Archive for the 'Fun' Category

What the heck is going on in ad land? How come, that several creatives are touring from one end of the nation to another? (While documenting their pilgrimmage online on Facebook). Santiago Cosme and Victor Blanco, two advertising students, are travelling from NY, where they landed, to the HQ of CPB in Colorado. In Germany, [...]

Here is a viral marketing ploy that I was sent (seeded?) from two different email addresses within  20 Minutes this morning. A couple of guyss purchase a McD burger and find an image of “the king” toasted into the bun. One of the links they sent me leads to a page, where a guy speculates [...]

Well, there is some truth to this, I must admit … For your bookmarks:

For your bookmarks:

Martin Oetting – sorry, Dr. Martin Oetting, as of a short while ago (congratulations!), just published a reference to his newly released thesis: ripple effect (How Empowered Involvement Drives Word of Mouth). The link leads to a page with a small “social media release”, which includes a PDF with a short summary (in German), a [...]

Astonishing news about fields in the southwest of the UK (I assume), where the best crop of creatives is grown For your bookmarks:

This is a great application for 3D augmented reality: (via webguerillas) For your bookmarks:

The guys at George Patterson Y&R Australia did small study on how creativity matters greatly: Buy a cheap BMX bike, add creativity, shake well and put an ad up on ebay: If you want to see the original add in its entirety, look here, someone made a screenshot of it. (thanks, Thorsten) For your bookmarks:

This is a fascinating YouTube Video riddle by Samsung. Let’s see if you can find out how it works: (found at werbeblogger) For your bookmarks:

Nope, this is not about their current struggle with the rights of music videos in several countries (including Germany and the UK). It’s about their “new” design, which they introduced today! Click here to see a larger Version. In case of problems, they give you the following tipps (in German, I am afraid, but the [...]

While in Paris on a connecting flight, Pharrel tries to order a Big Mac while it’s still 6am – and the french staff neither know Pharrel, nor do they want to offer him anything but breakfast – and last but not least they don’t seem to know him and aren’t impressed at all by his [...]

People learning English have the possibility to receive “One Word a Day” via email in order to improve their vocabulary. The word of today is funny, I wouldn’t have thought that it makes its way into regular vocabulary so fast: Your word for 20th March 2009 is * * * twittering * * * Please [...]

This isn’t so new any more, but I had this in my drafts and definitely wanted to share it with you. Zuji, an online travel agent, launched a rather unique campaign to illustrate the great possibilities to save money for nicer holidays: The main thing of this was probably the ways the video made it’s [...]

This is a fantastic idea that I had featured in my (german) videoclip blog two weeks ago – but it’s also great advertising, so I decided to show it here, too: For your bookmarks:

Everybody must have seen one of the “where the hell is Matt” Videos. The guy travelling around the world, dancing in some of the most remote places on this planet. Recently, speculations have been increasing about the whole thing being a fake. Well, now Matt answers to this accusations, admitting that it was, indeed, a [...]