If you like football or Guinness this will probably be right up your alley. Its a new ad for Guinness by Saatchi & Saatchi and Velocity films, Cape Town. The spot features a football scout prowling Africa for local talent and finding it in the most unlikely places. Great work.

The ad was filmed in Kenya and currently airing in most Southern African countries.

Lovely campaign for Andes beer from Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Argentina. Andes beer decided to help solve one of mans greatest problems: How to go out for the night with your mates without getting into trouble with your girlfriend. To solve this problem Andes created a sound proofed capsule that could be placed in main bars/clubs across the country, that would allow men to dash inside and talk to the girlfriends without them knowing they were out and about with their mates. To help make it more realistic they programmed in ambient noises that users could select to be played in the booth via a built in touch screen. Noise scenes such as traffic, supermarket,office, and even movie theatre were available. Take a look at the video above to see it in action. To visit the campaign site click here (its in Spanish) Hat Tip: Adsoftheworld

Almost forgot to write about this little beauty from Brisbane-based advertising company Play TV, which was submitted to an online competition to find a new Yaris car ad by Saatchi & Saatchi Australia for Toyota. The ad features some classic / classy lines like “I hope I haven’t come too prematurely” and “she can take a good pounding in any direction”. Needless to say it won the competition but didn’t manage to air for long as petty people with no humour / wit started to complain. They couldn’t stop the ad from spreading virally via YouTube etc though, and its now become a huge success. Congrats to all involved and what a fab outing in the digital world for Toyota Australia, this amount of exposure would normally cost a fortune !

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

Great creative work from Saatchi & Saatchi LA for the Toyota Prius. Using the new Prius iPhone App, users could see their drawings created on the iPhone displayed on the Reuters digital billboard in Times Square from October 26 to 28. The Prius Experience App has four modes — including "Draw," the one showcased in the above clip. (via Uwe Gutschow, Saatchi & Saatchi interactive)

Great new spot for Toyota from Saatchi & Saatchi. I have to dedicate this ad to Matt Buckland as the other week we managed to spend about half an hour doing exactly the above, only to find out his dog had found his own way back home after going walkabout. As a bonus check out this old but very classic Toyota spot from Brazil:

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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.

  Great Print campaign for Sony Ericsson’s new W705 Walkman phones featuring “Clear Audio Listening” technology. The ads all feature people listening to music peacefully on their W705’s and showing their noisy background environments smothered in sound insulation. Great work by Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt/Bucharest

  This is the second Toyota Prius spot to come from the guys and girls at Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles. This ad looks more at the high MPG (approx 50 combined) of the new Prius. To watch the first ad they made click here. On another note check out Uwe Gutschow’s blog from Saatchi interactive LA, great chap and founder of the multiple award winning Saatchi At Play division in Cape Town (now headed by the incredible Allan Kent)

Awesome new campaign for Iams Dog food from Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Australia. No the dog in the picture isn’t a super dog ! To drive brand awareness and bring to life the benefit of Iams dog food. Plastic dog Frisbees were created to look just like 10kg weights, then distributed for free in popular dog exercising areas of local parks.

Great little spot for the new 3rd generation Toyota Prius from Saatchi and Saatchi LA. They also created a great video on how the ad was made (its real people in costumes). The website for the car launch is also up and running and is a fantastic interactive experience showing off the revolutionary technology used by the new Toyota Prius. On another note check out Uwe Gutschow’s blog from Saatchi interactive LA, great chap and founder of the multiple award winning Saatchi At Play division in Cape Town (now headed by the incredible Allan Kent)