In its ongoing efforts to become Taylor Swift's personal Goop, Apple Music just released a day-in-her-life ad that provides an intimate peek into how Swift gets ready to go out. The ad dropped on her Instagram with a caption flanked by telltale shout-outs (to her credit, she's not shy about her sponsors).
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Taylor Swift Is Back, and One Hell of a Lip Syncer, in Her Latest Ad for Apple Music
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Kid's Hilarious (and Real) Ad for a Funeral Home Goes Viral, but Not Everyone Approves
This weekend, the internet came alive over an elementary-school kid's cheeky drawing for the Gilliland & Howe Funeral Home in Greensburg, Indiana.
The illustration was created for a Greensburg Daily News contest inviting youngsters to make ads for businesses advertising in the newspaper. Originally posted on G&H's Facebook page—along with several other ads, so locals could vote for their favorite (they were taken down when voting ended)—the drawing has generated considerable attention and debate.
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Ellie Kemper Crashes Old Droga5 Ads in the Agency's New Ads for Chase
Droga5's new work for Chase's Freedom Unlimited card is advertising about advertising. It stars Ellie Kemper, who amusingly points out how the world is inundated by commercials, billboards, product placement and more—but the upside to endless ads is that, thanks to Chase, you get 1.5 percent unlimited cash back on whatever they convince you to buy.
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Try Keeping Your Eyes on Gigi Hadid in This Whiplash-Inducing 360° Experience From BMW
If you lose sight of supermodel Gigi Hadid in BMW's new ad, it's probably because you're too distracted by one of the automaker's sexy new M2 sports cars.
The fashion celebrity and popular Instagram personality anchors a new campaign from agencies KBS and Serviceplan, built shamelessly around the fact that she's a looker, combined with a high-speed shell game. 
Clad in a tight red dress and spike heels, Hadid climbs into the passenger side of one of three blue 2016 M2 Coupés, which proceed to take off. Joined by two more, the cars weave in and out of each other's lanes while tearing down a runway.
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Under Armour Is Making a New 3-Second Ad for Every Stephen Curry 3-Pointer in the Playoffs
NBA star Stephen Curry is famous for shooting three-pointers. So, for each one he sinks during this year's postseason, Under Armour will honor him with a new three-second ad.
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American Family Insurance Gives Us the Galaxy's Cutest Astronaut in Dreamy New Ad
Houston, we have insurance.
The latest iteration of American Family Insurance's "Insure carefully, dream fearlessly" campaign from BBDO New York blasts off this week, led by an evocative minute-long film that presents a child's notion of space exploration.
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This Pot Farmers Organization Wants You to Think Local When Lighting Up on 4/20
It was just a matter of time before the small-batch/local/craft product snobbery that ruined contemporary beer would spread to marijuana ... and it's not even fully legal yet!
That hasn't stopped Flow Kana, a group of Northern California organic pot farmers, from putting together a multichannel marketing blitz (the first of its kind for marijuana) to promote its "brand."
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Design Shops Imagine What a 'Starbucks of Marijuana' Might Look Like
Marijuana branding is in its infancy. But one day soon, it may well be a major legal product category—with enormous design, branding and packaging needs. Today, for 4/20, Surface magazine looks to the future with an interesting exercise—getting a handful of design shops to imagine what a major national, aspirational marijuana brand might look like.
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This Zika-Killing Billboard Lures Mosquitos With the Essence of Human Sweat and Breath
Out-of-home advertising continues its recent quest to make the outdoors a better place to live—not just a place to sell stuff—with interesting billboards in Brazil that kill mosquitos, and hope to make a dent in the spread of the Zika virus.
The boards were designed by Brazilian advertising agency NBS and OOH agency Posterscope, both part of Dentsu Aegis Network. Their panels are equipped with technology that attracts and kills the Aedes Aegypti mosquito—by mimicking the essence of human sweat and breath.
The boards emit a solution into the air containing lactic acid, which reproduces the smell of human sweat, and also carbon dioxide, which replicates human breathing. The combination of these substances attracts mosquitos at a distance of up to 2.5 miles, the agencies say.
The headline on the ads reads, "This billboard kills hundreds of Zika mosquitos every day."
