Cant believe it has almost been a year since I saw the first Vimeo takeover. Vimeo is basically another video sharing site like YouTube, and last year Honda created a flash page takeover that started when you watched the video (see that one here). Now finally another brand has utilised this great idea. This time its for a Frito Lay Dip called Tostitos. To see the great takeover for yourself just click here, if only all more ad clips could be like this. Hat Tip: Adverblog

At $2.8 million dollars per 2010 Super Bowl ad space lets see the highlights that the world of advertising came up with this year. Overall seems to be a bit of a drop in standards compared to years past, but below are the highlights. For a complete list of the other ads go to Adweek.

Oh and congrats to the New Orleans Saints on winning the game 31-17 !

Snickers: Betty white

Coca Cola: Simpsons (Hard Times)

Doritos: Dog collar (Crash the super bowl)

Doritos: House rules (Crash the super bowl)

Doritos: Casket (Crash the super bowl)

Cars.com: Timothy Richman

Dockers: Wear No Pants

Dove Men: The Journey to Comfort

Bud Light: Light House

Dodge Charger: A Man’s Last Stand

Bud Light: Asteroid

Bud Light: Voice box

Bud Light:Stranded

Flo TV: My Generation

VW: Punch buggy

Google: Parisian Love

Kia Sorento: 2010 Big Game commercial

Motorola: Megan Fox

Denny’s: Chicken Warning

Audi A3 TDI: Green Police

If you’re very Jewish, now might be a good time to stop reading, as this post is all about the wonderment of Bacon, possibly man’s greatest discovery and a sure cure for next day hangovers worldwide. The above video is by the John St agency and is part of a large campaign for Maple leaf’s new re-sealable bacon packs. The campaign is called “The Republic of Bacon” and so far they have released several Viral ads on YouTube and TV as well as a dedicated campaign site (win free bacon there for a decade!) , and even a made up bacon national anthem. If you like the above ad, check out these two video’s: “The Proposal” and “Sorry”. Not sure about you but I’m off to make a fry up.

Several people have recently sent me the above very popular YouTube clip that looks like an ad for Nolan’s Cheddar but its the Show work of a UK animatronics professional called John Nolan. John has done work for several films and adverts such as Harry Potter, Orange, Where The Wild Things Are, and T-Mobile. Pretty impressive work, check out his showreel here to see more. You can now be sure no mice were harmed in the making of this clip 

Lovely short spot for Shreddies UK featuring the return of the cereal knitting Nanas’. The above ad has been made to help launch a new scrumptious recipe. The ad also features a rather charming fellow in a convertible that likes to say “Well ding dong”. Good work from the guys and girls at McCann, London.

Kim Kardashian is following in the noble footsteps of Audrina Patridge, Padma Lakshmi, and Paris Hilton, for another lovely little saucy number from Carl’s Jr, for their new Chicken salad. (You can’t go wrong with salad cream dripping out of Kim’s mouth !) This time the ad was done by Mendelsohn Zien, LA. They also created a nice behind the scenes video (click here to see that), and they are also running a competition via Facebook to win a lunch date with Kim on the 13th of January, to enter click here.

UK Pet food brand Go-Cat, owned by Purina recently launched this humorous campaign featuring a free-running cat called Bobo. They also set up a dedicated Bobo page on their main website for the campaign. My cat would whip Bobo in a free running match any day, but nice try and good to see cat free-running getting some press. Agency: DDB, London.

This surreal and pretty stunning ad spot is for from what I can tell a chewing gum brand called Topline kiss. The clip came from Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The music was beautifully written specifically for this spot by Spanish artist Carolina Daian, I have been trying to see if there is a full length version of the track but so far no luck, will update this post if / when I find it.

I recently had an email back from Saatchi Buenos Aires and have been told they are considering making the song into a full length track, for now though it there is only the 1 min version shown in the ad above. Will keep you updated.

The full length track is now available on Carolina’s myspace page: www.myspace.com/carolinadaian

It’s been ages since I saw a fun chewing gum ad. This local little number is from Ogilvy Cape Town who happen to be based just down the road from me. Loving the old chaps hair blowing in the wind. Must try some Stimorol gum and get the new look. Another great piece of filming from Velocity who also shot the epic James Dean ad from a few months ago.

Nice work from McCann Erickson London for the start of a fresh campaign they are doing for new client, Subway. The Spot above is the first in a series of themed ads that will start to air on TV in the UK from tonight. McCann issued the following: "We are pleased to announce that our brand new Subway campaign launches today! Based on the idea that there’s a perfect Sub for any occasion, the campaign uses light-hearted humour to illustrate the idea that “however you feel, whatever you want, we’ve got a Sub for that”. Our TV ads feature a variety of comical situations, from rebellious pedalos to misunderstood hitchhikers, all of which require a very specific, customised type of Sub as a remedy" Personally I’m keen to find out what a “rebellious pedalo” is ! All the ads feature voice over’s from British comedy genius Rich Fulcher (Better known to some as Bob Fossil from  The Mighty Boosh) For the two other fun spots click here to see the Subway Hitchhiker, or click here to see the Subway Tattoo spot.

Very funny work from Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland for Skof crisps in New Zealand. The campaign is called Borderline Talent. So far the website set up for people to enter their own borderline talent videos has received 34 entries and just over 1000 votes for the various videos entered. Its still early days so I hope they get more submissions. The winner walks away with $5000 cash a Skof vending machine stocked for a year.

To enter your submissions visit the Skof Website here.

Publicis has just launched this fun campaign for UK snack Hula Hoops (Am missing them as still not yet available in SA). The ad is the launch pad for their new “Golden Hoop Film awards” campaign where people can send in their very own mini films that have to include both your hands and Hula Hoops in some way. The competition is open till the 22nd November 2009 and clips must be under 2 mins. There will be 5 winners, each getting 4 return tickets for a 5 night stay in Hollywood including accommodation. Even voters win, with a Flip camcorder been given away each day of voting ! Click here to enter / vote and find out more details.