Turns out to be Buzzman of France.
This logo does not work well on white backgrounds.
They’ve missed a trick by not featuring the campaign on their website – I’m getting a lot of hits to my blog from people trying to find out who made it. C’mon Buzzman, get some SEO in there.
Hat tip: Pete Way via Ads of the World.
Tipp-Ex’s new campaign, “Tipp-Experience”, is brilliant.
(Click to watch it on YouTube)
It’s fun to play with, but:
Still, really cool, and enormous kudos to the agency. I’ll post which one it was when I find out.
Who remembers Jamie-Lynn Spears? Little sister of Britney, teenage mother? Yeah, that one.
Well… here she is, in a thoroughly baffling rap about how reproduction works. Yep.
I guess I should congratulate her for being able to send herself (and her sister) up, but… why? Why do this? Is she trying to break into music? Surely not with this. Is it some sort of misguided attempt to make anti-teen-pregnancy messages cool? Possibly… but Jamie Lynn, ask yourself – would this video honestly have stopped you going behind the bike sheds with the quarterback? Yeah… didn’t think so.
If anyone out there knows the rationale behind this, please do enlighten the rest of us. Because I’m too busy thinking about ureters now.
…the muppets in this KFC one (‘Shark Attack In Amsterdam Canal’):
Sadly, some people seem to think – despite the acting – that this is a real video. Just for them, here’s a checklist to help identify the obvious:
Liberal swearing? Tick.
‘Down with the kids’ language? Tick tick tick (“You guys are so totally lame” “Whatever!” “Dude!” “It’s huge, man!”)
Obligatory ‘this isn’t a viral, honest’? Tick. (“DUDE! Are you getting this?!”)
Gratuitous and unnatural product shots? Tick.
YouTube account with ‘normal person’ name but no other videos? Tick.
It’s not a bad idea, it’s just the execution. Where do they even find actors this bad?!
The shark’s performance, on the other hand, was flawless. I’d have fed him the floppy-haired moron in gratitude.
This is the only broadband advert I’ve ever heard described as “possibly not safe for work”.
It’s by Albion for Be Broadband, and how they got it signed off I’ll never know.
It’s… well. It’s certainly original and different, and worth sharing. It rectifies the fact that despite the internet being basically propped up by the porn industry, porn is never mentioned or alluded to in broadband advertising. I’m not sure that’s a good thing, though.
On the whole, I’m speechless and a little bit traumatised. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the shower.
