Absolut Metropolis

Cool site and ad campaign for Absolut vodka.

Ad on the right hand side of this site

Clicks through to here

Thanks to Elin for the tip!

Glam.com - New Fashion Portal

Here

"Love fashion magazines?
Love to shop?
Not enough time?
Introducing Glam.com, a spectacular new way to indulge in the guilty pleasure of shopping. Browse top looks, beautifully displayed. Easily find a great mix of must-haves that express your style."

Very American, and very girly!

More info here

Million Dollar Homepage

Here

Apparently created by someone to clear his student debt, people pay $1 per pixel, in blocks of 100.

More background via CNET

Subservient Stewie - Family Guy Viral

Here

Details at Adrants

iPod Nano Problems

It seems that some Nanos already have problems with their screens.

People power here: FlawedMusicPlayer.com

Echos of the controvery behind: iPod'sDirtySecret.com

Bus Shelter Ad For Sony Ericsson

A very impressive ad for the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone has appeared round the corner from the office.

It's a huge model phone embedded in a bus shelter that actually plays allows you to play a number of different videos on the screen and. I'm afraid my photo doesn't really do it justice!

3 Micro Sites for Corpse's Bride Film

Postmortem - ask questions of the dead

Bonymail - messages from the dead

Sept 23 - trailer, amateur style. Takes ages to load!

Via Adrants

Saab UK Game

Race Against Time

Adrants love it!

French Virals for Renault Clio

3 films here

Via Adverblog (where else?)

UK Anti Smoking Sites

Boys - Stayinghard.co.uk

Girls - Uglysmoking.com

Millions of Games

An online database of all the games produced -

From the email to ViralMonitor:

Hello,If you've ever used del.icio.us then this should be a familiar concept: http://www.millionsofgames.com

Millionsofgames.com is a community based website that aims to becomethe best place to find all the latest casual and online games. It'sfree to join and members get access to our growing list of games aswell as their own member home page where you can bookmark and rateall the games you play regularly. Best of all, any member can add agame to MOG.

Millionsofgames.com was originally developed by 3RD sense as awebsite for us to keep track of all the good viral games on the web.

All the best,duncan
duncan@3rdsense.com

Site For Apple/Motorola Phone

Here

Make a character dance!

New Banner Format - Chat Banner

I found out about this from a posting to the UKNM discussion list:

Subject: Start Creative: Chat Banner.
From: Alastair Cox
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:25:01 +0100
X-Message-Number: 8

Hello,

Thought I'd share up a new banner format with you that we have developed
with Creative Virtual (Lingubot(tm) technology) and Eyeblaster (rich media
ad-serving, tracking and reporting).

In short, we have put lingubot and ad-serving technology together so that
customers can pull product and service information into a banner within the
context of a running conversation.

As a proof of concept we have built a 'travel concierge' that will answer
basic questions on planning and booking a holiday which you can try here:
http://www.creativevirtual.com/chatbanner/xpandableBanner.html
(Try asking questions about passports, visas, the weather, booking a
holiday, car hire, skiing etc.)

Caveats:

It's a prototype so the knowledge base is limited.
Think this is cool / worth sharing because it's an advertising format based
on customer pull rather than marketing push.
Good scope for real word application - so happy to supply details on
request.

Alastair

Business Development Manager
Start Creative, 2 Sheraton Street, Soho, London, W1F 8BH.
T: 020 7269 0185 F: 020 7269 0102 M: 078 1332 4240
www.startcreative.co.uk

See the banner here

The Onion Does Hurricane Katrina

It's up there with the post-911 coverage.

God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again

Louisiana National Guard Offers Help By Phone From Iraq

Government Relief Workers Mosey In To Help

Refugees Moved From Sewage-Contaminated Superdome To Hellhole Of Houston

White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters

Another Saints Season Ruined Before It Begins

Shrimp Joint Now Shrimp Habitat

Bush Urges Victims To Gnaw On Bootstraps For Sustenance

Hotel You for Diet Coke

A site to 'lighten your mood and brighten your day'

Via Adverblog

Dutch Viral - Man Reading Newspaper

Here

Apparently this seems to be all the rage...

All The Marketing blogs You Can Shake A Stick At

General Motors - Fastlane Corporate blog:

General Motors - Blog to celebrate 50 years of their Smallblock engine:

HP - Blog on the making of a Nat Geographic Channel documentary, sponsored by HP

Vespa Blog - on all things related to Scootering:

A Tour De France blog, sponsored by Subaru

Boeing Blog for their new 777 plane, currently in development

Nike - Art of Speed - Nike commissioned a professional blog publishing company to produce a blog on the 'art of speed' as a short term project

P&G - Sparkle Body Spray

Collated from

Adverblog
Adrants

Kia Campaign - Auto Bill of Rights

Integrated US campaign with TV, press and online.

"Everyone has the right to a great car..."

MarketingVox has the story

Site is here