Kookmeyer Institute

Showtime recently promoted season 4 of  its very cool show, Dexter, with a simple, cheap-as-chips game that makes great use of You Tube. Give it a go and see if you can spot the lead character on Level 4  - I still can’t (duh!) but lucky for me the TV channel has since posted the trailer itself.

EA Sports is promoting its latest Tiger Woods game with this fun banner ad that leads you through several  bogus sites. His delivery is a bit wooden but I really enjoyed it. Which reminds me – if the burglars who broke into my home are reading this: it’s not too late to return my PlayStation!

Bridge Worldwide has redefined what it is to engage users with meaningless jibber jabber. Check out this highly annoying yet amusing banner ad that reloads with a new comment every time you click (I clicked approximately 107 times before it conceded to my persistence). I wonder if Joe Public made the connection between the obsessive clicking and Pringle’s slogan, ‘Once you pop, you can’t stop’.

Here’s a nice banner ad that tracks back to the last page visited. It works well in terms of positioning the VW as a smart car, though I’m not sure a rear-view camera is a big selling point. If you see any other executions of this campaign feel free to send them through.

Not sure what jacket to wear today? Type in any destination and the Playground barometer will tell you! Stockholm agency Dallas sthlm’s banner ads recognise your IP address then match it to the local weather forecast wherever you may be (including Auckland). Enter a destination in the middle of a heat wave and the reply is ‘no jacket required today’. Good to see they aren’t too hard sell.