Denver’s Consume & Create Finally Has a New Website

by The Denver Egotist / February 14, 2024 /
It's the work you see around town (and beyond) that's always got you wondering, "who did that, it's pretty damn tight." Well, more than likely, it was Consume & Create — who have forever had a hole-in-the-wall website because they were too busy making good stuff for everyone else. That's changed. They finally hit their site with a little elbow grease and voila – it now showcases their team, process and a hot[Read More]
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Boulder’s WorkInProgress Creates Parody Candle to Encourage Ad Industry to Think Beyond It

by The Denver Egotist / May 11, 2023 /
What do you do when you’re tired of seeing novelty candles in advertising news? WorkInProgress made a candle about it. Check out Creativity for the background on this knockoff and Partner/CC[Read More]
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Slow-Pouring Heinz Runs .57 Second Ad During NASCAR

by The Denver Egotist / March 9, 2023 /
Slowing down the ad helps you enjoy it more — because a $5 off DoorDash promo code is hidden inside. Kinda like slow-pouring Heinz helps you enjoy food more. Agency: Rethink.

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Sunny Death Metal

by The Denver Egotist / March 8, 2023 /
No, the sun is not love. The sun is a fiery ball of death that rains cancer upon us. So says this track from the band Hellios — “the first brutally honest song about the sun." This PSA that uniquely educates on the brutality of melanoma comes from sun and skincare company Standard Procedure and agency VMLY&R.

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AI Gets Everything Wrong About Ukraine

by The Denver Egotist / February 28, 2023 /
One year after the war began in Ukraine, the Humanitarian Coalition is prompting the world to remember why Ukraine still needs our support by highlighting the shortcomings of AI-driven technology.

Creative-data agency Performance Art is behind the creative idea born from the fact that ChatGPT’s AI language model was trained exclusively on data older than September 2021 — and thus it knows nothing about the war in Ukraine. But what[Read More]
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A Punk-Rock Rebrand of One of the World’s Oldest Religions

by The Denver Egotist / February 21, 2023 /
A streetwear line resonates with young, lapsed Jews with sentiments like, “Unorthodox AF,” “I'll fast when I'm dead,” “Kvetch City, Bitch,” and “I Killed Kosher.”

An odd truth of Jewish culture is that, no matter how devout they are, every Jewish person thinks they’re a “bad Jew” by not being observant enough. But even those who haven’t been to synagogue in years have a deep—if not complicated—conne[Read More]
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Some Ad Craft from McD’s

by The Denver Egotist / January 17, 2023 /
It's the talk of the town because it's an ad without any words at all. And it's amazing how well it communicates — and how hungry it makes us for days before gabby influencers took over the marketing mix. Agency: Leo Burnett. Director: Edgar Wright.

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Posten Delivers Stormy Climate Romance With An Important & Timely Message

by The Denver Egotist / December 2, 2022 /
For the fourth year in a row, Posten (The Norwegian Postal Service) has launched a new and bold Christmas campaign. After the love “When Harry met Santa” received last year, there's a slightly more serious story to tell this year. One of all the contradictions and conflicts that lie within us all when it comes to climate change. Namely the Christmas season where consumption and climate change stand in stark contrast.

The insight for this year’s Christmas ad comes from PWC Norw[Read More]
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