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The first couple are cool, but that third one is awesome. I love it!

I love those kind of creative ads! More of these at http://adsoftheworld.com/

Love this kind of stuff. Thanks for the post … very inspiring and reassuring.

I found 7/11 campaign with the White Sox games to start at 7:11 also quite creative. I’m actually surprised you dissed it in a previous post.

So gooood. I remember in grade 10 we watched 50 of the “best tv ads” from around the world…it showed me that ads don’t have to be as bad as they are in North America…also showed my our ads are the worst and that European are/were way more entertaining with their advertising.

beware the NSFW content on the “via” link…

Those are great.

This is awesome.

Creative but…

is the first selling watches or an airline that stays on schedule

second, coffee or cups

third, razors or billboards

Here are some more creative ads, courtesy of Dan Benjamin (I think that’s where I got this). http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/10/13/top-10-ad-tricks-in-tokyos-train-stations/

Advertising/Design Goodness, A blog concentrating on the best and sometimes the worst ads and design around the globe. By Frederik Samuel.

This guy keeps a pretty good collection of ads from around the world.

A bunch of clever shopping bags. I think the gun one would alarm many people.

This one is awesome: shoes for adults and children.

Alan,

Right.

Creative, yes. Clever, yes.

Let’s see some clever, creative & effective (meaning they sold stuff) ads.

Jack

Commercials for fun. :)

Lex

There’s a nice collection of creative ads on HEMMY .net

Great post . very creative use of Medium . great work Thanks

Perhaps clever more so than ‘creative’. Creative seems to be a default attribute of any ad campaign. I agree with the others that would prefer to see more ‘effective’ ads.

great sample of ads… is the second on for a plastic surgeon???

They’re interesting as illustrations. I don’t see any of those physical concepts working well in the real world, though. Especially not the plastic-surgery coffee cup. The person drinking from the cup would have to hold the cup just right for the effect to work at all. And if you’re non-female and non-white it just would look dumb.

There are lots of “clever” ads out there that I enjoy watching, but they leave me with no memory whatsoever of what was being advertised. Was that a Ford or a Honda? Laundry detergent or a fabric softener? Got me.

Creative? entertaining?

Yes.

Information content?

Zero.

I’m surprised that more companies don’t put infomercials on YouTube. They spend tons of money on making people watch commercials for products that they’ll never buy but when I am planning on buying something I’ll actually ask to see the commercial but can’t download one. That’s what movie previews are and I love watching www.apple.com/trailers to see what’s available.

Very cool site. I especially like the watches. People always notice expensive things lying unattended in public places.

realy good work. i they your thinking about shawing razar. its too good.

its really creative throught….....i m vry vry like it

the last one, – the razor is tooo good