Over at Trendhunter there is great post on an number of race-related issues! It seems that race even now in 2009 continues to be a hot topic of discussion. The ad below depicts Senators Barack Obama as white and John McCain as an African American! It was aired during the US election season , while its tagline reads “Let the issues be the issue”! If you find this controvercial you going to love the rest! Check them out here
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Rochebobois
Credits:
Advertising Agency: BETC Euro rscg, Paris, France
Creative Director: Antoine Choque
Art Director: Agnès Cavard
Copywriter: Valérie Chidlovsky
Photographer: Grégoire Alexandre
Published: September 2008
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The 10 hottest viral video ad campaigns of the month
Over at Mashable Jennifer Van Grove ,presents 10 ad campaigns that went really viral and achieved the elusive “Internet meme status”! The Zoozoos below is Vodafone’s newest campaign with 1,449,218 views, go check the rest of the article here!
I Met the Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for ‘New Approaches’ (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet)
21 Scandalous Safe Sex Ad Campaigns
According to Trendhunter “Organizations and ad agencies are aiming to capture the attention of the youth and sexvertising seems to be the most effective and popular marketing technique”. In other words sex still sells and gets youth’s attention! The ad above is at the number one spot, go check the rest of them here
Cheer Dark
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Credits:
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Toronto, Canada
Photography Studio: Ishi Studios
Creative Directors: Heather Chambers, Israel Diaz
Art Directors: Anthony Chelvanathan, Israel Diaz
Copywriter: Steve Persico
Photographer: Ishi
Chief Creative Officer: Judy John
Art Buyer: Heather Morton
Europride09
Credits:
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Zürich, Switzerland
Creative director: Urs Schrepfer
Art director: Adrian Egger
Copywriter: Tobias Bühlmann
Account director: Philipp Sattelmeyer
Director: Richard Hickey
Animation: Andrew Daffy, House of Curves