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New Zealand to guy drivers: Stay in mantrol

Here's a pretty high-concept safe-driving campaign from New Zealand. It centers on a place called "mandom," a giant metaphorical house (visually reminiscent of HBO's Voyeur) where men control everything. But…

November 12, 2010, 10:12 AM EST

Suggestive squirrel pitches Air New Zealand

"You can lick the crack." That's one of many risqué, "misunderstood" lines delivered by an oddly accented faux-muppet squirrel in Air New Zealand's new campaign from Auckland ad agency .99.…

October 14, 2010, 1:31 PM EDT

Greenpeace's milk ads do not go down easy

Apes and monkeys are all over adland these days. And not just in the planning department. (Hi-yo!) Here, Greenpeace in New Zealand blasts dairy company Fonterra for practices that contribute…

October 11, 2010, 9:27 AM EDT

Dog gets dogged in New Zealand lottery ad

An epic two-and-a-half-minute lottery ad from New Zealand? Was there an outcry for such a thing? Still, DDB spins a fairly engrossing tale of a big-money winner's pooch who…

October 6, 2010, 9:08 AM EDT

All Blacks show off their unreal rugby skills

New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team are the latest pro athletes to get their own fake-fancy-tricks video in this clip for the Rugby Channel TV network. American audiences are…

September 27, 2010, 10:45 AM EDT

New Zealand ad warns of bad burger drivers

Clemenger BBDO in New Zealand put together some new road-safety PSAs that are awfully goofy, yet find a novel way of communicating the potentially deadly consequences of driving while eating,…

August 16, 2010, 2:26 PM EDT

Fishing retailer making pitch to man-babies

I dislike babies because they're needy, wrinkled, self-fouling complainers who shriek and cry all the time. I dislike old people for the same reasons. Which means I doubly dislike…

August 11, 2010, 1:41 PM EDT

Whittaker's spot mixes race, sex, chocolate

Auckland ad shop Assignment blends eroticism and chocolate—which usually mix well, at least in my daydreams and on pay-per-view—into an unappetizing mess in this Whittaker's Ghana Peppermint commercial. A…

July 7, 2010, 2:10 PM EDT

Lottery winner receives mass love, not envy

A guy who wins the Instant Kiwi lottery is the latest everyman to lead a city of strangers in an exhaustively choreographed Broadway dance number in this ad from…

June 8, 2010, 8:58 AM EDT

New Zealand soda refreshes creepy mouths

I've never heard of Fresh Up soda, probably because I don't live in New Zealand. And when I saw the title of its new ad, "Thirst Is Creepy," I…

May 12, 2010, 11:37 AM EDT

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