Category: Great Advertising
August 10th, 2010

Brand Champion(y).

Well, it's the dog days of summer once again, and not the adorable, bring-you-your-pipe-and-slippers kind of dog, either. Between flight attendants flipping out, fat people flipping out, and that faccacta oil spill, everybody's flipping out.

Fortunately, K-Swiss is doing it in a good way.

Think that's bananas? Check out Kenny Powers' INCREDIBLY, UNBELIEVABLY NSFW signing video.
Yeah. Wow.

Now, hard as this may be to believe, we don't think crazy-for-the-sake-of-crazy really gets you anywhere.

But.

If you're K-Swiss in a Nike/Reebok world? Maybe you don't follow the Athletic Gear Rule Book, which clearly states:

2(A): The Company Shall Market Product By Displaying Incredible Athletes. The Implied Promise Shall Be: "If You Buy This Stuff, You'll Be Just Like (INSERT ATHLETE NAME HERE.)"

Maybe you realize there's a big ol' world out there filled with has-beens and never-really-gave-a-crap-beens. Maybe you think, "The people who snuck behind the gym to smoke during P.E. class need shoes, too."

It's just crazy enough to work. Godspeed, K-Swiss. (Tubes!)

Via Adrants.

July 21st, 2010

Aaaaaand, We’re Back.

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Pardon the radio silence; we've been on the road. We'll make it up to you, we swear.
This poster from The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas would make a great desktop background, wouldn't it? Except aren't you kind of afraid you'll go get a cup of coffee and come back and your hard drive will be filled with adorable space guinea pigs? Check with your science officer before beaming aboard.

June 21st, 2010

Mondays Is Mayhem


We are seriously digging this new Allstate work!



When you’re up against GEICO and Progressive, it’s got to be tempting to pull out the Big Bag Of Crazy just because that’s what all the cool kids are doing. But then you remember you have a ga-jillion dollar brand to protect. But that doesn’t mean you have to suck. So what you do is, you position the world as crazy, while keeping Allstate customers “in good hands.”
Funny, on-point and stylish. Well done.

June 15th, 2010

Car Payments? Bacon? Car Payments? Bacon? Yeah…Bacon.

Rhett&Link strike again, and somehow make the repo man loveable. We’ll take our bacon out by the pool, Jeeves.

June 1st, 2010

June Gloom.


A scant week after overtaking Microsoft as America's second-largest company, Apple has apparently decided to retire the venerable "Get A Mac" campaign. Now, we could argue about whether this makes good business sense or not all day long, but here's the important part:
In a sea of sucktitude, "Get A Mac" consistently brought smiles to our faces. The moment we saw John Hodgman's fact-packed melon, we knew we were in for a good time. How many other campaigns can you say that about? Uh-huh. That's what we thought. Hopefully this tribute video takes a bit of the sting out.