Winters in Montreal, Canada, are harsh, cold and frosty. As most of Canadians might agree, travelling in the cold can be really hard, especially when you have to wait for your ride at open bus stops. Even a few minutes spent outdoors can become unbearable. Keeping this in mind, Duracell came up with a campaign idea. They decided to make the commuter’s wait easier by installing heaters at a few special bus stops. However, these heaters could only be activated once a human chain was formed through physical touch. Each person at both ends of the chain, had to place their hands on the sides of the bus stop to complete the circuit. As a result, more and more people came in, shared warmth by holding hands, and in the end the winters became much more bearable.
Competition in the automobile industry is sky-high, therefore maintaining a good position for long is a tough task for many companies. However, Honda Civic has broken a few records in Canada after maintaining its position as the top selling car for sixteen years now. In order to celebrate its huge success over the last sixteen years, Honda Civic released a TVC showing how they have grown over the years by marking sixteen as a special year for not only young adults who are just about to earn their drivers license but also for the company itself. The ad features a young sixteen year old about to take his driving test and a few failed parkings, a little bumping in the trash cans and some clumsy breaks. After all, sixteen is all about being young and learning a few new tricks! When was the first time you drove a car? Did…
A recent ad released for para-athletes by a French Sports Daily Newspaper, L’Équipe entitled ‘Shadows’ shows how physically impaired athletes make it big through paralympics. The ad features a team of visually impaired soccer players competing against professional players of the AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande team. The players meet at a field ready to take up the challenge of a soccer game against each other, however there is a huge twist for the AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande players that awaits them. The lights are turned off, and the two teams are supposed to play a game of soccer in pitch darkness. Carefully making moves on sound of the soccer ball passing by them, for the para-athletes the game was a bunch of soccer tricks and required a lot of concentration and focus; something that they had already mastered over the years. However, for the team of AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande players, the game…
We all have seen thousands gathering around football players, cricket players and all the mainstream Television personalities and sports figures to appreciate their talents and hobbies. However, have you ever seen people stopping over for someone who loves knitting to get their autographs? Or when was the last time you saw a crowd of pumped up spectators around Pétanque players or fishermen to cheer them up as they did their jobs? I am sure you can’t think of one single instance when you witnessed that. Well, Coke Zero made the impossible possible through its recent ad campaign, ‘Just Add Zero.’ Coke Zero asked five random people about their favourite pastimes, and asked them to film it while they enjoy doing what they love. And, then the power of ‘zero’ was added by turning 6 quiet spectators into 60, and by adding another zero to make them 600! Crazy right? In seconds these…
Cheerios’ ‘Gracie’ ad makes one of the most adorable Super Bowl ads this year. The ad features a father and a daughter having a sweet interaction while having a hearty Cheerios breakfast. The dad explains Gracie, a little girl with curly brown hair who makes the star of the ad, how she is to become an elder sister to a baby boy who is due soon, using Cheerios cereal to illustrate how they are expecting a new family member. Gracie listens carefully what her dad says with confused expressions, but cleverly adds another Cheerio cereal to their family of four, asking for a pet puppy. Who could possibly say no to that sweet face. So her father agrees. Now that was some smart thinking by the kid! This Super Bowl 2014 ad allowed Cheerios to convey their message of how important family life and proper interactions are, and how small moments…
Mianichi Newspapers had been following an alarming trend in newspaper reading over the past few years; they had been losing readership by a huge margin! The reason behind this trend was that the youngsters had virtually given up the habit of reading newspapers. Therefore, to encourage the youth of Japan into reading newspapers, the Mianichi Newspapers came up with a far-fetched but an interesting idea. The Mianichi Newspapers decided to collaborate their newspapers with a popular product in order to get it as much publicity as possible, and thus the News Bottles were invented. As the name suggests, the News Bottles were basically mineral water bottles that that came up with the latest news articles everyday. Therefore, for a month, a total of 31 packages were created for the News Bottles, just to serve their purpose. As a result, a new medium was explored by Mianichi Newspapers to regain their…
Saatchi and Saatchi came up with a nice campaign to advertise for Tuffy scented bin liners. The idea was simple, find the smelliest thing around and cover it up with the sweet smell of Tuffy bin liners, and what else could be possibly smellier than garbage trucks? Therefore, in Cape Town, South Africa, a really smelly garbage truck was covered up with Tuffy bin liners and was given a sweet makeover with candy strip vinyl and a melted ice cream cone sculpture on the top. So, yes you got it right, the garbage truck looked nothing like the smelly, dirty old trucks that whoosh away leaving behind a pungent smell that stays till an eternity. In fact, this one smelled nothing less than roses. And so, the passer-bys looking at the Tuffy clad garbage truck in disbelief was something the campaigners had been seriously looking forward to. Check out the…
We all are familiar with how nasty and superficial the world wide web can be with the trolls, the pokers, the bikini clad blondes, the pouters, the virus spreaders and the like-makers making up most of the online population. However, luckily we don’t let these characters bother us by simply ignoring them with the help of the red ‘x’ on the top right side of our browsers. But what if someday all these online trolls became as real as we are, how would we possibly escape them all? This Super Bowl 2014 ad for Squarespace takes you into such a world where the horrors of the online web comes to life, leaving you with no choice than to run away from them; but where will you hide, is what this ad makes you wonder. So, the solution is simple. Create a better web through Squarespace. Through Squarespace, the virtual world is…