Wachovia ~ or surf over ya

If you thought that the Pepsi Dare for More campaign was great, then you’ll love this new little banner ad from Wachovia in Los Angeles:

It’s an animated Flash ad that I pulled out the boundaries on so that you could see the little animated surfers sitting off the stage after floating by to form [...]

Bank of America: Come back please ~ to the beach

Bank of America finally sent out apology letters to people who were booted off of their auto-pay system and charged fees and higher interest rates.  They said they would correct the situation.
Too bad they already lost a ton of customers.  Well, they’re still trying to win us back with more futile beach advertising, not unlike [...]

Tampax Pearl may cure seasonal affective disorder

Let the women of the north rejoice! Tampax has cured seasonal affective disorder. We touched on the Tampax Pearl product in this post on naval security, but we weren’t ready for a new web ad that popped up yesterday. It blew us off our cold northern chairs:

So, what they’re saying is that [...]

China Discover ~ an interesting Google ad

Most people don’t think of Google ads as being very beautiful, but check this one out:

I thought at first that it was an additional, and a little out of place, Pepsi ad on the page I was linking to at I Believe in Advertising when I was researching the Pepsi post.  Of course I had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hasbro Squawkers McCaw Robot Parrot ~ The most annoying toy of 2007

The Hasbro FurReal Friend Squawkers McCaw robotic parrot, an advanced tropical Furby, needs no further explanation:

The only endearing part of the bird is that it responds, "I love you too."
You can see the commercial here at Amazon.com (where it’s selling for $49.99 and is listed in the Top 20 Toys and Games at the time [...]

Tropical ads built to Fit your Honda

After exploring in a post that perhaps the Airbus A380 was built to look like a dolphin somewhat like car makers give faces to their vehicles, I was happy to see two new tropical Honda Fit ads pop up over at Music Nation (which had a link to Rapidsea in their blog news round up [...]

What does naval security have to do with dolphins, bikini-clad women, and feminine products?

I pulled up an article from GlobalSecurity.org called "Navy Approves Raytheon’s Zumwalt Total Ship Computing Environment Infrastructure" when this ad popped up at me:

They use one of every Rapidsea-ready image.  Of course, it’s as weird as the second ad that showed up at the top of the screen when I returned to the article to [...]

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