Even though I'm not in the market for a new car, I found myself actually liking this ad for Kia's Soul.
A one-minute high-def version is posted here (the TV version is 30 seconds long).
If you look closely, they've even changed the NYC street sign to read Hamsterdam Avenue. And the 1-minute version even has a few dancing hamsterettes in pink miniskirts thrown in. One can't leave chicks out of a rap video.
Working in an ad agency again, I can't help but wonder how that creative pitch went. To put it another way, how does someone stand up in front of a room full of executives and say "we want to put hamsters in your products"?
Anyway, after they got Kia's blessing, it took a studio three months to make the computer-generated hamsters.
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