Southern Comfort Puts Our Super Cool Speedo Man On A Patio

Southern Comfort is back with a new commercial, "Patio" features the coolest guy on the beach, aka Speedo Man. The second ad from the "Whatever's Comfortable" campaign again uses the song  "Hit Or Miss" by Odetta and our comfortable cool dude in his now famous brown speedo being as cool as ever.

See the spot that started it all for Speedo Man HERE.

Credits:
Ad Title: Southern Comfort "Whatever's Comfortable" Patio
Ad Agency: Wieden + Kennedy New York
Executive Creative Director: Ian Reichenthal and Scott Vitrone
Creative Director: Scott Vitrone and Ian Reichenthal
Head of Content Production: Lora Schulson
Copywriter: Nick Kaplan
Art Director: Jeff Dryer
Producer: Alison Hill
Head of Brand Strategy: Stuart Smith
Digital Strategist: Marshall Ball
Brand Strategist: Ben Alter
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks
Director: Tim Godsall
Director of Photography: Edu Grau
Editorial Company: MacKenzie Cutler
Editor: Gavin Cutler
VFX Company: Suspect
Telecine Company: CO3
Mix Company: Heard City
Music Supervision Company: Good Ear Music Supervision
Song: Odetta - "Hit Or Miss"

Baileys Cream Is Truly A "Pour Spectacular" Of A New Ad

What could be better than a new TV ad that features the original 1981 song Rapture by Blondie? How about a few dozen little people dancing in a glass of Baileys Cream with Spirit? Choreograph a beautiful routine, classy dresses and you have the makings of the new commercial for Baileys entitled "Pour Spectacular" and it is truly just that.


Credits:
Agency: BBH, London
Spot: 'Pour Spectacular'
Global Brand Director: Garbhan O’Bric
Creative Team (film): Kat Bojcuk and Steve Sorec
Creative Director: Rosie Arnold
Producer: Victoria Baldacchino
Commercial Strategy Director: Heather Alderson
Strategic Business Lead: Richard Lawson
Team Director: Rachel Parry
Team Manager: Lucy Nebel Film
Production Company: Riff Raff Films
Director: Megaforce
Executive Producer: Matthew Fone
Producer: Michaela Johnson
DoP: Dan Landin
Editor/Editing House: The Quarry, Paul Watts and Scott Kato
Sound: Soundtree/Wave
Post Production: The Mill
Lead Flame: Ben Turner & Gary Driver
Flame Assists: Grant Connor, Hugo Saunders & Bevis Jones
VFX Shoot Supervisors: Ben Turner & Francois Roisin
Telecine Artist: Mick Vincent
CGI Lead: Francois Roisin
VFX Production: Chris Baten
CGI Team: Dan Moore, Emily Medger, David Knight, Chris McDonald, Stuart Turnbull, Jake Flint
Concept Art: Jimmy Kiddell
Matte Painting: Antoine Birot, Callum Strachan, German Casado
Print Photographer: Norman Jean Roy /CLM
Art Director: Charlene Chandrasekaran
Creative Director: Rosie Arnold BBH
Print Producer: Rachel Wickham
Designers: Dominic Grant and Rich Kennedy
Packshot Photographer: Laurence Haskell

Southern Comfort "Beach" Whatever's Comfortable | Speedo Dude

Now this guy is cool..."Beach" is the work of W+K, New York and features one cool dude walking along the beach in his Speedo doing Whatever's Comfortable for Southern Comfort. Just as as good as Speedo man is the music used in the commercial, "Hit or Miss" by Odetta is equally awesome.

UPDATE: See the newest commercial with Speedo Man, Whatever's Comfortable, Southern Comfort "Patio" spot HERE.
Credits:
Ad Title: Southern Comfort "Whatever's Comfortable"
Ad Agency: Wieden + Kennedy New York
Executive Creative Director: Ian Reichenthal and Scott Vitrone
Creative Director: Scott Vitrone and Ian Reichenthal
Head of Content Production: Lora Schulson
Copywriter: Nick Kaplan
Art Director: Jeff Dryer
Producer: Alison Hill
Head of Brand Strategy: Stuart Smith
Digital Strategist: Marshall Ball
Brand Strategist: Ben Alter
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks
Director: Tim Godsall
Director of Photography: Edu Grau
Editorial Company: MacKenzie Cutler
Editor: Gavin Cutler
VFX Company: Suspect
Telecine Company: CO3
Mix Company: Heard City
Music Supervision Company: Good Ear Music Supervision
Song: Odetta - "Hit Or Miss"

ABSOLUT Kher - Print Ad Absolut Vodka

ABSOLUT, one of the world's most iconic brands is set apart by its collaborations with unique artistic minds. Bharti Kher uses "bindi" as a metaphor for the third eye and its constant search for truth, creating something truly ABSOLUT, and with that we get another great print ad for Absolut Vodka.

