Installed recently in Shanghai’s busiest mall are the Dipping McNuggets Elevators. Another clever use of oversized novelty advertising, ad agency Leo Burnett China almost made me consider having a McNugget.
[via copyranter]
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Interactive Skittles Ads Urge You To Touch The Rainbow
Skittles and BBDO Toronto have teamed up again for a series of interactive and mind-fucky ads. And believe me when I say that ‘interactive’ is used in the loosest terms possible.
Viewers are now asked to ‘Touch the Rainbow’, wherein placing your finger on the screen makes it part of the action. Again, ‘action’… terms… loose. Please watch.
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Art of Cooking, IKEA Ads by Carl Kleiner
Artist Carl Kleiner, of brilliant IKEA cookbook fame, recently created ‘Art of Cooking’, a playful series of commercials for IKEA kitchen products.
The World’s First Gay Beer
Marketed as the first beer specifically for gay drinkers, Mexican brewery Minerva has released Purple Hand Beer and Salamandra. Made with organic honey and malt, the ‘queer beers’ have an orange flavor, which the brewer believes will appeal to gay communities. You know, because gays love orange.
With labels designed to be easily removed, it also encourages the drinker to re-stick their pride anywhere they’d like. Perhaps on a float in an upcoming parade, or on a Conservative’s car bumper.
And, besides being reminded of a certain SNL sketch, the concept of a gay beer is certainly nothing original. America already has a gay beer… It’s called Michelob Ultra.
[via AdFreak]
Mr. Peanut Gets a New Ride
Everyone’s favorite monocled mascot, Mr. Peanut, will soon be a little easier to see coming. The anthropomorphic nut, and longtime face of Planters, will now be rolling in the aptly titled ‘Nutmobile‘.