Tribeca Film Festival Challenges Your Inner Thespian With a Karaoke Machine...
Do you enjoy faking orgasms in public places, or telling friends you see dead people? If so, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival has the ad campaign for you! Created by J. Walter Thompson, the push...
View ArticleEat Domino's and Lose Total Control of Your Mouth, Advise Odd New Ads
Eating Domino's pizza renders folks insensibly slack-jawed and incapable of coherent speech in "The Mouth Boggles," a strange and silly U.K. campaign from Iris Worldwide. Ads show people in different...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Falkor From The NeverEnding Story Soars as Spotify's New...
Spotify's new brand campaign from Wieden + Kennedy sings a number of different tunes—employing everything from '80s nostalgia to present-day political anxiety—as it mines the app's data to tell...
View ArticleNetflix's Clever YouTube Prerolls Use Your Searches to Cue Up Specific Scenes...
How do you make a sitcom like Friends, which went off the air 12 years ago—a year before YouTube even existed—seem relevant to YouTube users today? If you're Netflix, which recently acquired the...
View ArticleLil Dicky Just Found a Perfect Side Project as Trojan's New Spokesman for...
Lil Dicky, the rapper, wants you to wrap your dick. The YouTube star, whose raunchy comedy helped catapult him to chart-topping fame, anchors "The Big Talk," a new four-minute Trojan ad from agency...
View ArticleArt Director Totally Nails the Humor and Heartbreak of Millennial Life in Ads...
Much has been made of the quarter-life crisis. And for millennials, an unforgiving job market, impersonal hook-up culture and the pressure to be Instagram-perfect don't help. But few have captured the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Remarkable, Surreal Ad Casts LGBT Struggles as an Obstacle Course
The war for equality advances in fits and starts. And for those who aren't in the line of fire, it's easy to assume the work is done with a few high-profile protests and major court rulings. But that...
View ArticleNew Zealand Just Had the Creepiest Idea for Reminding Drivers Not to Check...
Those little red dots over your apps, a subtle vibration, that ringtone from last summer. Our phones are the most attention-craving objects we own, and our brains are hard-wired to leap to attention...
View ArticleThis 5-Year-Old Agency Just Did a Photo Shoot Imagining Its 50th Birthday in...
Some agencies are scared of the future. Happy Medium can't wait to get there already. The Des Moines, Iowa, shop is celebrating its fifth birthday this year, but wasn't satisfied with that. Instead,...
View ArticleThis Blunt PSA About Illiteracy Features the Most Depressing Alphabet Song Ever
"A" is for AIDS. "B" is for bloodshed. "C" is for child brides. A new ad imagines the alphabet as a set of abbreviations for all the awful consequences of not being able to read. Then it sets the whole...
View ArticleHotel Chain Makes Duvet Suits, So You Never Have to Leave That Comfy Bed Again
The branded April Fools' pranks are coming later this week, but Jurys Inn Hotel Group swears this one isn't a joke—well, not an April Fools' joke, anyway. Hate getting out of bed? Now you can take...
View ArticleBBH New York Names Agency Vet Shannon McGlothin as Its Newest Executive...
BBH has hired Shannon McGlothin as an executive creative director in its New York office. In the new role, McGlothin will help run the global Vaseline business along with fellow ecd Gerard Caputo...
View ArticleAd of the Day: This Porsche Magazine Ad Brings the 911 to Life as a Floating...
Some advertisers have grown increasingly inventive with print media in recent years. Motorola, you may recall, created a button that let readers change the color of cellphones shown on the printed...
View ArticleMountain Dew Tries to Get a Little Classier With the Launch of Its Black...
Let's get refined, sugar! PepsiCo introduces Mtn Dew Black Label, a dark-berry beverage (with herbal bitters, no less), in a campaign from VaynerMedia that revolves around several "Gentlemen of the...
View ArticleGeico's Latest Crazy Talking Animal Is a Shady Alligator With Tiny Arms
It turns out there are advantages to being an alligator, like dodging the check when eating out with friends because your arms are just too short to reach it. That's the premise of the latest gag in...
View ArticleMexico Surprises U.S. Workaholics With Versions of Themselves Who Actually...
The Lapiz agency's "Doppelgänger Tourists" campaign shames workaholics Mike and Ann into taking vacations ... by introducing them to their dopplegängers, who have been living it up in Mexico. Oh,...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Booking.com Is Helping Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti Plan...
Comedians Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti are planning their wedding, and it's not going well. Luckily, they're using Booking.com, so it's easy to make changes. The duo—engaged in real life—star in...
View ArticleRadio Flyer Found a Cute, Clever Way of Showing What Its Little Red Wagon...
Growing up, we can't remember ever having seen an ad for Radio Flyer. (Turns out there's a reason for that.) But imagine what a modern one would be like, nourished both by nostalgia and Super Bowl...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Honey Maid Preaches Acceptance in Even More Polarized America
Honey Maid's "This Is Wholesome" campaign enters its third year today at a cultural crossroads. On the one hand, the Mondelēz brand's message of diversity and inclusivity is right in step with...
View ArticleApple Beautifully Celebrates a Teen With Autism Who Learned to Speak With an...
For years, Dillan Barmache couldn't speak. Then he got an iPad. The 16-year-old, who has autism and is non-verbal, stars in a powerful new advertising campaign from Apple, launched in observance of...
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