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BooneOakley is a full-service advertising agency that has put their entire website on YouTube. The above video is their home page. Be sure to click on the interactive buttons within the video and check out the rest of their site.

Related Links:
Boone Oakley online store on Zazzle.com - Link
Boone Oakley on Twitter - Link

Advertising First: Banner Ads Attached to Flies


At the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, a German book company, Eichborn, attached banner ads to flies and let them loose in the convention center.

I don't particularly like having flies buzzing all around me, but kudos to Eichborn for their creativity and attention getting stunt.

Link [via Mashable]

Piano Stairs - The Fun Theory



The Fun Theory is an initiative of Volkswagen. Their belief is "...the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to get people to change their behaviour for the better."

The Piano Stairs video above shows that 60% more people used the stairs after the stairs were made into piano keys. Link

Want to view more fun concepts? Link

webby peoples voice A congratulations goes out to Minneapolis's own advertising company Colle + McVoy for winning the People's Voice Webby award for Interactive Advertising - Viral Marketing for their website Yearbook Yourself. 

Yearbook Yourself - Link
The Webby Awards 2009 - Link
Colle + McVoy - Link


Recently you featured an interesting vintage poster from China. Anybody interested in viewing and entire collection, 100% Digitally Reborn!

Showcasing a very unique virtual online museum, the ’World's Largest Collection of Digitally Restored Vintage Advertising Posters’, originating from Japan, China and Manchukuo, 1920's-1930's, a body of work that took more than 14 months and 5,000 unpaid hours to complete. Most of these originals are by now extinct, and only exist in restored digital format, so this effort represents a one-person crusade to rescue these wonderful works of art for the enjoyment and education of future art lovers everywhere.

Old Orient Museum

Retro Cherry Coke Commercial

retro cherry coke outrageous commercialCherry Coke may be "outrageous", but 80s fashion....  not so outrageous.  Link to commercial.

Previously:
Coca-Cola commercial done GTA style, Commercials from the 80s: Atari, Nintendo and Wendy's (LwL)

Eliminating Hunger with Campbell's Soup

Campbell soup hunger
Leo Burnett advertising agaency in Toronto, Canada put together a Campbell's Soup display that is literally eliminating hunger.

In a grocery store 4,820 canns of Campbell's Soup were used to build an installation piece that spelled HUNGER. Signoge beside the piece encouraged shoppers to buy one and donate it to their local food bank. As shoppers bought cans from the display the word HUNGER slowly disappeared. This allowed people to see how their individual effort could help bring an end to the problem of hunger.
Link [via Neatorama]

Thai Sylvania Light Bulb Commercial

Thai Sylvania Commercial
Check out this incredibly funny Thai commercial for Sylvania light bulbs.  "Everything is scarier in the dark."  Link  [via MeFi]

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