Boys and Girls

This ad makes me jealous. Really, really jealous. Dr Bruce Banner green with jealousy. But not for the most obvious reason. Sure, it would be nice to have a Hollywood Movie budget but that’s not why i’m envious. It’s not the 3 month production shoot that travelled the globe either.

Since shooting an ad in Jamaica garnered zero sympathy the first time round, returning to film an ad with Usain Bolt was hardly likely to cause outpourings of concern for our wellbeing. But that was the position we found ourselves in last month, hopping the slow plane to Kingston to

Lettuce talk about our highlights.

Seeing as both Erik Kessels and Stefan Sagmeister spoke on Friday it was a pretty amazing opening to the weekend. Kesselskramer are an incredibly inspiring agency. From their humorous Royal Wedding commemoration plates (“Thank you for the day off”) to the downright hilarious Worst Hotel in

Great work, works. But it takes hard work to make great work. So without sounding too much like a gushy Oscars speech, I’d like to say a big thank you to our client for their belief and vision, the planners for coming up with a beautifully simple thought, the creatives

This weekend saw over 20,000 people queue up for the Living Aboard exhibition in the RDS (I would say that the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis organisers were sick at the irony of this harbinger of mass emigration happening on the same weekend and the same location)

The organisers had to stop

Great things these blogs. My fellow B&G’ers are sick of hearing me go on about my belief in the power of the jingles….but now i have a whole new audience to inflict my views on. Huzzah!

So back to Jingles, or earworms or sonic logo’s or whatever they are called now.

What does one do when faced with a work twin? Why, re-enact The Shining of course!

Next week’s photo will be the lady in the bath in Room 237. Surely a role Pat Stephenson was born to play.

Last November I was critical of suggestions to regulate the advertising of certain foods. Now it is the recommendations made by the report of the National Substance Misuse Strategy Group.

I wholeheartedly endorse a level of control over the advertising and promotion of alcohol but when does it go to far.

Yesterday the Central Bank published its report on the last quarter of 2011 which showed that 1 in 7 mortgages are now in arrears. In real numbers that means that over 70,000 mortgages are in arrears of 90 days or over, and frighteningly that number is up 42% since March 2010.

But

Here’s a question. Are there no clash codes for banner advertising?

I’m not a media expert, but I do recall that for TV and Radio the media buyers ensured that when they booked a spot for a client they used ‘clash codes’ to ensure their ad wouldn’t appear alongside a competitor