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Check out the energy drink commercial above then watch the video below which is a kind of making of.

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Check out the energy drink commercial above then watch the video below which is a kind of making of.

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Extremely funny commercial for TomTom navigation devices. It’s for their new Star Wars navigation voices product. [YouTube]

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Watch on YouTube]

The guys at The Proteges program did a flashmod freeze act in Emirates Mall, Dubai. The first freeze act has ever done in UAE and maybe in Middle East was in August 2008 in Mall of the Emirate but ended up with failure after only 4 people showed out of 1000 agreed to do it, check our post about Flashmod.

Yes, our guys were great and succeeded … ao by the way, 7amood you looked good

[Via Ansam]

Cute hamster by Cadbury. [YouTube]

Spotted this billboard on the Sheraton round-about which cracked me up since “Sweet!” wouldn’t be the normal reaction to winning half a million Dinars… not unless you already had a few million to begin with. So I took the liberty of suggesting some better alternatives. The one above is the current ad that’s plastered on the billboard while the ones below are the ones I am recommending. If anyone has other alternatives post them below!

Amazon.com

This logo doesn’t seem to hide much at first sight, but it gives you a little insight in the philosophy behind the brand. First of all, the yellow swoosh looks like a smile: Amazon.com want to have the best customer satisfaction. The swoosh also connects the letters a and z, meaning that this store has everything from a to z.
Fedex

This is probably one of the best known logos with a hidden meaning. If you look closely, you’ll see an arrow that’s formed by the letters E and x. This arrow symbolizes speed and precision, two major selling points of this company.
Continental

Continental is a manufacturer of tyres. You could actually see this in their logo, because the first two letters create a 3-dimensional tyre.
Toblerone

Toblerone is a chocolate-company from Bern, Switzerland. Bern is sometimes called ‘The City Of Bears’. They have incorporated this idea in the Toblerone logo, because if you look closely, you’ll see the silhouette of a bear.
Baskin Robins

The old logo of Baskin Robbins had the number 31 with an arc above it. The new logo took this idea to the next level. The pink parts of the BR still form the number 31, a reference to the 31 flavours.
Sony Vaio

Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. But did you know that the name Vaio logo also had a hidden meaning? Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.
Carrefour

Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and it’s also French for “crossroads”. The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first letter of the name, because if you look closely you’ll see the letter C in the negative space between the two arrows.
Unilever

Unilever is one of the biggest producers of food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. They produce a huge amount of different products and they wanted to reflect this in their logo. Each part of the logo has a meaning. For example: the heart represents love, care and health -  feeling good, a bird is a symbol of freedom. Relief from daily chores – getting more out of life.

Formula 1

At first, this logo might not make much sense. But if you look closely, you’ll see the number 1 in the negative space between the F and the red stripes. I also love how this logo communicates a feeling of speed.
Sun Microsystems

The Sun logo is one of the most famous ambigrams in the world. You can read the brand name in every direction; both horizontally and vertically. This logo was designed by professor Vaughan Pratt of the Stanford University.
NBC

The NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is one of the biggest American television networks. I think most of you have already seen the peacock in this logo. The peacock has 6 different tail feathers, referring to the six divisions at the time that this logo was created. The peacock’s head is  flipped to the right to suggest it was looking forward, not back.

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Teasing history, ESPN created special trailer for USA vs. ENG took place yesterday which made Englishman angry.

New TV commercial by Adidas. Must have cost them a shitload of money since it stars David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong and more in a Star Wars remake. Sadly not very entertaining. [YouTube]

New TV commercial by Adidas. Must have cost them a shitload of money since it stars David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong and more in a Star Wars remake. Sadly not very entertaining. [YouTube]

This is a cool new Pedigree commercial which was shot at 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera, the same camera we used for the Wataniya Airways commercial. The dogs look very cool in slo-mo. [YouTube]

Cool new Nike commercial featuring Rampage Jackson from the UFC among other athletes. [YouTube]

Type:	Other - Festival
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, February 27, 2010
Time:	9:00am - 10:00pm
Location:	HASHEMI BALLROOM OF RADISSON BLU HOTEL

Please drop by the Philippine booth especially at Mel Marquez's table where you can get the best deals when it comes to hand made accessories, one of a kind clothing, fresh water pearls, Filipino bags and products, eco friendly hand painted bags and of course the hand painted arts in jeans.

