1. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

    Old Spice is typically a brand most men (at least here in the UK) see as an ‘older men’ brand. Something you smell on your Dad or Granddad but have never thought about putting on yourself. This is why I was surprised to find the utter brilliance of an ad entitled “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” on YouTube, the latest in advertisements advertising the re-positioning in market of the Old Spice brand. Is this probably the greatest advertising campaign for deodorant out there today? Judge for yourself:

    There are several things brilliant about this advert:

    • The excellent tag line added to the description: “We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.”
    • If you’re a woman, you’ll now look at your boyfriend and think “why are you not more manly you woman scented body washer?”
    • He has a boat, but he was just in the shower a moment ago
    • He has tickets to your favourite thing you want to go see
    • They turn to diamonds
    • He’s on a horse

    As an added benefit, they also have Men focused advertisements which encourage Men to switch things up with their deodorants. Here’s “Different Scents for Different Gents” which covers this very well.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekn36qfsi74

    Like the adverts? Watch the full set on YouTube or on their official site’s video section.

    Edit: Seems Old Spice have gone ahead and done it again with their B.O. Blocker range of ads. Here’s a sample from those (also found on their YouTube channel) below:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q2OlqsknXI

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  2. Music Lessons

    Seth Godin just posted a rare video of himself doing a full presentation. This presentation is on the music business and takes place at Columbia Records.

    The video messes up around eight minutes in, but is a fantastic listen in the background. If you haven’t read or don’t own a book by Seth Godin and are serious about business, I suggest you go about buying Purple Cow and giving it a read.

    Update: Seth has taken the video down due to it stopping itself eight minutes in, but has placed up a PDF transcript of the talk online which is well worth a read.

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  3. A lesson brought to you by a six year old

    The beauty of this video is that your expecting a typical cute performance from a six year old on a reality television talent show. What you get is the best damn singing performance by a young kid, and your jaw on the floor. She has never had a lesson, and learnt from singing with a £40 karaoke kit. And has apparently preliminarily agreed to sign a seven figure deal from Simon Cowell already, what can I say? She deserves it.

    The lesson for freelancers and wannabe developers/designers here is that natural talent goes a long, long way and being self taught can be a good thing.

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  8. One hundred impressions in four minutes

    The guy gets a little desperate for people to immitate near the 80-90 mark, but up until then he was pretty spot on. Only 3-4 voices are questionable – and then still, 75 out of 100 is reason enough to hire him.

    Also – have to ‘give him props’ for his flow, he didn’t stutter once and barely stops to take a breath. This must be one hell of a video to get for an audition for say voice actor on Family Guy, eh?

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  10. Stephen Colbert on Science and Technology

    He’s not done much that I’ve laughed a lot at (or at least seen through YouTube and the like – we don’t get his show in the UK), but this is brilliant:

    Quotes from the video that I loved:
    “Anyone who knows me knows I am no fan of scientists. Anybody who dedicates their life to searching for an answer other than ‘God did it’ is no friend of mine”

    “Take Sharp who have introduced a new 108″ flatscreen tv. Don’t want to say what this would be amazing for – but it rhymes with pornography.”

    “Yes the iPhone has given the nerd community its hardest collective wood since Princess Lea wore a bronze bikini. But you haven’t engorged me Apple – I am flaccid with rage!”

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