The Future of Ads

Makita Drills Their Point Across

Rarely is a billboard the best place to do a product demo, but for Makita, a blank wall proved to be the perfect way to show off what their drills can do.

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Vodafone and Cubeecraft Make Holiday Clones To Help Spread Cheer

The holiday season often brings out the worst in advertising, as companies know that they need to make a holiday push to get themselves into the public eye, but they don’t take the time to do it right because they figure that everyone is already in the buying mood, so there’s no need to put effort into motivating sales. However, standout (and unique) ads will always prevail, so over the next few days, I’m going to highlight some of the best from this holiday season, and look at why they succeeded when others failed.

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The Making Of A Commercial Becomes A Commercial

Toshiba’s upscaling technology takes standard definition content and transforms it into near high definition quality. The ides is that upscaling will “take anything you watch and make it astonishing”, so Toshiba needed to create an ad that would explain that concept in less than a minute. In short, they too needed something astonishing.

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