Immaculately good taste

Why would 40 people complain to the ASA about this fine piece of advertising? It's not as if it featured a priest dispensing his creamy goodies to children, God forbid.

Drum bum

This looks like one of those little projects where the participants got a little too carried away and forgot why they were filming it in the first place. There isn't a Coco de Mer product in sight and, if you didn't know the brand is supposed to be a more upmarket Ann Summers, you might go away thinking this is a promo for some dodgy ethnic act in a Soho nightclub.

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The sort of car advertising they don't do any more

From Ffffound

There's soft, and there's too soft

Bravo to O&M Thailand for wittily highlighting this fabric softener's primary benefit. I wonder whether this would work in a hard water area.

Via AdsOfTheWorld

A slutty guide to the recession

I thought this was going to be yet another Recession = Behaviour correlation like "skirt hemlines drop as stock markets fall". Clearly taking their cue from these indices, Puma announce the launch of something a bit sluttier. It looks like if stocks fall, they’ll make their models take their clothes off. Whatever you call it, it ain’t science.


If you like your slutty recession indicators, here’s a small collection.
So you know you are in a recession when women spend more on makeup, cut their own hair and dye it blonde; not that they’re responding to the shallow world of advertising, oh no they wouldn’t do that would they? But women are ditching metrosexuals for the Donald Draper type.

Men, on the other hand, want their women to have real curves and are noticing that waitresses are getting hotter. But some poor guys are keeping their skanky underwear for longer especially those comforting old kecks Dad used to wear.

But does all this peripheral stuff lead anywhere? Apparently, lingerie sales are up and being strapped for cash means more time for sex, sex, Japanese sex, sex, kinky sex and sex.
On the other hand, this is probably all just PR filler with only a fleeting relationship with the truth.

Maoam for some sweet lovin’

Brand Strategy reports that a dad (or a PR agent) has complained that the cartoon fruit on Maoam sweet packaging are having sex. I think that he might be right, but so what? Maybe the packaging would be more suited to flavoured condoms, but if they were to be aimed at adults (after all, Haribo - who own the Maoam sub-brand - are advertised as a product that grown-ups nick from kids) with even more salacious packaging, then Maoams would be the Haagen-Dazs of sweets.