Friends or Food? Skittles' Giant Spider Ad Plays Out in Two Different Ways
Skittles gives arachnophobes even more ammunition for their fears with a new ad featuring a giant, talking spider and his run-in with Halloween trick-or-treaters. The story actually comes in two...
View ArticleEven Drone Haters Have to Admit This Cirque du Soleil Film Is Hypnotic and...
Non-combat drones are good for lots of stuff: carrying advertising banners,delivering beer and generally just freaking people out about privacy. And they make great dance partners, too. That is, at...
View ArticleAirport Parking Company Apologizes for Using a Man's Death as a Marketing Hook
AirportParkingReservations.com sent out an email blast this week suggesting the mysterious death of a man at O'Hare International Airport was linked to the stress of traveling, sooooo make sure you...
View ArticleVolvo Trucks Returns to Elaborately Prank This Poor Guy on His First Day at Work
Volvo Trucks, the surprising brand behind YouTube's most watched ad of all time, is back with a new video. And this time, instead of Jean-Claude Van Damme, it's an unsuspecting valet who's put in an...
View ArticleMonster Energy Brings the World's Craziest Truck Driving to Mexico
Monster Energy had a viral hit in 2013 with "Recoil," a seven-minute video in which extreme driver "Ballistic" BJ Baldwin drove his 850-horsepower trophy truck across the Mojave Desert at 150 miles an...
View ArticleThis Zigzag Logo Looks Crazy. But Given the Brand, It's Pretty Brilliant
Anyone who's played squash knows it's a frenetic game. Now, one British squash club has a fascinating new logo to match.Melbourn Squash Club's new branding features a web of zigzag lines designed to...
View ArticleBreyers Shows You What Parents Do After the Kids Go to Bed, and It's Pretty...
After the kids are tucked into bed, parents like to turn the lights down low, put on some not-safe-for daytime programming, and get down and dirty ... with frozen desserts. At least, that's what...
View ArticleWhy Settle for a Standing Desk When You Could Have This Giant Hamster Wheel?
Do you like the modern sensibility of a standing desk but wish it also served as a constant reminder of your work life's soul-crushing drudgery? Well then I've got good news. This 80-inch-diameter...
View ArticleHow to Use Animated GIFs on Twitter (While Muttering Obscenities Every Step...
Some people think animated GIFs are stupid. Some find them charming. Possibly because of this rift, Twitter seems caught in a pictorial purgatory that makes everyone unhappy. Like it or not, animated...
View ArticleDole Printed Some Very Special Bananas for 200 Runners of the Tokyo Marathon
Kudos to Dole and Denstu Y&R for making what might be the coolest bananas in the world. At this year's Tokyo Marathon, 200 runners received personalized Dole bananas with information like finish...
View ArticleMeet Frankenagency's Monster, a Beast Built to Handle Every Idiotic Client...
If you've ever done any work for anyone, ever, you've hopefully learned a little something about how it works. Inevitably, the person will make your life hell the entire time, and then make it...
View ArticleVolvo Really Takes the Plunge in Powerful Ad That Leaves the Car on Shore
In its first global campaign for Volvo, Grey London strives for a "quietly epic" tone to position the Swedish nameplate more firmly in the premium auto space. Director Marcus Söderlund, working...
View ArticleThis Interactive Time Capsule Wants to Grant You Immortality as a Digital Avatar
Today's cool but slightly horrifying vision of the future comes courtesy of Yourbot, which is a combination of a digital time capsule and man's search for immortality. Yourbot is a service that...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter and Instagram Logos Are Ingeniously Redesigned for Breast...
Ask anyone you know how they feel about boobs, and I'm pretty sure it will be positive. Indeed, you'd have a hard time finding anyone hesitant to sing their praises. Below is a fun series of ads from...
View ArticleJeff Goldblum Is Out of His Mind in Tim & Eric's Loony Ad for GE Lighting
GE has been doing a lot of poignant ads through BBDO New York lately—the dreamy fantasy world of "Childlike Imagination" (an Emmy nominee this year); the haunting dystopia of "Ideas Are Scary"; the...
View ArticleYes, Barbarian Group Has a Waterless Hot Tub. But Look What Barton F. Graf Has
These agency tours of The Barbarian Group are pretty impressive. But you know who's not that impressed? Fellow New York agency Barton F. Graf 9000. When Barbarian Group released its Vimeo video...
View ArticleKLM Warms 9 Million Hearts With Adorable Beagle Who Returns Lost Items
Anyone who says flying is a terrible experience hasn't had a missing carry-on item returned by KLM's lost-and-found delivery beagle. Say what, you say? It's simple, says KLM: Its trained beagle traces...
View ArticleTeens in Horror Movie Make the Stupidest Decisions in Amusing Geico Ad
Geico introduces its latest advertising theme, "It's what you do," in this amusing horror-movie sendup from The Martin Agency that breaks just in time for Halloween. Much like the insurer's "Did you...
View ArticleDollar Shave Club Trolled by Thousand Dollar Shave Society, for Guys Who...
There's a certain type of gentleman who can't be bothered with clubs. He wouldn't be associated with anything other than a society. And if you're the type of chap who needs some pampering, well,...
View ArticleCitizen Flies Westward, Chasing an Endless Sunset, in Global Campaign From W+K
If you fly westward at just the right speed, at just the right latitude, you can witness a perpetual sunset—a ghostly twilight that lingers, hour after hour, as you cross from one time zone to the...
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