contests & games

You know the old saying, the grass is always greener on the other other side of the fence?
Well, when you don't work in advertising, the other side is an ad agency. And when you do work in advertising, the other side is Hollywood. Now all you frustrated copywriters can get a chance to create your own FOX sit-com!

The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has partnered with FOX to create a Comedy Script Contest.

Well, we've gone through the often aggressive and sometimes kinda gross lines in the little game we played where you could win Luke Sullivan's book, "Hey Whipple" third edition or a signed package of Charmins. Without further ado, here are the ones that stuck out as Luke, Caff, Robblink and myself went through over one hundred lines looking for a winner.

Way back in the year 2000 you could win a signed copy of the Luke Sullivan book just by the effort of signing up. HaHaSoup won that book (and I bet he still has it, don't you HahaSoup?).

Well, here's your chance again - since Luke Sullivan has come out with another edition of his widely popular "Hey Whipple, Squeeze This" book which includes new chapters addressing the galloping development of the web and the myriad of new media areas, we thought we'd throw another competition. Rules inside.

Digital marketing agency Chunk has launched a new campaign for Morrison Bowmore, targeting Whisky lovers and collectors Worldwide who have been waiting with anticipation for the release of Bowmore’s oldest ever expression the now legendary Black Bowmore. In conjunction with its release one lucky winner will be drawn at random to win one of these limited edition bottles worth £2000.

Each of the 827 bottles have come from a single cask filled on the 5th of November 1964 and are individually hand numbered and come with a wooden presentation case.

The new 30 year old D&AD Student Awards is on, a fresh set of challenging design and advertising briefs written by some of the world’s leading creatives and business professionals can now be downloaded from www.dandad.org/studentawards08.

Yes, it is early days yet - still in the interest of fairness, transparency and all round blog-linking fame, we'd like you to nominate your favorite ad blogs (not this one tho') to the Battle of the ad blogs which will run in Feb 2007.

These were the categories last year - if you think it's lacking you should suggest another category, describe it and motivate why. It's quite difficult to narrow all these different voices down to a specific category! (more inside)

Now that Bob Barrie - former Art Director at Fallon - is seen showing a cameraman who's boss, we finally have an explanation for those strange virals where Jeff Kling caresses his pencil.

Turns out it's all a competition, it's touting the "Larger Than Life cinema advertising contest" where ad creatives have the opportunity to submit an original 60 second cinema advertising spot, and have their work shot by RSA and run on National CineMedia's theatre network in AMC, Cinemark and Regal Entertainment Group Theatres nationwide.
By nationwide we mean "The United States" and by creatives we mean anyone over 18 residing in the United states who are are employed at a media, advertising or
creative agency. Everyone else can say a collective "meh" now. ;)

See print call for entries inside.

Adforum (no, not our adforum) has a competition on where you can win an iPod nano by selecting the Bravia balls ad. ;)

"Entrants must be 18 years of age or over" but it doesn't say tha they must be US residents! So hey, go play!

Greetings adgrunts! To celebrate the tenth birthday of Adland, I've made The memory quiz - where every answer except one is found on this website. Befriend the supersearch and dig deeper - if you manage to score a perfect ten correct answers, you will be upgraded with a months worth of super adgrunt juice as soon as I see your score.

Like our other quizzes, it's got one trick question....This one is dead obvious though, and easy to guess. ;)

The Battle ofthe ad blogs, sponsored by Jewelboxing and pixiesdiscs got pretty heated. Ambush attacks and all! Now that the dust has settled, I can show you what went on. Whats an award without a little controversy?

I'm not to type to play with my cards hidden (I truly suck at poker), I'll show you what the logs revealed. Yes, as some suspected, and many alerted me to, a few people were cheating best they could. Lets not assume that it was on the blog-owners suggestion, it might just have been overzelous fans. Okay? I'd hate it if people got mad at each other for this. Though yes I know, in love and (blog)wars.... ;)
First let me apologise for buying a shoddy script that did not do as advertised. [EDIT: "As advertised" means that the script should not have allowed for more than one vote per IP# - it seemed that this only worked when it wanted to. Some people could not vote twice from the same IP#, others could vote as many times as they liked!] Me of all people should know better than to listen to the sell-spiel. Next year I will build a better mousetrap myself.

1) Some IP-numbers actually has managed to vote more than once on the same question, up to 75 times actually, it will be reduced to one vote (per ip# and Q) as announced in the rules.
2) People have been using "anonymizers" (or other IP hiding software) plenty to vote, these votes will be annulled.

Read more and I'll show you exactly what I found, screendumps and all.