists will win $25,000 and a trip to Tampa Bay, Florida to attend Super Bowl XLIII in a private luxury suite at the game, where they will tune in to learn for the first time which ad won when it airs for a worldwide audience
Doritos "Mouse Trap", one of the finalists from last year and my favorite.
Sean Connery in the new Louis Vuitton print ad campaign for 2008. Connery looks just as good as a model for Louis Vuitton as he did as everyone's first choice as the greatest James Bond.Louis Vuitton also had Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter Sofia Coppola pose for the 2008 Louis Vuitton print ad campaign. The tag line couldn't be better: "There are journeys that turn into legends".
Great new Guinness Beer commercial, refrigerators turn into fridge magnets and fly through the streets, attracted to the Guinness beer truck. The music used in the Guinness fridge magnet commercial is called "Destination" by My Red Cell.
Agency: IIBBDO, Dublin Creative Director: Mal Stevenson Art Director: Pat Hamill Copywriter: Mark Nutley Agency Producer: Onagh Carolan Production Company: Sonny, London Producer: Ran Holst Director: Fredrik Bond Director of Photography: Crille Forsberg Post-production House: MPC, London/LA Post Producer: Scott Griffin 3D: Duncan McWilliam 2D: Frank Lambertz Editor: Tim Thorton-Allan @ Marshall Street Editors Music: "Destination" by My Red Cell
LaDainian Tomlinson and Troy Polamalu star in the new Nike football commercial "Fate", Leave Nothing. Wieden & Kennedy create another great Nike commercial and released at the perfect time as the NFL season starts to heat up after week 6.
Nike uses two of the most popular stars in the NFL in Tomlinson and Polamalu for this commercial where we see them as newborns and grow into football stars and "Fate" would lead them to finally meet in an NFL game.
Update number two: The music featured in the Nike commercial with Polamalu and Tomlinson Leave Nothing commercial is originally from the movie "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, created by Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold, the beat was redone by Jay Z for this commercial.
The music for the Nike Fate commercial is a specific beat form the song called "Blueprint 2" by Jay-Z, but I have also been told the song is from the good the bad and the ugly, the cemetery scene at the end. I should add that in Italian, it's called "L'estasi Dell'oro".
This commercial is becoming so popular, and football fans are just loving it, lets hope Nike saves this one and creates a new version for this years SuperBowl.
Credits: Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Creative Directors: Jeff Williams, Alberto Ponte, Tyler Whisnand Copywriter: Jason Bagley Art Director: Ryan O'Rourke Senior Agency Producer: Matt Hunnicutt Associate Producer: Juliana Montgomery Production Company: Anonymous Content, Los Angeles Director: David Fincher Director of Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki Executive Producer: Jeff Baron Producer: Robin Buxton Editorial: Rock Paper Scissors Editor: Angus Wall
The new BMW 3 Series Glass Road commercial from GSD&M's Idea City, Austin. The advert takes a new BMW Series 3 through a winding glass road suspended in air. Very nicely done, I like this great commercial.
Credits: Agency: GSD&M Idea City Austin Advertiser: BMW Product: 3 Series Tagline: The Ultimate Driving Machine Creative Director: Wade Alger Creative Director: Jay Russell ACD/Copywriter: Andy Miller ACD/Art Director: Robert Linn Agency Producer: Florence Babbit Production Company: Psyop, Los Angeles Directors: Chris Staves and Laurent Ledru, Psyop Executive Producer: Neysa Horsburgh Line Producer: Michael Schlenker Visual Effects: MassMarket, Los Angeles Executive Producer: Christine Schneider Previz Producer: Michele Watkins Producer: Blythe Dalton Mix House: Play, Los Anegels Mixer: John Bolen Music: Felix Bloxsom
Trident Insurance from the UK released this rather interesting commercial using what is being tagged as "The Trident Girls" to sell insurance. Trident admits that dealing with insurance is dull, with all those terms and conditions, with the use of the Trident Girls they are going to give their customers top dollar service and no compromises.
