Hyundai Genesis: The Empty Car Convoy

Very impressive stunt filmed at Hyundai's Mojave Desert test track, to showcase the new technologies of the new Genesis 2015.

We see a big truck and 6 cars behind it moving in one lane. 5 of the drivers climb out of the sunroof and make a jump to a moving truck. Stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker stays in the lead car behind the truck. He puts on a blindfold, folds his arms to his chest and he lets ASCC(Advanced Smart Cruise Control), AEB(Automatic Emergency Braking System), and LKAS(Lane Keep Assist System) work their magic when the truck hits the brakes.

This kind of stunts are Volvo's game but Huyndai's Empty Car Convoy will surely be a viral hit.

DIRECTV: Get Rid of Cable Twitter Story

The first ever Twitter-Generated, Fan-Made, You-Written, Get Rid of Cable Twitter Story That We Made On Twitter Together. DIRECTV asked its fans to contribute to a story with tweets with the hashtag #GetRidofCable from April 14 through April 21. The best tweets were chosen and formed the following story.

Carlsberg: Border Football

Football and beer, it’s the perfect combination to bring people together. With their new campaign, Carlsberg and Duval Guillaume took this insight one step further. In these times of football fever, they created Border Football. This new game turns borders into football fields to bring both sides closer. The online film documents the Border Football games at three of Europe's most tense borders in Belfast, Nicosia and Kosovo.

Credits:
Advertiser: Carlsberg
Contact: Thomas Lohren Busch, Jens Jermiin
Agency: Duval Guillaume
Executive Creative Directors: Katrien Bottez, Geoffrey Hantson
Art Director: Toon Leysen
Copywriter: Jan Schoofs
Account Directors: Elke Janssens, Patrick Clymans
Social Media Strategy: Sophie Jadoul
Production Company: TRS Brussels
Director: Jan Boon
Director of Photography: Thomas Buelens
Executive Producer: Frederik Zaman
Producer: Thomas Landeloos
Editor: Hans Desmet
Music & Sound Design: Gregory Caron

Castrol Footkhana: Neymar Jr. v Ken Block

Football meets gymkhana and Footkhana is born. A shootout between Neymar Jr. and Ken Block. Juggling with the ball meets smoking tires and spins in this experiment from Castrol, an official sponsor of the World Cup 2014.

Volkswagen Kombi: Last Wishes

VW pays tribute to the iconic VW Type 2 (Kombi). The last Kombi was produced in Brazil in December 2013 and AlmapBBDO Brasil run a campaign for the "de-launch" of the model. They also gathered stories from the Kombi's drivers and made the following film with Kombi's last 15 wishes. The documentary took six months in the making.

From the legendary Woodstock painted Type 2, to the first drawing of the car from Ben Pon, the 4 minute film is full of special moments. The last wish fulfills Kombi's journey.

Credits:
Advertising Agency:AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil
Production:Spray Filmes
Director:Fernando Grostein Andrade
Creative Director:Andre Kassu, Marcos Medeiros
Executive Creative Director:Luiz Sanches
Art Director:Benjamin Yung Junior, Marcelo Tolentino
Copywriter:Marcelo Nogueira, Marcelo Pignatari Rosa
Executive Producer:Lucia Leite
Photographer:Fernando Grostein Andrade

Dissolve: This Is a Generic Brand Video

If you work in advertising then you'll find this very funny and true. This is a generic brand video made of stock footage by Dissolve that mocks all corporate advertising videos. Full of advertising cliches, the video is based on "This is a generic brand video" by Kendra Eash. Enjoy!!

Credits:
Video: Dissolve Footage
Narrated by Dallas McClain
Music: "Piano Work 02" by rysktchkw

Rushes: Tiny Worlds

Imagine tiny worlds come to life under our feet. The CG team at Rushes made just that with this very interesting and humorous trilogy.

Credits:
Agency: Rushes, London
Executive Producer:  Norra Abdul Rahim
Producer:  Caroline Laing
Production Assistant:  Alexina Davidson
Head of CG:  Andy Nicholas
Lead CG:  Andy Hargreaves
Director: Chris Hutchison
CG Artists:  Chris Hutchison, Craig Travis, David Drese, Liam Hoflay, Andrea Scibetta, Nimesh Patel
Nuke:  Noel Harmes
Flame:  Martin Goodwin
Sound Design:  Tom Martin @ Mcasso

Coor Down: Dear Future Mom

A very emotional spot for World Down Syndrome Day on March 21st. Coor Down, Italy's national organization for people with Down syndrome received a letter from a mother who learned that her son will be born with Down syndrome. She asked "I'm scared: What kind of life will my child have?"

The answer came from Saatchi & Saatchi with this emotional video where 15 people with Down syndrome respond to her. "Everyone has the right to be happy" as the tagline says.

