airBaltic created a nice surprise for the young and old at Riga Airport in Latvia with this creative projection of Santa's Elves on one of their planes.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: Cube, Riga, Latvia
Creatives: Mārcis Miķelsons, Oskars Cirsis, Ingus Augstkalns
Design and Animation: Kristaps Šteinmanis, Gints Gūtmanis
Projection mapping: Krišjānis Rijnieks
Sound and SFX: Kristaps Šteinmanis
Video: Oskars Cirsis, Artūrs Cirsis, Mārcis Miķelsons
Account Director: Artis Kalveits
A number of Google employees wrote, produced and starred in the Santa Google Search Tips Rap video.
Credits go out to the following for this great video:
Lyrics by Matt Kane, Google Content and User Education Specialist and hip hop enthusiast
Music by Ranidu, Google Business Systems Integrator and musician: http://raniduonline.com/album/
Video produced with the help of our friends at Seedwell: http://seedwell.com
Lyrics:
Yo, I run a few searches before the big flight,
To save me more time on this magical night.
I type [sunrise and city] of my last stop,
I got plenty of time before my last drop.
If I don't know the time in a certain city,
I peep it on search before my chimney shimmy.
Tyle [time and town] before I come into town,
To see if Johnny's in bed before I hit ground.
Go Santa, Santa work it!
Go Santa, Santa search it!
But before I go flying through the frosty air,
I do a weather search to decide what to wear.
Mrs. Clause, should I bring my extra warm down jacket?
[Mrs. Clause]: Hmmm, yes. You should definitely pack it.
And please pack these cookies that I baked for you.
Shhhhh! I researched the recipe with recipe view,
And used the low cal filter, I must admit:
I wanna make sure that jacket still fits!
Go Santa, Santa work it!
Go Santa, Santa search it!
Check one, check two: yes I check twice.
Santa's Google Doc called 'Naughty and nice.'
With control+F, I find a name in the doc n',
I hope I don't have to put coal in a stockin'
When I'm cruising in my sleigh with my hands on the reigns,
Voice input is handy, 'cause typing is a pain.
If on a wish list I spot a gift I never heard: schlittschuhe,
I use the translate app to speak the foreign word.
Go Santa, Santa work it!
Go Santa, Santa search it!
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho.
Go Santa, Santa work it!
Go Santa, Santa search it!
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Yeah!
Very few things leave me speechless anymore, but this viral video simply entitled "Sexy Santa" has. The promo was created by the Social media company Denizen for the gaming Destructoid.
The Outback Steakhouse and creative ad agency Deutsch, NY create "The 12 Days of Leftovers" just in time for Christmas with singing food from our refrigerators. The online campaign comes complete with a series of talking and singing food web ads to get you to forget the leftovers and head on over to Outback instead.
Below are the "Mystery Mashed Potatoes" and "Slab of Slimy Ham" which is an outtakes reel of talking food bloopers. spots for your viewing pleasure, or you could run to Outback!
Holidays come and go, and then you're stuck with leftovers. Crusty, Fuzzy, Icky, Slimy Leftovers--and those are the ones you can recognize.
Take a break from holiday leftovers this season, and head into Outback Steakhouse for a delicious topped steak instead.
"The outtakes reel — some say there is no higher form of cinema. Just like some say there is no lower form of food than the holiday leftover. As a charter member of the past-their-prime portion club myself, I disagree.
But if you just can't spend another night with your old friend Slab of Slimy Ham, then go ahead into Outback Steakhouse for a real meal. I'll be fine. Really. No, I'm not crying..." — Slab of Slimy Ham.
Credits:
Ad Agency: Deutsch, NY.
Client: Outback Steakhouse
Directors: Ben & Julia
Art Direction & Puppets: Ben&Julia Studio
Assistant: David Huckert
Production: Hornetinc
Executive Producer: Jan Stebbins
Producer: Zack Kortright
Line Producer: Joel Kretschman
Editor: R.J. Glass & Anita Chao
Director of Photography: Ivan Abel
Gaffer: Michael Yetter
1st AC: Nathan Spengler
Best Boy: Casey Wooden
Key Grip: Mike Farino
2nd Grip: Leo Schott
Fabricators: Tim McDonald, Nathan Asquith, Connie Chan
VTR: Jon Osterman
Puppeteer: James Godwin
Compositors: Ali Kocar, Peter Fink
PA: Tim Kuhl, Dean Ford
This Christmas, Vodafone wanted to do something a little different — so they shipped in some cutting-edge laser graffiti technology from Spain and asked Ireland's most talented graffiti artists to paint Christmas messages from their Vodafone Playground Facebook wall on the sides of buildings across Ireland.
Armed with this seriously cool kit the team, including renowned street artist Maser, created spectacular shows in three Irish cities, painting the sides of iconic buildings with lasers, surprising and delighting unsuspecting Christmas shoppers.
