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Upex: Fish, 1

Upex: Fish, 1
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Credit reports & coaching for small businesses.

When you run a small business, clients that turn out to be bad fish can kill your business. UPEX helps you avoid those 'fishes'.

Advertising Agency: Ronnestam.com, Stockholm, Sweden
Creative Director: Johan Ronnestam
Art Director: Johan Ronnestam
Photographer: Andreas Lübeck
Other additional credits: PM - Caroline Karlström
Published: April 2009

13 Comments

Guest's picture

Nice execution. I think the messaging is a little cryptic, though.

partially_impartial's picture 91 pencils

I had a hard time getting the "Bad Fish = Bad Client" message without the explanation below the Ads.
Also...very disturbing visuals. creeeeepy.

Guest's picture

Same ad, thrice!

Guest's picture

Hmm. It's originally made for the Swedish market so a perhaps cryptic translation...

Warwick Mr. Bean's picture 8 pencils

Cannes Grand Prix

short shorts's picture 109 pencils

I just don't get it. And even if I did, I wish there was more variation from ad to ad.

Spewing Sports Nonsense...
http://shortshorts.tumblr.com/

iT-iS-i's picture 1729 pencils
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I expect more from a creative director who runs his own shop, writes his own copy and art directs his own pieces. And that's why for me, it's a no.

:: Choose your words wisely or I'll stab you with a point of view ::

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

Guest's picture
2

Is something being lost in translation? Are they mixing rotten apples with bad fish? Would anyone be able to decipher any sort of meaningful communication from this ad without the explanation underneath? Just seems like a goofy Photoshop exercise without it.

Agree with the previous post. Seems like a case of Jack of all trades but master of none.

Guest's picture

Yeah, yeah Defffo CANNES GRAND PRIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guest's picture

In Sweden there's a saying that bad clients are like ugly fish. That's the deciphering.

Guest's picture

So then it's an illustration of an accepted Swedish saying? What's the idea then?

LucasPS's picture 523 pencils
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Its a very ugly ad. And the actors, that there´r supoust to be the target group look so stupid. I think the comunication its not working.

I could say that when ivan have´s to make clear something abobe its because samething its wrong...

Todos somos ignorantes, pero no todos ignoramos lo mismo.

bryan9's picture 110 pencils

Same trick again

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