1. BBC Sport: Wimbledon coverage
It’s Wimbledon time of the year. Here’s a new spot from BBC Sport announcing the live coverage of the event. The device is simple – a tennis ball wreaking ‘havoc’ across Britain and ending up at the centre court. Even though this montage of visual set to music is a common format the ad is riveting.
2. Verena Sure
Thanks to this commercial, I came across this category called of drugs called Chitosan – apparently, it is believed to have use in limiting fat absorption, and hence, useful in dieting. A Thai ad highlights this benefit as only Thai ads can.
Agency: McCann, Bangkok
This won a Gold at the recent Cannes Lions festival.
3. Tsuruya – tiles
Product demo ads can be fun. Here’s an ad to demonstrate the toughness and durability of a brand of roof tiles from Japan. The ad takes the humorous route to showcase how the tiles withstand extreme weather conditions. Loved it.
Agency: Asatsu-DK, Tokyo
For more Japanese ad goodness, check out this YouTube channel.
4. Motilal Oswal
Some categories are considered ‘boring’ in advertising. I guess stock broking is one of them. Here’s a refreshingly different ad in the category aimed at conveying the single minded focus of Motilal Oswal’s business line – stock broking. What aids the single mindedness of the messaging is the erm…single mindedness of the brief.
Agency: Mullen Lintas
5. Instagram Stories
Instagram Stories, at 250 million daily active users is clearly a runaway success. A new campaign showcases the various creative possibilities of the tool: stickers, brushes and live video enhance any story.
Inspired by the endless ways that the Instagram community is already using Stories tools, it demonstrates the infinite ways that stickers, Boomerang, brushes and the Live function can help turn any moment into something special – that ‘Stories Are Everywhere’.
Stories Are Everywhere. See more of our @Instagram work here > https://t.co/sBQAmsFkea #newwork pic.twitter.com/hDUFl14fHF
— W+K Amsterdam (@WKAmsterdam) June 30, 2017
Agency: W+K, Amsterdam
The campaign included over 270 billboards and guerrilla out-of-home efforts. ‘Parrots of the Caribbean’ and ‘hot dog’ were stand outs for me.
Read more about the campaign here.
6. French Red Cross: Super Granny
Here’s a fun film urging people to donate to a good cause.
Agency: Altmann+Pacreau
Which one was your favourite? Comment in.
