A six-minute summary of all the viral madness that pervaded 2013. If ever there was a reason to fear for the future of humanity, this might be it.

Century 21 has done some seriously clever online marketing lately — there was the supposedly haunted houses for sale during Halloween and for Thanksgiving, the very strange psychadelic slow jam for your turkey feast. Now it’s joined Waterstones in the UK in taking the mickey out of Amazon’s plans for product delivery by drone.

When Coca-Cola stuck Santa on its products to inspire more brown beverage consumption in winter (and in so doing largely created the image of the fat, red-faced man we now know), it obviously realised the commercial power of old Saint Nick. But things have come a long way since then. And anyone with such a high-profile deserves a sophisticated brand identity. Thankfully, UK writing shop Quiet Room is here to help and has created this brilliant, jargon-filled festive brandbook for the jolly old chap.

Kiwi online hardware store Trade Tested has taken to YouTube with its own version of the cheesy informercial genre. A woodchipper at the company’s warehouse near Auckland International Airport is one of the stars of the videos, modelled on infomercials like the US series Will It Blend, by blender firm Blendtec.

There’s nothing new about the dimension of smell in video games, but there is about a crazy looking character that plugs into your phone and emits the delicious scent of hot, buttery popcorn.

With a new co-owner on board and a desire to differentiate, Rush Munro’s ice cream has lifted the lid on a new look from Dow Design that’s pumped up the colour and personality.

As you sit there staring forlornly at your screen, thinking about all the boring things you need to get done before the end of the year, here’s something that will either make you feel completely inadequate or inspire you to get out there, switch on the GoPro and try something ridiculous.

Hard on the heels of Coke Zero’s website that put the ugly yuletide jersey in the spotlight, beer brand Budweiser is doing the same, but this time it’s for a serious cause. The Knitbot supports and rewards designated drivers using tweet power.

Tristan Marris and Mark Osborne tried a raft of products to manage their digital creative agency 96black since establishing it about three years ago. In true startup style, frustration with what was available drove them to create something that better suited their needs and they want small agencies to give it a try.

Chorus says Gigatown competition not under review despite financial troubles; says it has dramatically reduced spam among participants in the competition, which offers a region fast internet connectivity.

Those who climb the corporate ladder tend to be narcissistic, Machiavellian and psychopathic, according to psychologist Oliver James. So here’s a classy corporate parody video that might help you hone those handy career skills by showing you how to make the world your office, use powerful acronyms and create the best business card ever.

Christmas is rapidly approaching, but instead of getting the gamer in your life something for their Xbox One or PS4, how about something a little more realistic?

While it’s unclear what opera or skateboarding have to do with whiskey, this ad for Ballantine’s does a great job of bringing together the disparate worlds of urban and classical art.

We’re big fans of dad dancing—and of the powerful parenting technique of embarrassment—here at StopPress. And those two things have been combined to good effect in a new campaign for the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) via its agency DraftFCB that aims to draw attention to an upcoming law change around the supply of booze to young’uns.