Mel Marquez brings you the best retail therapy ever.

See you there!

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One of the best Super Bowl ads this year. Here is a link to a New York Times article on how it came together. [Link]

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Watch on YouTube]

R we ready for this type of advertising technique? Lately, using teasers as ways of marketing and advertising has become very popular in Kuwait. Teasers are nice and good methods to grab attention and create curiosity.  Most of teasers based campaigns were simple and straight forward.

What’s Flash mobs? It is significant number of people show up in a specific place to perform some actions for agreed time then leave the place as if nothing has happened.

Flash mobs are used for different causes; they could be used for marketing, protesting, appreciation, tribute, support, highlights, improvement … etc

Many big names and brandssuach as T-Mobile, Coca Cola have used this method for advertising. If it’s done correctly, it should have better effect than traditional methods.  

In August 2008, Dubai attempted to organize world largest flash mob freeze of 1,000 people in Mall of the Emirate ended with failure after only 4 people showed up. So yes, it needs commitment since it takes place in real life environment not in studios.  

Locally, we were told that Zain used flash mob for their Find Fahad game in the avenues where mob members were dressed in black T-shirt roaming around together.

Here’s list for some flash mobs activities

Pregnant women breakdancing in London

Purpose: Highlight that breakdacing is safe comparing to women giving birth in poor countries without a midwife, hospital or medicine. To raise awareness that women around the world are not getting the healthcare the need for pregnancy.

GLEE – Il (FOX TV)

Purpose: TV series Glee season 2 promotions

Coca Cola

Purpose: Band and marketing

*For more videos, just search flash mob in youtube  

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Watch on YouTube]

R we ready for this type of advertising technique? Lately, using teasers as ways of marketing and advertising has become very popular in Kuwait. Teasers are nice and good methods to grab attention and create curiosity.  Most of teasers based campaigns were simple and straight forward.

What’s Flash mobs? It is significant number of people show up in a specific place to perform some actions for agreed time then leave the place as if nothing has happened.

Flash mobs are used for different causes; they could be used for marketing, protesting, appreciation, tribute, support, highlights, improvement … etc

Many big names and brandssuach as T-Mobile, Coca Cola have used this method for advertising. If it’s done correctly, it should have better effect than traditional methods.  

In August 2008, Dubai attempted to organize world largest flash mob freeze of 1,000 people in Mall of the Emirate ended with failure after only 4 people showed up. So yes, it needs commitment since it takes place in real life environment not in studios.  

Locally, we were told that Zain used flash mob for their Find Fahad game in the avenues where mob members were dressed in black T-shirt roaming around together.

Here’s list for some flash mobs activities

Pregnant women breakdancing in London

Purpose: Highlight that breakdacing is safe comparing to women giving birth in poor countries without a midwife, hospital or medicine. To raise awareness that women around the world are not getting the healthcare the need for pregnancy.

GLEE – Il (FOX TV)

Purpose: TV series Glee season 2 promotions

Coca Cola

Purpose: Band and marketing

*For more videos, just search flash mob in youtube  

In commercial adds feild, there is controversy regarding women. The psychology of the image that is portrayed of women in commercial ads is multifaceted. We are shown images of women who are confident, sexy and sometimes a little intimidating and poor in their treatment of the humble male.Jean Kilbourne is an author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking

In commercial adds feild, there is controversy regarding women. The psychology of the image that is portrayed of women in commercial ads is multifaceted. We are shown images of women who are confident, sexy and sometimes a little intimidating and poor in their treatment of the humble male.Jean Kilbourne is an author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking

We’ve all gotten emails from people offering us money either because their uncle who owns a diamond mine passed away or maybe they inherited the money from their father who was king of Samboliadoodoo before he got killed in a coup d’état. Well what if one of these emails turned out to be true? Mother, an ad agency in London sent out an email to hundreds of people telling them they would give them $10,000 risk free money and all they had to do was reply back with their full name and bank account details. Well one guy did reply, and guess what happened? Watch the video. [YouTube]

I got this information from Frankom. Wataniya Telecom has a new and unique service. You can change your mobile number then people will know that you did by calling your old number a recording will tell them your new number and you will receive a text message informing you about the numbers that called your old line.

That’s a nice service but what if I changed my number because there is someone I don’t want to call me :s “you can run but you can’t hide” will if that’s the case just change your number without adding this service. BTW this service works even if your old number was Zain or Viva.

