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Advertising
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Radvertising: “The First Taste” For TED Introduces Kids To New Food In Slow Motion [VIDEO]
15 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marketing Agency, Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney collaborated with Heckler to create this amazing short video of kids tasting foods for the first time. The video, shot in high quality, was screened at the TEDxSydney 2013.
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Radvertising: NSRI’s Sea Fever Campaign Is Hot Fire [VIDEO]
13 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The National Sea Rescue Institute is a non-profit organisation comprised of almost 900 unpaid volunteers. Ogilvy and Mather advertising agency, together with Velocity productions, created and produced this advert to highlight the work that they do.
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Radvertising: The Old Spice Guy Is Back… Selling Beer [VIDEO]
10 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Isaiah Mustaf, or “The Old Spice Guy” dropped off the radar a little bit after his role in the Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign. Where in the heck did he go? He went to Israel. To sell beer. Obviously.
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Radvertising: This Anti-Abuse Ad Is Only Visible To Children [VIDEO]
06 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk, or The ANAR Foundation has found a way to get their anti-abuse message to children, without their potentially-abusive guardian being able to disarm the message.
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Raise Cash For Charity While Watching Porn [N5FW VIDEO]
02 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Come4 is a porn site. But it’s no regular mosaic of flashing private bits. The site is dedicated to serving users high quality porn, for a price, and the income goes toward funding for charities and ethically driven projects.
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Today’s Viral Video – “Shift It” Is Comedy Gold [VIDEO]
02 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
its upload on Tuesday, this video showing a commercial for Arlen’s Transmission in Burbank, CA has has racked up almost 400 000 views. The ad features the owner, Goorgen Zargarian who also happens to be the one of the greatest performers YouTube has seen to date.
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Hyundai Advert Makes A Punchline Out Of A Botched Suicide Attempt [VIDEO]
26 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Contracted Hyundai advertising agency, Innocean was manadated to create an ad to show off the new ix35’s fairly amazing 100% water emission feature… And they ballsed up. Or did they?
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Today’s Viral Video – Evian’s New “Baby & Me” Film Is Awesome [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The “Live Young” themed video has been a massive hit since it was uploaded four days ago. Its 28 million views and downright cuteness is what makes it our Viral Video Of The Day.
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Here Are All Of The Xpanda Radio Ads [AUDIO]
24 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 18 Comments
Yesterday, local security barrier company, Xpanda, came under fire for the flighting of a controversial radio ad. They claimed the ad was part of a larger campaign, and that the public shouldn’t be offended. Here are all of the ads – you decide
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Unapologetic Xpanda Responds To Outcry Over Racist Radio Ads – Ignores The Sexist One
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Xpanda, a local security barrier company who are taking a lot of heat for their massive failure of a radio ad (listen here) have released a statement, clarifying their position on the matter.
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Badvertising: Xpanda Makes The Most Racist, Sexist Adverts In South Africa [AUDIO + PIC]
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 51 Comments
Local security barrier firm, Xpanda, have come under serious fire on social media for what may well be the most racist thing to happen on radio since democracy. But that’s not their only offensive ad. They’re quite keen on sexism in their print ads, too
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Goodvertising: Brandhouse Social Media Campaign Targets Drunk Driving
19 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Local beverage company, brandhouse recently launched what they’re calling a “social media activism” campaign aimed at young adults, in an effort to curb rates of drunk driving in South Africa. We call that goodvertising.
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Advertising Campaign Give Guys Stage Fright In the Toilet [VIDEO + PICS]
19 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Going to the bathroom has never been this much fun.
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US Digital Ad Revenues Hit Record High Of $37 Billion, Mobile Doubles
18 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to newly released statistics by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in 2012, digital advertising hit a record high of $36,6 billion (R330 billion) in 2012. This spike was partly due to huge growth in mobile and video advertising.
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WATCH: Facebook Home’s New Ad Wants You To Ignore The People You’re With [VIDEO]
16 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook Home’s most current video is slightly easier to understand than a few of their earlier efforts – the only problem is that that message of the ad has been roundly rejected by The People of The Internet.
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Radvertising: Kmart’s “Ship My Pants” Campaign Is Gold [VIDEO]
15 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kmart have taken to YouTube to promote their new shipping service, and they have nailed it by encouraging customers to “ship my pants”. Say that fast. There isn’t really much more we can say about this, apart from the fact that the child is a real highlight.
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Radvertising: TV Commercial Shot In Cape Town CBD Features Stampede, Dinosaurs And UFOs [VIDEO]
04 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This excellent television commercial for Samsung’s Smart TV range demands to be watched, because it features a stampede of Wildebeest, a rampaging T-Rex, and an alien invasion – all couched within the familiar architecture of Cape Town’s CBD.
