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FedEx delivers great visual only ad
Saw this FedEx ad today and loved it because I am a sucker for a visual and concept that is so strong it doesn’t even need a single word of copy. It plays up to the consumer to have a brain that can figure out the two icons and what they mea...
What does public transportation and a one legged man have to do with GM's reinvention?
So we all knew that GM was going to have to put out some kind of advertising to address their recent bankruptcy filing but I expected more than the stock video rip-o-matic we got. The voice over is what I expected but let's take a minute and examine...
Great outdoor campaign for Lost Children
I don't see really great outdoor campaigns that often but this one got my attention. It is running right now in Melbourne for the Australian Childhood Foundation for their ongoing campaign Stop Child Abuse Now. They used a child size mannequins to r...
Tag line envy for Hulu.com campaign
Hulu.com started their foray into advertising with a really strong debut commercial with Alex Balwin during the Superbowl which many people don't know that Hulu didn't pay for their ad time in the Superbowl. It was part of a deal they had with the ne...
AT&T finds good fit with TOM'S shoes
I had been aware of TOMS Shoes for a while as I had seen them in store and magazine but never really got what they were doing until last year when I met their founder Blake Mycoskie at the AdAge IDEA Conference. Blake created TOIMS with the simple pr...
BMW creates strong concept integration with their new 300 horsepower paintbrush
BWM has just release what I think is the most interesting and aggressive integrated advertising campaign I have seen in a long time. In the interest of full disclosure I will sat that it was created by two of my old creative partners in crime who als...