Wataniya is stepping there game up since it’s their 10^th anniversary

It’s really funny how you start feeling sad for the lamp. [YouTube]

It’s really funny how you start feeling sad for the lamp. [YouTube]

Some people might find this gross. [YouTube]

Some people might find this gross. [YouTube]

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Watch on YouTube]

Unfortunately the sound was removed by YouTube due to copyright policy. The video showed TGI Friday’s staff in Kuwait having fun in making sort of homemade “unofficial” commercial.

For their new HD TV commercial, Toshiba attached some of their HD cameras to a weather balloon along with an arm chair and sent it up to space. Looks pretty peaceful up there. [YouTube]
Here is a link to the making of [Link]

For their new HD TV commercial, Toshiba attached some of their HD cameras to a weather balloon along with an arm chair and sent it up to space. Looks pretty peaceful up there. [YouTube] Here is a link to the making of [Link]

Very weird commercial. [YouTube] via

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Guessed lot of people has watched Zain Jhoomle Ad lately on TV; it was rather confusing and controversial for some people while other loved it. Well this is not the case! I found this Zain’s Africa TV Ad and it was more entertaining than Jhoomle. It is like watching The Fugees clips. Do you like this Ad or Jhoomle? 

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Watch on YouTube]

Guessed lot of people has watched Zain Jhoomle Ad lately on TV; it was rather confusing and controversial for some people while other loved it. Well this is not the case! I found this Zain’s Africa TV Ad and it was more entertaining than Jhoomle. It is like watching The Fugees clips. Do you like this Ad or Jhoomle? 

Just learned that octogenarian means a person who is between 80 and 90 years old. [YouTube]

I love commercials that crack me up. [YouTube]

These have been out for awhile but since I don’t watch any Arabic channels I just found out about them now. [YouTube] [YouTube] [YouTube]

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In March 2009 a small town in Iceland was filled with speakers. The Seydisfjordur village was turned into an extraordinary sound-system for a week. Sounds by Richard Fearless ( Death in Vegas ) Mum, Bob Dylan, Toumani Diabate, Roberto Goyeneche, Murcof, Federico Cabral, Guillemots, etc. Good idea but no Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails? [YouTube]

I spent 2 hours trying to upload this video onto YouTube with my 1.5MB Qualitynet connection and I couldn’t. Finally was able to upload it by connecting my Mac to my iPhone’s 3G connection. Took around an hour but at least its finally up. Anyway this is the final cut of the new Wataniya Airways [...]

Last week when I was in Beirut I was there for work shooting a commercial for Wataniya Airways. One of the cool things about the shoot was that we were using the Phantom HD camera. The Phantom HD is a digital camera that can shoot up to 1500 frames per second (fps) at 720p resolution [...]

Pretty gruesome so don’t watch it if you can’t handle it. [YouTube]

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These commercials are a couple of years old but they still make me laugh every time I watch them. The one above is my favorite but here are two other executions which are also very funny. [First] and [Second]

[YouTube] These commercials are a couple of years old but they still make me laugh every time I watch them. The one above is my favorite but here are two other executions which are also very funny. [First] and [Second]

Whoever did this anti-drugs spot must have been on drugs. [YouTube]

Coolest GPS commercial ever! [Vimeo]

Thanks miraclezdohappen!

We were browsing at Virgin Store's boutique section when I saw theseAdorable!

It's Stewie!!! The youngest child on Family Guy cartoon series. That show is not your run on the mill cartoons because... well.. because you wouldn't want your children to watch it. Heck, you won't even want your Grandmother to watch it as they will certainly get offended.

I discovered Family Guy when I was holed up in our apartment in Davao. I can only do so much malling, eating out and going to the beach before my wallet gives up thus staying in and watching tv. I can't stand Wowowee so I went through my brother's dvd's and found Family Guy season 1.

The rest, as they say, is history. From 20 something episodes of season one up to season 7, my brothers and I bonded through this tv series.

By the way, Davao has the best pirated dvd's unlike here in Kuwait where they try to sell you 6 dvds for 1 KD just for one season. In Davao they have the whole 22 episodes or so of 1 season in just 1 dvd and all for 500 fils. Great deal right?
When I got back here in Kuwait I thought it would be awhile before I get to watch the show again but boy was I wrong. Showtime is showing it like 5 times a week! I schedule it for recording and watch it whenever I get the chance.

