A Square Meal at Spike

A little bit like a 'Synthetic Fry up' or a 'Tasting Menu' but made solely of crisps and other nasty stuff that comes out of plastic bags. What you get when you let 20 Techies loose in Sainsbury's.

When your browser's, web address bar becomes creative

For years copywriters and earnest clients have spent many a long hour finding an available url that peaks the interest of the client or is relevant to the brand. Well now Sixt the German hire car company have taken browser address bars and urls to a new level of creativity - courtesy of the splendid Adverlab blog.

Here the Sixt guysa have created a new format of advertising on a 3rd party site, that has cars racing across the address bar using ascii characters, then a brand message - clever boys

Top 101 Most Influential people who NEVER lived

I was going to write a boring post about the new laws on email privacy in the UK and the fact that China will be increasing its censorship of the internet. It certainly has a certain degree of irony that we are spying on our citizens almost as much as the Chinese are restricting theirs!

Anyway I looked up Big brother (the Orwellian not Endemolian) and followed an intriguing link to something much more fun - this book.



It's just for fun but Big Brother is in there, but its just as much fun to see how many marketing/ product and advertising characters are too.

1. The Marlboro Man
2. Big Brother
3. King Arthur
4. Santa Claus (St. Nick)
5. Hamlet
6. Dr. Frankenstein's Monster
7. Siegfried
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11. Uncle Tom
12. Robin Hood
13. Jim Crow
14. Oedipus
15. Lady Chatterly
16. Ebenezer Scrooge
17. Don Quixote
18. Mickey Mouse
19. The American Cowboy
20. Prince Charming
21. Smokey Bear
22. Robinson Crusoe
23. Apollo and Dionysus
24. Odysseus
25. Nora Helmer
26. Cinderella
27. Shylock
28. Rosie the Riveter
29. Midas
30. Hester Prynne
31. The Little Engine That Could
32. Archie Bunker
33. Dracula
34. Alice in Wonderland
35. Citizen Kane
36. Faust
37. Figaro
38. Godzilla
39. Mary Richards
40. Don Juan
41. Bambi
42. William Tell
43. Barbie
44. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
45. Venus and Cupid
46. Prometheus
47. Pandora
48. G. I. Joe
49. Tarzan
50. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock

51. James Bond

52. Hansel and Gretel

53. Captain Ahab

54. Rick Blaine

55. Ugly Duckling

56. Loch Ness Monster (Nessie)

57. Atticus Finch

58. Valentine (St)

59. Helen (of Troy)

60. Batman

61. Uncle Sam

62. Nancy Drew

63. J. R. Ewing

64. Superman

65. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

66. HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

67. Kermit the Frog

68. Sam Spade

69. Pied Piper

70. Peter Pan

71. Hiawatha

72. Othello

73. The Little Tramp

74. King Kong

75. Norman Bates

76. Hercules (Heracles)

77. Dick Tracy

78. Joe Camel

79. Cat in the Hat

80. Icarus

81. Mammy

82. Sindbad

83. Amos 'n' Andy

84. Buck Rogers (incl. Flash Gordon)

85. Luke Skywalker

86. Perry Mason

87. Dr. Strangelove

88. Pygmalion

89. Madame Butterfly

90. Hans Beckert

91. Dorothy Gale (Wizard of Oz)

92. Wandering Jew

93. Jay Gatsby

94. Buck (Jack London - Call of the Wild)

95. Willy Loman

96. Betty Boop

97. Ivanhoe

98. Elmer Gantry

99. Lilith

100. John Doe

101. Paul Bunyan

BK Whopper Sacrifice

WOW! those guys at Burger King are in the news everyday for cranking out cool digital work at the moment.



In order to get a free Whopper you have to sacrifice (give up) 10 of your so called friends in face book (not much of a dilemma here). Another great example of a brand doing something fun and good for once using social network sites in the right way. There have only been a few - I thought the O2 promotion last year at the dome was brilliant too.

So many people get it wrong but BK have been doing great work for years so its hardly surprising they have nailed this one - the pr opportunity is likely to be massive, and measurable - I can already feel the 'We saw 10,000,000 friends traded for a million burgers that's how much you love the whoppers' ad coming. Apparently there are people forming groups on face book to offer themselves as sacrificial stooges. You know you are on to something when it takes a life of its own.

A Morning 'Cuppa' that really is music to your ears

Just saw this on Ted.com looks great fun. I love a morning cup of Tea like every self respecting Brit but this is on another level.

Perhaps Tetley, PG Tips or the rest of them will bring out a new variant?

Burger King - Response To Whopper Virgins

Nice Humanitarian response to the Whopper Virgin ads.

Brilliant Virgin Atlantic Ad

I just saw the new Virgin Atlantic TVC and its great, celebrating 25 years of Virgin Atlantic. It reminds me a bit of the Hovis ad our friends at MCBD did in terms of the historic flash back, but it is very cool and very nostalgic. Loving the soundtrack.