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John St. in Toronto Shifts Entire Focus to Catvertising 'Nobody wants to see ads anymore. They want cat videos'

John St., the Toronto agency that brought you last winter's wonderful Pink Ponies case-study video (showing how they made an 8-year-old's birthday party a success in an already cluttered birthday…

November 11 2011

Zombies Now Being Cast in Commercials for Yoga Centers They do need limbering up

I must admit, my first thought while watching this ad for a Vancouver yoga center was: "Oh great, more f*cking zombies." Well, ad agency John St. must have seen that…

September 23 2011

If Ad Agencies Planned Kids' Birthday Parties A case study from John St.

You'll enjoy this. Canadian ad agency John St., with a little help from Arcade Fire, put together this mock case study for one of its greatest marketing triumphs: Making Chelsea…

January 11 2011

War Child holiday gifts less awful than most

"Bad gifts can't save lives. War Child gifts actually do." That's the message of this spot-on Canadian campaign from ad agency John St. in Toronto. War Child presents are for…

December 06 2010

TV spots fool Canadians into eating broccoli

The Television Bureau of Canada has been blowing its own horn after revealing that a campaign by Toronto agency John St. was a hoax. Excuse me, an experiment. The…

September 30 2010

Canadian spots celebrate wonders of bacon

The Republic of Bacon? Isn't that another name for Bavaria? Apparently not, as ad agency John St. gets faux nationalistic and deep fried for the Maple Leaf Bacon…

January 26 2010

Canadian ads take on issue of child soldiers

These simple yet powerful ads by Canadian agency John St. for HelpChildSoldiers.com hit the target dead center. The print posters, via Ads of the World, appearing in Toronto and…

January 13 2009

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