Credits:
Advertiser: Pernod Ricard
Brand: Absolut Vodka
Advert title: Absolut Kher
Creative Agency: Ogilvy, India
Published: December, 2011

SnöBar - Frozen Alcohol-Infused Ice-Pops and Ice Cream

Here is a new spot for SnöBar, the ad introduces us to what they claim to be the Cocktail for the 21st Century. Are we ready to embrace an alcoholic popsicle?

Credits:
Breakthrough innovations within the spirits category have been few and far between.SnöBar is changing all of that. SnöBar has successfully created a fun way to enjoy cocktails by launching gourmet, frozen alcohol-infused ice-pops and ice cream. Made with natural ingredients and premium alcohol, there’s a full cocktail in every serving, the alcohol infused desserts are guaranteed to stimulate and please even the most sophisticated palate.

Copywriter: Billy Pollina
Producers: Billy Pollina, Dave Goldberg, Ron Dumont
Executive Producer: Shannon Masjedi
Co -Director: Billy Pollina
Co-Director: Dave Goldberg
Art Director: Jason Larimer
Director of Photography: Brian Vilim
Editor: Dave Goldberg
Production Services: AZ Studios, Los Angeles
Camera: HDiablo

Luck Is An Attitude - Martini

Martini launches a new commercial starring Kisser Casting, winner of the Luck Is An Attitude campaign Yuri Buzzi. The song is "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh" by The Andrew Sisters.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: Fred&Farid Paris, France
Copywriters / Art Directors: Fred & Farid
Agency supervisor: Rasjida Bouharrak
Agency TV producer: Kate Taylor
Film Director: Peter Thwaites
Production company: Gorgeous, London
Music / Artist: "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh" / The Andrew Sisters
Music production: Sizzer, Amsterdam

Chivas Regal "Here's to Real Friends" - Extended Trailer

Chivas Regal have partnered with Academy Award winning short film-maker Joachim Back to make two cinematic films that focus on the trials, tribulations and idiosyncrasies of modern male friendships. The films will act as the online centerpiece to a campaign that spans TV, print, and social media.

Joachim Black takes the audience through break-ups, breakdowns and good times and brings his trademark comic sensibility to celebrate real friends and the stories that bind them forever.

Film and Chivas lovers alike can raise a glass to Big Bear or Twinkle and discover the full story online here at the Chivas website.

The films form part of Chivas Regal’s ongoing Live with Chivalry campaign which launched in 2008 and encourages men to aspire not just to have more, but to be more.

Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey - Irish True 60sec Advert

Four lads have their last drink (in handcuffs) in this great new advert for Tullamore Dew in their local pub just before the warden takes them off to jail. The commercial created by McCann Erickson also features the boys singing Irish True.
Credits:
Ad Agency: McCann Erickson, Dublin

Bacardi Party Pic Projection... Real Time

To promote Bacardi Dragonberry in the Netherlands Fitzroy Amsterdam created a real time video mapping concept. Visitors of a café nearby ‘Het Witte Huis’, a momumental building in the centre of Rotterdam, were photographed. These photos were sent directly to a projector, which imaged a giant dragon spitting the photos in real time on to the building façade. For as far we know, it’s the first real time video mapping concept in the world.

Credits:
Concept: Fitzroy Amsterdam

Wiser's Canadian Whiskey Wiserhood Purse Commercial

Great new commercial for Wiser's Whiskey, the newest installment of the WiserHood campaign entitled "purse" features a typical guy shopping with his girlfriend who gets stuck with her purse and knows exactly how to handle the situation.
Credits:
Agency: John St.
Client: Wiser's Canadian Whisky
Executive Creative Director: Angus Tucker
Executive Creative Director: Stephen Jurisic
Associate Creative Director: Chris Hirsch
Associate Creative Director: Nellie Kim
Copywriter: Chris Hirsch
Art Director: Nellie Kim
Agency Executive Producer: Michelle Orlando
Strategic Planner: Jason Last
Director: Benjamin Weinstein
Production Company: Steam Films
Executive Producer: Krista Marshall
Line Producer: Dwight Phipps
Editor: Griff Henderson
Music: Vapor Music
Audio: Vapor Music

Newest Jameson Whiskey "Hawk of Achill"

