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• People leaving the kitchen in a mess
• Endless Birthday whip-rounds (and when it's your turn)
• Stupid Buzzwords

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From the company that brought you 'the man your man could smell like' comes a new kind of banner ad. Old Spice, which is becoming renowned for its crazy ad antics has produced the internet's first scratch-and-sniff banner advert.

Unlike Google's April Fools joke, this one won't have you pressing your nose up to the screen, instead you fill in a form and they will send you 'the smell of the Internet'.

This is another clever and amusing campaign from the brand, promoting their Wolfthorn line of products.

Take a sniff for yourself here or see it in action over on the Onion's Sport Page.

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Recently a new Dove advert has been taking the Internet by storm. No not that Dove Men+ Care shampoo advert, a new one from Ogilvy Brazil.

The video has women describing themselves to a criminal sketch artist, they are then described by a stranger and the 2 sketches are shown together. 

However in the name of equality New Feelings Time Comedy has also produced one featuring men.

See the results of both below:

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Most diet food products try and sell themselves as a route to a better life but not this Irish cheese brand. 

They decided to break the mould and poke fun at traditional advertising with its ironic 'girls from adland' video. The advert from Kerry Low Low features the standard three types of ad girl: the smug girl, the ditzy girl and the muffin girl. Each has a trait you may recognise from a number of diet food ads. 

Clever and humorous whilst also obvious - it even has a catchy song.

Have a look at the video below. Enjoy!

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Corona Light has produced a series of new ads with an unusual spokesperson; Sully the Sheep.

The character Sully first appeared in a spot for the brand last year, called "Stan", where he was part of a dream sequence, however his brief cameo was a hit with YouTube viewers and so the team at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners decided to produce four 15-second videos making him the star.

Take a look at how he gets on below.

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It appears that in Brazil using a woman's shampoo can have strange side-effects, at least that's what we gather from this ad for Dove Men+ Care made by Ogilvy & Mather Brazil.

In this humorous commercial see what happens when a work colleague uses the wrong shampoo.

Definitely an odd one but worth a watch below.

Enjoy!

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In a clever add by French toilet paper company Le Trèfle, the fight between paper and digital reaches a pivotal point.

In the spot a married couple are depicted with the husband constantly trying to prove that his tablet is better than traditional paper, for drawing, doing sudoku and reading books. However his wife takes it to another level!

Clever and funny from Leo Burnett Paris, have a watch below.

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Interviews can be stressful at best, but preparation is everything. That is however unless you were interviewing for Heineken's internship.

The company decided that they didn't just want someone who answered the right questions; they wanted someone up to the challenges that would lie ahead so they put the interviewees to the test.

During the course of the interviews the candidates were subjected to hand holding, fake heart attacks and fire alarms.

The one who kept their cool was voted for by the Heineken Internet community and the winner was taken to a Champions League game to represent the brand, having their success broadcast at the Juventus v Chelsea game on the 20th November 2012.

A great strategy for weeding out the chaff in the interview process or a very clever viral marketing campaign?

Watch the video below and choose for yourself.

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San Francisco based start-up company Mobeam has patented technology that will allow barcodes to be scanned from Smartphone screens at checkouts.

The point-of-sale possibilities are endless for coupons and other far more fun advertising promotions. Plus, it is better than replacing every checkout scanner in the world.  

To promote the technology, Portal A created this heavily Auto-Tuned supermarket musical, in which a frustrated cashier bursts into song over the wonders of Mobeam. It includes an obligatory rap, a talking fish and a dancing janitor. The video is silly in the extreme.  

This, however, is not an app you can download, it is a technology targeted at businesses to add to their apps. And the reason for this? Modern phone screens are too high definition for normal barcode scanners to read, so the technology sends signals via an LED to the scanner to ‘trick’ it into thinking it is reading a normal barcode.

Whilst the technology will only appeal to developers and advertisers, the video will appeal to everyone. Watch it below.

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Buzzfeed has produced an amazing collection of creative promotional items from the past 5 years.

The list includes;
Dumbbell Frisbees by Iams in Australia (2009), a comical and clever way to spread the message "Iams makes your dog strong"

A giant marijuana cigarette to promote the TV series "Weeds" in Sweden (2008). Inside the 'spliff' was a bouquet of hemp plants and a message about the show.

A rubber eraser USB by Alzheimer's New Zealand (2010), building on the association of memory loss with Alzheimer's, the functional eraser was hollowed out for a USB stick and distributed to politicians and organisations to raise awareness.

A special sofa by Nivea in USA (2008), promoting a new product during Miami fashion week. Several of these were installed in various locations 

A car with googly eyes by the Federal Ministry of Transport in Germany (2009). A clever campaign to raise awareness of drink-driving, these blood-shot googly eye beetles were driven around alcohol fueled public events.

They are all great examples of creative marketing at its best, taking the basic message of each product and developing a memorable way to promote it.

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In its first venture into TV advertising, electronic cigarette company E-Lites has beaten everyone to the punch by combining a dancing baby with last year's viral video hit - Gangnam Style.

The advert features a dad going out for a cigarette and missing his baby's first steps and more. 

Their tagline for the campaign is "What will you miss?".

An amusing bit of CGI, watch it below.

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