Credits:
Client: CoorDown
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Italy
Executive Creative Director: Agostino Toscana
Creative Directors: Luca Lorenzini, Luca Pannese
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini
Director: Luca Lucini
Production Company: The Family Film
Agency Producer: Sabrina Sanfratello
Head of TV: Raffaella Scarpetti
Original Music: Alessandro Cristofori, Diego Perugini for Stabbiolo Music
Postproduction: XChanges Vfx
Color Grading: Band
Audio Postproduction: Top Digital; Cat Sound International
Voiceover: Pasquale Anselmo

Canal+: ‘Wilhelm Scream’ Mockumentary

"The Woman Who Can’t Watch Movies" is the widow of Sheb Wooley and she can't watch movies because he keeps hearing her husband's screem. “The Wilhelm scream,” is a legendary stock audio scream, recorded by Sheb Wooley and used  in the 1951 film Distant Drums. It was named after the character Private Wilhelm in the 1953 western The Charge of the Feather River. It has been used in over 200 films since then (including Star Wars, Toy Story, Indana Jones, Lord of the Rings and more).

Canal+ made a Scream Bank, a catalog of donated screams for industry professionals to use in place of Sheb’s and invites users to record their own screams and help Linda Dotson Wooley see films again. The video is a teaser for Leave Wilhelm Alone, an upcoming documentary on the “Wilhelm scream.”

Credits
Client: Canal+

Agency: FCB Spain & FCB Los Angeles
Campaign: “Leave Wilhelm Alone”
Client Contact: Iñaki Martikorena, Bernardo Melero, Purification González
Executive Creative Directors: Pedro Soler, Eric Springer
Creative Team: Beatriz Pedrosa, Peio Azkoaga, Joao Freitas
Producers: Brendan Kiernan, Steve Devore, Thomas Anderson, Kate Borkowski, Kepa Vizcay
Production Company: Helo
Director: Alex Grossman
Lighting: Seamus Tierney
Sound: Sam Tornero Pulido
Web Developers: Carlos Lainez, Miguel Iglesias
App Developers: Joan Arbó, Jorge Cubillo
Social Media Strategy: Mauro Rodriguez, Jose Olivares
Poster: Beatriz Pedrosa, Marian de la Fuente
Planner: Manuel López

Wren: First Kiss

20 strangers kissing for the first time in front of a camera. This short film from L.A. fashion brand Wren, got over 22.000.000 views on YouTube in just 2 days. The 20 strangers where hesitant at first, they felt awkward but when they started to kiss it all changed. Director Tatia Pilieva managed to make a touching film that went viral because the majority of the people just saw the transformative power of a kiss. They believed in the "strangers kissing story".

The reality is that these strangers are not common people but professional performers. Slate says:
"The cast includes models Natalia Bonifacci, Ingrid Schram, and Langley Fox (daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and sister of model Dree); musicians Z Berg of The Like, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Justin Kennedy of Army Navy, singer Nicole Simone, and singer-actress Soko (who also performed the melancholy indie music that accompanies the short); and actors Karim Saleh, Matthew Carey, Jill Larson, Corby Griesenbeck, Elisabetta Tedla, Luke Cook, and Marianna Palka." 

Knowing this ruins the feelings you get out of the film but I guess only people in advertising will know.

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Newcastle Brown Ale: The Teaser for the Trailer for Newcastle's Mega Huge Football Game Ad

I love the ingenuity of Droga5. He makes fun of Super Bowl teaser campaigns with this trailer for the Mega Huge Football Game Ad Newcastle Brown Ale would've made if they had a mega huge advertising budget.

Without having an ad in the Super Bowl he managed to top the list for teasers.

Advertising Agency: Droga5, New York

Carlton Dry: #HelloBeer

Pure silliness! These four inventive housemates will definetely make you laugh in this series of spots for Carlton Dry and the #hellobeer campaign.

Credits:
Advertising agency: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne

Monster.com India: Wake Up Campaign‏

A wake up call for all the passive job seekers out there. In the new digital campaign for Monster.com, an online job portal in India, we see a fish talking to a guy asking him “If I asked you a few years back where you’d see yourself today, what would you have said?".  Since you don’t get wake up calls like these in real life, you should go out there and "find better" thus delivering the brands tagline. Dentsu Marcom also made 5 teaser films featuring a little cow boy, a sheep, an opera singer, a vampire and Tarzan trying to #WakeUp the sleeping employee.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Dentsu Marcom
National creative director: Titus Upputuru
Sr. creative director: Jitendra Kaushik, Vishal Mittal
Creative supervisor/Writer: Aneesh Ayyappan
Sr. visualiser: Himanshu Sharma
Account management: Sunita Prakash, Kapil Jayaraman, Kulanath Kaushik
Account planning: Narayan Devanathan, Rabia Sooch
Films: Dawa Lama
Production house: Native Films
Director (film): Albin Jaison
Producer: Supratik Datta

Tullamore Dew: The Parting Glass

The best whiskey film of the year comes from Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey. Authentic and with a clever ending. We see four mates walking on an Irish grassy hillside on a rainy day to reach a stone church. They have glasses and a Tullamore Dew with them. They drink the whiskey in the cemetary outside the church while they sing an Irish folk song named "A Parting Glass" to honor one of their friends. The song was recorded inside the church. I'm not going to tell you the end. Just watch it!

