Yet Again, St. Louis Is Forced to Endure the Year's Most Distressing Super...
Poor St. Louis. Every year they sit there on Sunday Bowl Sunday quietly trying to enjoy their constipation and irritable bowel ads, only to be subjected to something truly bleak—PSAs about how heroin...
View ArticleBudweiser Posts 'Apology Cakes' on Imgur for Super Bowl Night's Designated...
Budweiser took its "Give a Damn" fight against drunk driving to Imgur on Monday with a fun promoted post in which it posted "apology cakes" for designated drivers—adorned with messages from badly...
View ArticleTaco Bell Cleverly Crashed These 5 Local Super Bowl Ads With Its Quesalupa
Taco Bell and Deutsch made some fun regional media buys during the Super Bowl, recruiting local advertisers in five markets to create normal-looking ads for their own businesses—that suddenly became a...
View ArticleBenetton Used Facial Recognition to Find a Single 'Face of the City' for 6...
To promote Benetton's Carnival Capsule Collection, dubbed "a celebration of color in all its shades," 180 Amsterdam came up with an idea that gives the company's cause-facing manifesto a modern twist....
View ArticleRussell Westbrook Gets the Best Hype Man Ever in Bravado-Packed Jordan Ad
The new Air Jordan XXX sneakers on Russell Westbrook's feet might actually be spaceships, a new commercial suggests—so everyone should probably get out of his way. The Oklahoma City Thunder point...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Tesco Plays Matchmaker for Valentine's Day With 'Basket Dating'
Are you judging potential Valentines based on their … baskets? If so, British supermarket chain Tesco has the perfect campaign for you. BBH Live put out a call for a range of single folks—not...
View ArticleWhy Jeep Ran a Vertical Ad on the Super Bowl With 112 Million Watching...
Jeep's "Portraits" ad, which aired at halftime of Super Bowl 50 and ended up being our favorite spot of the game, wasn't just riveting in its content. It was radical in its format. On a night when...
View ArticleDoritos Ketchup Roses: The Tart, Crunchy Way to Say 'I Love You' This...
Forget candy and flowers. Canadian Doritos fans have a much quirkier way to show their love—with a bouquet of ketchup-flavored Doritos roses. The bouquets, the brainchild of BBDO Toronto, are geared...
View ArticleThese Valentine's Day Sweetheart Candies Have Sexy Messages Just for Ad People
The folks at Calgary, Alberta, ad agency Evans Hunt really love their clients. In fact, they might be in love with them. That's judging by their Valentine's Day campaign to send custom sweethearts...
View ArticleAd Agency Execs Are Optimistic About Twitter's New Algorithm
Agency executives say Twitter's introduction of a new algorithm for the top of the news feed could be the beginning of a series of bold moves for the platform. The algorithm, officially introduced...
View ArticleCan a Biotech Group Change the Conversation With an Emotional Ad About Time?
The human body is a time machine. Treatments and products developed by the biotech industry keep its parts in good order, extending our stays on the planet and allowing us to lead richer lives. That's...
View ArticleA Ventriloquist Betrays His Dummy in One of the Strangest Haircut Commercials...
Whether you're cleaning up your current look, trying something new or betraying your ventriloquist dummy, a Great Clips haircut is a step in the right direction. That third point is the subject of the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: GE Embarks on 'Unimpossible Missions' Like Saving a Snowball...
Happy Inventors Day! To celebrate, GE has launched a series of films that bring good things to life with a bold new attitude. Created by BBDO, the videos send GE engineers on "Unimpossible Missions"...
View ArticleDidier Drogba and YouTuber Fun for Louis Star in KitKat's New Global Ads...
Nestlé is touting Kit Kat's commitment to sustainable cocoa farming with a new series of ads set in the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire)—starring Didier Drogba. The international soccer celebrity, who...
View ArticleIf Your Calendar Is Screaming FML, It's Time for a Vacation, Say These Clever...
Nobody has time to go away. We're booked to the hilt and stumble from weekend to weekend, at which time we come up for air and realize that six months have passed. If you're still crawling back into...
View ArticleThis Agency Made a Gift Registry Asking for Absurdly Lavish Presents for Its...
Doner is coming out, and it wants the world to know. The agency has chosen an amusing way to announce its move into a new office in Los Angeles via a not-so-humble request for lots of very, very...
View ArticleLeo Burnett Built a Livable Model of Van Gogh's 'Bedroom' That You Can Rent...
From igloos to Netflix and Chill, Airbnb fans have an awesomely quirky variety of accommodation options to choose from these days. And starting Sunday, art geeks can live out their Van Gogh fantasies...
View ArticleNike Athletes Dropped Some Insane Product on Fans in San Francisco Last Weekend
While many advertisers were shelling out millions of dollars for TV slots on the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday, Nike was on the ground in San Francisco getting much more up close and personal with...
View ArticleThis Interactive Split-Screen Film From Converse Is a Valentine's Ad You Can...
Converse is out with a three-minute bit of artistic voyeurism ... and it's great. Titled "Lovesick: Converse Couples," the commercial puts split-screen to exceptional use, telling the stories of...
View ArticleNASA's Gorgeous New Space Tourism Posters Are Retro-Futuristic and Fantastic
Between Interstellar and The Martian, NASA's enjoying a banner pop culture revival. To tap into that growing awareness of what lies before us, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab commissioned...
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