Anyway, back to the shirt, it's too expensive for 9 KD. I looked it up and found that it only costs 7 $ online. It's too pretty to pass on though but I just can't! Maybe i'll get that keychain that's only 3 KD when I get back there.

Amft. Corporate America.

I love their theme song!

Eversince I scratch my very first laptop, I've been drooling on Gelaskins protective skins for laptop's, Iphones etc. I read all about it from Chuvaness blog and I haven't stopped wanting them since.




Aren't they cute? *sending good vibes to the world for the up and coming birthday - me wants this world!*

I even tried ordering from Sultan's ask and they ship center but the shipping charge was just, if I remember correctly, more than the orginal price of the product. Too much.

It seems that the world felt the good vibes and sent the answer through facebook! You know those ads on the right side of your screen? Well I just saw this one .

This commercial is a couple of years old but I somehow missed it. There are two more parts [Here] and [Here] although I don’t think they’re as funny as the one above. [YouTube] Thanks Katia!

[YouTube] Two cool Nokia commercials created by JWT - China. [YouTube]

Someone took a Mighty Putty commercial and dubbed over it and now its wayyy funnier. Some bad language so if you get easily offended don’t watch it. [YouTube]

The best thing about any superbowl is the Advertisements which are creative and funny, most are pretty good. I listed the ones that stand out for me and a link for all the commercials during the superbowl.   Ads I liked: Audi Bud Light Office Coke Zero Troy Palumalu Godaddy Danica Patrick Baseball Godaddy Danica Patrick Shower Heroes vs NFL Legends Hulu (Alec Baldwin [...]

Q8Life posted about how the ad above is a national disgrace due to the fact that the currency is torn in half. Does anyone else find it offensive? I personally don’t. [Link]

Right on the heels of Whopper Virgin comes Whopper Sacrifice, another super smart campaign by Burger King. Whopper Sacrifice is a Facebook application and unlike anything else on Facebook it isn’t trying to make you join a group, make more friends or spread the word, instead it asks you to delete 10 friends from [...]

This is one strange Korean commercial. It’s for fried chicken and stars a Korean version of Robocop and has spaghetti western music as the soundtrack! [YouTube]

Back in October my agency pitched for and won the Wataniya Airways account. For those of you who don’t know, Wataniya Airways is the new “premium” Kuwaiti airline. I am highlighting the word premium because many people including me originally thought Wataniya Airways was going to be competing against the likes of Jazeera Airways as [...]

The video above is of the new Zain commercial, while the one below is the original from 1973. Same song, same singer. Its cool seeing the same thing but 35 years apart. Big difference of course is that the singer (Abdul Karim Abdul Kader) is much older, but I also noticed how the girls skirt [...]

Just wanted to share two more commercials which I think are also really great. I love how the fan walks into the room in the commercial above!

This is definitely definitely definitely one of my favorite ad campaigns ever. Burger King hired independent researchers to travel to remote places around the world and find people who have no clue what a McDonalds or Burger King is and who have never eaten a burger and then have them try both the Whopper [...]

A funny Lebanese commercial. [YouTube]

Just saw this anti abuse/racism campaign and thought I would share it. There are three different versions but these two are my favorites. [Link] via ads2blog

According to the video uploader this commercial was aired on Monday. So just a quick poll, how many people said WTF?! after watching it? [YouTube]

I have been trying to follow this year’s ‘Ramadan Season’ television; however, most of our beloved shows have given up on originality and are just trying to add a new taboo to a recycled story line. My family actually looks forward to the commercial breaks more than the shows themselves. You know there is something wrong [...]

If you don’t know who Gordon Ramsay is you won’t get the video. [YouTube]

This commercial was in the news yesterday (I think MBC) and they were talking about how racist it was towards people from the Gulf. I just watched it now and I actually think its pretty funny. Sure they are stereotyping but thats what makes it funny. The commercial is about this Sheikh who spots a [...]

I know I said I was going to post only two videos today but I had totally forgotten about this video which a friend had sent me earlier. A hilarious commercial from Syria and supposedly it was released this year! [YouTube]

I just saw two new Fasttelco ads and I think they are of really bad taste. The one above shows a dead bat bleeding while the other one shows a bat screaming in pain as it crashes through a window. These have to be the most horrendous ads Fasttelco have ever released. Check them [...]

