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I’ve been sitting on this link for a while (click above), but it’s pretty interesting to note just how powerful and large Wal-Mart has become.  Many people have their own opinions on the superstore, but this does a pretty good job of just putting the info out there in a way that everyone seems to love these days, AN INFOGRAPHIC!

As an aside, in Toronto now making things happen and visiting family for the holidays.  Don’t expect another post until at least a few days into the new year!

If Wal Mart’s latest abomination makes it off the web and onto my TV set, I’m heading for the hills.  This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

We all saw Heineken burst on the scene earlier in the year with being one of the first brands to utilize those cool video ads in the bottom-right corner of your screen on Facebook.  Now it looks like they’re taking their partnership with Facebook one step further with the Heineken Social Tree.  The video gives a cool overview on the project, but to see the real power, check it out yourself.  I’m not sure if you see the possibilities for similar offshoots to this, but if you don’t, I’m not telling you.  The ideas are mine

Love this parody on the flash mob craze (not sure if it’s a craze years after they became popular), but I mean people are going to have to start getting a little bit more original in their mobs than just randomly breaking into dance.  That said, I suppose there’s a giant segment of people who haven’t caught on to the flash mob thing and it’s probably still really effective.  I’m a victim of the bubble I live in.

Unknown ~ Unknown

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.

Old Spice is going in full effect this Christmas with their MANta Clause campaign.  To be honest, the videos aren’t quite doing it for me, but the idea is awesome.  Check out all the videos and the progress they are making into the campaign.  What do you think?  Always been my dream to do something like this involving a widespread audience at Denote.

I was originally planning to head to Toronto to visit family later in December, but business with Denote and Boost are taking me there earlier than expected.  As such, my posts over the next while are going to be less around the idealistic, and more around the “Hey, here’s a cool concept someone is trying in another part of the world!”  Just no time to be insightful as we try to get as much in-person client work done as possible.

For now, just watch a penguin get tickled.

THIS, is the guy everyone thinks will go #1 overall?

Awesome ad for Norte Beer to protect us from what we all fear most, evidence of what happened last night.  The thing I actually love most about this is the ability to expand the campaign past this ad and actually develop a product to do this.  These already exist for license plates to stop toll cameras from snapping pics.  Could we not develop like a beer cozy or something made of tin foil?

Now, as a male, I really didn’t notice that O.B. Tampons were gone from the shelves for some sort of manufacturing update?  I’m no rocket scientist, so I’m not entirely sure what this could have possibly entailed, but whatever.  Anyway, they’re now apparently back here in Canada and to apologize for leaving, they’ve made what I think is the best apology ever, in music video form.  I put my name in, and just about lost it.  Try yours, both men and women a like!  The guy doesn’t even get tripped up on multiple-syllable names.

Can anybody think of any other awesome apologies like this from corporations?  Does this do it for you as a woman?