Credits:
Ad Agency: Cybercom
Client: Vodafone
Zales kicks up the love factor with their 2011 Christmas Holiday commercial. The ad also features the music of the Alabama Shakes and the song title is "You Ain't Alone".
The new Apple iPhone commercial shows us just how great Siri can be to even Santa Claus.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Duncan Milner
Executive Creative Directors: Eric Grunbaum, Scott Trattner
Group Creative Director: Chuck Monn
Creative Director: Chris Ribeiro
Associate Creative Director: Paula Cristalli
Art Director: Parker Grant
Senior Copywriter: Krista Wicklund
Agency Producers: Perrin Rausch, Alejandra Ravassa, Chelsea Larner
Production Co: Imperial Woodpecker
Director: Stacy Wall
DP: Peter Donahue, Jason McCormick
Editorial Co: Nomad Editing Company
Editor: Kevin Clark
Post Co: DTrain FX
Artists: Ben Gibbs
John Lewis, The Long Wait commercial...what's so amazing about it is everything.
Music is "Please, Please, Please let me get what I want", originally recorded by the Smiths, and has been rerecorded by emerging artist Slow Moving Millie.
Credits:
Title: "The Long Wait"
Agency: Adam & Eve Group Ltd
Advertiser: John Lewis
Tagline: For gifts you can't wait to give
Production Company: Blink London
Wallace, Gromit and a cast of cuddly characters are back, the charming duo are here in the Google+ Hangouts "Tis the Season for Get Togethers" web film.
'Tis the season for get-togethers. But, for families that are spread out over cities or even countries, it can be a challenge to get everyone together during the holidays. You can create a Google+ hangout for your family to open presents together, sing carols or just catch up face-to-face-to-face.
This year, Google has added a little holiday cheer to Hangouts invites with a personalized Wallace and Gromit video invitation to be sent to your family and friends.
Go here to send yours — http://familyhangouts.withgoogle.com/
Credits:
Agency: Adam & Eve DDB, London
Client: Google
Production Company: Aardman Animation Ltd.
Digital Production Company: rehabstudio
BMW closes out the year with a new holiday Christmas greeting. They took four caroling members of the Zurich Acapella Group, but them into a BMW M135i driven by Martin Tomczyk on test track and created what they call "The Fastest Christmas Song in the World." Jingle Bells Jingle Bells...Oh what fun it is to ride in a BMW.
Credits:
Client: BMW
Agency: Draftfcb, Zurich
Production: Pumpkin Film AG
Country: Switzerland
Director: Götz Hudelmaier
Executive Creative Director: Dennis Lück
Art Director: Stephanie Lang
Art Director: christoff strukamp
Copywriter: Maximilian Kortmann
Consultant: Sandra Kopplin
Post production: Fraqment
Beautiful new campaign for Orelhão Mágico keeps the spirit of Santa Claus alive for a some lucky children in Brazil who came across this Magic Payphone.
Oi, a telecom provider from Brazil, is hoping to make everyone believe in the magic of Christmas one more time. That’s why it created the Magical Payphone, a device that connected kids with Santa Claus. Installed in Rio de Janeiro, the special payphone was available to kids walking by with their parents. Once they made the call, the kids would chat with Santa, who were actually two retired actors from Retiro dos Artistas (an institution that takes care of former artists). But it was much more than a telephone call. Big surprises were prepared for the kids: lost elf's, gifts and even a mapped projection with snow and a choir of kids. Everything to make a great experience for the children and everyone watching.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: NBS, Brazil
Creative Directors: André Lima, Pedro Feyer, Marcello Noronha, Moacyr Netto
Art Directors: Vinicius Cunha, Marcos Hosken
Copywriters: Moacyr Netto, André Jardim, Bruno Pinaud, Ricardo Weistman
Producers: Andrea Metzker, Leonardo Lino, Álvaro Figueira
Production Company: Dínamo Filmes
Director: Dan Gifford
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With the magic of S Beam on the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II, you can share all your Holiday moments instantly just by touching phones.
The Next Big Thing, thanks to Samsung might just be in Santa's pants this year.
Ted Danson is the voice of a great new commercial suggesting we forget about all our stuff do something something different this year for Christmas.
The "Stuff" ad created by BBDO, New York reminds us what a waste of time all this stuff really is, and I love the spot, Danson's beautiful voice doesn't hurt either.
Credits:
Agency: BBDO
CCO: David Lubars
Client: Red Cross
EVP: Linda Honan
ACD/Copywriter: Nick Sonderup
ACD/AD: Kim Haxton
Sr. Producer: Jesse Brihn
Prod. Co.: Elastic
Director: Andy Hall
CG Lead: Kirk Shintani
Music: Search Party
Sound Design: POP Sound
Santa Doesn't Do Poor Countries is the newest ad for Unicef. The commercial might seem harsh, but that's the point.
