How To Friday: Tim Bishop

Recently I had the pleasure of having the wonderful Tim Bishop over to our Ogilvy Cape Town offices to do a talk on the growth of the Mobile Web, why its so important, and how to use it in properly… Continue Reading

Cadbury Lunch Bar: Voice-over

Fantastic new commercial for Cadbury Lunch Bar, from Ogilvy Johannesburg. Always a pleasure to be able to write about local content!

Wonderbra: Trampoline Fitting Room

Wonderful execution by Wonderbra to show the benefits of their new Perfect strapless bra’s. Not sure how long this clip will stay up due the very slight NSFW content. Hat Tip: ibelieveinadv.com

IKEA: 365 Commercials

Great hard work by Dutch agency Lemz. Together with IKEA they have been producing and airing a new commercial everyday for 365 days. So far 250 have been filmed, and they say top of mind awareness + sales have been… Continue Reading

Infographic: Social Networks Winners and Losers 2011

Interesting infographic from Ignite Social Media showing the wining and losing social networks of 2011 along with some useful demographics. Hat Tip: @jaredbotha

Bic Razors: Human Curling

Fantastic use of YouTube page takeovers by BUZZMAN, France (Creators of the Tip-Ex YouTube takeover), for the new Bic Flex 3 razor. At the end of the above video you can play a game in YouTube where you can use… Continue Reading

Hovis: Farmers Race

Wonderful work from Dare, London, for Hovis Bread. The farmers have a bit of a tough run but love the traditional English tea break on the way!

VW Trucks: Racing Banner Ad

Great flash banner ad for VW Trucks and busses. Click on one of the trucks above to race it around a track and see how fast you are. If only all banner ads were this fun. Via: Banner Blog

Cell C: Vodacom Paint

Very good quick tongue in cheek from Cell C in response to local competitor Vodacom changing its corporate colours from Blue to Red. The change is meant to bring it more inline with its global owners Vodafone (why they haven’t… Continue Reading

Exclus1ve Books: Self-Help Section

Funny work by Ogilvy JHB for Exclus1ve Books Self-Help section, interesting to see the some of the Google auto complete suggestions for famous people. Click on the images to see the originals.