Ikea Creates a Photo App That Lets You Take Only One Picture Ever
Ikea Belgium wants to save what it considers the dying art of photography ... by creating an app that only lets users snap one picture. Titled "Klikk" (or "Click," in Dutch), it aims to force...
View ArticleCan This Man Convicted of DUI Manslaughter Scare Bar-Goers Into Not Drinking...
Prankvertising, which was all the rage a few years back but lately has been on the wane, returns with a vengeance in this potent drunk-driving PSA for nonprofit We Save Lives. Created by...
View ArticleFeeling the Munchies at Night This Month? This Snack Brand Has Got Your Back
Just in time for 4/20 (the unofficial holiday for lightin' a blunt), French biscuit maker Granola is taking on the munchies."Late Night Drama" is an ad for Granola Night Assistance, which will enable...
View ArticleHumans Imitate Animal Courtship Dances in This Funny, Oddly Beautiful Ad for...
Sagami Original Condoms has filmed animal courtship rituals as performed by humans, and the results are both strange and seductive. Talented dancers, dressed in the colors of the respective animals,...
View ArticleHow a Millennial-Run Agency Persuades Fortune 500 CEOs to Work With It
SpecsWho CEO and ecd Matt FaulkWhat Brand design agencyWhere San Diego Matt Faulk founded the agency Basic to help lifestyle, fashion and entertainment brands tap into youth culture. It sure can't hurt...
View ArticleFrance's Yellow Pages Just Made an Interactive Music Video About a Lady Who...
Pages Jaunes—the French Yellow Pages—just launched an interactive music video for Breakbot's latest single, "My Toy." This may sound like a weird combination. But think about how much creative, local...
View ArticleMaya Rudolph Riffs on the Horrors of Non-Natural Soaps in Fun Ads for Seventh...
Laser-beam blue and spray-tan orange. Those are the scary shades of common household cleaning products that make Maya Rudolph uncomfortable, as she describes them in a new campaign for Seventh...
View ArticleP&G's Secret Takes on Young Women's Stresses, Beginning With the Wage Gap
Procter & Gamble's Secret deodorant is launching an interesting campaign from Wieden + Kennedy that looks at larger, generational reasons why young women sweat—often because of political,...
View ArticleBurger King's King Finally Speaks, by Signing, for American Sign Language Day
From the days when he would pop up, unannounced, in your bed in the morning, Burger King's King character has never actually spoken a single word, preferring to let his creepily silent visage speak...
View ArticleGoogle Tested 3 Versions of This Honey Maid Ad to See Which Worked Best Online
It's a fundamental choice for online video marketers: Should you hit viewers with a quick, memorable pitch that's (hopefully) less skippable? Or should you engage them with longer-form content that's...
View ArticleNike Stars Line Up to Send Their Love (and a Bit of Hate) to Kobe Bryant on...
Love and hate is Nike's big theme around the retirement of Kobe Bryant, who will play his 1,346th and final NBA game on Wednesday night. We saw this last week in this Nike spot from Wieden + Kennedy...
View ArticleSnakebites Are Dangerous, but Mobile Ads Are Lethal, in Adobe's Hilarious New Ad
Adobe has long excelled at comically portraying the disastrous consequences of not managing one's marketing properly. But in its latest spot, it literally becomes a matter of life and death. The...
View ArticleHow Millennials Can Get Ahead at Work: Bring Ice Breakers and a Unicorn to...
Ice Breakers breath mints are actually unicorns that will help millennials squeeze extra perks out of job negotiations, according to a new campaign by Crispin Porter + Boguksy for the Hershey's-owned...
View ArticleMoviegoers Excited About Gun-Filled Blockbuster Are Tricked Into Seeing Real...
States United to Prevent Gun Violence and Grey New York have made celebrated gun-control PSAs together for years. Now, they back with another powerful video, following up 2015's famous "Gun Store"...
View ArticleKobe Bryant Is a Maestro to the End in Nike's Quirky Musical Sendoff 'The...
Advertisers have been saying goodbye to Kobe Byrant, who plays his final NBA game on Wednesday night, with either comedy or drama. But Nike, which has always prided itself at balancing both, offers a...
View ArticleWill Facebook Messenger's Updated Platform Cause a Rise in Chatbots?
Yesterday, Facebook unveiled a major update to its Messenger app, that allows developers to create chatbots for brands through its chatbot API. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement has major...
View ArticleAgency Behind Doritos' Viral Super Bowl Ad Thinks American Ad Industry Should...
David Droga isn't the only Australian making headlines in the agency world. Sean Cummins has already left a memorable mark on American advertising, and he's ready to make an even bigger splash in the...
View ArticleRadiohead and a Teddy Bear Team Up for One of the Grimmest Ads Ever
Innocence in Danger, the organization that gave us online predator emojis, returns with an equally disturbing ad that transforms youthful symbolism into something tragic. For International Children's...
View ArticleAd of the Day: This Porsche Magazine Ad Uses LEDs to Light Up the Car's Insides
For the second time in as many months, Porsche is taking innovation for a spin with an unusual magazine placement. As you may recall, the automaker and its agency, Cramer-Krasselt, ran ads in April...
View ArticleSnickers Gets Wrapped Up Like Other Candy Bars in Latest 'You're Not You' Ads
BBDO Moscow takes the "You're Not You When You're Hungry" campaign for Snickers into meta territory with these three print ads, in which the Snickers bar isn't itself—it's packaging to look like Mars,...
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