Missing Mad Men? Here's Christina Hendricks Trying to Work in a Modern Office
The final half of the seventh and final season of Mad Men won't premiere until next spring (although filming has wrapped—and according to Elizabeth Moss, there was a lot of crying going on as the cast...
View ArticleKids' Ideas for the Car of the Future Will Warm Your Cold, Old Heart
Live long enough and you just might see an automobile that sucks up discarded plastic bottles anteater-style through its front and spits them out the back as recycled plastic bricks that can be used...
View ArticleBritish Ads Remember World War I Dead Who Aren't as Famous as Their Names
The Royal British Legion is behind a weighty ad campaign called "Every Man Remembered," featuring soldiers from World War I who share names with famous people a century later (although "Tom Jones"...
View ArticleMOO Designs the Most Selfless Self-Promotion Ads Ever
Online printing company MOO.com, which some of you might remember from a video it made back in April, is doing some self-promotion with the oldest trick in the book. Wait, no, that's prostitution. The...
View ArticleJason Sudeikis Hilariously Returns as the World's Worst Soccer Coach for NBC...
It was this time last year that we first met Ted Lasso, an American football coach (played by Jason Sudeikis) hired to manage London's Tottenham Hotspur Football Club—and manage it very, very...
View ArticleNike Salutes Paul George in Powerful Ad a Week After His Horrific Injury
Nike has a habit of picking its players up—with tribute ads—after major injuries. The brand did so with Kobe Bryant in 2013, and it has now released the inspiring ad above for Paul George following...
View ArticleDid Penguin Just Design the Worst Book Cover of All Time on Purpose?
The 50th anniversary publication of Roald Dahl's children's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is leaving a bad taste in some mouths. Controversy surrounds the cover of the Penguin Modern...
View Article7 Memorable Moments in the Dubious History of Product Placement
Remember when you had to wait until the commercial break to be bombarded with brand marketing? Probably not, since product placement has been a Hollywood addiction since the 1980s. Ever since Steven...
View ArticleTake an Irresistibly Silly Ride With MoneySuperMarket's Epically Funky Elephant
Wave your tusks in the air like you don't care! An elephant with some serious funk in its trunk shakes its behemoth boo-tay down a busy nighttime thoroughfare to the beat of Cameo's "Word Up" in this...
View ArticleLevi's Banned Some Music Fans From Free Show For Not Wearing Its Jeans
Levi's has landed itself in a little hot water, after shutting music fans out of a free concert for failing to wear the brand's clothes to the show. Last week, two popular bands, Haim, and Sleigh...
View ArticleDirecTV Strikes Gold Again With Manning Brothers Rap Sequel
Eli and Peyton Manning are back to rapping for DirecTV, and it's still pretty glorious. Last summer, the pro footballers and the satellite provider graced us with "Football on Your Phone." Now they're...
View ArticleCanadian Cancer Society Invites You to Fight Your Fears and Help Save Lives...
Are you afraid of heights? Swimming with sharks? If you have a phobia you've been meaning to overcome, now is a particularly good time, thanks to a new campaign from the Canadian Cancer Society that...
View ArticleApple's Powerful 'Your Verse' Campaign Rolls On, From Beijing and Through...
Apple is sticking with a good thing, continuing the rollout of its "Your Verse" campaign with two new stories about how people around the world are using iPads as tools to support their passions. In...
View ArticleSwedish Lifestyle Is Back to Taunt America in New Wasa Crispbread Ad
Sweden is getting its high cheekbones all up in America's grill once again, asserting its Scandinavian superiority with this online spot for Wasa Crispbread. An American woman in Sweden takes a yoga...
View ArticleDancing Cats Get Turned Up in this Explosive Meow Mix Promo
If you're just a regular, mellow cat, this electronic cat dance video might weird you out. But if you're a super hip cat that likes to indulge in a little 'nip now-and-then, this high-octane gem could...
View ArticleSweet, Silly Toyota Spot Transforms Prague Streets into a Choose-Your-Own...
In today's episode of “Fun Public Marketing Stunts That Aren't Firmly Connected to the Actual Product,” Saatchi & Saatchi Europe turned Prague into a giant karaoke machine on behalf of the Toyota...
View ArticleNow Your Whole House Can Be a Shrine to Fenway's Green Monster, Thanks to...
For many Red Sox fans, the only thing more iconic about Fenway Park than chanting "Yankees suck" is the Green Monster, and now you can bring a taste of that towering wall home with you.Benjamin...
View Article'How You Webinar' Puts a Beat Behind the Business World's Worst Jargon
This new video for webinar platform On24 is more proof that white-guy rapvertising is never going out of style. It comes on the heels of last week’s cringey Toyota Swagger Wagon sequel, but instead of...
View ArticleThis Cockamamie Chinese Credit Card Ad With a Gifted Goose Might Be the Most...
I've watched this ad seven times, and I'm still at a loss for words. Clocking in at 1:53, it runs a bit long by most standards, but I could watch it over and over. This spot, from Chinese credit card...
View ArticleReebok Offers 1-Year CrossFit Sponsorship to Whoever Gets the Biggest Reebok...
Reebok is offering fitness junkies a chance to earn a yearlong sponsorship deal worth about $5,800, with a major catch: the prize will only go to the fanatic who gets the largest tattoo of the brand's...
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