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Ad of the Day: Chatbooks' Harried Mom Returns in 2016's Most Honest Holiday...
How does a real mom tackle the holidays? By hiding from the kids behind a locked door, huffing cocoa powder, reliving last year's epic gift fails and using crumpled wrapping paper as Kleenex. There...
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Ad of the Day: Kids Act Out Romeo & Juliet in Apple's Charming New iPhone 7 Spot
Wherefore art thou, iPhone 7? Here's a charmer for the digital scrapbook. In its ongoing efforts to convince us the incremental changes of the iPhone 7 are actually quite magical, Apple has released...
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Microsoft Seeks Unity This Holiday by Gathering Activists of All Stripes for...
It's been a divisive year. In the interest of making unity a thing again, Microsoft just released "The Art of Harmony," an uplifting piece of work that features real people, from a diversity of...
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Ford Cleverly Uses Vertical Video to Demonstrate Its Blind Spot Capabilities
Thanks to Snapchat, vertical video is now how young people—and thus, ad people—do mobile video. But there are always moments in a trend when an advertiser doesn't just follow along, but breaks it down...
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Pornhub Cheers Up Lonely People on Christmas Eve in Its New Holiday Ad (SFW)
Pornhub enjoyed a pretty successful Christmas advertising debut last year, with its SFW spot about the dirty old man—and his perfect present—getting millions of views on YouTube. So, the adult site is...
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Ikea Renamed Products After Frequently Googled Problems That Those Products...
Swedish agency Åkestam Holst has spent the past year using Ikea to explore family dynamics in all shades—from relationship longevity to divorce, and most recently, a troubled passage between a father...
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Godiva's New Box of Chocolates Will Be Gifted 4 Times, Thanks to Some Clever...
Here's a neat product from Godiva that bakes generosity right into the packaging. McCann New York worked with the Belgian chocolatier to create "The Box that Keeps Giving." It's a kind of Russian...
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Ad of the Day: Beats by Dre's All-Star Athletes Rock Out to White...
Beats by Dre has a proud history of tapping into sports superstars, going back to "The Game Before the Game" with Brazilian soccer star Neymar and the "Hear What You Want" work with Kevin Garnett,...
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This Illuminated Billboard in Albuquerque Hopes to Change the Way People Feel...
The modern Westerner is bad at death, especially so at the prospect of managing our own. The result is that it's treated glibly—like in slasher films—or pushed to the sidelines of our communities....
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This Women's Refuge Launched a Hidden, Untrackable Site for Women...
The Internet has become an unapologetically open place, one that drives its tentacles through everything we touch in an effort to unite it all—making us visible, traceable, easier to access. But not...
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How Some Agencies Rig Production Bids to Favor Their In-House Studios
Sometimes it's a subtle pricing scheme that stacks the deck. Sometimes it's as blatant as calling in a favor. Either way, the result is the same: Ad agencies are often rigging production bids to favor...
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Fleabag Star Phoebe Waller-Bridge Narrates Anomaly's Twisted Take on 'The 12...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge had an amazing year. The British actress and playwright created and starred in not one but two TV shows—the groundbreaking sitcom Crashing and the brutally funny and tragic dark...
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Ad of the Day: Nike Rips Into TV and Social Media in Ads About Getting...
Television is enjoying a golden age, and social media is empowering and entertaining us like never before. Unless they're actually slowly killing us, Nike seems to suggest in this stressful,...
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Nick Offerman's Hour-Long New Year's Eve Countdown Ad for Lagavulin Couldn't...
Last December, Nick Offerman teamed up with his favorite whiskey brand to create a yule-log video that was just 45 minutes of him sitting next to a crackling fire, sipping Lagavulin and staring at the...
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This Artful and Frightening PSA Shows the Same Car Crash 7 Times at Worsening...
Nobody wants to get into a car crash. But if you do, even a small difference in your speed can make a huge difference in the outcome. A new Australian PSA cleverly and poignantly uses a series of...
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Ad of the Day: If Men Breastfed, It Would Be a Testosterone-Driven Pissing...
There'd be hair in the milk. That was our recurring thought while watching Naya Health's "If Men Breastfed," a bizarre Facebook video in which male nipples finally serve a practical purpose. But it...
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The One Show Made a 360 Video Inside a Shower So You Can Have Great Ideas...
People notoriously have some of their best ideas in the shower. There's just one problem. You can't jump in the shower whenever you need inspiration. You probably don't even have a shower at work. And...
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Coca-Cola Invented a Bottle Cap That Lets You Record an Audio Message for a...
This holiday, a few lucky consumers in Italy will have a new way to communicate with their loved ones—with a high-tech message in a Coke bottle. The sugar water giant, with help from agencies David...
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Foot Locker Learns a Move From Museums, Launching In-Store Sneaker Audio Tours
When you hit the mall to shop for sneakers, wouldn't it be great if Kevin Durant himself could whisper all about his Nike KD9 shoes in your ear? Well, now he can, at more than 300 Foot Locker...
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Netflix Drops Some Cryptic Messaging for Friday's Debut of The OA
Have you seen death? Have you seen darkness? Have you seen the light? Those are just a few of the cryptic questions Netflix dropped on Twitter this past Monday, before sharing what looked like cell...
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