speaking of great sex related advertising…

by Violet Blue on September 25, 2008

As I cull through the responses for this week’s sex toy VB-bday giveaway, and as it was just a blip-gone-by on Fleshbot’s front page — you really must entertain yourself and watch the video above, Safe For Work XXX. It’s a viral Diesel XXX “Dirty Thirty” ad campaign video, and damn if I don’t recognize porn stars in it like Chloe, etc…. Snip from Guardian UK:

Diesel is celebrating its 30th birthday with a risqué ad that weds a montage of 1980s porn films with cartoon animations.

The 120-second film has been dubbed Safe For Work XXX, a play on the commonly used warning tag used on pornographic material NSFW.

The clip, created to celebrate the trendy clothing brand’s “Dirty Thirty”, is being seeded online today to promote a series of global parties starting on October 11.

Developed by agency the Viral Factory, the viral features clips from a host of 1980s porn films, with animated overlays of people eating corn, playing the maracas, eating a banana and playing a pinball machine to mask the pornographic content.

The aim of the film is to “remind people that Diesel is a brand not to be taken for granted” as well as promote the company’s XXX parties.

Last year Diesel won a Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival for a Big Brother-esque spoof that saw two girls supposedly steal the brand’s new underwear collection, kidnap a man and lock themselves in a hotel room recording the entire experience. (…more)

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1 mmmrich September 27, 2008 at 4:27 am
2 gneiss_girl September 26, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Oh wow. Thank you for sharing this.

I laughed and laughed and laughed. It’s brilliant advertising and excellent “lowbrow” humor as well. Perfect for a Friday night cheer-me up. The bit at 0:28 with the harmonica really made me lose it.

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