SA Cannes Lions Winners Day 2

The second night of the 2012 Cannes Lions awards is now behind us and South Africa is still doing well, walking away with another 6 lions (4 x Silver, 2 x Bonze). Ogilvy Cape Town had another great night with… Continue Reading

Toyota Etios:Tweets for Sweets

Incredible work from Toyota and Mesh Interactive for the launch of the new Etios. The team transformed the shop front of an empty shop in Cape Town into a sweet dispensing machine of happiness. The team created a Rube Goldberg… Continue Reading

Cannes Lions PR Grand Prix: JWT Puerto Rico “The Most Popular Song”

Advertisings most glamorous awards the Cannes Lions is well under way and so far the PR Grand Prix winner from the first night really stood out for me. The campaign is by JWT Puerto Rico for Banco Popular, together they… Continue Reading

The Walking Dead: Life-size tear-off poster

Great outdoor activation to help promote The Walking Dead on Fox Crime Norway. Ad agency Frank, Norway created a giant poster showing life size zombies with removable body parts that pointed people towards the show times.

Clark&Kent: X Ray Vision, Phone booth

A new Agency that seemingly has no clients and as yet an unknown staff compliment has been getting a ton of free publicity in the advertising media. They’re called Clark&Kent and have offices in a phone booth in Madison Ave NYC.… Continue Reading

Coca Cola: Security Cameras

Coca Cola Latin America and production company Landia have taken the usually much mired security camera, and instead showed the happier side of life that the cameras often catch. All of this is set to the tune of Supertramp’s “Give… Continue Reading

ONG Florescer: Tomorrow in a Box

Clever work for ONG Florescer, a Brazilian non-profit children’s community/education center. Their agency, JWT, helped come up with a novel way to raise needed donations, they created a website where people could buy and share product ideas thought up by… Continue Reading

Google: Docs

Two great ads for Google Docs on the fly editing by Goodby Silverstein & Partners + Google Creative Lab, USA. My favourite of the two is the wedding version.

Coke Zero: A Step from Zero

Coke Zero’s new make it possible project by Ogilvy & Mather, Paris launches with the above TV ad showing a story of a guy starting a new dance move called The Toe Tappy. The Make it Possible project aims to… Continue Reading