Volkswagen takes advantage of YouTube’s own technology in this video project by Almap BBDO, designed to highlight the car’s “side assist” feature for sensing objects in your blind spot. In the web film, a man invites you to see how good it would be if the future was predictable, by placing your mouse on YouTube’s […]
Procter & Gamble has moved its global Gillette advertising account into WPP’s Grey, ending a relationship with BBDO of nearly five decades. Grey triumphed against Omnicom’s BBDO and the other finalist, Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi, ending the shaving brand’s 47-year relationship with BBDO. The review kicked off in September 2012 and initially covered the […]
London-based design consultancy Berg has built interesting Twitter-driven cuckoo clock for Twitter UK that they call #Flock. While it’s easy to appreciate the lovely craftsmanship of these clocks, what’s even more interesting is how they’re wired into the Internet. Using an Arduino board, the #Flock cuckoo will not just make a bird pop out to […]
Apptitude Media is proud to announce the launch of Apptitude Studio, the creative services arm of its award-winning digital publishing business. The new service will help clients bring their print and online content to life as immersive tablet and smartphone apps. Apptitude Media was established by a team that has worked together for many years, […]
To promote its new CLIO car model, vehicle manufacturer Renault took some unsuspecting customers on an unbelievably ‘sexy’ test drive. The drive starts off normally—until the salesman prompts the driver to press the ‘Va Va Voom’ button, which causes the scene in front of car to change—transporting the driver to the streets of Paris. After […]
DVRs and delayed viewing have caused a conundrum for the advertising industry – with up to 80% of people who record shows fast forwarding through commercials, how do you get their attention? DDB Brussels has developed, what they call, a new form of advertising: the slowmercial, where the movement is relatively static, so that even […]
In Japan, a startup company has come up with an unconventional advertising idea—offering free ad-supported underwear to men who don’t mind turning their butts into ad spaces. If you want to receive free underwear with ads on them, simply register on the Free-Pants website—answer a few questions about your personal interests and the kind of […]
To help bring the “world’s oldest” and possibly the “least popular” ad medium—the poster—into the digital age, South Korean film distributor CJ Entertainment teamed up with ad agency Cheil to create movie posters that doubled as WiFi hotspots. Called ‘WiFi Posters’, the campaign involved installing WiFi devices into existing movie billboards—allowing users within range to […]
Esquire partnered with startup Volio to create the ‘Talk to Esquire‘ app, which offers advice and recommendations from three of the magazine’s columnists. Nick Sullivan, David Wondrich and Rodney Cutler will ask you questions about your needs and preferences, “listen” to your answers through voice-recognition technology, and then give pre-recorded responses about what’s right for […]
A US company is pioneering a service which effectively pays people to watch TV ads. The Massachusetts company HitBliss and its video streaming service pays people with “virtual cash” to watch targeted advertisements. Viewers use the credit they earn to buy TV shows and rent movies from the company. “This is radically different than anything […]