Nike closed out the London 2012 Olympics in China with a gold medal ambush marketing performance that parlayed its Find Your Greatness fauxlympics stunt to new heights.

We already noted how Nike retooled its campaign for China's star hurdler Liu Xiang after the former gold medalist imploded in the first few steps of a preliminary race. 

Now, Nike has used the same format — inspirational message superimposed on a photo — to suggest its support for many of China's star Olympic athletes, whether the Swoosh sponsored them or not. Goodness Gracious, Greatness Wall of China!Continue reading...

"This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty." Fotoshop by Adobé, posted on Vimeo only four days ago, now boasts over 2.3 million views (and more than 900,000 on Rosten's YouTube channel). 

The fake infomercial, created by California-based filmmaker Jesse Rosten, advertises a high end cosmetic beauty product, the so-called Fotoshop by Adobé, that purports to erase wrinkles and such with Photoshop-like results.

An ingenious spoof on those FTC-riling claims by some overly zealous beauty marketers, it pokes fun at the transforming of models into someone completely unrecognizable.Continue reading...

"Is this another Muppet trailer parody? Why don't we just show a real trailer? I mean, what are we hiding? Did we make the movie in Swedish or something?" says Jason Segel in Being Green — the third (and final?) fake trailer for The Muppets movie (above), this time parodying the new Green Lantern movie.

Just two days after its release, there's finally an official trailer for the new Muppet movie.Continue reading...

Usually when a brand takes off, it is in earnest. But sometimes it has many half-lives in hilarity. When it comes to satire, Star Wars is a deathless brand.

A new video has surfaced from YouTube’s Sneaky Zebra Channel. Based out of the UK, the channel says it is dedicated to creating awesome action and comedy films, and then getting them to go viral.

The latest of their creations to take off? A parody of the “I’m a PC, and Windows was my idea” campaign, but Star Wars-branded. Yup, there’s still gas in the tank on the Star Wars satirical vehicle.Continue reading...