Ad agency Mother, London has just launched its first large campaign for UK’s Match.com. The ad is part of a new £7m through the line campaign, and features a couple finding love in a music shop. The stunning lady in the clip is called Amber Anderson and is set to star later in the year in a new film called “Your Highness” alongside Natalie Portman. I wish her all the best, she had me at “I laugh in my Sleep”.

They have also launched twitter profiles for the characters named ‘jackmatch’ and ‘jillmatch’, 5 people out of the first 100 followers will win a years free membership to Match.com. If facebook is your thing you can also check out the Facebook page, and if you like the song they were even kind enough to make a full length version (click here to listen to “That’s Just Me”)

P.S: If any girls are wondering, the chap is called James Connelly

Classic advert for Skoda’s new “Superb Combi” car. The ad features glass harp player Petr Spatina playing on 597 Schott Zwiesel crystal wine glasses filled with different levels of water, and laid out in the shape of the new car. Great creative idea showing that the car has up to 1,865 litres of luggage space, hear more of Petr’s glass music here. The ad was beautifully created by Leagas Delaney, Hamburg. Hat Tip: Adfreak

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

         After seeing a recent post on AdPunch on Wonderbra’s great creative advertising, I thought I would pick out some out some of the best that I have seen over the years. Just click on any of the pictures for the larger images, each one is classic but my favourites are “Wonderbra Hills” and “The Economist”. Enjoy gents.  

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

Another great print campaign for The Cape Times by Lowe Bull, Cape Town. Click on the images above to see the full size. The copy reads “In-depth News, investigated from every angle”. Each print shows famous news stories from around the world from a different perspective. There is the moon landing, tank man at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, and the shoe throwing man from Baghdad. Fantastic work.

Hat Tip: ibelieveinadv

This has to be the best road safety PSA I have ever seen. The spot was made by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership to encourage people to put on their seatbelt while driving. Normally road safety ad’s in the UK and across the world are designed to shock, and generally contain some pretty gruesome footage. The above spot does the opposite, it’s beautifully filmed and uses love to get the point across. If only all PSA’s were made this way. The people behind the campaign have even used graffiti artists to turn local sites in Brighton previously littered with unsightly tags, into large scale public place artworks to support the campaign, showing the web address and logo. For more info go to http://www.sussexsaferroads.gov.uk/

Very clever work from Euro RSCG 4D. Most car brands leak teaser pictures of their new models, but not Volvo. RSCG and Volvo decided to do something very different for a change. To help launch the new Volvo S60 they employed Turkish artist Esref Armagan, who is an artist, but with a difference, he is blind !

They have released the above video on youtube and facebook showing Esref at work painting the new car. The end result is I think you will agree, something special, maybe he should replace Peter Horbury as Volvos chief designer, we would certainly be driving around in some more interesting cars !

Below is the real new S60, its hard to tell the difference between the painting and the real thing.

(Hat Tip to the legend that is Patrick Collings)

Thought I would share two great must reads with you today. The first is a study commissioned by the Wall Street Journal on the 2010 global ad spend. The basics are that there will be a small rise in spending but magazines and radio spends will see a small drop. The winners are; digital spends (+11.6%), TV (+2%), and Outdoor (+2.1%). Lucky I do digital work then.

The second must read is the latest Contagious report of 2009. The report lists the most talked-about trends and technologies to have influenced global marketing over the past 12 months, its a pretty essential read if you want to know what works and what doesn’t.

To download it either click the image above or Click here.

Google recently released this presentation showing 87 digital campaigns and creative ideas that they think have stood out for 2009. Most of the examples make use of the YouTube or Google Maps API but all are pretty good examples of how to WIN.

Trust me on this one, click on the image above and follow the instructions or click here and do the same. Very clever site using Google maps and a surprise for a new Discovery Channel programme.

Great work from BBH London for Johnnie Walker. Staying with the “Keep Walking” mantra of Johnnie Walker, BBH have created a series of fantastic podcasts featuring iconic people walking and talking in locations that have meaning to the relevant icon. The one above features BBH boss John Hegarty walking in Soho,London talking about creativity and adland. Other icons featured are; The bearded almighty Richard Branson, Lewis Hamilton the racer, Ozwald Boateng the Tailor, Ranulph Fiennes the climber, and Amyr Klink the mad explorer. To download all of them for free on iTunes click here, or you can click here to visit the Johnnie walker site and stream or download the mp3 files.

(Hat tip AdFreak)