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Top 10 Most Innovative Tablet Ad Campaigns

Click here to see Business Insider's list of the '10 Most Innovative Tablet Campaigns.'

My favorite on the list is number two, the Bradesco car insurance tablet ad. So simple yet so effective.

Inspired TV commercial from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

I like this commercial a lot.

Although the choice of an elephant during a heated presidential election does seem odd. And conspiracy theory types would be interested to know that Harvard Pilgrim's former CEO, Charlie Baker, is a prominent Massachusetts Republican.

Click here to watch the 30-second TV spot from Hardvard Pilgrim.

Bathroom scale for anal retentive narcissists who may or may not have an eating disorder

The Wi-Fi Body Scale from Withings. The first bathroom scale with the ability to send your your weight directly to your Web page, iPhone and Twitter account.

Click here to purchase it for about $200.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Haunting advertising campaign for Children's Cancer Institute of Australia

Advertising Agency: OgilvyOne, Sydney

Source: Ads of the World

If only emergency rooms really were this entertaining

Amazingly, of the three Zargaj kids, only one of us had to be rushed to the emergency room with a self-inflicted, but-we-told-you-never-to-do-that injury. When he was a preschooler, my brother Michael took a Matchbox car wheel -- almost certainly torn off the toy car by my other, more destructive brother -- and stuffed it up his nose. My mother still talks about the geyser of blood that resulted.

Advertising agency: Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne

Source: Ads of the World

Local landmark/offensive stereotype/very ambitious repurposing of roadside marketing

This approximately 40-foot tall Native American stands atop what was once a Chicago cigar store. When the building was taken over by an optometrist, the giant Native American was fitted with eyeglasses and a sign that reads, "Eye can see now."

A Cautionary Tale for Advertisers

The Ministry of Health in one Chinese city put up this billboard to promote some sort of health-related conference.

The folks at the Ministry didn't realize that the photo they'd used (or swiped without permission) was of a Japanese porn actress.

When they discovered the photo's provenance, Ministry of Health officials had the billboard taken down.

Read more about the dangers of using stock photos.

Source: Scary Ideas

What dentist in his/her right mind would use these ceiling stickers?

At first I thought these were ads meant to run in consumer magazines, in which case I think they'd be great.

But they're actually ceiling stickers.

I'm assuming these ceiling stickers are meant for the ceiling at a dentist's office. Where they're sure to scare patients -- scare them not for forgetting to use Listerine, but scare them about what manner of torture the dentist has planned. I can't imagine a dentist actually using these in his/her office.

The only other public place I can think of where one reclines and stares at the ceiling is while getting one's hair washed in a hair salon. So these stickers must be meant for dentists' offices, right?

Source: Scary Ideas