Crazy Youngsters Break Out in a Worldwide Dance Party for Pitch Perfect 2
Never underestimate the promotional power of feel-good fan service. More than 100 fans were featured out of a whopping 1,500 total submissions for this Pitch Perfect 2 promo. Together they created a...
View ArticleWhy Domino's Went Nuts and Wrote Hundreds of Tweets Almost Entirely in Pizza...
On Tuesday, Domino's flooded its Twitter feed with a heap of tweets written almost completely in pizza emojis. They looked like sentences. They were even punctuated. Not only that, but Domino's had...
View ArticleThis Clever Volkswagen Ad Is Exactly as Long as the Time You Can Spend With It
If you don't have time to watch this whole new commercial for Volkswagen Trucks, you can just skip to the end for a quickie version—no matter where you are in the story—and it will still make sense.Go...
View ArticleHigh Fashion Is a Prison in These Striking Print Ads Opposing Child Labor
The striped patterns on dresses, shirts, tunics and sweaters become prison bars—with small, sad faces peeking through—in this Brazilian campaign against child labor. Lew'Lara\TBWA created the print...
View ArticleYou Loved Bobblehead Bret Michaels So Much That Nissan Gave Him His Own Ad...
Bobblehead Bret Michaels sure drives a hard bargain. Must be the frozen stare and the defiant stance. You should probably take him along on your next car-buying venture. You want the leopard-print...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe's Dress Blows Around on These New York Subway Ads as Trains...
Lifetime has brought a neat out-of-home advertising trick to the U.S. for the first time to promote its upcoming miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Kelli Garner. Garner began...
View ArticleThis Agency Snuck a Testicular Cancer PSA Into the Adult Film Game of Balls...
Adult movies have suddenly become the hot place to put cancer PSAs. M&C Saatchi in Sydney worked with adult film studio Digital Playground and the Nonprofit Blue Ball Foundation to place an...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Y&R Ages Car-Crash Victims to Show What They'd Look Like Today
Any road-safety campaign that uses actual victims in its advertising is bound to be difficult for the families involved. This latest, from Y&R New Zealand, is no exception. Indeed, it's crushingly...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Spotify Helps Deaf People Hear in This Emotional New Spot
Hearing brings a world of joy to people, but it's a sense not everyone is lucky enough to have. Spotify recently took a trip to Puerto Princesa, Philippines, with hearing aid manufacturer Starkey...
View ArticleKristen Bell, Dax Shepard Kill You With Cuteness in Their Latest Samsung Ads
For those who couldn't get enough of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard in their hit Samsung Galaxy Tab S holiday ad, the hyper-cute Hollywood couple—married in real-life—have returned for an encore, this...
View ArticleThis Outdoor Ad in Moscow Hides From the Police When It Sees Them Coming
Last summer, Russia imposed a full embargo on food imports from the European Union (as well as the U.S.) in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine. This left authentic European food merchants in...
View ArticleDarrell Hammond Is Colonel Sanders in W+K's Big New Campaign for KFC
Boy, howdy, have things changed." That's Colonel Hardland Sanders, 35 years after his death at age 90—but reincarnated in the form of ex-SNL star Darrell Hammond—weighing in on modern culture in...
View ArticleThe Kids From SunnyD's Goofy '90s Rollerblading Ad Are Back, and They Never...
If you watch the ad below and conclude there's nothing new under the sun, you're half right. Sunny Delight rollerblades into '90s nostalgia with this delightfully deft parody of its own goofy, iconic...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Adult Retailer Makes Probably the Craziest X-Rated Ad Yet (NSFW)
Sex sells, particularly when you're selling lingerie and sex toys. And now, two of Britain's top creatives have teamed up to make one of the most extravagant erotic brand films ever—a frenetic...
View ArticlePizza Hut Takes Down Selfie Sticks in This Hilarious Ad for Its 2-Foot Pizzas
Have you taken a selfie lately? If the answer is yes, then you're the target audience for this new over-the-top parody PSA from Pizza Hut. The brand wants to warn you about the dangers of the selfie...
View ArticleMichael Jordan Waxes Poetic in Gatorade's New Paean to Sweat
Gatorade really does love sweat. Last year, the brand's hidden-camera ads with Peyton Manning and Cam Newton required customers at a convenience store to "sweat it to get it." If would-be consumers...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Delta Stuffs the Entire Internet Into Its Latest Brilliant...
Delta claims to have made the "Internetest in-flight safety video on the Internet." And by Keyboard Cat, I think they're right. Where else, after all, will you see a cat in a shark suit on a Roomba on...
View ArticleHang On, Did Olive Garden Just Make a Really Good Commercial?
Olive Garden's advertising has long been distinguished by its unlimited blandness, which some might argue is a decent representation of the food there. But during NBC's Red Nose Day telethon Thursday...
View ArticleDarkly Comic Ads for ZocDoc Illustrate the Utter Hell of Calling Your Doctor
ZocDoc knows how much it sucks trying to deal with doctors over the phone. Now, the online medical-care scheduling service positions itself as the cure for such headaches in a pair of humorous spots...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Shows You How to Get 6 Million Views on an Ad Without Even Trying
Coca-Cola unveiled its first work from Ogilvy Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago—a rousing, visually rich pan-European anthem that tried to raise some political issues and surely cost a ton to make. It...
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