Creative Criminals

We can only salute agencies who wish us happy holidays, and wishing us creative holidays is even better. When creating an advertising concept it often starts with a piece of paper and a pencil. That’s the start of this commercial as well, turning out in a nice stop motion movie ending with the message ‘I wish you creative holidays’ in Dutch.

This year BBDO Belgium didn’t prepare a Christmas Card for its clients because the Mayas predicted the end of the world. Seen we’re still walking around today, they were wrong and so BBDO Brussels asked a Maya to come and explain to their clients why they didn’t send them a card. If you forgot to send a Christmas card to your family our friends as well, please feel free to use him. The message you’ll send will be personalized with your and their names in audio (if it’s a common name) and subtitles. Click on the image below to try it for yourself. Make sure to select your language in the upper right corner.

Merry Christmas to all of you! The same message comes from FullSix advertising in Spain. Converting traditional Spanish Christmas food into a piano, and play Christmas carols on it.

On behalf of Newspaperswork, the marketing platform for all Belgian newspaper publishers, the belgian agency Duval Guillaume gave three top advertisers a free ride in a chauffeur-driven car. So that, for once, they could read their newspaper in peace and quiet. And they kept on reading. Despite the fact that the agency provided more than enough to distract them..

A lot of companies are wishing you happy holidays the last few weeks. But Havas Chicago takes it one step further and developed the ‘buzzed buzzer’. A buzzer to celebrate new years and tests the amount of alcohol in your body at the same time.

To celebrate TBWA\Toronto’s 25th anniversary, they brought in their digital department from 1988. His name is Gary. And Gary is sipmly hilarious. He created an online card that captures the spirit of our past and our digital future. Check out the retro card on this website.

F.Biz is one of the largest digital agencies in Brasil. For their anniversary they created a cool concept where people could online ask for a song. Not only did they get their song, but also a hand-made poster, based on the sounds of that particular song.

Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv made this cool video to illustrate what integrated advertising really is. It tells us the old approach of advertisers, and how it can be done differently. We do wonder if they didn’t put too much effort in it?

Audio Boutique is offering their services to creative directors all over the country. Following the theory that a soundtrack is one of the most important aspects to a good movie they made these cool music boxes. Each with their own personal soundtrack to address the countries biggest creative directors. Very fun and apparently very efficient.

Probably you all know this, but Lorem Ipsum is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document or visual presentation. When Jung Von Matt was searching for a new art director, they tried it via the Lorem Ipsum Generator. Whenever they copied the text, an ad appeared for the job.