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Award Show Bedlam! D&AD, Marketing Awards winners announced

Hello ladies. Look at the award shows. Now back to me. Now back to the award shows. Now back to me. Notice something? Yes, Wieden + Kennedy Portland and Old Spice are still cleaning up at the big international shows. They’ve just picked up not one but two very rare Black Pencils at the 2011 D&AD Awards today, not to mention three Yellow Pencils, two Nominations, and two pieces they figured would be good enough to throw in their upcoming annual.

Taxi battles for beauty with Internet Explorer 9

As a Mac user, I’m more likely to be surfing the net using Safari or Firefox, but even I will admit that a more than sizeable chunk of the world runs with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

To promote the new Internet Explorer 9 and what they call a faster, richer and safer web experience fuelled by HTML5 the Toronto and Montreal offices of Taxi have created an online and offline gaming experience entitled The Battle of Beauty.

Camp + King, Old Navy want you dressing like some guys, not like others

For those of you who are used to having their Old Navy ads lovingly dipped in high fructose corn syrup and dusted with sunbeams and powdered sugar by the folks at Crispin, here is a new campaign that takes the brand in a less saccharine direction.

Created by Camp + King, the online videos spoof other types of men’s fashion advertising before encouraging the viewers to “dress like a guy”, not a lamb cradling fashion whore or a CrackBerrty slinging khaki cowboy.

W+K and Old Spice put a lot of power in the hands of a teenager

The other day we mentioned that Wieden + Kennedy Portland had brought back Isaiah Mustafa to announce a new Old Spice commercial on the horizon. Well that ad has now been released… into the hands of a single individual.

DraftFCB Toronto gets Canadians “Sweatered Up” for WWF

While North America finds itself in the grips of yet another blizzard (Snowpocalypse? Snowmageddon?), it would probably be extremely easy to convince people to throw on an extra layer of clothing to keep warm. But to combine this with turning down their thermostats? That might be a bit more of a challenge.

Red Tettemer brings Groundhog Day to Foursquare for PA Tourism

Okay campers, rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties, because it’s COLD out there today!

IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY!

Actually the blizzard came about twelve hours ahead of the movie schedule, but even though much of the eastern US is buried under 26 feet of snow, that didn’t stop Punxsutawney Phil from coming out and making a seemingly unlikely prediction of an early spring.

Proximity Chicago: the Foursquarian Candidate for Mayor of the city

The mayoral election for the city of Chicago is coming up in late February of next year, but the race has garnered global attention now that Rahm fucking Emanuel has decided to throw his goddamned hat into the motherfucking ring — for those who don’t know, Rahm is the former White House Chief of Staff, known for raining down profanities behind closed doors.

Grip Ltd. helps Budweiser show its World Cup colours

I gotta admit it, ladies and gentlemen, my interest in the World Cup is mild at best. I don’t follow soccer/football at any other time of year, and when it comes to national pride, the sport’s got nothing going for me. Yeah, I had a little excitement when the Reggae Boyz were in it back in ’98 (my dad is Jamaican) but my home and native land hasn’t been there since ’86, where they lost every game without so much as a goal.

zig gets Molson fans to suit up for Olympic (and Facebook) gold

Well the Winter Olympics are over, and here in the Great White North, we’re still beaming about our highest ever medal haul, as well as our Olympic record setting number of shiny gold trinkets.

It looks like Molson Canadian is also beaming after the response its Facebook campaign received during the Games. The folks over at zig in Toronto have sent us over a nice little case study video for their highly successful Gear Up For The Gold Facebook app.

Collective London: “He’s taking your tweets, checking them twice…”

Have you been a good Twitterer this year?

Santa doesn’t need to see you when your sleeping or know when you’re awake anymore. The fine folk at London digital shop Collective have set up their site to do Kris Kringle’s dirty work, by scanning your Twitter account for acts of niceties or naughtiness. If you type happy thoughts or if you swear too fucking much, the Collective Santa will know.

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