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Holiday.

Directdaily goes on a holiday untill 22 October.

New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.

Great stunt for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation to generate awareness about the importance of an early detection of breast cancer. Inflatables in the shape of tumors were placed in the streets, in the middle of people's way. The campaign's claim was "The longer you wait, the bigger the problem gets."

Agency: Colenso BBDO Auckland, New Zealand.

Unicef "Toy Soldiers"

The African continent has the world’s highest number of child soldiers, fighting in wars they don’t believe in, for causes they don’t understand. Unicef extract many of these children from combat and reintegrate them into society. Their aim was to rally support for this programme. Sending out a direct mailer that garners support for Unicef’s child soldier programme. Initially, the mailer appears to be a typical packet of toy soldiers, but once opened, the recipient finds that the figurines are in fact children - reading books, playing soccer, riding bikes and doing other childhood activities. Results: The package went to Unicef supporter mailing lists as well as potential corporate sponsors. Awareness is up, and beyond the desired reaction from the recipients, many compliments are being received about the unique way in which it was put forward. More than a simple message, it’s an ongoing reminder of the realities these children face every day.

Agency: Y&R Johannesburg, South Africa.

The North Face "Outdoor Essentials"

How can you advertise in retail stores that have no advertising space because of housing thousands of competitive products? Package rocks, twigs and leaves as retail products and place them in the store space available - the product racks and shelves! These items showed customers that unless you buy the The North Face gear, you'll have to depend on these to survive outdoors. Customers were instantly drawn to the merchandise. (Some even wanted to buy them?!) Better still, purchase of the The North Face products increased by 38%. Not bad for a campaign built on twigs, leaves and stones.

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Manila, Philippines.

Inspiration.

Feathers are Emily Valentine's paint. Over the last ten years she developed her own technique and style using feathers from road kill, cat kill and dead pets.

Divine Body Piercing "Stapled posters"

Local tattoo, body piercing and clothing retailer, Divine, wanted to promote their fall body piercing special. They wanted to communicate it with low budget with an impactful result. A poster series was created using the outdoor medium as part of the message. Posters were stapled along community posting areas along Calgary's trendy 17th Avenue, where the store is located. Posters featured attractive, youthful models appealing to Divine's young and trendy target market. Staples were applied onto the model's image, thus making the staples appear to be the body piercings of the ad. Copy highlighted the offer clearly and in a playful manner. A fascinating, amusing and memorable stop-you-in-your-tracks ambient campaign that generated curiosity as people stopped to figured out why these posters had been so heavily stapled and once they figured it out they would want to visit the store with a unique and quirky personality, as shown through its advertising. And maybe get a body piercing.

Agency: Watermark Advertising Design Calgary, Canada.

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino "Baggage Belt"

They needed to promote the property using a baggage carousel at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. The strategy was based on a key insight: After traveling to the airport and enduring a long flight, travelers welcomed a bit of calm. The idea was to create a refreshingly tranquil oasis for the weary passenger, mimicking the cool water of Beau Rivage’s tropical pool. The baggage belt was transformed into a swimming pool complete with swimmers and playful slogans. The result was a total change in how people react around the hectic space of a luggage belt.

Agency: Masterminds, USA.

Arkaden "Get fabulous"

Arkaden is a fashion mall in the centre of Gothenburg. The target group are people in the ages 25-35, mostly woman. In the fall campaign for Arkaden the client wanted to show many great trademarks they have. They wanted the target group to visit the mall and try on the new fall collections. Maybe, if they'll try something, they'll buy something. They moved the dressing room outside to let people in Gothenburg try the clothes on, out on the street. They made mirrors out of ad shells, and added cut outs and their message "Get Fabulous". They wanted to show their target group that they very easly can get fab, they just need to visit Arkaden.

Agency: Dragster Gotenburg, Sweden.

Clear "Dandruff on shoulder"

Ad created to show the effectiveness of Clear in eliminating dandruff. In an original use of the front cover of a magazine, we see a woman with dandruff visible on her shoulders. A text invited the reader to pull off the corner of the ad, thus removing the dandruff and revealing the campaign slogan: Clear. No Dandruff.

Agency: Lowe/SSP3 Bogotá, Colombia.

La Fabril "Magazine"

La Fabril launched the new product Olympia the only disinfectant floor cleaner with insect repellent action. To highlight this benefit, developed through a traditional channel innovative and simple action. Who ever did not roll it up the magazine to kill the mosquito or cockroach on the wall? Based on this brand insight hired 4 magazines for free distribution: Interbarrios, Clubs, Samborondon & Country's for an interactive action. These magazines have a circulation of approximately 30,000 copies, comes monthly to gated communities, clubs, medical offices and restaurants and are delivered door to door every month. The reader received its monthly with the particularity of being rolled up and tied with a strip of paper. In the back of the strip close to the Olympia logo.