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Everyone’s Flipping Out Over Tiger Woods Nike Ad – “Winning Takes Care Of Everything” [PIC]
27 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I’m not sure we can really blame Nike for this, to be honest. Their major brand ambassadors haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory lately. Over the last two years we’ve been treated to porn stars by Tiger, career kleptomania by Lance, and an ongoing trial for Oscar. So you almost feel a little sorry […]
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Man Turns Impressive Mohawk Into Walking Billboard [PICS]
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This gentleman has turned his high mohawk into a mobile advertising space. Affectionately known as Mohawk Gaz, he uses his mohawk as a canvas and spray paints his locks with “hard-to-miss” attention grabbing brand images and slogans. Gaz has advertised for brands including Visa and NBA, which he counts as his most challenging advert thus far, […]
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Badvertising: New Ford Ad With Bound And Gagged Kardashians Has Been Pulled [PICS]
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A formal complaint has been laid against Ford and advertising firm JWT India for the “inappropriate” advertising of the Ford Figo in India. The print ads manage to take a stab at former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, as well as Paris Hilton and the Kardashians. The ads have since been pulled. WPP Group, which holds […]
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Ad Agency Charges R9 200 For A Tweet
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anyone who handles the marketing budget for a brand knows that creative in advertising costs a pretty penny. And with good reason – ideas are the very stuff of novelty. Ideas are what gets your brand remembered. A London-based creative agency has taken a novel approach to how they interact with their clients. They do […]
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Radvertising: Game Of Thrones Print Ad In New York Times Is Genius [PIC]
26 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The New York Times is a good example of how savvy print publishers can survive in a digital age. And their advertisers are keeping in step with them, giving a great example of what it takes to delight the eye on the printed page in an era of online rich media ads. The full page […]
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Radvertising: Episode 10 Of The Tropika “Kagiso’s Island of Treasure” Web Series [VIDEO]
25 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After 10 weeks of awesome online content, we’re finally at the finale of Tropika’s Kagiso’s Island of Treasure web series and the last episode finishes things off on a nice, quiet note. Kagiso tracks down his crew and takes a final trip to the Ocho Rios dolphin cove. While when the show kicked off I […]
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Win A BlackBerry Bold 9900 Worth R7 500 With Liqui-Fruit [COMPETITION CLOSED]
18 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 67 Comments
COMPETITION CLOSED: THE WINNER WILL BE CONTACTED DIRECTLY Oh BOY did your Monday just get better. Liqui-Fruit is giving you the chance to win a BlackBerry Bold 9900, with a value of +- R7 500, and it’s so easy. TO WIN: Tell us what YOUR flavour of the week is in the comments section below! What […]
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Radvertising: Episode 9 Of The Tropika “Kagiso’s Island of Treasure” Web Series [VIDEO]
15 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When last week’s episode ended with Kagiso’s crew walking out on him in the midst of one of his little tirades, I was convinced this week’s episode would take us back to the look & feel of Episode 1. I was expecting silly physical humour. Boy was I wrong. The second last episode of Kagiso’s […]
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Today’s Excellent Spoof Ad – Are You Ironic? Do You Have A Beard? You May Be Suffering From “Hipster” [VIDEO]
12 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Okay, look, it isn’t very funny to poke fun at hipsters anymore, seeing as the term is roughly 40 years old already. Apart from that, it has been done to death. You can’t even poke fun at hipsters in an ironic, self-reflexive way anymore. So this video is really late to the party, and should […]
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The New Liqui-Fruit BlackBerry Flavour Ads Are Puntastic!
11 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Liqui-Fruit has released a new BlackBerry flavour, and to promote it they’ve made excellent use of an extended visual pun, working off the base that BlackBerry is the name of a famous cell phone brand, but also happens to be a fruit (and fruit juice flavour). Thus spake the Liqui-Fruit brand manager, Karen Veysey: To […]
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The Best And Worst Of The 2013 Super Bowl – Ads And Trailers [VIDEOS]
04 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
No one actually watches the Super Bowl for the futball, do they? For your viewing pleasure, please enjoy our selection of favourite TV ads and movie trailers from Super Bowl 2o13. 1. Every year Dorito’s runs a competition called the “Crash the Super Bowl Contest”. This year, their Goat 4 Sale ad came in at […]
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The Retroviral Year In Review Video For 2012 Makes You Feel Warm And Fuzzy About Advertising [VIDEO]
25 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our friends over at Retroviral celebrated their second full year of taxable business at the end of 2012. And to mark the ocassion, they made this delightful video, which you should watch.
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How Is It Possible That This Print Ad Made It To Publication?
16 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 33 Comments
It’s one thing having a spelling mistake on the net. But how does it happen in print? More importantly, how does it happen twice in the 10 main bold words of your copy. Kercher cleaning tools managed to do it in the latest issue of Your Family magazine.
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