The BlisterSister and I (that's me below, promise. Hahaha) wants to wish everyone a
BlisterSister said that the photo and wish above is all she can give to the people in Kuwait that's fresh from the Philippines.

I, on the other hand, got KC Concepcion's BAYO product. Yipeeee.

Shirts that screams, I am proud of being a Filipina. I feel like a walking billboard for the beautiful Philippines. I horded half a dozen of those styles when I was there last Christmas and I asked family and friends who goes on vacation to get me something from BAYO as pasalubong when they get back.

Aylavet.

Have a good night Kuwait. Let's pray for the dust to settle tomorrow and of course world peace.

Someone finally managed to record the really really cheesy radio commercial warning people not to talk on the phone and drive. If you haven’t heard it yet now you can. [Listen Here] Thanks Mishari!

A few days ago BBC aired the first live advert in the UK for Honda. When I say live I mean live. A group of elite skydivers jumped simultaneously from two aeroplanes and formed the letters H, O, N, D and A in sequence, within a three minute time limit to advertise the new Honda [...]

The current ads on the requirements of having a hands-free headset while driving and talking are rather bland. It sounds like the same voice actors. How many bad things can happen to two people? Seriously, the ads are a joke. The English could have been written a bit better and the actors could sound more [...]

The current ads on the requirements of having a hands-free headset while driving and talking are rather bland. It sounds like the same voice actors. How many bad things can happen to two people? Seriously, the ads are a joke. The English could have been written a bit better and the actors could sound more [...]

"Gurl we are so blessed. Couple of years ago this is just a dream and now it's all happening and I have yet to catch my breath" - My friend Jade in Kuwait Tower.

Oh okay. Don't tell the big man that yells at everyone inside who got a camera phone that we took snapshots.

Below is my friend Jade trembling at the idea of going down the kiddie slide. She actually inteviewed the life guard about the accident statistics and after 10 minutes up there she went down - by the stairs.

No I did not play in the water slides because just like my friend Jade, I am a scaredy cat like dut. See I tried it couple of years ago when my sister was here and I did not develop a taste for it thank you very much :D

Aerial view of Aqua Park taken from Kuwait revolving towers.

After swimming we were supposed to either try the Go Kart or the Paint ball but since they will only be here for a couple of days what is the best way to see Kuwait is by climbing 100 something floors up of Kuwait towers to have a 360 degrees view of Kuwait City.

It's also educational as well as cultural due to the various photos scattered around the tower during the gulf war.

Sweeping view of Kuwait Gulf.

We were deadbeat afterwards that when we attempted to walk towards Mishref International Fair from my house for a Go Kart run we apparently got lost and arrived in a place where genuine imitation designer bags are for sale. Yey!

It was an absolutely fun great day.

Really cool commercial for Specsavers, a UK based eyeglasses chain. [YouTube]

Just watched this commercial at the movies and thought it was pretty cool. Its a YouTube video so quality isn’t that good. [YouTube]

Wow, this is a cool viral campaign. You need a decent DSL connection to view it or let it load before you watch it all. Don’t read the comments below before view the video, you might read spoilers. [Link]

My favorite advertising campaign this year and best of all, it was produced in our region. Advertising Agency: Promoseven, Dubai, UAE Creative Director / Copywriter: Ali Ali Art Director: George Azmy Illustrator/3D: Furia Click here to view them bigger.

Cool new Adidas ad on Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas. [YouTube] Note: Just an interesting piece of information. PUMA was founded by Adi Dassler’s brother, Rudolf Dassler.

I really like the old Sadia commercial above. Even though its really old I still remember watching it as a kid. Below are two more commercials I found. The Sakhr one I hadn’t seen before and I didn’t find interesting except for the fact its a Sakhr commercial. The last one is an Indesit commercial [...]

I am not a big American Football fan but one thing about the Super Bowl I look forward to are the commercials. Advertising Age have collected all the ads from this years Super Bowl and have arranged them in alphabetical order. You can check them out by clicking [Here]

Fucking cool. [YouTube] Thanks Anes!

Imagine going into a Burger King only to find out they discontinued the Whopper. This is the new viral campaign by Burger King and its really funny. At one point in this video they give Big Macs to customers who ordered the Whopper! [Link]