Internet Explorer is perhaps the most hated browser among web designers and developers, but sure it has been making steps towards development and standards. Getting ready for the new world, IE is advertising nostalgia, showing off stuff like floppy discs, walkman and yoyos for a new advertising campaign; some might argue IE is still stuck in the same era.
Heavily tattooed and with a slight threatening look, these babies have been photographed as an advertisement for Playtex Baby Products, the pacifiers for this specific case. Life would be so much easier if shoving a pacifier into someone’s mouth could have the same result it has when babies get pacifiers.
Look closer, that’s no beard.
South Korean advertising company Welcomm, working on a campaign for Sony dressed up earbuds as legendary icons of music. Seen here, somehow creeping me out with their earbud faces, are Michael Jackson, Jimmi Hendrix, Elvis Presley and Mozart.
Chinese online shopping store Yuekou has found itself the perfect model; one that sells its wares and brings attention to the website’s business. The model for the website is Liu Xianping, the grandfather of one of the five founders of the website. As the story, a.k.a. legend goes, the grandfather was giving his daughter Ms. Lu ideas on mix and match clothing. They randomly started taking pictures, and an incredibly viral modeling campaign was born. The successful advertising campaign has seen the sales of the online shop go up five folds.
Getting weird hairstyles to make a statement is one thing, and having a giant hairy spider on the head is totally different. But they do manage to catch attention, which I suppose is all advertising campaigns want. Philippines based advertising agency TBWA/Santiago Mangada Puno came up with these scary spider and lizard hairdos for a hair gel campaign.
How expensive must a magazine be to cram in a video ad that runs using a full on Android phone to run? Entertainment Weekly magazine pulled off the trick with an issue that had video ads running. As the reader turns to the page of the magazine with the advert, the screen fires up to play clips from the CW Network, a few live tweets also show up to accompany some other info. As the reader goes past the page, the screen shuts down.
At some point, you realize Mr. W is more than just trouble. Creative ad for Epuron from 2007.
A lot of water that people let go to waste, could be put to great use by humans, animals and plants that can often starve to access this precious, and yet highly undervalued resource. A hard hitting campaign sponsored by Al Ain Zoo and executed by Y&R, Abu Dhabi.
Purportedly published in 1652, this coffee advertisement makes seriously tall claims about the advantages of coffee. It is a life saver, we’ll give them that. While we cannot find anything to support the authenticity (or lack thereof) for this advertisement, it does seem pretty interesting.