Geico 'Unskippable' and Leica '100' Both Win Grand Prix Awards in Film at Cannes
CANNES, France—A gorgeously cinematic film for Leica by F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi and a hilarious and innovative preroll ad for Geico by The Martin Agency each won a Grand Prix in Film at the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Honey Maid Celebrates Fourth of July With an Immigrant...
It's been a great week for acceptance of diversity. And now, Honey Maid continues that trend as we head toward Fourth of July weekend with a new ad that explores what it means to be American through...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Memorial Sloan Kettering Tells Three Powerful, Inspiring...
Giving people a new way to think and talk about cancer." That's the mission of three Internet films from New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, according to chief communications officer...
View ArticleChance, the Wheelchair-Bound Dog, Will Inspire You to Tears in This Kleenex Ad
With over 23 million Facebook video views in less than a week, this new ad from Kleenex is helping to make sure that the Kimberly-Clark brand's plot to keep America crying into its tissues is going...
View ArticleAd of the Day: The Fat Jew and Todrick Hall Rap About Viacom's Big Data
The title of Viacom Velocity's three-minute music video "The Fat Jewish Is Big Data Featuring Todrick as Hadoop" pretty much says it all. What don't you understand? Social media star/E! Channel...
View ArticleAfter a Record 8 Lions in Cannes, Ad Council Brings 'Love Has No Labels' to...
The Ad Council's "Love Has No Labels" campaign didn't just set records for the nonprofit PSA maker. With 110 million online views, the launch video is the second most watched social and community...
View ArticleCan McDonald's Turn an Awkward Blind Date Into Something That's Actually Fun?
McDonald's won't just sate your hunger and comfort you when you're down. It will actually save your aborted love life. Or so claims a new U.K. ad from Leo Burnett London. The burger chain plays...
View ArticleKids' Wildest Dreams Come True in This Beautifully Imaginative Airline Ad
Here's a fun spot from earlier this year that picked up a silver Lion at Cannes last week. For S7 Airlines from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, it features cute kids being themselves, namely by describing...
View ArticleNorwegians Object to Giant Penis Squirting Them With Confetti in PSA Stunt
Believe it or not, there are a few situations where dressing up as a giant penis and spraying people with confetti is inappropriate. Promoting condom use on behalf of a sex education charity is one of...
View ArticleNike Makes One of the Fastest Ads Ever to Sell the Zoom Air Sneaker
A super-fast sneaker deserves a super-fast commercial, and Nike delivers one here for its Air Zoom Elite 8 running shoe. Blink and you'll miss it. The 60-second "Find Your Fast" spot—created by agency...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Duracell Powers a Soldier's Sweet Message to His Daughter This...
Duracell is making a strong play for the most American ad this Fourth of July by framing itself as the brand that helps keep members of the U.S. military connected to their young kids while deployed...
View ArticleThis Remarkable Ad Shows Just How Science Can Improve Real People's Lives
If you think rigorous scientific research is boring or self-serving, this short film from the Netherlands just might change your mind. Amsterdam-based agency 1Camera and director Hugo Keijzer employ...
View ArticleWith CEO Miles Young Leaving Ogilvy, Will His Loyalists Follow Him Out?
Word this week that Ogilvy creative exec Chris Garbutt will be leaving the agency arrived amid speculation that some loyalists to Miles Young, the agency network CEO who recently announced his...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Mcgarrybowen's New Triscuit Ads Will Have Foodies Licking...
Mcgarrybowen Chicago's latest campaign for Triscuit, called "Makers of More," celebrates the brand's roots, and the simplicity of its recipe (wheat, oil and salt), by presenting the stories of five...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Coca-Cola's Minimalist Can Promotes a World Without Labels
Coca-Cola has toyed with its packaging once again, this time to join the global movement for equality and tolerance—by removing its own label off its products to promote a world without labels and...
View ArticleNike Celebrates the 'Real Girls of Moscow' With Empowering Ads, Murals and GIFs
Back in April, Nike Women launched its popular "Better for It" motivational campaign in the U.S. Now, the sportswear giant is expanding the tagline in Russia. A half-dozen new spots from Wieden +...
View ArticleBabies' Poop Faces Captured in Glorious Slow Motion in Award-Winning Pampers Ad
Everyone knows babies make hilarious faces when they poop. For that matter, so do most adults. Whether or not knowing this universal truth entices you to watch a medley of babies' faces as they poop...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Taco Bell Takes Back Bacon in This Silly Anti-Craze Campaign
If you needed further evidence that the bacon craze has completely imploded, Taco Bell is making fun of the universal obsession with the stuff to pitch a new product … of which bacon is an integral...
View ArticleInfiniti Spoofs the Highway Flirting From National Lampoon's Vacation, With a...
Infiniti recreates the "flirting on the highway" scene from National Lampoon's Vacation with one of that 1983 film's original stars (not Chevy Chase, unfortunately) in this Crispin Porter + Bogusky ad...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Girls Are Unstoppable in Next Phase of Always 'Like a Girl'...
Last summer, Procter & Gamble's Always scored a big hit with its stereotype-crushing "Like a Girl" ad, which then got a slot on the Super Bowl. Now, the feminine products brand is back with...
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