What Makes a Great Creative Director? Here's How 10 of Them Answered That...
Ask what makes a great creative creative director, and you'll probably get as many different answers as there are creative directors.The 3% Conference recently went around asking a bunch of cds about...
View ArticleThis Outfit Designed to Help Change Clothes in Public Is at 2,000% of Its...
With a tagline like "Change clothes in public without ever getting naked," The Undress has a pretty clear sales proposition, and people are lining up in droves to hand the apparel startup their money....
View ArticleThe Best Video Ever About the Sheeplike Insanity of Real-Time Marketing
Ever feel like real-time marketing is all about being first, and not about being good? You're not alone. John St., the Toronto agency that regularly produces scathing parody videos about the ad...
View ArticleAsics Salutes 500 NYC Marathon Runners by 3-D Printing Statues of Them
Asics and ad agency Vitro always do something special around the New York City Marathon, whether it's having people races against a virtual Ryan Hall in the subways or daring you to remain upright on...
View ArticleChobani Dresses Dogs Up in Costumes in Adorable Ad for Halloween
Petco had a whole Halloween contest around dressing up pets this month, but you don't have to be a pet brand to get in on that action. Droga5 did this cute ad for Chobani, featuring pooches in their...
View ArticleCreatives Talk About Their Biggest Fears, and How They Overcame Them
Halloween is over, but the terror continues. Creatives—especially freelancers—rely on a cornucopia of clichés to help navigate a career path defined by fear and uncertainty, and a new video packs them...
View ArticleCarl's Jr.'s Latest Sexed-Up Burger Eater Is Less Classically Beautiful Than...
If you thought there was no way to top a Paris Hilton-Hannah Ferguson slow-motion car-washing, sex-eating burger-palooza, you'd be wrong, Carl's Jr. wants to tell bros.Supermodels and celebutantes...
View ArticleSeduced by an Idea? Go All the Way and Register the Domain Name, Says Verisign
It's official: Internet domain-name company Verisign has launched one crazy (and at times creepy) campaign. Which of the four videos from FCB Chicago is the most self-consciously bizarre? You've got...
View ArticleNick Offerman's Hilarious Fake Home Depot Ad Pokes Fun at Lowe's Robot Helpers
Lowe's must have known its human-size robotic "shopping assistants," which are rolling out this holiday season, would be mocked, right? They couldn't possibly have believed that people would just let...
View ArticleU.S. Map Shows the Best-Selling NFL Jersey Among Women in Each State
Despite the league's high-profile problems with domestic violence, millions of women nonetheless love the NFL. They make up some 46 percent of NFL fans, and they're a major target for apparel...
View ArticleGoPro and Taylor Swift Are the Butt of SNL's Jokes in Latest Parody Ads
Last week, we were treated to Jim Carrey's spot-on parody of Matthew McConaughey's Lincoln ad. This week, in addition to Prince's epic, face-melting musical performance, we were delighted by a couple...
View ArticlePitching New Business? Don't Behave Like These Imbeciles in the Meeting
Next time you go into a pitch meeting, you probably want to know what the client's business actually is. Such is the helpful moral of this comedy video from Smartypants, a new branded content...
View ArticlePepsi Max Did the One Halloween Prank That Was Pants-Crappingly Awesome
Welp, it's basically Christmas now, but we've got one more Halloween ad to share with you. Yeah, it's November now, but this gem is still as fresh as that stash of Twix bars you stole from your child....
View ArticleThe 6 Futuristic Inventions in This Electrolux Design Contest Will Blow Your...
A few weeks ago, we were super excited to hear news of a real working hoverboard. And now that we've tackled Back to the Future, Electrolux has its sights set on the Jetsons. The Electrolux Design...
View ArticleJames Franco Is Saved From Certain Death by a Quick-Thinking Droid Turbo
The new Droid Turbo is so fast that when James Franco falls off the roof at a party, he can use the Motorola phone to find the nearest safe landing, calculate the best route there and text his date to...
View ArticleConcord Grapes Become Chatty Sitcom Characters in Welch's New Campaign
Is the time ripe for a sitcom starring a bunch of grapes? The VIA Agency's new campaign for Welch's mimics/spoofs the prime-time sitcom format to deliver the message that grape juice has heart health...
View ArticleFinally, Advertising Case Study Videos Get Their Own Award Show
Case study videos. I could watch them all day long. They're my favorite form of media entertainment—apart from sitcoms starring Concord grapes, that is. These days, advertising case studies are so...
View ArticleCan You Make a Great-Looking Fast-Food Ad Using Actual Fast Food and an iPhone?
It's an accepted truism that the food in fast-food ads looks nothing like the food in real life. But can it be made to look that way? Is it possible to transform a regular McDonald's burger into...
View ArticleThis Agency Rewards Its Employees in the Most Amusingly Sadistic Way Possible
Canadian agencies sure are good at doing videos excoriating the ad business. Just in the past week we've seen:• John St.'s hilarious takedown of real-time marketing with Reactvertising• Zulu Alpha...
View ArticleBrilliant YouTube Banner Ads in Peru Cover Subtitles to Promote English Lessons
Learning a new language is never easy, and for many Peruvians, it's a lot easier to just read the Spanish subtitles on their favorite U.S. movie trailers. Armed with that insight, language school...
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