Often when you see Badlanders in adland you just have to laugh at the synchronicity of it all. Maybe contemplate the jungian subconcious for a while. Revel in the irony that two brands trying so hard to be different are doing the exact same thing. Sometimes you do all of the above - wanna see Adidas, Nike and Royal Sundaram duke it out?

Alice.. Why I oughta..... We'll start off with the big names in sports gear - Nike vs Adidas, hat tip to Ad arena for this pair.

Adidas, with their "impossible is nothing" shoot for the moon with the ads:

But lookie here - Nike (who's ad agency w+k are the former employer of the 180 founders, remember?) did the same thing! Ain't that a hoot and a half?

Anantha, our Indian pal hanging out on adlist supplied the cherry on top: "There have been others who've done this idea before. An insurance giant named Royal Sundaram did this same idea in India around 2001. " Correct, Ogilvy did the Royal Sundaram many moons ago, making them the "original" in this little mashup. :) (unless someone digs up an earlier example, of course)

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Just for good measure, they covered all sorts of celestial bodies, sun moon and some other phenomena like rainbows. Cute!