Credits:
Agency: TBWA/Chiat/Day New York
Chief Creative Officer: Mark Figliulo
Creative Director: Alisa Sengel Wixom
Creative Director: Kris Wixom
Art Director: Kevin Kaminishi
Associate Creative Director: David Lewis Kennedy
Copywriter: David Lewis Kennedy
Head of Production: Robert Valdes
Senior Producer: Josh Morse
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks
Director: Noam Murro
Managing Director: Shawn Lacy
Executive Producer: Colleen O'Donnell
Producer: Jay Veal
Post Production Producer: Gary Naccarato
Director of Photography: Larry Fong
Production Designer: John Beard
Assistant Director: Mark Taylor
Production Service Company: Bohemian Pictures
Producer: Sherry Baumgart
Editorial Company: Final Cut - New York
Editor: Rick Russell
Assistant Editor: Patrick Colman
Producer: Viet-An Nguyen
Telecine: Company 3
Producer: Tara Dowd
Music: Human
Audio Mix: Sound Lounge
Mixer: Phil Loeb
Executive Producer: Gloria Pitagorsky
Executive Producer: James Razzall
Head of Production: Laney Gradus
VFX Supervisor: Alexander Thomas
Lead Flame: Alexander Thomas
3D Supervisor: James Dick
Animation Lead: Seth Gollub

Johnnie Walker Ad Keeps Walking With Cool "Inspired Insults" Spot

Johnnie Walker have garnered a top-notch reputation for their creative advertising campaigns in both TV and print media, and this latest 1 minute spot titled "Inspired Insults" is no exception. As part of the Johnnie Walker's "Keep Walking" ad campaign, they have commissioned for a gritty yet poetic urban inspired spot that perfectly embodies our current economic struggles with an inspiring message of perseverance.

Credits:
Copywriter/Director: Jason Colvin
Producers: Rob Conticelli, Jason Colvin
DP: Nick Montalvo
Editor: Aristani Alvarez
PA: Alex Liebman
Cast, Artist: Christian Felix
Cast, Boss: Yavuz Hekim

Bacardi Brings It All Together in New TV Ad "Inventions"

In the cool copywrite of the ambitious new Bacardi ad "Inventions", it relates the common theme that throughout history certain things have always brought people together - fire, light, and now Bacardi. Like many alcohol ads the spot is shot in a very stylized manner by idealizing the perfect image of great looking friends getting together. Unlike other run of the mill liquor TV ads however, this one contains some spirited substance behind the liquor goggle lenses that the alcohol makers usually serves us.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: RKCR Y&R London/New York
Creative Directors: Guillermo Vega, Kevin Brady
Copywriter: Tara Lawall
Art Director: Devon Hong
Producer: Claudio Gorini
Assistant Producer: Pia Clarke-Ebrill
Business Director: Ben Caulfield
Account Director: Jamal Cassim
Production Company: Gorgeous
Director: Johnny Green
Producer: Spencer Dodd
Production Manager: Judy Vermuelen
Director Of Photography: Ben Seresin
Editor: Ted Guard At The Quarry
Post Production / Grade: The Mill
Track: NYC moves to the sound of LA
Composers: Rodriguez, Torres, Kauhola, Solis
Publisher: Warner Chappell
Artist: Funeral Party
Mixer: Anthony Moore

Casting Willem Dafoe in Jim Beam's 'Parallels' Ad was the Right Choice

Great character actor Willem Dafoe stars in this brand new Strawberry Frog created commercial for Jim Beam's 'Bold Choice' ad campaign. The ads thematic message of choices is not lost in this gritty spot, as the creators made the perfect choice in casting Dafoe to star in this versatile role. Who else than the actor who played Jesus himself can pull off such a convincing portrayal of everyone from an acrobat to a sumo wrestler.


Credits:
Ad Agency: Strawberry Frog

Kahlua's 'Ingredients' Make For A Fun Sexy Ad

Known for their hip smooth marketing spots, Kahlua is taking a more tongue-in-cheek approach with a great Latin themed spoof. The ad features a gorgeous Penelope Cruz look-a-like giving a tour of her perfect town, occupied by the perfect people, listening to the perfect music etc... but the actor at the end steals the spot with his great over-the-top performance of a Latin Leading Man.


Credits:
Agency:TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles
Director:Fredrik Bond
Post Production:MPC (The Moving Picture Company)
Telecine:Mark Gethin

'The Captian Morgan Workout' extended version TV Ad

With one of the coolest corporate mascots out there, Captain Morgan is evolving into quite the pitchman. The rum beverage's campaign by ad agency Pereira & O'Dell has come up with a clever spoof of an exercise infomercial, starring non other than rum pirate himself. The Captain Morgan character lends itself well to the gag, as he delivers a hilarious performance in this bang on take on the campy infomercial genre.


Credits:
Advertising Agency: Pereira & O'Dell