Grim Reaper Sings About Kids Dying in Unicef's Insane Sound of Music Parody
The hills are alive with the sound of Unicef Sweden singing about cholera. A jolly grim reaper does a Broadway number on waterborne diseases in Forsman & Bodenfors' insane new ad from the...
View ArticleTourists Give Jason Sudeikis Some Directions in AT&T's Tribeca Film Festival Ad
Live from New York … it's Jason Sudeikis. The former Saturday Night Live cast member appears in "The Tourists," a 45-second video from BBDO promoting AT&T's sponsorship of the Tribeca Film...
View ArticleEmpty Wheelchair Chases People Around a Mall in One of the Meanest Ad Pranks Yet
Hand out fliers about the dangers of osteoporosis pretty much anywhere and see what happens. Crumple. Toss. No one reads all those statistics. But chase those same folks with a remote-controlled...
View ArticleA 5-Year-Old Girl's Real Call to the Police Saves Her Mother in This...
Real audio of a 5-year-old girl calling 999 (Britain's version of 911)—after her mother has had a seizure—anchors this compelling new PSA from Grey London aimed at getting more parents to teach their...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Ewan McGregor Takes the Piss Out of Advertising in Funny BT...
The year of the celebrity anti-pitchman continues, with Ewan McGregor poking fun at the absurdities of the advertising process in AMV BBDO's amusing campaign for British TV and Internet provider BT....
View ArticleThis Cool Tumblr Imagines If Ad Agencies Were Ice Cream Flavors
If famous ad agencies were ice cream brands, what flavors would they be? Aditya Hariharan and Joshua Namdar, a pair of students at the Miami Ad School in New York, took a swing at visualizing the...
View ArticleSouth Dakota's Official Ad Campaign Asks: 'Why Die on Mars When You Can Live...
South Dakota sets the bar low with a new ad campaign that basically says, "Hey, at least we're not Mars." Aimed at both tourists and potential long-term residents, the campaign—developed by Sioux...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Cooks Cut Loose in Lurpak's Sizzling New Food Porn
Cooking with Lurpak is a full body-and-soul experience. A new ad from Wieden + Kennedy London continues the butter brand's tradition of quick-cut, hi-res food porn. In the voiceover, Rutger Hauer raps...
View ArticleCheck Out the Amazing Welcome Kit This Ogilvy Office Gives Each New Hire
It's a red box, but in some ways it's more like a red carpet. Ogilvy Cape Town has been giving a remarkable welcome box to employees over the past year. And now, it's been shortlisted in the design...
View ArticleGoogle Joins the Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster With Underwater Street View
People have been looking for the Loch Ness Monster for centuries, but now Google has brought some high-tech dragon-hunting software to the search. The company, with help from London agency...
View ArticleW+K Travels to 1960s Iceland for This Wry and Beautiful Yogurt Commercial
Somebody get this kid a bike! (And snowshoes, while you're at it.) Orri, the plucky lad in this fanciful Wieden + Kennedy London spot introducing Arla's Skyr Icelandic yogurt to the U.K., Germany and...
View ArticleKmart Celebrates Sloth With Joe Boxer's Inactivity Tracker and an Hourlong Ad...
Nike FuelBand may have fizzled out, but luckily the Joe Boxer Inactivity Tracker is here to take its place. Kmart is promoting its Joe Boxer pajamas with a new digital bracelet that's just like any of...
View ArticleAd of the Day: This Great Hertz Ad Starts Off Sweet, Then Takes a Sharp Left...
He took the tea kettle? Ouch, that Hertz! This cute British spot from adam&eveDDB starts off sentimentally, as a middle-aged couple are saying goodbye to their son, who is moving out—with help...
View ArticleBlindfolded Kids Try to Recognize Their Moms in This Lovely, Smash-Hit...
Are you unique enough that your child could pick you out of a lineup by touch alone? The charm-bracelet pushers over at Pandora Jewelry have just released The Unique Collection, but you won't see much...
View ArticleNoooooooooo! This Loony British Ad for Mints Ends With a Comic Shocker
This Trebor Mints ad from Wieden + Kennedy London has a bit of that 1990s Gushers weirdness to it, either as a tribute to nostalgic thirtysomethings or just for shiggles. It opens with a teen...
View ArticleNYC Agency Sagmeister & Walsh Says It Was Robbed, but It's Strange What Got...
Sagmeister & Walsh says a brazen robbery has occurred at its New York offices, with three men making off with its most valuable property—and the whole thing caught on tape by the ceiling camera...
View ArticleFoot Locker Catches Emoji Fever With 80 Individually Drawn 'Shoemojis'
If your brand hasn't made custom emojis yet, sorry—it's now mandatory. Or so it seems, given the rush of marketers doing so. And the latest brand to jump quite literally into the mix is Foot Locker,...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Gun Violence PSA Makes Heartbreaking Statues From Victims'...
Eight victims of gun violence are memorialized in lifelike but faceless plaster statues in FCB Chicago's "The Unforgotten," a traveling public-service installation and media campaign. Created for the...
View ArticleDroga5, Morgan Spurlock Show You How the Toyota Mirai Is 'Fueled by Bullsh*t'
Toyota wants you to know it has a car that literally runs on bullshit. This new ad for the automaker's Mirai fuel cell vehicle features an engineer visiting a dairy farm, loading a pickup bed with cow...
View ArticleHow Snapchats Hidden in Black Ops 2 Led to Today's Big Live-Action Trailer...
Activision unleashed its live-action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 today. And it's a typically impressive production from 72andSunny—a documentary-style look at a world decades from now in...
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