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Listening in on life's little secrets

It's a wallboard of people on a street but plug in your iPod and you can hear their thoughts. Click here for the other Obie nominees.

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By Toni Fitzgerald


     
     

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Listening in on life's little secrets
It's a wallboard of people on a street but plug in your iPod and you can hear their thoughts. Click here for the other Obie nominees.

Your client on ice cream trucks
Wrap the truck in a giant ad and hand out samples, even play a special jingle, to get the attention of consumers on a warm spring day

'Look, that goofy man on the kids bike'
Grown men cruise about the streets looking most disreputable, peddling on little girls' bicycles. Client: Fox's 'Sons of Tucson.'

Your client's logo on a water bottle
Who turns down a free bottle of water? It's a great way to distribute coupons while connecting with consumers in a positive way.

Mini-tempest over a leggy dame in flight
Flight attendants in a bunch over SI campaign for its swimsuit issue featuring a model posing on the nose of an AirTran 737

'Suckers! I'm flying on the cheap'
How does a budget ticket broker tout its low-cost fares? Send travelers into airports wearing purple T-shirts with their prices.

For an ice hotel, snowmen point the way
Each winter a hotel made of ice opens near to Quebec. To pump this year's hotel its agency places snowmen around the city.

Your client partying in the sand
Reaching college kids by sponsoring events on resort beaches where they gather to celebrate spring break all this month

'All aboard, and now off to the slopes'
Bus shelter in Vancouver is done up as a ski lift to give commuters a sense of the thrill of the Games. Client: vitaminwater

A woman with hair like ice cream swirls
Her face is printed on an ice cream cone holder, and the ice cream swirls flow softly from her forehead. Client: A hair salon.

Your client at the NCAA Final Four
Advertisers can connect with fans though signage and sponsorships of events surrounding the college basketball championships

Surprise! Ambush tactics thrive at Games.
Non-Olympic sponsors make up a third of top brands in Vancouver, according to a new survey, despite a serious crackdown by the IOC

Passing the buck, with a stick-on ad
Drug chain passes out dollar bills to retail outlets to give out as change. Affixed to each is an ad and a coupon that peels off.

Your client kicking up her heels
Flash mobs, where people break out in song or dance on busy streets, are the hot thing in alternative media. Here's how it's done.

Your client as an NBA All-Star
Advertising over next weekend's basketball games can extend well beyond TV spots and signage to alternative media and events

Your client's ad at spring training
How to reach the most avid of Major League Baseball fans at a fraction of the cost of advertising at regular-season games

Baring one's very soul on Fifth Avenue
Passersby are invited to share what they most want to do before dying. Their answers appear in a store window. Client: TV show.

What people will do for a $5,000 bike
How about getting married wearing the bike maker's jerseys? Or changing their name? Or getting a tattoo? Call it oddvertising.

In Times Square, Obama ad spoof
AMC jumps on the to-do over the Weatherproof billboard featuring the president with an ad for 'Breaking Bad' using similar images

'Crooked teeth? Cross right here.'
When does a crosswalk make you think of teeth? When there's a sign next to it showing the crosswalk with all its lines askew.




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