Browsing: Woops of the week

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Viraler! Effort! Printers! Phallic vegetables! Jam! LeBron! Endorsement! Clocks! Sports! He-Man! Linkage!
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From the agency that brought us catvertising comes a company that makes your videos go “viraler and viraler”; putting in the effort; the sound of print; you’ll never want to eat zucchini again; Google spreads some jam on it; rather than making fun of Apple acolytes, Samsung has brought in the big guns for its big phone; while Obama had Will Ferrell, Romney had Mr Burns; Switzerland goes off the clock; perhaps the best song ever written about sports; five hours well spent if you watch to the end, the evolution of paywalls; a whole lot of creative catharsis; bovine photo bombing; a map of your brain; and the gift that keeps on giving.

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Buzzwords! Dolphins! Zomney! Horse! Ghostbombing! Surprise! Freeze! Boom box! Cats! Self-love! Kids! Protest! More!
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An appropriate punishment for those who use buzzwords; Megan Fox: dolphin whisperer; beware the Zomney apocalypse; a beautiful bit of horse play; spot the Halloween-inspired ‘ghostbombing’; Call of Duty is back with a few more surprises; Nike’s very cool ‘live freeze’; a proper boom box; another kooky feline musical number for Litter Genie; If ten-year-olds ran an agency; the social media protest song; Wieden + Kennedy goes gonzo with Old Spice recruitment challenges, the Taxonomy of Arse, quite possibly the best Halloween costume ever conceived.

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Sparrows! Fish! Eggs! Chairs! Women! Men! Big hits! Pride! Print! First world problems! Cheating! Water wigs! Drugs!
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A clip not suitable for people with broken ribs; let nothing come between a man/woman and his/her fish; a bit too much eggnog, perhaps; the real reasons Facebook is like chairs; men are from mars, women are not; everyone loves big hits; just like Heineken and Gin Wigmore, Apple’s new iPod ad has a Kiwi connection, with Willie Moon’s backing track; Lexus brings print to life—by using a tablet; first world problems get hijacked, support Lance, amazing water wigs and what drugs do for self-portraits.

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Samuel L Jackson! Face arcade! Throat worms! Fun for two! Follow the frog! Bond! iPhone 5! Fragrance! Wrong Direction! MySpace! Extra time! Linkage!
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Samuel L Jackson reprises his Go the Fuck to Sleep role for Wake the Fuck up; Welly digi-maniacs Resn use the face; the hottest new dieting craze; selling smart cars with skateboarding; a call to arms for the middle classes from the Rainforest Alliance; Gin Wigmore becomes New Zealand’s Bond Girl; one of the many iPhone 5 parodies; there’s almost nothing better than a fake fragrance ad; Mitt Romney + One Direction = the Wrong Direction parody; it’s impossible not to use the phrase bringing sexy back when describing the new Justin Timberlakey MySpace; kids explain what they’d do with another five years; best word ever finals; ‘honestly doctor I fell on the eel while I was vacuuming’; and missing children on a 404.

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Abe! Jen! Unemployment! Burn! Choking! Yah! Carving! Corkscrews! Clothing optional! Crack! Gospel Bill! Linkage!
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Abe Lincoln is a sweetheart; Jennifer Aniston laughs at herself for Smart Water; Benetton courts controversy once again with ‘unemployee of the year’; Benefit cosmetics takes to the streets to dish out a few beauty burns; a very powerful way to promote first aid; Melbourne is pretty much good at everything, including the ads for its film festival; Guinness gets its carve on; Hot Wheels nails the corkscrew world record; an oldie but a goodie from Bud Light; no-one feels it like you do; Gospel Bill teaches his animal friends how to give all their money to the Lord; “Utility is unaspirational”, reinventing the lightbulb, sad impersonators, the world is massive, K-Rob like you’ve never seen him; and you are not a photographer.