Tunisia Elections: The Return of Ben Ali

Earlier in the year Ogilvy Tunisia came up with a rather powerful Go Vote activation for Tunisia’s first free elections. On January 14th 2011, former Dictator President Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia. Since then much of the population… Continue Reading

John Lewis: Christmas 2011

So many people have been talking about the new John Lewis Christmas commercial so thought I’d better pop it up here too. The ad has already been praised as the best Christmas ad of the year already and has been… Continue Reading

John St. Catvertising

As everybody knows there is little the internet loves more than cat videos, so using this knowledge Toronto based agency John St are promoting themselves as the worlds first catvertising agency.  brilliant self promotion yet again, last year they created… Continue Reading

Ogilvy One Year On: Work and Words

It has now been pretty much one year to the day since I joined Ogilvy. My first corporate job has been an exciting journey so far. Apart from getting over the initial ego challenges that come from joining a large… Continue Reading

ASICS: Run With Ryan Hall

Great activation work by ad agency Vitro for ASICS shoes. The installation was put up over the ING New York City Marathon weekend, and featured a 60-foot video wall in the Columbus Circle subway station. People were challenged to race… Continue Reading

National Geographic: Live Augmented Reality

This is the second large augmented reality retail environment activation I have seen this year after the wonderful Axe Angels campaign. This time Advertising Agency Appshaker, London, added a live component where the public could interact with the augmented reality,… Continue Reading

Jelly Beans Music Video: Kina Grannis – In Your Arms

Music is a tricky business to make it in, creativity often helps push bands out into the open. This music video above is a great example. Kina Grannis’s new video for “In Your Arms” took 1,357 hours over 22 months,… Continue Reading

Volkswagen: Fanwagen

VW, Netherlands and Achtung!, Netherlands are allowing the public to vote for their all time favourite classic VW on facebook at http://www.fanwagen.com. You can chose between the T1 van or the classic Beetle, one lucky voter will get the chance… Continue Reading

Honda: Million Mile Joe

Fantastic work by RPA, Santa Monica, USA for Honda. They managed to find a chap called Joe who had just reached one million miles in his 1990 Honda Accord. To celebrate Honda invited him to a “Small press conference”. Instead… Continue Reading

Microsoft Xbox: Kinect Effect

Wonderful new commercial for Microsoft’s Kinect showing some of the innovative uses people around the world have been finding for it. On November 4th Kinect will be celebrating its 1 year anniversary, I cant wait to see what other uses… Continue Reading