Awful Handwriting
Ad Ramblings and Web GuffArchive for November 23, 2008
Oohgle – Posterscope Prism Searchtool
November 23, 2008 at 2:39 am · Filed under Ambient & Outdoor, Print, Web/Viral
When you see an Out-of-Home ad and then follow it up online, you’re Oohgling. Out-of-Home advertising is great at creating interest and intrigue and that’s often followed up with an on-line search to find out more.
That’s the payoff for the inescapable ‘Oohgle’ graphics that are currently plastered all over the underground and high streets of London, and it’s weird. Intriguing, since it’s a massively public ad campaign that’s only relevant to advertisers – and I guess that’s necessary to make the point about following things up at home – but it’s kind of a moot point because it’s everywhere, so is an ‘oohgle’ result really that surprising?
Still, at least they’ve invented a bloody awesome word for it. Someone should definitely rip that off before bonfire season next year and make a listings website for local firework displays. Or would that be Aahgle?
Euro
November 23, 2008 at 2:24 am · Filed under Events, My Work, Web/Viral
Had a great crit yesterday at Euro RSCG with ex-bucks team Dan and Adam, who had some really nice things to say about a fair bit of the work in our book – but the best bit for me was when they inadvertently let me know that the Raspberry Duet film had made ‘viral of the week’ on The Sun’s website a while ago, which is just a bit mental/brilliant. I had a scan around on the archive today and true to their word, there it was, flapping away. This is mad.

