Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey is a regular feature (it seems) at rodeos around the US. Is this exploitative? Well, yes. Is it totally made by the canned-hoofbeat sound fx? Heck yes! "After four years as the marketing mascot for Cheyenne, Wyoming–based quick-service chain Taco John’s, Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey is saddling up and riding off into the sunset." http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/exclusives/0708/taco_johns-1.phtml
"Created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips’ latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Since the television’s 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywood’s best. Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic ‘frozen moment’ cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and
Green Works is a plant-based cleaner from Clorox. This is a record of an excellent guerrilla event that really supports the whole "integration triangle" idea I'm working on. Pulling together one film maker, one graffiti artist (Moose) and one really dirty tunnel, Green Works created a real-world event, and a supporting blog. [via Annie Mole]
Nicely thought-through and well-executed online-only Valentines Day spot for Betty Crocker cakes targeting (one assumes) online mothers. I'm going to send it to a few to gauge their reactions. A little sickly sweet for me, I'm afraid -- but perhaps it will get pick up w/ the mommybloggers? [via Faris Yakob]
There's no real reason behind including this other than the fact that it made me laugh. [via Nathan Williams]
Pretty much begging to be copied. No, in fact, begging to be copied, "Try as you may, we bet you will be trying to recreate this ad in the privacy of your own home!" says the blurb. Now this makes no sense, of course, but you can see what they're doing.
Pure genius spoof for Pot Noodle (aka the slag of all snacks) from James Hilton & Co at AKQA. If you don't know the product or the audience, this may be hard to get.
Via Weird Asia News we find this Obama look-alike. My favourite bit? The surreal floating woman.
Smirnoff's Raw Tea online campaign launched in 2006 and hit the right self-parodying tone to gain traction on YouTube. This was one of the first campaigns to use little more than YouTube as the distribution channel.