View Post Agencies | Brands VB&P, Audi Chase the White Whale in ‘Ahab Redux’ By Ella Riley-Adams on Aug. 13, 2013 - 11:19 AM In 2012, a creative director fell into Herman Melville’s 720-page trap and reimagined Ahab as a tow truck driver, madly chasing his white whale, an Audi Quattro. “Sometimes, I actually think it’s mocking me,” Ahab says in ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns Audi Shows Us How ‘It Couldn’t Be Done’ Got Done By Jordan Teicher on May. 14, 2013 - 1:10 PM Audi has been busy lately, pumping out ads for their newest cars in sponsorship deals with Iron Man while simultaneously pitting past and present versions of Spock against each other. The automaker seems to be at it again, now wi ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns Audi, Iron Man Try to Make Commuting Sexier Than It Really Is By Jordan Teicher on Apr. 25, 2013 - 12:54 PM This 30-second spot, produced by Venables Bell & Partners, attempts to show the audience how billionaire superheroes commute to work. The average worker takes the bus, the train, maybe drives an average car. Tony Stark drives ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | What The?? VB&P May Need Honkaholics Anonymous By Jordan Teicher on Apr. 2, 2013 - 10:54 AM What the beep? is right. Venables Bell & Partners is teaming with gasoline company 76 to stop honkaholism, a vicious nonexistent affliction that doesn’t actually affect many people. If you happen to live in New York City ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns W+K, Oreo Relationship Concludes with ‘Super Important Test’ By Jordan Teicher on Mar. 18, 2013 - 11:20 AM In case you were wondering, the domain name www.superimportanttest.com is no longer available, thanks to W+K and Oreo, who bring us, yes, a “Super Important Test,” which as we imagine was the intention is hardly a test ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | What The?? The Old Spice Wolfdog Calls it Quits By Kiran Aditham on Mar. 15, 2013 - 12:55 PM And thus, W+K Portland and P&G bid farewell to Old Spice’s “Wolfdog,” who in the past week has garnered over 4 million views via videos such as this and this and who’s even produced a Tumblr as well as� ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | Sports | TV Audi’s Super Bowl Spot: Let’s Get Some Ass at Prom! By Bob Marshall on Jan. 28, 2013 - 11:22 AM Audi and VB+P are traditionally all about appealing to consumers’ inner-adolescent with their Super Bowl ads. Remember when vampires were a big deal? Audi remembered, so they put vampires in their Super Bowl spot last year. ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV Google, Audi Join Forces for a Pleasant Ride Through San Francisco By Bob Marshall on Jan. 23, 2013 - 11:58 AM Worlds collide in the latest spot from Venables Bell & Partners, as Google and Audi share in the stage in “Enhancing Navigation.” How significant is this pairing? Well, I want you to question that as you listen to ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV Google Fights Siri Using the Power of Adorable By Bob Marshall on Nov. 30, 2012 - 11:30 AM From Venables Bell & Partners, the same agency whose larger-than-life contraptions for Google Maps and Google Fiber injected a third-dimension into the online world, comes two very different-looking spots for the new Google Se ...
View Post Ad Biz | Brands | Campaigns | Digital | People | What The?? As We All Figured, Only Dikembe Mutombo Can Save the World By Kiran Aditham on Nov. 26, 2012 - 2:33 PM W+K’s ongoing work for Old Spice demanded one hell of a refresh and the agency thankfully obliges with this rather promising effort for the P&G brand, which stars beloved former NBA center, Dikembe Mutombo. Though long s ...