Breakthrough Technology! Computertan?

Spoke to a colleague earlier and he mentioned how he's seen and ad in the tubes by a company called COMPUTERTAN. We couldn't quite work out if it was a real company  or a some viral

Computertan claim to have had a technological breakthrough that lets get a tan whilst you are working on your computer!

I googled this  online (no PPC campaign by the way) and the  the TV ad is hilarious.  The lady in the ad "Hannah Yasmin"  walks you through Computertan capabilities - a seriously cheesy ad! 

Check out the video

Pretty sure you are asking yourself if this ad is a hoax, well I can confirm that it is. The campaign has actually been devised by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and skin cancer charity (Skcin) as part of the move to raise awareness of the growing threat of skin cancer.

Although this campaign launched on February 3 it is still going strongly! 

Interestingly , looking at the traffic and users volumes so far (from Alexa), The highest number of traffic seems to be coming from Spain, France and Italy whilst the highest number of users appear to be coming from Germany, US and the UK.  Keen to know what you make of this data?

Overall campaign feels looks good. Great idea. Tan-Tastic!

No God in the City

Admittedly the beginning of 2009 is one of immense worry not just for the general UK population but world; given the global economic issues. However, a bunch of Atheists have been appealing for funds in order to run an ad telling people "there's probably no god". Brilliant! ‘advertising meet religion’. This sounds like the beginning of beautiful relationship.

200 bendy buses in London and 600 in regions across the UK, including the West Midlands and Glasgow, will carry an ad for the BHA which says "There's probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life". This undoubtedly is bound to get our spirits up nudging us to live for today and worry about tomorrow. Funny enough, this sound very similar to Gordon Brown's recovery plan for the UK economy