Credits:
Advertising agency: Opperman Weiss, New York
Director: Laurence Dunmore of RSA Films and DP Alex Melman 

Beldent: Almost identical

You look better when chewing gum. At least this experiment from Del Campo Nazca for Beldent Gum (the Argentine version of Trident) is trying to prove. They took identical twins, gave one of them to chew gum and asked visitors of the Buenos Aires' Museum of Contemporary Art to answer questions like which one of the twins had more friends, had great sex, is more like to give an employe a raise, etc. From the 481 participants, 73% voted for the twins that chewed gum.

I love the work of Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi. See more of their work here.

Credits:
Title: "Casi Identicos"
Advertising Agency: Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi
Directores Generales Creativos: Maxi Itzkoff / Mariano Serkin
Directores Creativos: Matias Eusebi / Ammiel Fazzari / Juan Pablo Lufrano / Ariel Serkin
Productores por agencia: Adrian Aspani / Consuelo Gimenez Uriburu
Directora de cuentas: Ana Bogni
Ejecutiva de cuentas: Oriana San Martin
Planner: Regina Campanini
Productora: Agosto Buenos Aires
Directores: Diego & Vladi
Productor ejecutivo: Luli Krämer
Postproductora: La Posta
Productora de sonido: Tres Sonido
Productora de música: Circle of sound
Responsables por el cliente: Sebastian Genesio, Diego Serantes, Maximiliano Diaz, Victoria Feu, Angeles Curia.

Zulu Alpha Kilo: The wall

Concepts on an agency's wall fight about which is the best. It's impossible to be in the advertising sector and don't laugh with this spot by Zulu Alpha Kilo. They are nominated for both Agency of the Year and Digital Agency of the Year and this short video is their response for a company presentation.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Zulu Alpha Kilo, Toronto, Canada
Creative Director: Zak Mroueh
Copywriters: George Ault, Nick Asik
Art Director: Mooren Bofill
Agency Producer: Tasha Dean & Bette Minott
Account Team: Jessica DeSantis
Production House: TOUCHPOINT Films
Director: Matthew Atkinson
Executive Producer: Kevin Saffer
Director of Photography: Rob Scarborough
Camera Assistant: Alex Ordanis
Production Coordinator: Russell Saffer
Editing Company: PosterBoy
Editor: Danica Pardo
Online Artist: Steve McGregor
Video Post Facility: Alter Ego
Colourist/Transfer: Tricia Hagoriles
Audio Post Facility/Music House: Pirate Toronto
Audio Directors: Steve Gardner & Tom Goudie
Audio Engineer: Spencer Hall & Ian Boddy
Audio Producer: Kate Goora-Fried

Electrolux UltraCaptic: The world's first vacuum art

Thai artist Chalit Nakpawan created "Power", the world's first work of art from a vacuum cleaner. The editing is very good, giving you the illusion that the vacuum creates the art. The Electrolux UltraCaptic model has an innovative system called Compact & Go feature, which compresses dust and dirt in a unique container to prevent it from diffusing in the air. Great work from Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand.

Credits:
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand
Creative Group Head: Papop Chaowanapreecha
Art Directors: Shayne Chomchinda, Kajohnchai Rodklongtan, Patharaporn Khunchon, Weerayut Angkharach
Copywriters: Ranongsak Tanoparat, Chavanon Tantisiriseranee
ECD: Joel Clement
Agency Producer: Aitthipat Boonkumol
Artist: Chalit Nakpawan
Production Company: Wakeup Rabbit
Director: Pagorn Jungrungruang
Assistant Director: Thitipong Pimolwetkul
DOP: Chalongwut Chorruangsak
Production Manager: Nuttheera Payakken
Producer: Athip Vichuchaianan
2nd Camera: Siriwat Seesaeng
Editor: Wisarut Deelorm

Google Earth: Saroo Brierley - Homeward Bound

The amazing true story of Saroo Brierley will make you cry. He was lost at the age of 5 after falling asleep on a train waiting for his brother. He lost his Indian family then and he was adopted by an Australian family. He searched for 25 years for his family but since he had only visual memories of the place he grew up he was actually searching for a needle in a haystack.

Then he found Google Earth and started his search from the train station. He searched and searched through India using Google Earth and finally he found the town he grew up. He went there and he fould his home and his family.

Tui Beer: Guy finds his house plumbed with beer

Cool prank from Tui beer that went viral. A bunch of guys took several kegs of beer and plumbed them into every tap in one of their friends house, along with loads of cameras to catch the action. Then they took a cold beer and watched their friend open every tap on the house and see cold beer pouring out. The branding appers only on the kegs of beer if you pay close attention.

The whole prank:


Credits:
Advertising agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Auckland

Gillette Training Tracks: Built For Training

American football players workout is turned into a music track in this great video from Gillette. Phil Mossman, took the sound of pushups, weight lifting, jump rope, heavy bags hitting and all the movements of the players workout inside the gym and managed to create a music video that is actually good.

Credits:
Agency: BBDO New York
Production Company: Partizan
Director: Michel Gondry
Post: Final Cut - New York
Composer/Arranger: Phil Mossman