Twitter Unveils Its First Paid Brand Emoji, and It's for (Who Else?) Coca-Cola
Twitter, Coke and Wieden + Kennedy are clinking ice-cold bottles of Coca-Cola today after teaming up to create the site's first branded emoji that's actually a paid ad placement. If you type...
View ArticleThese Comical Ads Tell Ashley Madison Users (and Victims) How to Find a...
Using the Ashley Madison hacking scandal as a humorous linchpin, DigitasLBi has unleashed a pro-bono campaign for Rescue Dogs Rock NYC featuring two videos that will appear on the organization's...
View ArticleEver Wonder What Goes Into a Burberry Scarf? This Smart, Lovely Ad Shows You
For the launch of its new Scarf Bar, where users both online and in-store can customize their own scarves, Burberry decided to educate people on what goes into making one. When a brand launches a...
View ArticleA New Twist at Dmexco: Media Agencies Hawking Their Services at the Expo Center
COLOGNE, Germany—Strolling the crowded Dmexco expo floor, filled beyond capacity with eager and enthusiastic German and European attendees, you can sense an energy not usually seen at media...
View ArticleCentury 21 Quietly Has Fun With Its Silent, Autoplaying Ads on Facebook
Instead of watching a Facebook ad that makes you long for a langorous night playing guitar by the firepit, why not just buy a house? That's the mental leap Century 21 asks you to make in its new set...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Honda Puts Its History on Paper in This Amazing 2-Minute PES...
Those who were disappointed that animator PES wasn't hired for this Ikea spot will rejoice today upon seeing the Oscar nominee's latest brand work—a remarkable two-minute Honda spot from RPA that...
View ArticleSnickers Swaps Out Its Brand Name for Hunger Symptoms on Painfully Honest...
The trend toward more personalized packaging continues, with a twist, as Snickers is replacing its brand name on packaging with 21 hunger symptoms. The twist is that, instead of being life-affirming...
View ArticlePaulo Coelho Just Published the Entire Text of His Novel 'The Alchemist' in a...
Any Brazilians who hadn't already read Paulo Coelho's famous 1988 novel The Alchemist could do so for free last Monday. All they needed was a copy of that day's Metro newspaper—along with, probably, a...
View ArticleFred Armisen Directs A-Listers in World's Worst Casting Call for Absolut...
The luxury vodka brand Absolut Elyx is bringing the most important ingredient in vodka (water) to those who need it most through a new campaign with nonprofit Water for People. For every bottle of...
View ArticleJude Law and Anomaly Put a Joyful New Bounce in Johnnie Walker's Step
Move over, Coca-Cola. A different beverage is staking a claim to happiness. And this one's 80 proof! Anomaly has updated Johnnie Walker's iconic "Keep Walking" campaign with a new attitude and a...
View ArticleRidiculous Stock-Photo Couple Can't Contain Their Joy in Ad for Breakfast...
As Vince Vaughn once taught us, stock photos can sometimes make for some unexpectedly fun marketing. Droga5 amusingly takes that to heart in this spot, running on Facebook, for belVita breakfast...
View ArticleGet Peanutized for the Upcoming Snoopy Movie!
Ever feel like you belonged to the world of Charlie Brown and Lucy? Leading up to Fox Family's The Peanuts Movie, nostalgic fans can visit Peanutize Me!, which lets you transform yourself into a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Bond Gets a New Sidekick in W+K's Entertaining Swan Song for...
Another day, another James Bond movie, another dapper chase scene of a Heineken commercial—but with a new kind of hero. Daniel Craig bookends this new 90-second, high-octane ad—from Wieden + Kennedy...
View ArticleThese Funny Retirement Ads Remind You That, Man, You're Already Old as Hell
The older you get, the more pressing is your need to prepare for retirement. And lord, you're getting old in a hurry. That's the sad-but-funny truth behind this comical UBS campaign from Publicis...
View ArticleAirbnb Built a Giant 3-D Zoetrope for This Wild Ad Showing You a Different...
This week's honors for most ambitious model making go to Airbnb and TBWA\Singapore for a truly insane contraption—a massive, handmade, 3-D zoetrope—built to film a simple anecdote about seeing more of...
View ArticleDozens of Women Leaders Star in The Limited's Fall Fashion Campaign
Women's clothing brand The Limited has launched its fall 2015 line, and women business execs are the faces of it. With help from agency YARD, The Limited picked over 60 diverse women who are leaders...
View ArticleYoplait and W+K Made the Hangriest Yogurt Ads Yet, Starring Dominic Purcell
For Yoplait, Wieden + Kennedy has moved on from Phoebe Neidhardt to Dominic Purcell, getting the actor to subvert his tough-guy image ... and become "A Man of Yogurt." In two new ads (four more are on...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Yelp Is Your Awesome, Goofy Savior in Its First National TV...
Yelp isn't just for restaurant recommendations. It can help you find reviews on everything from auto shops to hair salons to "extreme golf" driving ranges, the app and website says in this amusing...
View ArticleA Talented Llama Is Just One Magical Piece of These Surprisingly Fun...
Properly automating the electrical system at your workplace sounds boring. But in fact, it could save the entire world from a catastrophic asteroid collision. That is the premise of one new ad from...
View ArticleThis Playful Cancer PSA Teaches You Almost Every French Nickname for Breasts...
One in eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and 90 percent of breast cancer can be fully cured if it's caught early enough. With this in mind, and for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in...
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