Beer Ad in back of Taxi

ZhuJiang beer has a really clever ad placed on the windows of taxi cabs. I agree with the original blog post author in that the brand gets lost as the window rolls down. The message of "it's ok to drink as long as you get a taxi" may be hard to understand too.

Via Little Red Book.

The Top 40 Real Men of Genius commercials

As a former intern at DDB Chicago, I had the good fortune of meeting the creative team behind these ads. Before interning, I thought that these guys just sat around all day and came up with funny ideas. After hanging out with them a little bit, I realized how focused one has to be to do humor.

View all 40 ads at Epic Carnival.



Via Hot Clicks.

Making Old-World Advertising Work - 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business - TIME

Making Old-World Advertising Work - 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business - TIME

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Where are we headed?

I would like to open up a discussion on how should we create new business models for the ad world. It's pretty apparent things are changing. We've lost in some way credibility and the working model is begging for new thoughts from the core.

What do ya'll think? Some think that we should work based on results, but then how do we justify the overhead of our people. Either way, some accounts work on a 'pitch the project concept' and we're having that problem anyway.

Love to hear perspectives.

Cheers.

Congrats to Matt

Congrats to Texas Creative Alumni Matt Morris for his work on the DVD-ROM based on the PBS- Andrew Jackson microsite. The DVD-ROM was featured in the 2009 Communication Arts Interactive Annual: Interaction Design.

Sharon Hannon, KCET, writer
Philip Dunn, KCET, creative director
Matthew Morris, designer
Jimmy Mooney, JM Interactive, information architect
Peter Grant, KCET, illustrator
Kate Fulton, KCET, associate producer
Dan McDowell, KCET/Douglas Varchol, KCET, producers
Jackie Kain, KCET/David Neiman, Sketch Interactive, executive producers
JM Interactive (Austin, TX)/Sketch Interactive (Los Angeles, CA), project design and development
KCET, client

Perils of Internet Advertising

I know it's a system of looping ads, probably based on an algorithm, but this has to be one of the worst ad placements.

via Jalopnik.

Cannes Young Lions 48 Hour Ad Contest 2009

Check out and vote for the submission of the super jr. creative duo of Ashley and Krystha.



Agency: Y&R San Francisco
Jr. AD: Ashley J George
Jr. CW: Krystha Barrera

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"When people can no longer tolerate one problem, their tolerance of all their other problems bottoms out."

Such wise words from such a young soul, ms. thompson. It was just put really well and I wanted to document it.

Via Google Reader.

News Roundup

• Francisco Ramos has an outstanding photography portfolio.


• Amsterdam Worldwide launched a Pan-European blogger outreach for Asic' sportstyle for the "Left & Right" campaign.


• Check out the Passion Pit music video "The Reeling" directed by Danziger, Stephens, and Hobbs (Hobbs is the former co-ECD along with Texas-Ex Peter Rosch).


• The 7th Annual Portfolio Night is coming June 11! View agency-created commercials by Amsterdam/Montreal (Sid Lee), Chicago (Gertrude Inc), Los Angeles (David & Goliath), Quebec City (Socom), and San Francisco (PJA Advertising).


• Chris Abraham is teaching a series of webinars about the power of twitter and online marketing. May 7 is "How to defend and protect your brand reputation online- co-hosted with Jay Jaffe" and May 14 is "How to do social media marketing: bloggers, social networks, metrics, and more". The webinars are FREE.
  
  updated: View current and previous presentations and transcripts here and here.


• updated: Bob Pearson, former head of social media at Dell, is now the President of the Blog Council. Read more at Andy Sernovitz's blog.

American Public Transportation Ads

These are two recent—2009—ads for American public transportation companies.



Via FortWorthology




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