View Post Agencies | Campaigns Venables Bell & Partners Veers Off-Script for Audi By Patrick Coffee on Aug. 25, 2014 - 2:30 PM Here’s another clever entry in the “meta/self-aware” category via Venables Bell & Partners for client Audi. The first spot is particularly appropriate considering the fact that it will run during tonight̵ ...
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 | 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. ...
Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV The Audi S8 Will Make Pedestrians Suspect You’re a Criminal By Bob Marshall on Sep. 5, 2012 - 12:01 PM Debuting tonight during the Giants vs. Cowboys NFL season kickoff, the above 60-second spot from Venables Bell & Partners titled “Suspect” marks the first time Audi is introducing its full line of S models to the U ...
Agencies | Brands | Campaigns eBay’s New Mobile App Will Keep You Fashionable By Bob Marshall on Sep. 15, 2011 - 2:25 PM “Mom jeans” are pretty bad, but as a young man frightened of losing all fashion sense with age, I have to say that I am personally more terrified of finding myself wearing a pair of dreaded “dad shorts.” At ...
Agencies | Campaigns | Social Media Intel’s ‘The Chase’ Integrated into Facebook By Bob Marshall on May. 3, 2011 - 10:46 AM Back in January, when Osama Bin Laden remained at large and Packers had not yet won the Super Bowl, we posted a video from Intel called “The Chase,” which advertised the new Intel Core i5 processor. At two minutes long ...