The Ads of the World site chooses monthly winners from among the millions of offline and online ads produced on the planet.
Ads of the World is a massive archive of advertising and also plays a role as a community for the greater advertising industry.
A selection of the February winners are shown below:
Gold Winner:
Silver winner
Bronze winner
Virgin founder
The Richard Branson Facebook page is calling for all fans to vote for Richard Branson’s blog in the upcoming Webby Awards for the category of Best Business Blog. This is in response to a “Beat the Beard” campaign instigated by certain business journalists who for some or other reason have knives out for the Virgin king.
Tongue in cheek, Branson begs for votes, asking YOU to “Back the Beard”.
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Save our souls, it’s the birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse Code and the single wire telegraph system. Samuel Charles Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
To commemorate the birth of one of the founders of the Age of Information, Google have changed their logo to show the letters G.O.O.G.L.E in Morse Code:
The Hunt Lascaris/TBWA team conceptualized and created the trillion dollar billboard campaign in order to highlight the devastation the economy in that c0untry is currently experiencing.
The Zimbabwean currency has been the worst disaster in known human financial history.
The billboards, part of a campaign for The Zimbabwean newspaper, is constructed entirely of Zimbabwe Dollar notes – cheaper than using paper.
After the ANCYL and Julius Malema threatened “militant” action against Nandos for the production and airing of this ad, the wizzkids at Nandos came up with the following retort.
All I can say is all of this makes me want to eat more chicken, Nandos-style!