Having won a Grand Prix in the recent Cannes advertising awards, Old Spice is now reaching out online with personalised, hilarious videos also starring “the man your man could smell like”.

This week, after reading about yet another overseas 'viral' campaign involving QR codes, we just had to ask: do Australians use those square doo-hickeys… or even know what they are?

You can now get a coffee for only a dollar at 7-Eleven convenience stores. Who'd buy a latte from the Sev, right? Well, we did.

JWT's new ad campaign for the classic chocolate bar Chokito uses the tagline "No No No". This seems like a rather unoriginal and negative way to spruik a revamped product.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, returns as a disembodied head in a jar to laugh at Keyboard Cat. Is there anything insightful or original at all about this confused ad campaign?

Kevin Rudd's proposal to sell all cigarette brands in plain packets looks like bad news for Big Tobacco, since smokers will no longer be able to identify varieties by colour. But there are possible loopholes, too.

Two bold brands face off in a new theatre of war: canned chicken! But they face a long and arduous campaign to win over revolted consumers…

It'll take more than a church-level swear word and some Hungry Beast buffer skits to get those little bastards to obey the road rules. Let the furore continue.

Does turning soap into a villain work for Palmolive's range of shower gels and milks? Or does appealing to paranoia just not wash with this target audience?