Trident did not have much success with the Get It On campaign -the clip below- so I can only assume that the new approach using the Trident Girls to sell insurance just might work out better for them. Judging by the view count it is working.
Commercial credits to follow. If any of you have any info on the Trident Insurance campaigns please share it with us.
The second of a series of Viral Ads created for BlackThinking.com, the clothing brand decided on going only viral across the internet with their advertising campaign. The "Scratch Me" features two cats being used as turntables, music, special effects and composition by: Andrés Reymondes, Sebastián Baptista and Santi Justribó.
Title: “Scratch me” Client: Republic Technologies Product: OCB Advertising agency: Road (Barcelona) Executive creative director: Emilio Lezaun Creative director: Xavi Solé Creative team: Iolanda Mora, Marc Mallafré Account team: Natàlia Aznar, Ilonka Von Spanyar Client contact: Valérie Amiguas, David Petit Production company: boolab Director: Nico Casavecchia Executive producers: Lucas Elliot, Coke Ferreiro Producer: Silvia Romero Creative supervision: Lucas Elliot Music and SFX: Andrés Reymondes Head of composition: Sebastián Baptista Composition: Santi Justribó 3D and animation: Lactea Studio (Anais Denti, Alvaro Ucha, Alberto Gracia, Hector Muñoz, Marc Felicó)
Mercedes-Benz "Some Tests You're Better Off Not Doing Yourself"
Click to enlarge image, I love how Mercedes Benz placed a real woman in the drivers seat to further enhance the message in this print advert.
The Dutch Cancer Society decided this past August/2008 that they would not recommend women to preform their own monthly breast exams. Research suggested that self examinations neither lead to early detection or lower mortality rates in breast cancer, and some disadvantages to preforming self exams as opposed to being examined by a professional.
Having said that: the month of October has focused on breast cancer for several years now, and the Pink Ribbon magazine was launched within this context in 2004. All the proceeds of the publication go to the breast cancer foundation. Mercedes-Benz placed a 1/1 advertisement in this magazine again this year. Just like last year’s placement, this advertisement focuses on the correlation between breast cancer research and the research that Mercedes Benz continually conducts to make its cars safer for people.
The theme of this year’s advertisement is ‘self-examination is good, but examination by experts is better’.
Advertised brand: Mercedes-Benz Advert title: Crash test Headline: Some tests you’re better off not doing yourself. Advertising agency: FHV BBDO (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Agency website: www.fhv.bbdo.nl Campaign target: Pink Ribbon advises women to no longer perform monthly breast self-examinations. .Art Director: Joris van Elk Copywriter: Mark Muller Account: Bas Verdoorn Client: Peter Zijlstra Photography: Jaap Vliegenthart Retouch: Souverein
Two new print advertising campaigns for Mercedes Benz. The E-Class Classic Style, Sportive Extras from Russian advertising agency BBDO Moscow and the Mercedes Benz "Masterpiece" campaign for the Mercedes Benz CL 500."Drive A Masterpiece all year round. The Mercedes Benz CL-500 with 4Matic All-Wheel drive."
"Classic Style. Sportive Extras.The E-Class Premium Sport Edition with sports steering wheel and seats, 18 inch alloys, sport suspension kit and enhanced breaking system."
Advertising Agency: BBDO Moscow, Russia Creative Director: Mihai Coliban Art Director: Holger Paasch Copywriter: Viktor Sokolov Photographer: Yoris van Velzen Retouching: Main Works, Frankfurt/M
Guinness Beer Reach For Greatness commercial created by Saatchi & Saatchi London. Guinness released this commercial titled "Spoken Word" this month in the UK. . The Guinness spot has amazing graphics and special effects and the spoken word is creative but I'm not thinking Guinness Beer at the end of it. 10 of 10 for creativity.
Guinness "Spoken Word" 60 second spot Reach For Greatness.
Credits: Brand: Guinness Beer, UK Advertising agency: Saatchi & Saatchi London Creative Director: Andre Stringer Production: Hanrahan Director: Shilo (Visuals and animation) Artist: Ainsley Burrows