The ad, by Forsman & Bedenfors, starts off like so many Christmas commercials, with jolly St. Nick laughing merrily in his workshop, snow falling gently outside. But it quickly takes a left turn when he inspects one box of presents and realizes it contains nothing but medical supplies. Taken aback, he insists that such gifts, life-saving though they may be, simply aren't good Christmas presents—and he flatly refuses to deliver them. "I don't do poor countries," he says with a grim stare. via: adweek
Credits:
Client: Unicef
Agency: Forsman & Bedenfors, Stockholm, Sweden
Production Company: Acne
Director: Tomas Skoging
The lovely and very sexy Bar Refaeli takes a stroll in a Santa Claus suit through New York City in a new Christmas commercial for underwear maker under.me.
More images of Rafaeli in UnderMe underwear below.
"Twas weeks before Christmas and all through the City
A Supermodel Santa wandered, looking quite pretty.
After a long day of spreading comfort and joy,
She opened a box from her favorite boy.
To her surprise it filled her with glee,
The box was filled with her favorite things from under.me"
The little evangelist of BBC's Digital Radio, the legendary D Love is back spreading the love this Christmas in sweet new commercial simply entitle "D Love". In it the doctor of love educates a husband on what his wife really wants this year under the tree, with lines like "Can you romance a lady to the sounds of a toaster Clive?" and "it's smooth sounds will make her go weak at the knees" it wasn't hard to convince Clive to forget about that toaster.
Credits:
Client: BBC/Digital Radio
Creative Ad Agency: RKCR/Y&R London
Production: Red Bee Media and The Sweet Shop
Director: Peter Martin
Executive Creative Director: Toby Talbot
Art Director: Al Brown
Copywriter: Algy Sharman
Producer: Joanna Yeldham
Account Director: Charlie Smith
Account manager: Ben Boyles
The Hallmark greetings commercial for holiday's this year captures the spirit of the holidays through a series of disarmingly simple vignettes in which people express their desire to connect with family and friends.
Credits:
Client: Hallmark
Agency: Leo Burnett
Production: Madheart
Country: United States of America
Director: Jan Gleie
Executive Creative Director: Jeanie Caggiano
Creative Director: Matt Miller
Creative Director: phil Jungmann
Copywriter: Adam Ferguson
Agency Producer: Ray Swift
Lisa Phillips, executive producer (Madheart)
In the new Foot Locker Holiday ad, NFL stars Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks show off the difference between a good and bad Christmas gift.
Credits:
Creative Ad Agency: BBDO, New York
Chief Creative Officer: David Lubars
Senior Creative Director: Chris Beresford-Hill
Senior Creative Director: Dan Lucey
Copywriter: Alex Taylor
Art Director: Jason Stefanik
Executive Producer: Anthony Curti
Senior Producer: Tricia Lentini
Production Company: O Positive
Director: David Shane
Executive Producer: Ralph Laucella
Line Producer: Ken Licata
Edit House: Mackenzie Cutler
Editor: Ian Mackenzie
Assistant Editor: Brendan Hogan
Visual Effects House: Schmidgital & Hornet Inc.
Audio Mixer: Tommy Juacarone
Maybe we've seen enough Flash Mob campaigns to make us want to stab our eyes out with dull pencils dipped in melted Skittles, but just one more and I promise this one is good.
WestJet Airlines flash-mobbed an airport lounge-full of late-night travelers at Calgary International Airport with carols, Santa, elves and, from the looks of it, a bit of a giveaway. The red eye to Toronto has probably never been so sparkly.
WestJet says it will donate flights to “a family in need” once the video reaches 25,000 views which it did very easily already.
via: Marketing Mag.
The Best Buy "Game On" ad campaign has mom kick it up a notch...literally.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: CP+B, USA
Worldwide Chief Creative Officer: Rob Reilly
Vp Creative Director: Steve Babcock
Creative Director: Dave Cook
Associate Creative Director: Brandt Lewis
Senior Copywriter: Rich Ford
Vp Executive Integrated Music Producer: Bill Meadows
Senior Integrated Producer: Ramon Nuñez
Jr. Integrated Producer: Ben Majoy
Integrated Account Coordinator: Caitlin Sullivan
Production Company: Mjz
Director: Craig Gillespie
Executive Producer: Emma Wilcockson
Producer: Deb Tietjen
Director Of Photography: Gyula
Editorial Company: No6
Post Producer: Leslie Tabor
Editor: Chan Hatcher
Editor: Kevin Zimmerman
Music Company: Honor Roll Music & Thwak! Music
Composers: Alex Wurman, Read Fasse
Animation Company: Stardust
Visual Effects Company: Method Studios
Visual Executive Producer: Robert Owens
Visual Effects Producer: Paula Jimenez
