Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain

In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.  Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Super Happy.  Here they are from their [...]

Herbal Essences Great Escapes, Little Escapes Sweepstakes

Herbal Essences wants you to stop and smell the essences. Their wild sneaker-wearing camel campaign is pushing hard. I personally don’t want to smell the camel or the sneakers, but we awarded their Hello Hydration ad the Rapidsea Commercial of the Year for their Lovely, Scented Desert (LSD) oasis imagery. It’s positively [...]

Philips Norelco ~ Second Puberty

Philips Norelco is using not just the beach to advertise their body hair trimming products, but they have even gone as far as saying that their shavers can give you an extra “optical inch.” Yes, just like the email spam you get.
If you have followed the other Rapidsea posts on hairless dudes for our [...]

Comedy Central’s Real ‘Ving Break ~ Surf and Turk

Comedy Central has been airing a four-day "Thanxgiveaway Wiikend" promotion with the chance to win a Scion xD and a Nintendo.  If you visit their Thanxgiveaway site, you’ll be greeted by this surfing Turkey:

At first glance there doesn’t seem to be any reason behind giving the turkey a surfboard.  None of the prizes that they’re [...]

Hilton’s Share Hawaii Sweepstakes

Hilton is using this ad to try to get you to bring your family to Hawaii:

It’s for the Hilton Share Hawaii sweepstakes. Notice how they have taken the Hawaiian honeymoon couple’s cache and thrown a couple of tagalongs behind them. Twice the guests = twice the money? Will the campaign work, or [...]

Miss Landmine Angola 2008

Angola has landmines throughout the county that have ripped apart thousands of lives from their destruction. One way that the society has decided to help recover its dignity and beauty is through a pageant for women who have been hurt by these mines. You can visit the very Hollywood-inspired Miss Landmine Angola 2008 [...]

Grohe ~ German for ‘waterfall’

In looking around the Metropolis magazine website for the Dubai article that I mentioned in the last post, I noticed a Flash animated waterfall ad for Grohe sprinkled around various pages:

The ad is similar to the one that I posted on Hawaii marketing itself, hold the Adam and Eve models.  It’s a little obvious with [...]

Classmates.com ~ You’re a winner!

Have you always wanted to be a winner?  Well, Classmates.com has a new newsletter called Winning Chance that they want you to sign up for to hear about upcoming contests from Classmates.com.  You’ll soon be just like the hero here to the left.
Do the people who sign away their rights to pose in stock [...]

Tiger Balm YouTube Contest ~ Hawaii or $5,000

A contest that hasn’t gotten too much publicity to date is the Tiger Balm YouTube contest where you are supposed to post your videos on how you get sore muscles and are fixed with Tiger Balm.  The prize for the video with the most votes is either a trip to Hawaii or $5,000 to [...]

Spot the Match contest from Starwood Preferred American Express credit card

Don’t be fooled by this cheesy little Spot the Match promotional site for the American Express Starwood Preferred card:

The Starwood card offers locations and services that are lot more sophisticated than these dumbed down icons and silly beach scene would have you believe. This little contest game is kind of boring really. American [...]

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