French Art Show About the Marquis de Sade Gets a Suitably Orgiastic Trailer...
YouTube censors who greenlight nudity as long as it's artistic must have spent a fair bit of time on this video from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris—advertising an art show about the influence of the...
View ArticleInfographic: How to Tell Client Tricks From Treats This Halloween
Every day is a bit spooky when you're dealing with clients. But this Halloween, ad agency Mistress has made a little chart you might find useful—how to tell whether your client's double-speak is a...
View ArticleWithout Condoms, Threesome Night Becomes Puzzle Night in This Odd French PSA
When the mood is right but you're all out of condoms, most amorous adventurers would simply run to the 24-hour pharmacy. But in France, the back-up plan seems to be a tad more mundane. In a series of...
View ArticleWatch a Supermarket Clerk Shock Customers by Haggling in Campaign for...
It's common practice to haggle for a better price at a car dealership. But at a grocery store? In American supermarkets, at least, it just doesn't happen. Until now. Car shopping site Edmunds.com,...
View ArticlePhilips Creates a Stunning Explosion of Color and Snow With 'Afterglow'
If you like any combination of amazing colors, night skiing and striking imagery, Philips has an ad for you. To promote its color-backlit Ambilight televisions, the electronics manufacturer teamed up...
View ArticleThis Agency Is Giving $1,500 to Each Employee to Go on an Exotic Vacation....
In our latest installment of places where you wish you worked, a California creative agency named thinkParallax recently gave each one of its employees $1,500 and an extra paid day off to travel...
View ArticleFred Savage, Hired to Do Honda Voiceovers, Wants to Practice by Narrating...
Fred Savage will soon be the new voice of Honda. But he's not exactly a voiceover specialist (that's Daniel Stern you're thinking of, Wonder Years fans). So, Honda agency RPA came up with a fun way to...
View ArticleWish Old Navy a Happy 20th Birthday, and It Will Make a Giant Balloon...
Everyone knows that if you tell people what you wish for when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake, it's not going to come true. Unless, of course, you wish that you could eat a giant piece...
View ArticleWatch This 6-Year-Old and Her Friends Drop F-bombs for Feminism (and to Sell...
Activist T-shirt maker FCKH8 asked the world a question. What makes you more uncomfortable: the way society fucks women, or a little girl saying the work fuck? And it turns out that for a lot of...
View ArticleSnickers Gives You an Early Halloween Treat With This Truly Twisted Ad
Halloween is like Christmas for candy brands, and Snickers usually swoops in, batlike, with some fun and spooky advertising (most notably, perhaps, BBDO's truly odd "Grocery Store Lady" spot from...
View ArticleIkea's Parody of The Shining Is Devilishly Good
Heeeeeere's … Ikea's parody of The Shining! BBH Singapore reimagines the creepy hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic in this spot-on 90-second Halloween ad. Instead of a haunted...
View ArticleCraigslist Is the Setting for This Interactive Music Video About Humanity, or...
Craigslist might be best for making a couple bucks off that one-wheeled leopard-print bicycle your ex left behind, and it's just that kind of random human curio that makes the classified site the...
View ArticleBarton F. Graf Has a Clever Idea for Getting More Men to Become Mentors
Esquire recently asked three ad agencies to help with its male mentoring initiative. Today, Barton F. Graf 9000 unveiled its campaign: a political initiative to establish mentorship of children as a...
View ArticleHoly Crap, Someone Is Actually Making a Working Hoverboard for Real This Time
Marty McFly and Tony Hawk both drove demand for hoverboards—but alas, supply has been nonexistent, as both of them had to rely on camera trickery and special effects. But now, finally, we're getting...
View ArticleBrita Built a City out of Sugar Cubes to Show You What a Lifetime of Soda...
In the past, water filter brand Brita has targeted plastic bottles as public enemy No. 1, but now it has its sights on a new foe: Soda. A new spot created by DDB California uses towering piles of...
View ArticleInfographic: What the Color of Your Logo Says About Your Brand
Few design projects seem to require as much deep thinking as a corporate logo (some would say overthinking—remember Twitter's tortured explanation for its new logo back in 2012)? One of the most basic...
View ArticleBrad Pitt Dodges Insults to Make a Charity Pitch on Zach Galifianakis'...
One of the best things about Between Two Ferns is how the guests have to plug their projects in the least comfortable way possible—indeed, while getting showered with insults. Brad Pitt is the latest...
View ArticleOrganic Food Snobs Are Unknowingly Fed McDonald's, and They're Lovin' It
You probably have a few friends so opinionated about the sourcing and quality of their food, part of you wants to test whether they'd really know the difference between crap and cuisine. You love...
View ArticlePeople With No Brains Star in Hilarious Ads for Other Kinds of Organ Donation
Next time you're at a party and some bro is doing a kegstand on a diving board over an empty swimming pool, you might consider letting the situation play out. Ad agency Duval Guillaume and Belgian...
View ArticleAre These Feminist Superhero Panties Empowering, or a Tiny Bit Weird?
The underwear brand Dear Kate, a big proponent of using real people instead of models, has a new plan to empower women: It's putting inspiring female faces right on its panties. Its League of Ladies...
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