Julia Louis-Dreyfus Tries Robbing Snoop Dogg in Old Navy's Wacky Black Friday...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus scores some new co-stars in her latest for Old Navy, and the ensemble suits her well. The Veep and Seinfeld actress ties up rapper and marijuana poster boy Snoop Dogg in an attempt...
View ArticleThis Interactive Honda Ad Lets You Send a Couple on Increasingly Extravagant...
Great. Greater. Greatest. Those are your viewing choices in RPA's new interactive video for the Honda Civic, which lets you toggle between a couple's three date scenarios and check out vehicle features...
View ArticleThis Bike Maker Wants Videos of the Parts of Cities You Can Explore Only on...
Foldable bike brand Brompton Bikes has launched #MyUnseenCity, a worldwide effort to commission videos exploring the hidden parts of people's cities. Created for the launch of its limited-edition...
View ArticleAt Erwin Penland, CMO Will Replace Retiring Co-Founder Joe Erwin
One week after Erwin Penland co-founder and president Joe Erwin announced he will step down from his position and retire from the advertising industry at the end of the year, the agency announced that...
View ArticleSorry, Britain, but This Lovely Christmas Ad From Spain Is the One to Watch...
Britain was the country that turned Christmas into an advertising showcase. But this year, a Spanish ad from Leo Burnett Madrid might just beat anything the U.K. turns out. The holiday season in Spain...
View ArticleStove Top's Millennial Hipster Pilgrim Implores You to Eat Stuffing All Day...
It must be frustrating to be a brand whose product is so closely associated with a single holiday that it seems odd to have it any other time. Stove Top stuffing is in that boat, but it tends to take...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Santa Gets a Naughty Visitor in Droga5's Comical Christmas Ad...
Santa abuse is not a common theme of Christmas commercials, but it certainly leaves a mark in this amusing Coach spot from Droga5 and director Matt Aselton of Arts & Sciences. Claus is seen...
View ArticleCreator of Beanie Babies Just Made Its First-Ever TV Spot, for This Brand-New...
Beanie Babies, introduced in 1991, were once the hottest toys in the world. Yet they managed to get so popular without benefiting from a single TV commercial (aside from a McDonald's Happy Meals...
View ArticleAd of the Day: KFC's 'Friendship Bucket Test' Is Like a Deep-Fried Newlywed Game
Nothing says friendship over the holidays like a heaping bucket of KFC chicken. That's the premise, more or less, of BBH London's "Friendship Bucket Test" for the brand's U.K. and Ireland operations....
View ArticleSamsung Choreographs an Awesome Human Kaleidoscope for Its Gear S2 Watch
If Busby Berkeley were alive today and choreographing commercials for tech products, he might have come up with something like this two-minute mini-movie by R/GA for Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch....
View ArticleQuality Street Celebrates the Holidays With the Most Epic Littering You've...
Around the holidays, one item you'll find in a British home is a Quality Street tin, packed with chocolates whose flavors vary by wrapper color. The appearance of the tin—developed in the 1930s, when...
View ArticleSlack Just Took Over 4 Cities With Its First Big, Extremely Bubbly Ad Campaign
If you live in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland or Charlotte, N.C., you're about to get a major dose of happy vibes, thanks to Slack's new effervescent outdoor ad campaign. The workplace...
View ArticleWhy This New York Agency Is Taking All 42 of Its Employees to Japan for the...
New York agency Chandelier Creative is known for many things: its ads for retailers like Target and Old Navy; its founder and creative director Richard Christiansen's taste in interior design; and its...
View ArticleSee the Dark and Controversial Christmas Ad From Germany That Has Everyone...
Here's a candidate for either the saddest, or the most ridiculous, Christmas ad of 2015. With help from Jung von Matt, which created its smashing "Supergeil" ad last year, German supermarket chain...
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes Peace With Apple in a Holiday Stunt That's Surprisingly Sweet
Having weathered plenty of Microsoft attacks over the years—including the well-known Windows Phone spots that mercilessly mocked Siri—Apple might have had reason to feel skeptical, perhaps even...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Rick and Morty Fans Find Their Carl's Jr. Ad to Be Quite Tasty...
Die-hard fans of Adult Swim's cult favorite hit Rick and Morty are jonesing for Season 3, but they'll have to settle instead for a Season 2 marathon this week on Cartoon Network—and the title...
View ArticleBank of America Salutes the World's Most Inspiring Powerlifter in Compelling...
Are you strong? Manimal strong? Powerlifter Chevi Peters, aka "Manimal," stars in this literally uplifting spot by Hill Holliday, part of a year-long, multichannel Bank of America campaign around the...
View ArticleThis Provocative PSA Argues That Refugees Actually Should Be Treated Like...
Nervous about the rising tide of refugees crossing borders en masse? You're not alone. To help put things in perspective, the Association for the Rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Tunisia (ADIRT)...
View ArticleGiant Sexting Emojis Welcome a Condom for Threesomes in MTV's 'Sext Life' Ad
Sexytime gets weird, and then weirder, in Y&R New York's amusing new commercial for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, featuring actors dressed up as common sexting emoji pairs suddenly getting...
View ArticleThis Agency's 'Jingle Butts' Video Gets Holiday Card Season Off to a Cheeky...
Stumped for a fun way to say happy holidays? Try playing "Jingle Bells" with any of your private parts, and you're all but guaranteed to get a reaction. Kmart famously did it with "Jingle Balls" two...
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