It’s rare that press advertising wows me with its creativity these days, but Blackberry’s ad in today’s Daily Telegraph really impressed me.

Promoting the ‘Time Shift’ functionality of the new Z10, the ad appears on the face of it to be a standard full-page press ad…

…until it becomes clear that there is a half page covering a second part of the 1.5 page spread, which reveals as below:

There’s no doubt that Blackberry have a huge task ahead of them to catch up with the likes of Apple and Samsung when it comes to smartphone market share, but with innovative ways of promoting innovative features such as this, I wouldn’t write them off just yet.

Nice work.