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olympic ads

According to The Wall Street Journal Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam's Coca-Cola Olympics ad has been one of the most popular spots with US viewers.

WSJ says: Coca-Cola's whimsical ad dubbed "Bird's Nest" was one of the
best-remembered and most-liked commercials during the first week of
NBC's prime-time Olympic coverage, according to IAG. The spot features
birds making a nest that is modeled after the Olympic stadium in
Beijing. The animated creatures make their new home out of straws
swiped from Coke bottles and containers.

rules

Rules

These are the rules at wieden + kennedy. Famously found in a desk drawer by David Kennedy when clearing out his stuff to leave his old job and start the new agency. He and Dan Wieden said, 'These will do as the rules for the new place.' And it has been so ever since.
Interesting to compare with the rules of nightclub security as explained by big-haired Patrick Swayze as Dalton, the world's best bouncer, in the brilliantly bad movie Road House, which I was watching the other night.  Dalton's rules are:
1. Never underestimate your opponent
2. Expect the unexpected
3. Be nice
Wise words.
The movie ends with the classic closing line, 'A polar bear fell on me.'

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