Update in Australia's Courier Mail on the wacky ads for Nokia videophones — spoof or real? — blogged here on BoingBoing last week. The video spot captures an unsuspecting cat twirling around helplessly on a ceiling fan, then hitting the wall with a loud thud.
The ad purports to promote the latest model Nokia phone, released in Australia last week, and contains voices with Australian accents, adding credibility to the theory it was produced here. But the nature of the internet means it is almost impossible to tell how many people have received the clip or where it originated. Mr Wilson acknowledged the clip could have been made by an amateur digital film-maker or a professional at an advertising agency as an in-house joke.
"Agencies make a variety of options, many of which will never get shown to the client because they don't fit the client's brief or advertising guidelines," he said. "It is possible this was one of those."
