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This Is Hands Down the Most Messed-Up Halloween Ad You'll See This Year
You remember Vytautas Mineral Water. The Lithuanian water brand was the subject of the single craziest commercial of 2012—a spec ad from director Tadas Vidmantas that the client ended up loving and...
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NFL Players Say 'No More' to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Powerful...
Nearly two dozen current and former National Football League stars appear in powerful new PSAs condemning domestic violence and sexual abuse. They look straight into the camera as they say "No more"...
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Chrysler Celebrates Being American by Making You Think It's German or Japanese
How do you sell American cars in 2014? By tricking people into first thinking your goods are Japanese or German. Chrysler is launching a tongue-in-cheek campaign for its 200 model with TV ads...
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Peeps Do Their Best to Get Scary for Halloween
More sweet. Less scary. That's the promotional campaign, not the ingredient list. The perennial Easter favorite Peeps continue to try to become a year-round candy with these "peepified" illustrations...
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One Woman and Her GoPro Reveal the True Nature of Street Harassment
If you're a woman, this video is not going to be that enlightening. It documents some of the creepier instances of verbal harassment—from more than 100 total—that a woman received during 10 hours of...
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HP Celebrates Human Hands in This Ad for Its Wild New 3-D Touch Computer
We rely on our hands to get us through our various daily projects, whether it's typing on a computer, creating works of art or instructing others to follow a plan. Now, HP wants us to use the power of...
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Anti-Gun Ads Use Real Mass Shootings and Bloody Visuals in Attempt to Sway...
These ads for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence must rank among the most unnervingly visual—and potentially polarizing—this category has ever produced. And that's really saying something. A somber...
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Patagonia Goes Full Chipotle in This Intense Animation About Goose Down
You'll never think about down jackets or Blue Oyster Cult the same way again after watching Patagonia's darkly informative new video set to the tune of "Don't Fear the Reaper." In the rather...
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And Here's What Happens When a White Guy Walks the Streets of NYC for 10 Hours
If you haven't seen the video of the woman walking down the street getting harassed by gawking dudes in New York City, you should probably check it out. It's truly a despicable display of shameful...
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Wearing a Fake Ebola Hazmat Suit for Halloween? Donate a Real One Instead
Planning to dress up in fake ebola hazmat gear for Halloween? That's awfully douchey, don't you think? Nonprofit humanitarian group Doctors of the World has an idea, though. Why not join the "More...
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'Dumb Ways to Die' Returns With a Trick-or-Treat Halloween Special
"Dumb Ways to Die," the famed Australian train-safety campaign from 2012, has done a couple of encores for special occasions. First it did a Valentine's Day ad. And now it's done a little...
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Honda's Double-Sided Story on YouTube Is Mind-Bendingly Brilliant
Well, this might just blow your damn mind. Honda and Wieden + Kennedy London have created a rather incredible "double-sided story" on YouTube to promote the Civic and its sportier sibling, the Civic...
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Lena Dunham Gets Her Famous Friends to Model Her Planned Parenthood T-Shirt
If you're one of the nearly 1.2 million people who follow Lena Dunham on Instagram, you might have noticed her posts flooding your feed this morning—shot after shot of her celebrity pals wearing a new...
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20 Years Before It Was Cool to Cast Gay Couples, Ikea Made This Pioneering Ad
The mini-wave of brands casting gay couples in TV ads this year continues to rise, with the likes of Honey Maid,Cheerios and DirecTV all diving in. More power to them. But Ikea was the first marketer...
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And Here Is Nike's Grand, Gritty Salute to LeBron James and His Return to...
LeBron James can go home again. And again. And again. The NBA star's return to Cleveland from Miami was always going to be fodder for numerous ad campaigns. And indeed, we've already seen spots from...
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Netflix's Fun Outdoor Ads Use 100 Awesome GIFs From Shows and Movies
GIFs have left the nest! The digital video files first made a jump to TV a while back, thanks to Fiat. And now they've ventured all the way outside in a fascinating Netflix campaign from Ogilvy Paris....
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Real Beauty? Nah, Victoria's Secret Would Rather Celebrate the 'Perfect Body'
Victoria's Secret is under fire for its newest bra campaign featuring the tagline "The Perfect 'Body'," suggesting on first glance that these women have it, and you probably don't. More than 10,000...
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1960s Adman Makes a Hilarious and Obscene Visit to a Modern Agency (NSFW)
We've already seen how Joan Harris (aka, Christina Hendricks) might adjust to life at a modern ad agency. Well, this guy is way more of a train wreck. Canadian ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo put together...
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Hootsuite's Great Halloween Ads Try to Calm Your Fears About Social Media
It's that time of year again, when we can escape our average selves, don clever costumes and get all hopped up on Fireball shots—I mean, gummy worms. And it's always pretty fun to see what brands do...
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Santa 'Sleighs' Dracula in Betabrand's Murderous Video Game About Christmas...
Betabrand satirizes Christmas creep in its first video game, Santa Sleighs Halloween, as you play as Mr. Claus armed with a blunderbuss and a candy cane shiv. Your mission? To make sure no fall...
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