In the United Kingdom the ASA is celebrating 50 years of helping to enforce legal, decent, honest and truthful advertising. Today they ruled against Activision and adverts for Call of Duty Elite. The Call of Duty Elite site was designed as an online community for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and offered both a free […]
Sponsored Video: Galaxy Note PS – my thoughts
This post contains an advert video from Samsung for the Galaxy Note. I decided to post it because I think the Note is worth talking about. I’m just back from The Gadget Show Live and one of my main observations was that the iPhone was hardly insight. To be clear, the iPad was everywhere and […]
Disney actually produce a moe anime
American animation megagiant Disney have shocked Japan. Not only have they produced an anime feature; they’ve produced a moe anime feature and done it well. The advert for Tokyo Disney Resort is getting a good reception among geeks in Japan. I know. We’re all surprised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clFq7xwxV-Q
Network Rail’s sponsored video proves people are idiots
This video is an ad. In the UK, the company that runs the train tracks – responsible for issues like maintenance and safety – is spending money to try and persuade people not to be idiots. In the video we see people being incredibly stupid with crossings. There’s a mum with a pram – some […]
Making of Mass Effect 3’s “Take Earth Back” trailer
After The Walking Dead aired on AMC last night, Electronic Arts ran a TV ad for Mass Effect 3. It was called “Take Earth Back” and seems to have been designed to appeal to gamers as well as non-gamers. If you’ve played the demo then you know you have three options at the start which […]
Sponsored Video: FutureScapes and the future of CSR
If you’re not familiar with the acronym CSR then let me tell you there’s a debate as to whether that is a good thing or not. CSR stands for Corporate Social Responsibility and it represents companies thinking about their responsibility to communities, to nature and even the future. It may be good that you’ve never […]
The Samsung SSD Angels ambush
If someone in the street stopped you and asked whether or not your laptop used a hard drive what would your response be? Okay, let’s just say the hard drive ambush develops along the lines of; “Yeah, hard drives are really slow. Give me your laptop, we’ll ditch your old hard drive and replace it […]
Dubstep Voltron for MetLife
This advert caught my attention for a whole host of reasons. I’m no fan of dubstep except when it’s assocaited with some pretty awesome YouTube dancing. Colour me surprised when it is Voltron who walks over the hill and begins to dance. That’s quirky. The video finishes with a call to action for Facebook.com/metlife. Can’t […]
Make a speaker for your phone out of a beer can
This is an interesting effort from Red Stripe (the Jamaican beer people) that seems to be targeted to electronics geeks looking for a “just because we can” style of project. I think it’s rather clever because it hides tech in every day items. I’m very much reminded of this sneaky robot that lived in a […]
Brisk launches Star Wars game for iOS and Android
The drink brand Brisk has launched a Star Wars game for iPhone and Android. The game is hugely tied into their Facebook profile and grows as people take part. I like the catch. Games have had the ability to unlock content before. This is a game and ad so the community has to unlock content […]
