Creative Criminals

2012 is almost finished so it’s time to evaluate the best commercials of the last 11 months. And we must say, 2012 was a succesfull year for some advertisers. Creative Criminals presents you hereby the most shared commercials of this year.

TNT – Push the button

Absurd, yet funny commercial for CCAA, a school in Brazil giving English lessons. When two guys survive a plane crash they end up on Megan Fox Island, with hundred Megan Foxes. But one problem, they don’t speak English and are banned to, Mike Tyson Islands…
Click read more to see the making of.

AT&T is promoting the new Samsung Infuse 4G smartphone with a series of television commercials featuring cute animals. Three screen tests use a kitten, a frog and a goldfish to reveal the insight, “Colors so real, it’s almost unreal”.

The medium is the message, 365 different commercials in one year does give the impression that IKEA is a dynamic store with endless amounts of different products.

72 TV commercials were aired during the Super Bowl 2011. While some of these were the trailers of upcoming movies, others were funny super bowl commercials which left the audience in splits. The Super Bowl 2011 advertisements list was dominated by commercials of cars and alcoholic beverages.

Super Bowl commercials are the main attraction for a lot of viewers. Fox has sold out the available Super Bowl slots (30 seconds) at about $3 million very early on. According to AdAge the Super Bowl 2010 contained almost 48 minutes of commercials.

Adweek made a compilation of 61 Super Bowl commercials in just over 2 minutes. After the break, you can watch all the Super Bowl commercials of 2011.

Here were two ads of Coca-Cola aired during the ‘walhalla of advertising’, the Superbowl. The commercials are not at all alike, two completely different stories are presented..
Check out the second one after the jump!

We wouldn’t be good Belgians if we didn’t support ‘our’ brand, Stella Artois. But you have to admit, the latest commercials of Stella have this intriguing vintage atmosphere, which makes you want to look twice.
With Christmas coming up, this spot is pretty suitable..