A spot of creative terrorism that raised a wide smile this morning

Every now and then, a "job application" campaign is so stunningly clever that it goes viral to some degree or another. This is one of those occasions.

These fellas - Australian creative team GrinterSpencer - have suffered just that fate.

Their "Creative Ransom" basically involved buying the URLs for the names of Mebourne's top creative directors and then holding those pages "ransom" until they got a meeting.

This is their story (and it's well worth a watch) ...

Comments

[Beth]

That's really cool - reminds me a little of this: http://www.ask-kalena.com/google-adwords/clever-use-of-adwords-lands-man-top-advertising-job/. A guy set up PPC adwords for the names of all of the top creative directors in New York, so that they'd come across his details when they 'vanity googled' themselves...