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NYC Sparkles in Ogilvy's Gorgeous Animated Christmas Ad for Tiffany
Ice shimmers on the streets of Manhattan in Ogilvy's animated holiday ad for Tiffany & Co. It sparkles from the trees and bridges, too. Its glow radiates from Broadway marquees and glimmers among...
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Ad of the Day: New York City Ballet Shows PlayStation Gamers a Proper Victory...
It's been a breakthrough year for ballet in advertising. It started off on the wrong foot with the notorious Free People ad, but it at least got people talking. Then the New York City Ballet did its...
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FCB's Giant Eco-Civic Project Would Create a South African Flag Visible From...
FCB South Africa is running an idea up the flagpole. A really big idea. In fact, the idea is ginormous. And its main component is a South African flag so large, it will be visible from space, 30 miles...
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The Ultimate Rebranding: How a Veteran Creative Shifted Genders Mid-Career
Despite all their turnover and relentless pursuit of revenue, ad agencies often end up feeling like big families. And announcing any sort of life change to your family, especially a family of 500...
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An Ad Agency Made Meghan Trainor's New Video, and It's Great
IDEA: Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" video, posted to YouTube in June, is nearing 300 million views. So, what did the singer do for an encore to her No. 1 hit? She got a brand, an ad agency and...
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Ad of the Day: Lexus Sprinkles Magic Dust on This Year's 'December to...
Lexus's "December to Remember" ads, with the luxury vehicles done up in those famous giant red bows, have become as much a part of the holiday firmament as Santa Claus himself. And this year, Team One...
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Ad of the Day: Fathers Are Thrilled Their Boys Are Men in Old Spice's 'Dadsong'
Distraught mothers became psychotic stalkers in Old Spice's epic "Momsong" musical, following their sons around and weeping about how they've grown into men too soon, thanks to the brand's...
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Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe Is DirecTV's Freakiest Rob Lowe Yet
While shy-bladder sufferers debate the offensiveness of Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe, DirecTV is plowing ahead with all sorts of other less-than-ideal Rob Lowes—you know, the ones with cable and not...
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This Agency Made a Really, Really Big Deal of Hiring Its 100th Employee, and...
Lots of agencies do interesting things for new hires—like Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners, which has been known to carve their faces into the heads of crayons. McGarrah Jessee in Austin, Texas, did...
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Agency Wants Its Next Art Director to Be Cool, So the Interview Will Be Over...
TDA_Boulder is looking for a new art director, but the interview process will be unique. In fact, if all goes well, it might end up looking like outtakes from The Hangover. Yes, the agency plans to...
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W+K Made a Giant, Amazing Cuckoo Clock Out of an Oregon Maple for Portland...
Wieden + Kennedy recently created a pretty incredible out-of-home tourism installation for Travel Portland: the tallest freestanding cuckoo clock in the U.S. Chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong...
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Ad of the Day: Adorable Australian Ad With People Helping Ducks Goes Megaviral
We've become accustomed to animal rights videos that are so brutal and depressing, you feel like you've been hit by a bus. But this spot from Australia shows a little positivity goes a long way. The...
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How the Music Company on Old Spice's 'Dadsong' Got the Ad's Twisted Genius...
Old Spice this week unveiled "Dadsong," its second lunatic 60-second musical via Wieden + Kennedy—the sequel to the award-winning "Momsong" from a year ago. Clearly, the music on a commercial like...
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Ad of the Day: This Generous TD Bank Stunt Is the Perfect Ad to Watch on...
Here's $30,000. Now, go out and do something great for your community. And we do mean now. You've got 24 hours to bring your dream to life. That's the challenge TD Bank issued to 24 people in the U.S....
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The Best Ad of 2014 Was Brilliant and Subversive, and It Wasn't Even Real
Technically speaking, the best ad of 2014 didn’t exist. Just ask Anna Kendrick. Last January, millions of viewers watched the Academy Award nominee deliver a two-minute, profanity-laden rant that took...
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Is Vagueness Killing Advertising?
The rise in popularity of mobile advertising, content marketing, native advertising and the continued focus on digital leads me to one question: Does anyone really know what they are? I’ve never woken...
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After You See This Virtual Tour of Horizon Media, You Might Want to Work There
At the corner of Grand and Varick streets lies One Hudson Square, an Art Deco factory-turned-office building that won landmark status last year. It's also home to Horizon Media—one of New York's...
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A Globe-Spanning Gift Was Secretly in Store for This London Bar Packed With...
Wherever you travel around the world, you'll always find Canadians gathering together, sharing stories and racking up an impressive bar tab. But this batch was especially lucky. Last week, Air Canada...
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Baby Animal Choir Sings Yaz's 'Only You' in This Ridiculously Cute Christmas Ad
McVitie's Victoria, the British biscuits brand, has been using puppies, kittens, tarsiers and owls in ads over the past year. Now, Grey London expands the baby-animal menagerie dramatically for...
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Ad of the Day: Masha Sings a Sultry Remake of 'Werewolves of London' for...
So, you're a werewolf, and it's your night to howl. Your drink of choice would be … a Bloody Mary? A piña colada at Trader Vic's? A Coors Light, aka the Silver Bullet? Nah, too risky. Actually, a...
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