Agency: Maruri Grey Ecuador.

WWF Germany "Ice sculptures"

Ice sculptures in the shape of humans are placed on the steps of the music hall in Gendarmenmarkt public square in Berlin September 2, 2009. Hosted by the German World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 1,000 ice sculptures were positioned on the steps in the German capital at noon, to highlight climate change in the arctic region.

Artist: Nele Azevedo.

Visine Dry Eye Relief "Ambient stencil"

On Wednesday 23rd September 2009, Sydney experienced one of its worse dust storms on record when winds of up to 100km/h shifted more than 75,000 tonnes of orange dust every hour from the Australian outback and then blanketed the city in a thick film of red. Unlike anything ever seen before by residents or weather experts, the dust storm provided a perfect tactical opportunity for Visine Dry Eye Relief. Using a saline solution, they stenciled the Visine logo onto dust-covered sidewalks, cars and shop-front windows around Sydney, highlighting the product's ability to soothe and refresh dry eyes.

Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia.

Rexona "Samples"

Rexona introduces its new fragrance inspired by delicate perfumes and with the support of outdoor advertising, invites woman attracted to the fragrance expelled by the poster to remove a sample and keep it. Each week, the slips of paper were replaced with new perfumed ones.

Agency: Lowe Ginkgo Montevideo, Uruguay.

Active Watch "Wallet"

An anti-consumerism campaign used as a tool to explain the connection between buying frenzy for unnecessary products and the degradation of the environment. The challenge was to make heavy shoppers aware that the more they buy unnecessary things, the more nature deteriorates through massive production, oil consumption, land clearings and the overall expansion of urban areas against nature and its resources. In order to create a buzz around this issue, they created pratical wallets, wich were distributed in front of malls and supermarkets. The wallet functions as a reminder for the consumers not to buy unnecessary products because they will contribute to the degradation of nature. Each of them had a print with nature scenery and a button depicting an animal. This way, every time one opened the wallet, the animal was deprived of their natural environment and left to die. They were offered to people leaving the malls and supermarkets with their shopping carts full of goods and were distributed together with a brochure containing maga-deals for heavy shoppers, from Supercharged cars to Residential areas built after land cleanings undertaken in the middle of a forest. The anti-consumerism wallets were part of a bigger campaign, along with radio commercials, brochures and a website.

Agency: Grey Bucharest, Romania.

Axe Day & Night "SMS"

To complete this ad send Axe to 2345 after 9pm New Axe Day & Night. One is suitable for general audiences. The other one is not.

Agency: Lowe Ginkgo Montevideo, Uruguay.

Anurak Janmas "Private Detective"

There are many private detectives working in Thailand today. They are, however, anonymous and unknown to the general public. Their client considered himself to be in this category and tasked them with making him stand-out and be more memorable to potential customers. At first glance it looks just like any other name-card, but upon closer inspection, reflects the talent, dedication and experience that the detective has at his disposal when working on a case. Inquiries from potential customers tripled within the first month after the name-card was circulated.

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Bangkok, Thailand.

La Charcuterie "Stationary"

Here’s a stationery package that was recently designed for a sandwich shop. La Charcuterie is a deli/restaurant hybrid well known around Vancouver for serving up sandwiches filled with deli meats. To play off this, business cards were created to look like cold cuts then were strung in netting similar to the way salami’s and other cured meats are hung in delis. Finally, they printed meat stickers for the letterhead and envelopes made of butcher paper— the same paper they wrap their sandwiches in.

Agency: Rethink Vancouver, Canada.

Agudol "Pain"

Agudol is a non prescription painkiller specially formulated for headache. For general confidence and gain ground in May to its competitors, is developing a piece of direct marketing aimed at clinicians who recommend the product to their patients. Through its own medical representatives, Agudol to him a small wooden box, inside was a racket toy with a rubber ball attached to it with an elastic thread. On one side was printed the face of a frowning man and the other the same face but relaxed. Grupo Farma del Ecuador S. A. received excellent feedback and compliments from doctors and health visitors who rated themselves action as the fun and seller.

Agency: Maruri Grey, Ecuador.

Audi "Garage Banner"

Following its Canadian releasy early this summer, the Audi R8 5.2 V10 sold out immediately. With fans clamoring to own of these groundbreaking vehicles, they pioneered an equally groundbreaking advertising solution - one that gives every person the chance to get an R* for their garage. Available at "Audi.ca", this 1:1 scale, photo realistic banner, conforms to garages and mirrors everything exept the vehicle's price.

Agency: Lowe Roche Toronto, Canada.