| | | | | HP Is Advertising Its Real, Modern Printers on This Fake, Awkward ’80s Computer Show HP PageWide is indeed superior to dot matrix By T.L. Stanley It's a fine line between effective '80s homage and clumsy retro spoof, with the latter usually involving a lot of overplayed visual gags like brick-sized cell phones and VHS tapes. Cue pointing and laughing. This new HP video, dubbed "Computer Show," hits the sweet spot perfectly with its recreation of a Reagan-era public access show...
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| | | | | | | | Supermarket Ruffles Feathers With a Very Strange Parable About a Heavy Boy Who Wants to Fly Edeka presents 'Eatkarus' By Angela Natividad It's not often that supermarket ads break the glass barrier of their home countries, but German supermarket Edeka swings it systematically. It has shown it can touch our hearts, make us laugh, bring the mundane to life and even appeal to our darker selves. It's a brand that's as curious and dynamic as the people...
Read more » | | Hulk Hogan Returns to Advertising in This Daft Spot for a Dutch Insurance Company Eat your vitamins and say your prayers! By David Gianatasio Whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster runs wild on you?! Last year, Hulk Hogan helped put Gawker down for the count. Now, the former WWE icon--real name: Terry Bollea--steals the show from a purse snatcher in a wild new commercial for Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer. Created by DDB & Tribal Worldwide Amsterdam, this is...
Read more » | | Spotify Builds More Funny Ads Around User Data, This Time Saluting Goofy Playlist Names Out-of-home work, plus 3 celeb videos By Tim Nudd Late last year, Spotify ran a very cool global out-of-home campaign based around its vast trove of listener data, with headlines referencing some of the more bizarre user habits it noticed throughout 2016. The music streaming service has now unveiled a follow-up campaign of sorts, from Wieden + Kennedy New York, that again combs through...
Read more » | | | | | After 22 Years Under Construction, Almond.com Gets a Very Unexpected Makeover Silk makes Gary Almond's dream come true By Tim Nudd Since 1995, visitors to Almond.com have encountered a website constantly "under construction." That's because the URL was nabbed that year by Gary Almond, a businessman then based in Silicon Valley (now a resident of Farmington, New Mexico). Gary registered the domain and kept it ever since, but never got around to properly sprucing it up....
Read more » | | Kris Bryant Gets Pranked by an Undercover Greg Maddux in This Fun Stunt by Red Bull Tables are turned for the Cubs' third baseman By Tim Nudd Red Bull doesn't do a ton of prank videos. But it made a good one last March, when it got Chicago Cubs third basemen Kris Bryant, the National League Rookie of the Year the previous season, to pretend to be a college kid again--a midseason transfer to Mesa Community College, where his first batting-practice session...
Read more » | | Ikea Shows You How to Furnish the Tiniest Spaces in Cute How-To Videos But would the space-saving designs really work? By Gabriel Beltrone Ikea is out with some incredibly practical advertising, offering suggestions on how to make the most of small living spaces with clever, compact approaches to interior design. Instead of a bed, use kitchen cabinets as a platform for your mattress, squeezing more storage space out of your tiny room. Use pegboards to hang some clothes,...
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