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Top Winner FP7 Doha Submitted Raft of Ghost Ads to Dubai Lynx Awards

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The organizers of the Dubai Lynx Awards have stripped the most-awarded agency at last month’s Middle East awards festival of its Agency of the Year title and seven prizes for work that turned out to be scam ads for Samsung, Nissan and a product called Higeen Mouthwash. The agency, FP7 Doha, is part of the Middle East Communication Networks, owned 51% by Interpublic Group of Cos., and works closely with McCann Erickson in the Middle East.

The Dubai festival is done by the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival organization. After the festival ended last month, local bloggers in the Middle East claimed the ads entered by FP7 were fakes and the festival did a more comprehensive investigation.

Scam ads are an ongoing problem at awards shows around the world, and it’s not that unusual for a winner or two to be thrown out during or even after a festival, but the sheer scale of FP7’s ill-gotten gains makes this one of the most rampant cases of festival fakery.

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I was checking out this campaign from BDDP & FILS for Foundation Abbé Pierre that was just released this month to raise awareness among the general public and the government of the bad housing crisis in France. This guerilla operation launched The Abbe Pierre Foundation’s annual Decent Housing campaign.

The life size photography and the creativity that’s behind this campaign is pretty damn sweet.

AKQA has put an inventive twist on the well-known festive tune ‘Jingle Bells’ with the aid of 49 microwaves. In a meticulously crafted piece, the digital agency programmed a stack of the kitchen appliances to play the jingle. Directed by Jonty Toosey and produced by Bikini and AKQA.Film, the piece took almost a week of planning and a whole day to capture.

Enjoy.

I found this campaign pretty entertaining and on point from Dose.ca Dose Daily is a news, celeb, gossip chitchat site from Canada.

I’m a fan of the Paris Hilton ad. LOL

Released:     December 2008
Agency:         RETHINK
Country:      Canada

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Released:     December 2008
Avertiser:     McDonalds
Agency:     TBWA\NEBOKO
Country:      Netherlands
Category:     Fast food outlets & restaurants

Is this a supahdupaholiday size? I’ll have one of those to bring home and stuff all my presents under. Thanks Mc Donalds. Oh and I still wont drink your coffee and or espresso. LOL

McDonald’s advertises its coffee while taking a shot at Starbucks on this billboard on East Marginal Way in Seattle.

Look out now McDonald’s put the gloves on and stepped into the ring of Espresso drinkers to take on Starbucks. To bad there won’t be any coffee bean tossing going on here. Starbucks executives have hinted that they will take the high road.
Why can’t McDonald’s just jump on the bandwagon and sell its espresso without taking stabs at Starbucks? Earlier this year they launched the UnSnobbyCoffee.com. I am a Starbucks fan and been known to be called a jerk (and worst) but never a snob. I wouldn’t drink coffee from McDonald’s if you paid me along with Big Mac’s and Egg Mc Muffin’s. They can keep up the great work of doing their part in keeping America fat and instead of taking stabs at Starbucks they should focus all that energy on selling healthier food. LOL

“We get a lot of questions on the competition and that everyone seems to be picking on Starbucks through their advertising and try to reposition Starbucks as expensive or snobby, and, boy, when is Starbucks going to start advertising and join in that coffee conversation?” Starbucks Chief Marketing Officer Terry Davenport told investors last week in New York.

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Thanks to everyone Twittering!!!!!!

Bloggers Ignite Brush Fire Over Weekend, Forcing J&J to Pull Ads, Issue Apology

By Michael Learmonth and Rupal Parekh

Published: November 17, 2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Johnson & Johnson did manage to offend some mothers with an online and print campaign for Motrin that implied moms carry their babies as fashion accessories. But was it a genuine groundswell that felled the effort — or an alliance of the few, empowered by microblogging service Twitter?

The campaign was an attempt to connect with moms through the common experience (and pain) of carrying a child.

Two days after a new ad push for Motrin triggered an online backlash, J&J’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is pulling the campaign, from the New York office of independent shop Taxi, and begging a vocal mommy-blogging nation for forgiveness.

The campaign, which was featured on Motrin’s website, as well as in several magazines, was an attempt to connect with moms through the common experience (and pain) of carrying a child. But the implication felt by some of the campaign’s more vocal critics was that moms wear their babies as fashion accessories, or because it “totally makes me look like an official mom.”

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I’m dig’n this campainge created by the people over at Boondoggie

Print Ads

Everyday the rubbished found around the bus shelters was picked up and placed inside the bus shelter.

Agency: Colenso BBDO Auckland, New Zealand.

With all the depressing news with the New England Patriots Tom Brady, we at least still have the Red Sox about the take the lead in AL East (or at least I hope)  Now we have a new campaign that Absolute launched that will feature the Green Monster

Saweeeeet!!!

It’s Absolut-ly advertising to call Green Monster home

Absolut Vodka is introducing its new ads to Red Sox Nation next week. The image of a fan moving into the Green Monster will be displayed in magazines and newspapers, spread across billboards and sounded out on radio spots as part of a hyper-local marketing campaign. READ MORE

WonderBra Bus stop ad

I’ve been a fan of their advertisment for some time now. Below are a few other examples of their ad’s

Wonderbra ad special for Pancake day

Every magazine that enters the UAE is censored using black markers. This device was used to communicate the increase in size when you wear Wonderbra.