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 I want you to imagine the Advertising meeting where the clever creative gurus presented this concept to their client.

I wonder who had the “naughty male appendages” to  say to the clients accountants they wanted a few big bucket loads of money to build a huge pig and jam it between a couple of central city buildings. And after that, to take this idea along to the gray suited, local government authorities bureaucrats, and ask for the appropriate permits.

I wonder if there is a by law that covers huge inflatable pigs jammed between buildings.

I love it, how could any body passing by ignore it.

 It seems that everybody is talking green nowadays…

So, if you want to jump on this “top of mind” bandwagon, especially if you have a genuine “Green” product or service offer you wish to promote, how about one of these attention grabbing Advertising devices.

 I love this stuff…

Just think, for the meager cost a couple of beach balls you can turn a tree into a very powerful exterior sign with more attention grabbing impact than most huge expensive billboards.

Street artist Joshua Allen Harris is creating some real great attention grabbing devices with common garbage bags

His blow up rely on the air that is driven up through gratings in New York by passing subway trains.

The thing is, these fun artworks grab everyone’s attention, so why not use the same concept, with the help of a couple of small fans, to draw some attention to your business.

 These people have become famous for this style of “Hidden People” Advertising and their new version shows they haven’t run out of clever ideas to grab your attention,

Ikea is justifiably famous for thinking “outside the box”, especially when it comes to devising clever promotions…

This time, they have literally done so.

To promote their storage solutions to the huge target market of unit dwellers in Europe, they created the promotion shown below.

Absolutely brilliant.

The Gorge Grown Farmers Market deserves a standing ovation for this brilliant promotion.

Imagine the attention they captured with these clever devices. It’s a great example of how to stretch a budget.

 I want you to imagine you are standing at your local bus stop…

Maybe you are reading the paper and listening to your favorite Strauss waltz on your pod thingy,  you are mentally preparing yourself  for yet another day at the grind stone, you are craving yet another early morning coffee… Then you see it, a big bright red fire engine is stopping to pick you up and beam you to servitude, a big red bus that is pretending to be a fire engine, a big red bus telling you about super hot Tabassco sauce.

Do you think you might remember that?, maybe, you might even tell your workmates, family and friends about it. You might even notice that everyone the bus passes or is passed by, pays a whole lot of attention to its unique appearance.

They did in Belgium, what a great Advertising idea!

 Yet another clever painted bus, that is sure to grab a whole lot of attention.

Because very often it has been proven to be untrue.

On many, many occasions, well worded emotive copy has created far more sales than clever photography.

However, here is a great pic that is worth more than its fair share of the allocated 1000.

In a glimpse you get it, and it puts a memorable smile on your face.