Here’s an interesting ad for Snickers chocolate bars that shows how the world has shrunk. It was shot in Jeddah, the post-production was done in Amsterdam and the soundtrack is a tune by a hip-hop group from Kuwait (and apparently is in English):
Great visuals, but damned if I can remember what the product being advertised is.
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I wonder if B3ta user Koit was involved. He's known for his lo fi gifs that have the same sort of idea (see his traffic light wars). If he wasn't involved I wonder how happy he'd be at seeing a similar idea in a flashy form plugging candy bars?
Cool ad though. The plug at the end certainly wasn't that effective (viral buzz notwithstanding, as you point out).
Oops. Meant to push edit (rather than post) and add B3ta user Koit.