Subaru: Crowd Rider

TITLE: Crowd Rider
BRAND: Subaru
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: Leo Burnett, Sydney

Toyota: Better Together

TITLE: Better Together
BRAND: Toyota:
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: Saatchi & Saatchi, Australia


A very easy to understand ad. I think it had a creative twist to the product feature.

TITLE: Creed II: Eyes
BRAND: Assassin's
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: Cutwater

This is definitely a very memorable ad with those eyes!!!!
Kinda scary almost. hehe

Ad Council: Camouflage

TITLE: Camouflage
BRAND: Ad Council
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: Saatchi & Saatchi, New York

Very special one. I like the creative idea and the emotional touch!

Discovery Channel: The World is Just Awesome

TITLE: The World is Just Awesome
BRAND: Discovery Channel
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: 72andSunny

This is just too cute!!
And seriously, that song does stuck on my head.
Hehe...

And now they are having this new campaign that you could submit your own "boom-de-ya-da" videos
Discover Activity Page

Here is the previous one
Discovery Channel: I Love the World (30")


Discovery Channel: I Love the World (60")

Casa do Menor

TITLE: The Burden
BRAND: Casa do Menor
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: McCann Erickson, Brazil

Tourism Australia Billabong

TITLE: Billabong
BRAND: Tourism Australia
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA

[中] Ford New Mondeo

TITLE: 工作篇
BRAND: Ford
TAGLINE: 換算之後，你是否還記得真實的自己
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY:Taiwan
AGENCY: JWT, Taipei

你+壓力-身段x堅強÷任性

家庭篇

Lotto

TITLE: Lotto Millionaires
Tagline: Lotto millionaires are not like ordinary millionaires
BRAND: Lotto
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Norway
AGENCY: DDB, Oslo

Citi Bank

TITLE: Citi Never Sleeps
BRAND: Citi Bank
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY:

Is the Ad a Success? The Brain Waves Tell All

This is an article from The New York Times

By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: March 31, 2008


NEVER mind brainstorms. These days, Madison Avenue is all about brain waves.

That may be overstated, but it is no exaggeration that agencies and advertisers are growing more interested in neuroscience in their never-ending efforts to improve effectiveness.

The ardor of the ad business to adopt the technical tools of biometrics — measuring brain waves, galvanic skin response, eye movements, pulse rates and the like — is increasing as consumer spending, the engine of the American economy, slows.

In other words, in hard times ads must work harder to move the merchandise.

“Instead of hypotheses about what people think and feel, you actually see what they think and feel,” said Joel Kades, vice president for strategic planning and consumer insight at Virgin Mobile USA in Warren, N.J.

“I’m not such a huge fan of ad testing,” he added, but measuring biological responses is “absolutely useful.”

The curiosity about neuroscientific ways to determine how ads work — or fail to work — will be on display this week at the 54th annual convention and exposition of the Advertising Research Foundation. The agenda for the conference is filled with presentations on better methods to determine how consumers engage with ads (and vice versa).

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“In many ways, we’re testing advertising the way we were testing advertising when I was at Procter & Gamble 22 years ago,” said Frank Stagliano, executive vice president for the Nielsen Entertainment Television Group in New York, part of the Nielsen Company.

Neuroscience can provide “a more accurate way to understand what consumers really like,” Mr. Stagliano said, which helps to produce ads and programs that “break through the clutter” rather than contribute to it.

Last month, Nielsen bought a stake in NeuroFocus, a company that specializes in brain-wave research and works for clients like Scottrade, the brokerage firm.

“We measure attention, second by second; how emotionally engaged you are with what you’re watching, whether it’s a commercial, a movie or a TV show; and memory retention,” said A. K. Pradeep, chief executive at NeuroFocus in Berkeley, Calif.

A company that competes with NeuroFocus, the EmSense Corporation, hopes to demonstrate such usefulness in a discussion on Monday at the research foundation’s convention.

Executives of EmSense, which also tries to measure consumer response to ads through biometric techniques, will present the results of a study of how award-winning ads.

For the study, EmSense surveyed 200 people, ages 18 to 54, in New York and San Francisco. The study measured their biosensory responses to 19 commercials that won awards last year at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France, and ads that won Effie Awards last year from the New York the American Marketing Association.

The study looked at spots like a commercial for Apple with characters playing “PC” and “Mac”; the “I Feel Pretty” spot for Nike, with Maria Sharapova, and a commercial for Tide with a talking stain on a man’s shirt.

