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From the ever excellent Business Guys On Business Trips comes this rather biting suggestion as to what exactly it is that digital creative directors do. We’ve actually got some amazing creatives at the place where I work which is why I think that this is a little harsh: that said, I’m sure that most of […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0bkv0jCCM

Apparently the ad you see above for Heinz Deli Mayo has been withdrawn because, according to The Guardian:
viewers complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that it was “offensive” and “inappropriate to see two men kissing”.
In response to the viewers complaints a spokesman for Heinz commented:
It is our policy to listen to consumers. We recognise that […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfO6n3RdEP0

This is a pretty long viral (there are shorter versions out there) but is worth watching. Unlike the famous Ronaldinho football viral I can’t spot any CGI here. If you don’t want to watch all of the amazing football skills that Frank Ribery & Luca Toni come up with in this good humoured video, skip […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2leyUvOMEn4

Here’s the live ad that Honda showed on Channel 4 last night. I may be over-ambitious but after reading about this, I thought that the sky-divers were actually going to spell out the whole word Honda. Either way, it’s still pretty impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rAMAjVJqsA

Brains, the puppet from Thunderbirds?
Check.
Rhythm Is A Dancer by Snap (of the infamous lyric “I’m serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”) as the soundtrack?
Check.
Yep, this is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KurTr2J7gNE

If you live in the UK you may well have seen the new Berocca ad, which shows commuters doing a dance routine on running machines. And anyone who ‘lives’ online will almost certainly realise that the ad is ‘inspired’ by the amazing video for Here It Goes Again by OK Go. Although some might say […]

A high placed source at Google’s UK office has told me that the search giant is planning to change the revenue model for its market leading AdWords advertising platform. In a move that could affect everything from the proposed Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, to the shape of the British TV sector, Google are planning to […]

The new Sony Bravia bunnies ad features She’s Like A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones. It’s one of the best Beatles songs Lennon & McCartney never wrote..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4NVKsRMeMA

The Rolling Stones - She’s Like A RainbowIn 1967 The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band and the rest of the rock world looked on in […]

Apple have had a history of matching great tracks with the TV ads for the iPod. And with the lovely folk-pop of 1234 by Feist, that doesn’t look like changing any time soon…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM

Feist - 1234 (song from the new iPod Nano TV ad)
As I’ve been so poor in the blogging stakes recently (unless you count […]