
Review: Whiskas, ‘Get A Kitten’
Whiskas is trying to encourage more new customers for its products, but is the lead-up to Christmas really the most responsible time to launch a campaign to adopt kittens?
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Whiskas is trying to encourage more new customers for its products, but is the lead-up to Christmas really the most responsible time to launch a campaign to adopt kittens?

Metro Trains’ crack the “preventing horrifying injury” PSA code with their viral hit ‘Dumb Ways To Die’. White Ribbon Day’s ‘Hey Mate’ anti-domestic violence TVC is just dumb.

As The Amazing Spider-Man hits cinemas, there’s something odd about Peter Parker’s web use – his favourite search engine is the little-used Microsoft Bing.

Samsung introduces its new motion-capture Smart TVs with a hello from viral ad royalty, plus nerds, models, pizza, and sweaty armpits.

Social media campaigns often backfire in the face of negative consumer sentiment, but Air New Zealand has cleverly turned negativity into a likeable ‘reality’ video series, amusingly narrated by Rhys Darby.

Last night, Coles Online was offering a $16 beer bargain that proved too good to be true. Now shoppers are angry that the retailer won’t honour their purchases.

Tontine has surely succeeded in making Australians feel disgusted by old pillows that are more dead skin than down. But this commercialised germophobia just made us furious.

Who can make us feel more guilty than our kids? Our pets! That’s why Purina is marketing directly to them.

The mother of all Aussie telcos brightens up its brand for $3m. And we reckon the price is right.

In cartoons, alum puckered Sylvester The Cat’s mouth into a cat’s arse. Will this chemical compound do the same to your natural predators?

Critics revelled in spewing venom across the Linsday Lohan-helmed flop biopic Liz & Dick. But how did her Aussie (enough) co-star Grant Bowler fare?

Even the Olympics has indie cred: “I’m so cool I qualified for the Olympics before my nation’s sovereignty was even recognised, man”.

Fresh New York writing outlet n+1 ably (but irregularly) blows the cobwebs out of the stuffy lit-mag genre. Here’s a cheat sheet for the anti-literary magazine literary magazine.
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