On Madison Avenue, Cannes awards, known as Lions, are usually perceived as honoring creativity and Effie winners are typically deemed to reward effectiveness. The EmSense study sought to weigh the value of those emotional and cognitive approaches.

Some findings reinforced the conventional wisdom, said Elissa Moses, chief analytics officer at EmSense in Westport, Conn., which works for clients like Virgin Mobile USA and Coca-Cola.

Winners of Effies “tend to be a little less emotional and use rational claims a bit more” than winners at Cannes, Ms. Moses said, and ads that won Lions tended to be much better liked than their Effie counterparts.

But surprisingly, “there are very important similarities” between the two types of winners, she added, which can help guide future campaigns.

Fifteen of the 19 Cannes and Effie winners engaged consumers faster than average spots, Ms. Moses said. “Typically, a spot engages with viewers in 5 to 7 seconds. The Cannes and Effie ads engaged, whether emotionally or cognitively, in 1.5 seconds.”

Whichever award the commercials won, they had an equal effect on purchase consideration and on brand favorability, Ms. Moses said.

Although winners of Lions are replete with emotional appeals meant to engage viewers, they also use what Ms. Moses called a “cognitive jolt,” a twist or surprise, to earn interest.

For example, viewers were startled by a car crash in a Volkswagen spot and by a dropped call in a Cingular ad.

Some consumer advocates question the role of biometrics in ad research. They worry that blending “Weird Science” with “Mad Men” will give marketers an unfair advantage over consumers.

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“The role of neuromarketing is to understand how people feel and react,” Ms. Moses said. “It in no way sets out to meddle with normal, natural response mechanisms.”

Her opinion was echoed by Robert E. Knight, the director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, who is also the chief science adviser at NeuroFocus.

“We’re not trying to predict an individual’s thoughts and actions and we’re not trying to input messages,” Dr. Knight said.

Before Nielsen teamed up with NeuroFocus, Mr. Stagliano said, “we were concerned how people would respond,” but after a test at the CBS Television City research laboratory in Las Vegas, the reaction was “overwhelmingly positive.”

“Respondents didn’t feel like they were being probed or anything,” Mr. Stagliano said.

Taiwanese Convinence Store

TITLE: 公仔系列
BRAND: 全家便利商店
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Taiwan
AGENCY: Ogilvy, Taipei

This is sooo cute!!! Although the commercial doesn't have too much to do with the brand since everyone knows this brand. However, they are introducing this new promotion (they are giving out those toys on the top) with funny activities. The audio is talking about praying to those different kind of Gods, you will get good jobs, good paid, good exam result, good love relationship...etc.

You can also see the rest of series here at Peppermint's blog, including another one and the blooper(they made it on purpose) one.

Many people said the idea is from a popular Japanese exercise, Algorithm March.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHk-SkIFIg

I don't think they seem too much alike. Hehe...

Moscow's Gmail Commercial

BRAND: Gmail
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Russia

This is sooooooo cool!!! Although we all know Google and its Gmail, this commercial makes you feel Gmail can do amazing stuff!

Morning Breath

(Click the image to the video)

TITLE: Morning Breath
BRAND: Dentiste Toothpaste
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Thailand

I think I've probably seen this kind of idea before, but this one is cute!

LiveDoor.com

(click the image to see the video)

TITLE: 100,000 Girlfriend
BRAND: LiveDoor.com
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Japan

Funny japanese commercial. They know how to use the sex appeal!!!

Zoo York

(image from I Believe in Advertising)

TITLE: Jenna Jameson
BRAND: Zoo York
MEDIA: Print
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: davidandgoliath, El Segundo

Haha...Although sex appeal is over-used these days, this ad is pretty cool. They are not obvious but in a way, they are. hahaha

StuffIt

At first I didn't really get the commercial. What does pregnancy or goldfish have anything to do with computer software? But when I watched it twice, I got it! LOL! It's brilliant!! Short and sweet! Just like the files compressor!

StuffIt Deluxe Website

[中] 幸福一定保

TITLE: 幸福一定保
BRAND: 謝長廷競選文宣
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: Taiwan
AGENCY: 謝長廷競選文宣

I don't want to get political here but it is very rare to see a good quality election commercial in Taiwan. It is always about putting the opponent down or brag about himself/herself. However, this commercial is different. I like the end twist. It is humorous.

Sprint

TITLE: Animal
BRAND: Sprint
MEDIA: Television
COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Award: London International Awards Television/Cinema SILVER Winners

Japanese PSP Game Commercial