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Ice cream shooting out of a man's jeans - hm, pretty weird!
Back in the Sixties, Spanish designer Paco Rabanne galvanised the French fashion world with his use of unusual materials such as metals and paper for his flamboyant clothing creations. You can see from this ad that his eponymous label - launched in 1966 with 'Manifesto: 12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials' - is still in the business of surprise, and still on trend, not to say ahead of the wave... Read More
Every single day, 1.8 million kilograms of the UK's plastic waste is exported to other countries. In this arresting footage, titled 'Downing St Disaster', environmental organisation Greenpeace asks and answers the question: What would it look like if that exact amount was dumped on Downing Street? Located in the City of Westminster in London - hence the 'Wasteminster' parody tag - Downing St houses the official residences an... Read More
Fellow tennis legend John McEnroe makes a cameo appearance with his trademark "You cannot be serious!" exclamation as Serena Williams sees off a selection of ball-firing robots in this amusing ad for DirecTV. Attired as the superhero character Wonder Woman, the US player sets her formidable focus on overcoming the formidable-looking rogue machines, to promote the broadcast company's new streaming service of live ... Read More
Dutch recruitment agency YoungCapital turns the tables on the notion that Gen Z employees are work-shy with this funky campaign. Whether you find it offensive or just amusing, it's refreshing to see an ad tackling the antagonistic tensions that seem to have sprung up between different generations in the workplace. Does it make you crave one of the 150,000 ‘gen Z infused’ BOOOMer Energy Drink cans that have been produced fo... Read More
A smartphone that claims to be 'everything-proof' - most of us can relate to the everyday disasters our devices and we can undergo. Shot in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this commercial - aimed at blue-collar workers - takes us on series of separate journeys in which the Realme C75 phone stands up to challenge like a 007 of devices. Realme is a Chinese multinational electronics company whose smartphones are best-known in China, India, I... Read More
What's your reaction to this ad by a US insurance company? Lots of people seem to find it what it was undoubtedly meant to be - amusing and memorable. Others take exception to the negative references to parenting, reflecting the minefield which humour in - and beyond - advertising has become. Insurance is one of the sectors which seems to make most use of humour in its commercials, perhaps to counteract the traditional impression t... Read More
Cruise aficionados and fans of musical theatre actress/singer Hannah Waddingham alike will be beguiled by this ad by Princess Cruises. And for the armchair cruiser too, it will strike a chord as the song she's singing is the theme from popular TV series 'The Love Boat', which aired from 1977 to 1986 and became a pop culture phenomenon. Cruise lines themselves have taken a turn in a similar direction over r... Read More
