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Smart: Slim

Smart: Slim
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Fits everywhere.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Director: Hisham Kharma
Copywriter: Sergio Penzo
Published: 2007

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iT-iS-i's picture 1731 pencils

And the saga continues... Nice.

Add insult to injury then burn the candle at both ends.

:: Put your ears against the ground so i can walk over what you heard::

Ghandour's picture 24 pencils

Wow..its really just an awesome ad..

ஐღ Gh@ndour ღஐ

roman-schwienbacher.com's picture 1027 pencils

fantastic

Crisp One's picture 2033 pencils

*****

pork_eater's picture 509 pencils

Congrats !

fen1x's picture 473 pencils

huh great ! Really nice idea.

Vicomte's picture 287 pencils

Great idea! Glückwunsch!

ronstr's picture 8 pencils

clever! nice.

ronstr's picture 8 pencils

clever. nice.

Audrius Kubrik's picture 752 pencils

the jag, mercedes and that little acne one are the products of the same big company, right? or...

postman's picture 961 pencils

No, they're not. Smart and Mercedes-Benz are brands of the Daimler company, but Jaguar isn't.

Source: http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1067290-49-1050229-1-0-0-0-0-0-8-7163...

leaking bucket.'s picture 140 pencils

Nice, but what a tough media buy. I doubt this is real and if so, Mercedes and Jag need to have a bit of a chat to their media buying department.

That's my first thought...

Nolan's picture 189 pencils

Great! Excellent work.

0nurb's picture 631 pencils

woooooooow!!! It's so nice!!! :)))

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Frits Harkema's picture 713 pencils

Cool, but in the Netherlands you would have been taken to court by Mercedes and Jaguar. So, I assume it was done once and at one place only. For festval purposes only. That makes it a bit less good.

copywriter.txt's picture 822 pencils

Why? The billboard don't say anything about Mercedez or Jaguar.

Kateter's picture 1816 pencils

yes, why?

Heads's picture 194 pencils

Congrats. Supi! 8/10.

Senhora Kolossa's picture 491 pencils

supi?
wtf? seems to be a pupils comment!

Tripioso's picture 264 pencils

I don't really like it.

The concepts looks good, but taken to real, it is not vicible enough and its hard to perceive, since you must to stop in front of the mini ad to see what's is there. It could have been a small space, but more eyecatching, in order to attarct you to see between the two other ads

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Senhora Kolossa's picture 491 pencils

very smart.
i mean, the product.

Dzsoi's picture 4558 pencils

Very lame.
I mean, the comment.

artbum's picture 50 pencils

Very mean.
I mean, the slam.

funky_frogii's picture 2142 pencils

when there is a benz at the left,who the ll see any other car?

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Zeus's picture 872 pencils

Brilliant!!!

David Hasselblad's picture 120 pencils

I like it so much I don't care if only advertising people will ever notice it..

purplerodent's picture 123 pencils

Mindhunter: is this for reall in terms of the cars having adjacent billboards, this looks alittle fake, if it is.......... really what are the media guys doing.

Mindhunter

whitespace's picture 2061 pencils

Pretty good media idea... though I think I would have walked past it without realising.

sparky's picture 458 pencils

shizzles!!!!!!

tkondomi's picture 3 pencils

genius!

Kateter's picture 1816 pencils

brilliant!!!!

NatalieM's picture 1693 pencils

Very clever idea.

dico's picture 332 pencils
des's picture 147 pencils

nice!

Crusty555's picture 53 pencils

For this one place, it is nice.
You will not find many other adequate places for this idea.
For awardshows ok, real life no.

If you pay with nuts you will served by monkeys.

Alistair C.'s picture 692 pencils

clap, clap, but too small to notice, in my opinion.

Luiza Lucky's picture 59 pencils

It looks fake to me.
The idea is brilliant, however... one would only notice this mini-billboard by luck.
(and it gets a little harder with a Mercedes next to it haha)

Luiza Lucky.

Ahussein78's picture 23 pencils

7elwa ya kharma ;)

BuzzWoof's picture 8 pencils

This is a typical example of people awarding a prize to something for being creative which is probably about as effective in tangible terms as a wet flannel. If I was the PM on this brand I'd reject this ad outright as IT WON'T GET NOTICED. Is there any evidence (advertising effectiveness research?) that the ad actually a) achieves good awareness b) fulfils messaging objectives.

If so, then give it a prize!

I never realised I was dyslexic until I went to a toga party dressed as a goat.

stafroo's picture 32 pencils

nice , but why mercedes

sam

whatsamatta's picture 14 pencils

adweek.com to you

Just my humble opinion

artbum's picture 50 pencils

Ok, now would the Smart people also buy the two competitor's billboards which are MUCH bigger, giving them free ads??

A 'smarter' execution would be to place some fake ads for fake cars sandwiching the SMART. What do you think?

VanWilde's picture 15 pencils

This "idea" is a winner!

I would just like to see how this campaign is executed across magazines, other billboards, etc. If it can keep the spirit of the campaign and is executed differently/correctly in each enviroment...

SMART, you have a campaign that could have AMAZING staying power.

imagine watching a mercedes commercial and a SMART ad slowly creeps in?

BuzzWoof's picture 8 pencils

"imagine watching a mercedes commercial and a SMART ad slowly creeps in?"

As it's the same company, and they deliberately didn't launch the SMART under the Mercedes umbrella brand, they're not likely to do that! Cannibalisation...

Basically the idea is nice, but it's a publicity stunt and just a concept on paper.

I never realised I was dyslexic until I went to a toga party dressed as a goat.

guni's picture 9 pencils

great.. visual speak for its self..

bluesprint's picture 44 pencils

You're all missing the point. This was done just for the awards..now come on!

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