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Sweden Designs the First Summer Festival Poster You Can Climb On
Snask, an agency in Stockholm, made a huge 3-D poster for this year's Malmö Festival, which is essentially a massive street fair that runs through the second half of August. The "poster" is actually a...
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Ad of the Day: Skyy Vodka Gives You Cosmic Tips on Having a Better Night Out
Renowned ad critic Neil deGrasse Tyson should really be the one reviewing Skyy Vodka's new ads from Venables Bell & Partners, but we'll fill in for him this time. The spots, which break Wednesday...
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Southwest Airlines Is Completely, Hopelessly, Head Over Heels in Love in New Ads
When it comes to airports and traveling by plane, what's not to love? GSD&M spins the Beatles' flower-power anthem "All You Need Is Love" in these Southwest Airlines ads celebrating the carrier's...
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Shock Top Beer Is One Smooth Talker in Fun Series of Bar and Liquor Store Stunts
The next time you're perusing the shelves at your local beer shop and you hear a voice coming from the cooler, there's a chance it's a sixer of Shock Top Belgian White trying to chat you up. Not since...
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Old Geezers Battle Young Whippersnappers at Basketball in Centrum's Short Film
Sometimes experience proves more powerful than youth. That's certainly true in this new long-form spot for Pfizer's Centrum from Leo Burnett in Chicago, which pairs middle-aged basketball players...
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8 New England Agencies Had 72 Hours Each to Brand a Startup. Here's the...
The Ad Club, the advertising trade organization of New England, recently held its first "Brand-a-thon" contest for creative agencies to come up with branding campaigns for area startups in just three...
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Ad of the Day: Samsung Slams iPhone Battery, but Are These Ads Losing Their...
Battery life is the burning issue in "Wall Huggers," the latest installment in 72andSunny's "The Next Big Thing Is Here" campaign for Samsung. The minute-long spot shows frazzled, unhappy...
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Neutrogena Warns Men Not to Wash Their Junk and Their Face With the Same Soap
Neutrogena is very concerned about "Junkface," which is apparently what happens when a man washes his Downtown Manville and then his face with the same bar of soap. Naturally, the brand suggests its...
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Even If You Hate Greenpeace and Love Lego, You Have to Admire This Gorgeous...
Greenpeace takes a page from Chipotle's marketing playbook—haunting animation plus a distressing cover of a well-known song—in its continuing assault on Lego for partnering with Shell on a set of...
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Allstate Has a Black Cat Who Will Predict the Loser of the World Cup Final
Sure, we could listen to pundits or statisticians to try to predict the outcome of the World Cup final on Sunday. They've got suits and numbers. But what they don't have is a black cat. Why listen to...
View ArticleAgencies Increase Focus on Cause Marketing
Cause marketing is a growing trend in advertising, as agencies seek to align the brands they represent with social causes customers care about. The growing agency focus on cause marketing is now...
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Ad of the Day: Proud New Yorkers (and a Few Other Familiar Faces) Tip Their...
Respect. That’s what Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees is about. Everyone from Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan to Yankee haters tip their caps to Jeter in an epic 90-second commercial from Nike’s...
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Why Actually Talk to People When You Can Just Speak in Netflix References?
To help expand its reach in Canada, Netflix has released a series of new ads that play off the streaming video service's role as a sort of cultural watering hole from which we can draw endless...
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Even the World's Least Smooth Mandroid Gets the Ladies With Old Spice
Many brands promise to make literally anyone more attractive to the opposite sex, but Old Spice takes this promise to the extreme with its new ads starring a hapless, barely functional android. In a...
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This Digital Agency Went From a Spare Bedroom to Winning Awards
SpecsWho Drew Ungvarsky, owner and creative directorWhat Digital agencyWhere Norfolk, Va. Ten years ago, a computer science major named Drew Ungvarsky who loved designing and developing started Grow in...
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Ad of the Day: Samsung's Sci-Fi Soccer Epic Reaches Its Final Chapter
Samsung Mobile's epic sci-fi soccer battle, which has been playing out in big-budget videos since last November, has finally reached its conclusion."The Match Part 2," released this week as a coda to...
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Nike Boosts Brazil's Morale After World Cup by Looking Ahead to the Olympics
Nike doesn't want Brazil to linger on its loss in the World Cup. Instead, the brand's new ad aimed is aimed at pumping up the passionate nation of sports fans for their next global event: the 2016...
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Fellas, Bill Kurtis Wants You to Go on a Mancation to Illinois With Him
Legendary anchorman Bill Kurtis is a man's man. Just ask Ron Burgundy ... or the Illinois Office of Tourism. A new campaign from JWT Chicago features Kurtis, a veteran Chicago journalist best known...
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Honda Targets Hispanic Millennials by Mocking the Way Brands Target Hispanic...
Young Latino consumers: They're hip! They're mobile! They lead active, on-the-go lifestyles! They're also, you know, pretty much like anybody else—though that's something marketers rarely want to hear...
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Ad of the Day: Neil Patrick Harris Doesn't Get Why He Can't Drink Heineken...
Most ad agencies that work with alcohol brands have a general loathing for the myriad guidelines that shackle them from showing much of anything, including someone drinking a beer. But in its new...
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