While most will find this billboard to be a creative bit of advertising, my guess is that those who have indulged in spiced rum beforehand will assume the role of a pirate captain who will drunkenly try to negotiate with the mostly 2D octopus for the release of its stationary prey.
BTW, this is apparently somewhere in Chicago.
(via BF)
You may remember Carlton Drought as the subject for the best beer commercial of 2012. If so, you won’t be surprised to learn that the company’s print ads are no less creative.
In order to promote Carlton Dry, the beer’s manufacturer engaged Clemenger BBDO of Melbourne, Australia, who came up with ads that show a guy wearing a shirt made of toast and another with someone wearing a cardboard snorkel in a sea of handi-wipes. Although there’s no commentary on the beer’s taste, the message is pretty clear that this stuff will f*ck you up… which is 100% of the reason people drink beer in the first place.
See an additional pic after the jump.
Polish vodka maker Maximus is attempting to make vodka manly by doing away with ridiculous flavors and pushing a new ad campaign featuring the art of Mort Künstler, who is famous for his depictions of the Civil War. As you’ll see in the additional examples after the jump, the company wants you to believe that people who drink vodka pass the time by wrestling sharks, hunting whales and rafting raging rivers at daybreak – a far cry from the much more realistic scenario of waking up naked with a splitting headache while laying in a puddle of your own puke.
Cadbury is trying to break their creme eggs out of the Easter pigeon hole they’ve been stuck in for so long. To that end they’ve created these Halloween “screme” eggs and enlisted the talents of The Hive, an agency based in Toronto, to handle promotion. In a stroke of genius, the agency created a series of ads in which the eggs reenact scenes from classic Zombie flicks.
Check them out after the jump. As you’ll see, the staple clucking bunny has been replaced by an unintelligible egg language, Thriller references, and spinning whisks of doom.
Check out the $1 pizza down at this meme-loving pizza place on 33rd and Madison in New York.
(via 9GAG)
Sure, Photoshop makes photos look better, but ad companies really shouldn’t overdo it. Do they really expect people to believe that the sauce and cheese infused into the new Super Pan Pizza’s crust will come squirting out like that once you remove a slice from the pie?
Aside from a failed poster campaign, Pizza Hut Malaysia also came up with an equally absurd ad featuring the otherwise not-so-bad looking pizza. Pairing a marriage proposal with a video ad for pizza is probably the laziest way to do an ad, ever.
For this ad, let’s just mash footage of the pizza, a girl eating it and a marriage proposal. Let’s throw in a few shots of the sauce oozing out of the crust, and it’s a wrap!
Check out the worst pizza ad after the break.
If you thought that Taco Bell’s 10,000 taco airlift to a small Alaska town was just a corporate act of kindness – you’re an optimist, and we applaud you. The truth is that the stunt was merely a marketing opportunity to show the world one town’s desperate struggle to have daily access to Doritos Locos tacos. The chain exploited the town of Bethel, Alaska in sentimental new ads which present Taco Bell as if they were saviors delivering live-saving medicines or thousands of jobs instead of fast food. And to top it all off, it looks like Bethel still won’t be getting the restaurant that caused this whole story to unfold in the first place.
Check out the videos after the jump.
