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Dunkin' Donuts Taps YouTuber to Show NFL What Excessive Celebration Really...
A duck-duck-goose-inspired touchdown celebration at a National Football League game is something I'd pay good money to see. The NFL, of course, would never condone such a silly spectacle. But thanks...
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Nike Recreated the Toga Party From Animal House With Famous University of...
This one goes out to all the Ducks fans—but all you really need to appreciate it is to have liked the movie Animal House. Nike celebrates its deep ties to the University of Oregon in a new, feel-good...
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ESPN Finds 5 Famous Endorsers After Hours to Kick Off Ads for Late-Night...
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft do late at night at National Park, while winding down after their daily Presidents Race? They...
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Tiki Barber Wants to Make It Easier for Brands to Find Their Pitchmen
Tiki Barber is following in Derek Jeter's cleat-steps on the "athlete-turned-mogul" track. The former New York Giants running back has set his sights on the talent booking industry. Along with Mark...
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StubHub's Amusing New Ads Feature Ticket Buyers and Their Insane Mini-Me's
Your inner sports fan is a maniac in body paint, a fright wig and tear-away pants. He's a little extreme, sure, but it's OK to let him come out and play, according to a new ad campaign from StubHub....
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Man Who Hates Seeing So Many Geico Ads Stuffs 300 of Them Into One...
Some say Geico is going through a golden age of creativity, from its super-viral "Hump Day" camel spot to its Cannes Grand Prix-winning "Unskippable" campaign. But Dominick Nero is not among the...
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Happy Emails Have Cries for Help Hidden in the HTML in This Domestic Violence...
In Peru, four women in 10 between the ages of 15 and 49 years old suffer from domestic violence, and only 40 percent of those actively seek help. To remind people that violence can hide in plain...
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Kayak Can't Help Everyone in This New Pair of Perfectly Awkward Ads
In recent years, Barton F. Graf 9000 has created some hilariously absurd and sometimes controversial commercials for Kayak. These two new ads are more subtle and less flat-out wacky, but still take...
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Ad of the Day: Jose Cuervo Flies Back to the Famously Depraved Rolling Stones...
The opening lines of Chapter 9 of Keith Richards' autobiography Life, in which he describes the Rolling Stones' debaucherous 1972 tour, were all McCann needed to get started on its latest stylish...
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Pot Noodle Smashes Your Gender Stereotypes with This Unexpected Boxing Story
Pot Noodle is about to destroy your gender sterotypes, and you're going to love it. In fact, you'll want to watch it twice. The "You Can Make It" spot plays on your presumptions about what's happening...
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Oscar Mayer Releases Sizzl, a Dating App Exclusively for Bacon Lovers
Oscar Mayer's love for bacon has taken a romantic turn, as 360i today unveils Sizzl, an actual dating app built for people who dig on swine (which is to say, almost everybody). You download the app,...
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Ad of the Day: This Hypnotic, Looping PSA Goes From Eerie to Deadly in a...
Commercial directors have been bringing formidable formal techniques to PSAs lately. Freed from the constraints of regular brand advertising, they can use camera and editing tricks to build...
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These Print Ads Illustrate Clean Water in the Most Brilliantly...
The Pureit water purifier works so well that it can turn grimy canal water—or a murky rural stream—totally clear. At least, that's what Unilever's latest print campaign seems to say. In this soft,...
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Gas Station Chain Shows You Exactly How to Treat a Superfan in This...
In an unusual promotion, ARCO surprised its biggest fan—yes, retail gas-station brands have fans, too—with a gift that clearly meant the world to him and his girlfriend. It all began when ARCO agency...
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Moe's Southwest Grill Just Made a Real Electric Guitar Out of a Giant...
Now that Moe's Southwest Grill has taken to calling its free queso day "Quesopalooza," it's entirely logical that it would build a playable electric guitar out of a giant tortilla chip. No wait,...
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Coke Cans Come With Temporary Tattoo of Your Name in Latest Bit of Packaging...
Coca-Cola kicks off National Hispanic Heritage Month (which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) with a line of temporary-tattoo cans, targeted to Hispanic and Latino Americans. Based on the insight that...
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Heineken Hid a Rugby Legend Inside a Dublin Pub. Here's What Happened Next
Days before the opening match of the Rugby World Cup, Heineken surprised a Dublin pub chock-full of rugby fans with the coolest prize machine ever. In exchange for their names and emails (handy!),...
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Hulu Made Some Perfectly Pretzel-Like Commercials for Commercial-Free Viewing
Twofifteenmccann indulges in some delicious meta humor with four fun ads touting Hulu's ad-free option, announced a couple weeks back and priced at $11.99 a month. Three of the commercials are...
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Wolff Olins' First North American President Wants to Change How Consumers...
Brand consultancy Wolff Olins announced this week it has hired Tim Allen as its first North American president. Allen brings a colorful, nontraditional career in branding and design to the new role....
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Ad of the Day: eBay Builds New Campaign Around Song Lyrics, and It's Glorious
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners just released one of the most playful, infectious and eye-catching ad campaigns of the year—five online spots for eBay that cleverly combine music and design to show...
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