Beats’ Robin Thicke ad escapes outright ban despite sexist complaints

Beats’ Robin Thicke ad escapes outright ban despite sexist complaints

The advertising watchdog has banned a TV ad for Beats Pill speakers featuring the singer Robin Thicke from being broadcast before 7.30pm following almost 100 complaints from viewers who believed the spot was “offensive” and “sexist”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtewxfcptw The spot features Thicke performing his single ’Blurred Lines’ alongside three female models in hot pants and see-through […]

Google Glass App Suggests Paint Colors Based On Photos

Google Glass App Suggests Paint Colors Based On Photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQZHxiMfeM Developed by paint and painting supplies retailer Sherwin Williams, the ColorSnap Glass app lets wearers snap a picture of anything wherever they go for design inspiration. The app matches paint with the colors derived from the snapped photos, so users can go out and capture color inspiration before painting their room the same color. […]

Fruit Of The Loom & LinkedIn Team Up For Ad Campaign

Fruit Of The Loom & LinkedIn Team Up For Ad Campaign

Global underwear and casualwear company Fruit Of The Loom will be sending free pairs of cotton underwear to LinkedIn users who have gotten jobs or changed jobs within the last 30 days. This is for the company’s “Fresh Gigs” promotion, which is part of their “Start Happy” campaign. The campaign has a theme that is based […]

Samsung premieres Galaxy Gear smartwatch ads

Samsung premieres Galaxy Gear smartwatch ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2AjPfHTIS4 Samsung has fired up its hype machine to plug the looming launch of its first smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear. Marketed as a science fiction writers fantasy wrought real the device is being plugged in a series of YouTube adverts taglined ‘After all these years, it’s finally real.’ Depicted watches include unattainable gadgets from Knightrider, […]

Cheil UK releases ‘Life in Every Pixel’ ad for Samsung Curved OLED Smart TV

Cheil UK releases ‘Life in Every Pixel’ ad for Samsung Curved OLED Smart TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCnWQT79HQ Samsung has launched a cinema advertising campaign to promote its S9C OLED Smart TV. The ‘Life in Every Pixel’ ad, created by Cheil UK, will run across UK cinemas until late November 2013. Logan Wilmont, executive creative director at Cheil UK, said: “The ad isn’t about features and technology, but the emotional response that […]

Reebok One Launch Lights Up Streets

Reebok One Launch Lights Up Streets

The Reebok One Series is a unique running shoe based on the concept of function-first design philosophy featuring technology you can ‘feel’. Built from back to front, the Reebok One Series features “Zoned” technology that caters to the way our feet moves, meeting the demands of runners through each phase of the “Gait Cycle”. The […]

Minivegas creates interactive 3D installation for Sonos

Minivegas creates interactive 3D installation for Sonos

Amsterdam-based creative production company Minivegas has created an interactive 3D installation for Sonos, inspired by the wireless audio specialist’s HiFis and featuring a hi-tech forest populated with fantastic plant characters animated through real-time motion capture so that they ‘dance’ with their real-life partners. The larger-than-life 3D landscape of an audio responsive forest, responding in time […]

Levi’s Marketing Campaign Turns Vintage Tech Into Social Media Tools

Levi’s Marketing Campaign Turns Vintage Tech Into Social Media Tools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMi9swYqbN4 As part of its Fall campaign, Levi’s has collaborated with agency AKQA, Stephen Hadinger, Matthew Epler and Mark Kleback, to turn vintage technology into modern devices that connect to social media. Called ‘#MakeOurMark’, these “old-school” devices were modified to serve as a “bridge between past and present”—for example, an old 1939 Bolex Movie Camera […]

Kevin Bacon beats Jamie Oliver in YouTube cooking battle

Kevin Bacon beats Jamie Oliver in YouTube cooking battle

Jamie Oliver challenges EE ambassador Kevin Bacon to a bacon sandwich cooking competition, in the phone company’s latest ad, in partnership with YouTube. Oliver and Bacon compete to create the best bacon sandwich in the latest campaign, which is being launched exclusively on Oliver’s FoodTube YouTube channel. The film has been created by EE’s digital […]