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This Hilarious, Epic Film About 'Air Farting' Perfectly Spoofs Inspirational Sports Ads
Never again will you be able to complain about an unsexy client that doesn't inspire you.
The proof in the pudding: For one such El Salvador brand, Ogilvy & Mather created a moving sports "documentary" about Jorge Chávez, national champion for a most curious sport indeed.
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This App's 'Commercializer' Turns Any Boring Classified Ad Into a Big-Budget Blockbuster
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How Amazon Saves You From the 'Showhole' When You Don't Know What to Binge Next
It's one of the unhappy side effects of binge-watching—that deep emptiness you feel inside after burning through your favorite on-demand series.
Amazon calls the common condition a "Showhole," and two new 30-second ads promote its Fire TV line of internet-streaming hardware products as the solution.
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Coca-Cola Is Seeing (Even More) Red in New Designs for Its Cans and Bottles
When a brand as iconic as Coca-Cola decides to change its packaging, it's a big deal. While different colors have always denoted different products—red is classic Coca-Cola, silver is loved by Diet Coke fans, black for the Coke Zero drinkers—the soda giant is moving to put a big red disc on each can and bottle.
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Follow a Strawberry From Birth to Grave in This Oddly Emotional Ad About Food Waste
Strawberries make a powerful statement in "Save the Food," a public service campaign breaking today from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Developed pro-bono by SapientNitro through The Ad Council, the initiative focuses on a sad reality: Some 40 percent of all food purchased in the U.S. each year goes uneaten, wasting money, water and energy to the tune of $162 billion.
And consumers are mostly to blame. We throw food away too soon and too often. In fact, each of us trashes nearly 300 pounds of food every year. Wow, we suck.
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Here's How You Show a Breast Self-Exam on Social Networks That Ban Female Nipples (SFW)
One in eight women will suffer from breast cancer at some point in their lives, and such a serious health challenge deserves its own well-meaning PSAs.
But the slightest hint of bare breast—and particularly a bit of nipple—will get your ads banned from Facebook faster than you can click Zuckerberg's new angry button. So, how does a breast cancer prevention advocacy group help women more effectively check their breasts in the comfort of their own bathroom mirrors?
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This Brand's Amazing New Logo Responds to Voice and Looks Different to Each Person
Brands talk endlessly about attention to individual customers. But Brazilian telecom company Oi has extended that idea to its very logo—a shapeshifting mark that responds to sound and looks different to every customers who speaks to it.
"We developed an interactive approach to the identity, experimenting with sound and touch activation, so that there could be as many subtle variations of the Oi logo as there are people who interact with it," says Wolff Olins, the design shop behind it.
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Lockheed Martin Rigged a School Bus With 'Group VR' to Take Kids on a Tour of Mars
A group of kids in Washington, D.C., thought they were taking an ordinary school-bus ride to the USA Science and Engineering Festival recently. But much to their surprise, they suddenly took a detour—to Mars.
This was thanks to Lockheed Martin, which created, with help from McCann and Framestore, the Lockheed Martin Mars Experience Bus, in which the windows of a bus were turned into screens and a "group VR" experience made the pint-size riders feel like they were traveling around the surface of the Red Planet.
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This Pet Store Tried to Sell a 'Gay Turtle' and Here's How Shoppers Reacted
Reminding us that people are judgmental jerks regardless of nationality, creed or religion, Amnesty International and TBWA Istanbul created the #GayTurtle project, which mocks the absurdity of homophobic attitudes.
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This Agency Is Selling Its Rejected Creative Work From 3 Pitches on eBay
Just because an advertising idea has been rejected in a pitch doesn't mean it isn't good. Or at least, it doesn't mean it can't have value—to someone else.
Dublin agency The Public House, unable to let go of its orphaned ideas, is putting them up for auction on eBay, with proceeds going to charity You're Not Alone. The ideas come from three failed pitches—for a potato chip company, tire servicing company and auto insurance company.
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Chilling Australian PSA Shows How Boys Learn Domestic Abuse ... and Girls Learn to Forgive
Knocking a girl over isn't just flirting, a new PSA from Australia reminds us—it's an early sign of contempt for women that could lead to more serious acts later in life.
The chilling ad, created by the government and agency BMF to prevent violence against women in future generations, features an escalating montage of disconcerting scenarios.
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