Fireworks are soooooo boring

October 22 in LA:

SkyFire debut the Tesla Coil Lightning Performance. Dance meets Tesla; here’s a sample of what we’re not doing in Perth this year:

oOh! La La

cannes compétition

Create a wonderful outdoor ad. Run it on an oOh! site. Then win a trip to Cannes. Liberté!

There’s a prize for metro and a prize for regional. Égalité!

2 airfares, 4 nights’ accom, 3 days’ registration at the Cannes Lions Festival. Fraternité!

oOh!Media will also buy $500 worth of responsible alcohol consumption for a winning agency every month [Insert French exclamation mark]

They’re the BIG Creative Awards and you need to have speaks with Mark Treasure to learn more.

He is en 9388 7844.

Pretty is not enough

Bare Escentuals is a cosmetics company that produces mineral makeup (slogan: Feel like a Commodity, Look like a Commodity). OK, we made up the slogan. Anyway, they’ve just recruited new models based solely on a questionnaire designed to reveal their inner beauty. Would have been a little bit more impressive if they hadn’t started with a group of professional models; however, it made for a good teaser:

Personality in advertising: who knew? Source.

Albany tourism campaign?

whale outdoor advertising
Actually, no, it’s one of a number of Lego outdoor ads cooked up by Ogilvy’s in Malaysia.

Evidently advertising agencies are more creative over there.

It’s what they call the Malaysian Solution.

Come on you big nose Aussies; spread some creative imagination across our prime billboard locations.

Passively click the image for the Lego campaign story or actively call Dave or Mark and blurt out your great idea.

9388 7844.

Lame T-shirt warning

New official Media Tonic T-shirt.

video t-shirt

Todd Sampson. Pfft.

Worried your iPad is just an expensive toy?

Relax. It has its uses:

ipad

Via Nathan Statz

When hyperbole is not enough

Facebook has made some changes. Try to remain calm. And here’s the pre-keynote send-up of Zuckerberg by SNL comic Andy Samberg which the Audienceberg all watched, not sure if it was okay to laugh.

Everybody’s a comedian

Received this photo from a Perth industry leader on his return from Barcelona with the subject line: “When are you guys going to get serious about outdoor?”

barcelona outdoor advertising

Lost pictures of New York

One of the strengths of the web is unmediated storytelling. Like this:

And just in case you’re interested, you can see the follow-ups here and here. Via.

The 50 word billboard

I recently read a David Ogilvy-inspired piece on copywriting that said: You can’t put 50 words of copy on a billboard alongside a high speed highway and expect the message to be read.

And of course, that’s right, but billboards have changed as a medium since Ogilvy’s America. In malls and city centres, people do have time to read a billboard. It’s a question of adapting the creative to the context.

Here’s a billboard in a walk-by location. Exactly 50 words of brilliant copy. (Click image for larger version).

billboard media advertising

Got a great creative idea? We have great locations to put it in. Dave or Mark; 9388 7844. Credit.