Shocking PSA Might Make You Think Differently About Domestic Violence
Hidden cameras have been used in various PSA campaigns lately to shed light on how people react in public to distressing situations. Notably, there was the Norwegian stunt where a boy sat freezing...
View ArticleShatner Negotiates a Role as First Online College Commencement Speaker
Red alert! William Shatner is back as Priceline's Negotiator, delivering the first "online commencement speech for online universities" in this spot from Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners."Your...
View ArticleHow The Land of Nod Found Its Latest Catalog Cover Through Instagram
Last fall, Jessica Shyba's photos of her son and new puppy napping together went viral. Shyba's blog about life with three kids in NYC, Momma's Gone City, was already fairly popular, and she had a...
View ArticleBeck's Creates a Poster That Lets You Play or Remix 10 Songs
Beck's recently made an unorthodox contribution to New Zealand's Music Month by unveiling a touch-activated street poster that lets passers-by play or even remix tracks from local musicians. The...
View ArticleThese Intimate, Globe-Spanning iPad Ads are Apple's Best in a Long While
Apple updates its "Your Verse" iPad campaign with a pair of gorgeous 60-second spots focused on the tablet's ability to facilitate music creation and help users travel the globe. One ad presents...
View ArticlePrepare for a Summer of Slurpee Selfies Courtesy of 7-Eleven's Mustache Straws
7-Eleven is now offering its Slurpees with hipsterlicious mustache straws and cups shaped like Mason jars. Be warned: they ain't free. It's a cool 99 cents for the stache straw, and a full $2.99 for...
View ArticleThis Latest Brutal Safe-Driving PSA Barely Gives You Room to Breathe
Here's a quick way to sober up after a holiday weekend: Watch this intense, claustrophobic safe-driving PSA from the U.K., aimed at young male drivers who appear to be a terror on the London...
View ArticleGym Ad Kindly Reminds Kanye That He Married a Shallow Short-Timer
An easy target, to be sure, but here's a clever bit of celebrity newsjacking from a New York chain of gyms. New York Sports Clubs ran the ad above in today's New York Post, just a few days after the...
View ArticleESPN Celebrates the Weird, Wonderful Time Warp That Happens During the World Cup
We're only 16 days away from the start of the World Cup. And ESPN—which will present all 64 matches of the quadrennial tournament across the ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC networks—released its latest teaser...
View ArticleWaterproofing Spray's Ad Is So Intentionally Cheesy, People Think It's Fake
We see tons of ad parodies that look convincing enough to be real, so Liquipel decided to take the opposite approach with a real ad made so over-the-top it almost feels like a parody. Just to make...
View ArticleSports Brands Are Winning Big With Instagram Videos
Two weeks ago, fashion brands were dominating the weekly VideoWatch/Shareablee top 10 chart for Instagram videos. Well, sports have take over the action, with seven of the spots in the rankings going...
View ArticleGoogle Makes the Subtlest Logo Change in the History of Logo Changes
You didn't notice it, but the design geeks on Reddit did. Google moved the "g" right one pixel and the "l" down and right one pixel, one eagle-eyed Redditor noticed on Sunday. Apparently, this was...
View ArticleOne of the World's Most Expensive Auto Brands Just Shot an Ad Entirely on...
Of all the brands to prove that video productions don't have to be elaborate, overpriced boondoggles, the last name you'd expect would be Bentley. And yet here we are, with a slick short film shot...
View ArticleIs This a Pro-Breastfeeding Ad Campaign or Soft-Core Porn? You Decide (SFW)
Activists and health advocates are rightly upset over this poorly executed campaign to get Mexico City mothers to breastfeed. It shows topless celebrities with a carefully placed banner running right...
View ArticleAutomaker Resorts to Hypnotizing Drivers (Yes, Really) to Make Them Like Its...
German automaker Opel isn't a household name in the U.S., but in Europe it is synonymous with "extremely boring car," "kinda lame" and "crap car." These are words straight from the mouths of the...
View ArticleMexican Newspaper Offers Breaking News via Paper Towel Dispenser
Who says print is dead? Maybe it's just on an extended bathroom break. Mexican free newspaper Mas Por Mas recently rigged paper towel dispensers in select corporate, mall and cinema toilets around...
View ArticleCoke Wants You to Float Away to Happy Land on Another Impossibly Sweet Ad
Coca-Cola's ad strategy basically comes down to bombarding you with joy and togetherness, and a new animated spot from Wieden + Kennedy continues that tradition. A boy bumps into a girl and lets go of...
View ArticleGoogle Shows Off Its Self-Driving Car. Would You Take a Ride in It?
Google has designed a self-driving car. And whatever reservations you might have about such an idea, the company won't be putting the brakes on it anytime soon—if only because the vehicle has no...
View ArticleLego Versions of Famous Artworks Are So Great, They're Now Official Ads
When most great spec projects make the rounds among the Internet's creative community, it's assumed the work will never see the light of day. Here's a notable, wonderful exception. Late last year,...
View ArticleDrunk People Passed Out in Japan Get Turned Into PSA Billboards While They Sleep
Next time you're out at a bar tying one on, you might want to reconsider your choices—if you happen to be drinking in Japan. Two agencies, Ogilvy & Mather and Geometry Global, and bar chain...
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