I was browsing through Ads of the World recently when I saw this campaign for United Way Teen Pregnancy Prevention. I couldn't help but notice how the comments of ad pundits in the site ranged from positively mild ("...gets the message across") to scathing ("what a dumb idea!").

Many years before I was even exposed to my first advertising radiation from the tube, two guys made a campaign that was fated to become legendary. Incidentally, that campaign as shown below was not only the same in idea but also in execution as the one above.






















The names of those two guys? Charles and Maurice Saatchi.

Thanks to Ivan and Ads of the World for the image of the UWTPP ad. For more  ads, visit  adsoftheworld.com.

Which came first: the punch or the slap?

I don't really know, but in this case the slap came way first (winning a 2007 Silver Lion).

Whenever a Creative does work that seems suspiciously similar with the work of his fellow Creative, we often hear either one of them say: "Great minds think alike."

It isn't surprising that many ads produced by the brilliant minds of today often have an "inspiration" in a dusty award annual or an online ad collection somewhere.

I even read a post once wherein a Creative defended his work saying that, "Everything great has been done already." (Now try telling that to David Droga.)

Here's a site called AdMirror where adobomagazine's Roger Pe (He contributes in the Ad-alike section every issue and then.) will definitely fit in perfectly. Visit Admirror for more of what Pe calls "Ad-alikes" at http://www.coloribus.com/admirror/