McCain pushes out ad : The Media is in love with Barack Obama
July 22, 2008
John McCain launches “The Media is in love with Barack Obama” ads. Honestly John, if you want the media to trust you… this is not the right way to go about it. It’s blatantly a very sarcastic slam on them… you know.. the guys that write stories about you for the world to see…
Nike’s CP+B Ads being ridiculed by industry
July 10, 2008
George Parker published these gems of the new creative being pushed out by advertising agency CP+B (Crispin Porter + Bogusky). To add insult to injury George stated “There’s nothing more sacred to Nike than running at the birthplace of their company. And CPB made it all a poorly crafted joke.” Which I guess is all the world’s “Coolest” agency seem capable of doing these days. Pathetic!”
These are pretty poor ads in our opinion, it is an insult to a brand as strong as Nike and it’s amazing that Crispin Porter + Bogusky got paid by Nike to push out these ads. What makes it even more interesting is that the quality of the ads are roughly equal to what a $395 dollar purchase from Comcast’s internal ad creation department could render. You know, those late night commercials that run on the SciFi network…
Pretty Horrific stuff…
Google Launches Second Life Competitor called Lively
July 9, 2008
Google unleashed a free virtual reality world in which enables people to live in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The ‘world’, called “Lively,” is Google’s response to Second Life.
The website for Google’s lively is located here Enjoy the video and a few screenshots.
Agency Spy finds a dirty gem at J.C Penney
June 24, 2008
Agency Spy found this gem. JC Penney’s sexually explicit commercials are winning Cannes. The funny thing is that apparently had no idea this spot was made (or wanted to own up to it) , and Agency of Record, Saatchi & Saatchi reportedly not in the loop, though they paid the bills. The guilty party, according to the Wall Street Journal, is Epoch Films — which had been working with S&S for the client. So proud of the work, Epoch apparently entered “Speed Dressing” at Cannes, and won. This is exactly why Google is going after your business.
BBDO and Heinz under fire for gay ‘male kiss’ ad
June 23, 2008
Good job BBDO … We are surprised there isn’t a review floating for this stunt.. I am sure that this will garner a bunch of sales and great branding for Heinz…. to say that the creative director at BBDO is an idiot would be a compliment.
It is already on course to be one of the most complained-about adverts of the year, with the Advertising Standards Authority receiving 179 complaints so far and the final tally likely to be higher.
The ad for Heinz Deli Mayo is set in a family kitchen with two children picking up their sandwiches from “Mum” before heading off to school.
The “Mum” turns out to be a New York deli worker dressed in a white apron.
When the father of the house gets his sandwich he bids goodbye with the words: “See you tonight, love.”
The man then asks: “Hey, ain’t you forgetting something?”
Olbermann : Ogilvy helped cause high gas prices
June 19, 2008
Keith Olbermann from MSNBC provides evidence that Ogilvy is causing higher gas prices by its lobbying to keep the ‘Enron Loophole’ alive… a literally black hole in regulation that was put in place to protect Enron when they were so powerful as to shut down California’s electrical network for days… now every speculator on earth is taking advantage of this loophole.
Where does Ogilvy have it’s hand in this? The New York Mercantile Exchange, the Source for closing prices on metals and petroleum futures and options hired Ogilvy to lobby Washington to keep gas prices high.. Think we are kidding? Watch the MSNBC video yourself. We took a wonderful screen shot of it for your enjoyment. Thanks Ogilvy … we will try to remember this each time we fill up at $4.25 a gallon. (story continues after the screen shot)
We were lucky enough to capture the screen shot in its full glory. This is amazing.. simply amazing.. As Ogilvy lobbied to force a recession by high gas prices, but then lays off staff due to high gas prices and the recession. This has to take the cake.
You people are amazing.. just amazing… you have departments willing to screw over their own company and the country for a contract.
Obama’s first General Election Ad
June 19, 2008
This is the first Obama general election ad, it’s titled “The country I love”
Moveon.org launches ‘100 years in Iraq’ McCain ad
June 17, 2008
Oh boy.. we are in election season now… and the shit is starting to fly…
Ad Agency Legend Tony Schwartz dies
June 16, 2008
At one point, a long time ago.. our industry wasn’t filled with 6 holding companies that controlled 90% of the dollars spent.. there was such things as creative… like real creative.. stuff that was innovative… stuff that actually counted.. today that ended with the death of Tony Schwartz.. perhaps one of the last great creative mind out there in our industry.
It’s a shame when we see stories like this, because this guy changed advertising forever.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Schwartz, who helped create the infamous “daisy ad” that ran only once during the 1964 presidential race but changed political advertising forever, has died.
Schwartz, 84, died Sunday at his Manhattan home, said his daughter Kayla Schwartz-Burridge. He had been suffering from heart valve stenosis.
Schwartz, who started his career as a graphic designer, collaborated with a team from the Doyle Dean Bernbach ad agency to create the spot featuring a little girl counting aloud as she removed the petals of a daisy.
The scene then changed into a countdown to an atomic blast. President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic incumbent seeking re-election, did the voiceover with the line, “We must either love each other, or we must die” — a paraphrase of a famous W.H. Auden poem written to mark the start of World War II.
Obama to sell cars for Kia
June 12, 2008
This is the worst, the absolute worst TV ad the world has ever seen. So freaking wrong to do this.. It’s an insult to Obama.. I want to know who their Advertising Agency….. feel free to contact Kia and give them your thoughts on this ad.
People now and then use spoofs of famous individuals for commercials, but during a heated election season is something else. It’s a politically charged environment that commercials like this that imply that a presidential candidate is better off selling cars should fall under the 527 Group category.
Examples of 527s include Americans for Dr. Rice, Americans for Honesty on Issues, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Texans for Truth, The Media Fund, America Coming Together, the Moveon.org Voter Fund, the Progress for America Voter Fund, United American Technologies, American Right To Life Action and the November Fund… and now Kia Motors..
Hattip to Agency Spy for finding the video…
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