Switch to English

"Switch to English" - ELS Language School. Agency: Avrora, Moscow. Special Prize at Moscow Advertising Fesival 2006.

Update. This is not a senseless assortment of Cyrillic letters. That's what youbut what you get if you type "HOLLYWOOD" according to QWERTY on a keyboard that was set to Russian. Thanks Megan.

MMFR

Moscow International Festival of Advertising is over. All in all it was pretty boring and uneventful but I try to post some ads and commercials I found curious. Take this one.

Silver prize at Label and Packaging.
“Only your thoughts remain dirty”.
Entrant: GREIP Ad Agency, Moscow

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Maxi

Here’s a commercial for a new phone tariff plan from MTS – the leader of Russian mobile communications company. When I saw it for the first time I was sure it’s about tampons but no – it’s about saving money on telephone. The slogan goes, “What are you thinking about right now?”

Click to watch.

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