This Great Billboard for a Magic Festival Is Like Its Own Little Magic Show
Ever wonder what Harry Potter would do with an ad campaign? Have a look at this. The Quebec City Magic Festival wanted to make sure people noticed its billboard, so ad agency lg2 sprinkled a little...
View ArticleScrawny Arms Rob Lowe Is DirecTV's Freakiest Rob Lowe Yet
While shy-bladder sufferers debate the offensiveness of Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe, DirecTV is plowing ahead with all sorts of other less-than-ideal Rob Lowes—you know, the ones with cable and not...
View ArticleThis Agency Made a Really, Really Big Deal of Hiring Its 100th Employee, and...
Lots of agencies do interesting things for new hires—like Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners, which has been known to carve their faces into the heads of crayons. McGarrah Jessee in Austin, Texas, did...
View ArticleIf the Rio Olympic Mascot Isn't a Cat, Then What Is It?
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games mascot was unveiled Monday, and while we don't know what the name of the creature is, one thing's for sure. Following in the line of cat-like creatures that are not...
View ArticleBaffled Shoppers Face Obstacles, Elves and Captivity in This Bizarre Discount...
Behold! The lowest of the low-budget hidden-camera pranks has been created for discount retailer Ocean State Job Lot, and it is steeped in local commercial magic. The chain, with 116 stores in the...
View ArticleTotino's Pizza Made 50 Ridiculous Ads Using the World's Worst Stock Photos
This week's "Uh, what? No, seriously, what?" comes to us from those perpetuators of pizza propaganda, Totino's Pizza. It was just a few weeks ago that Tim & Eric gave us probably the oddest pizza...
View ArticleAgency Wants Its Next Art Director to Be Cool, So the Interview Will Be Over...
TDA_Boulder is looking for a new art director, but the interview process will be unique. In fact, if all goes well, it might end up looking like outtakes from The Hangover. Yes, the agency plans to...
View ArticleW+K Made a Giant, Amazing Cuckoo Clock Out of an Oregon Maple for Portland...
Wieden + Kennedy recently created a pretty incredible out-of-home tourism installation for Travel Portland: the tallest freestanding cuckoo clock in the U.S. Chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong...
View ArticleHow the Music Company on Old Spice's 'Dadsong' Got the Ad's Twisted Genius...
Old Spice this week unveiled "Dadsong," its second lunatic 60-second musical via Wieden + Kennedy—the sequel to the award-winning "Momsong" from a year ago. Clearly, the music on a commercial like...
View ArticleEmmitt Smith Printed and Signed 400 Fan Tweets, Including a Marriage Proposal
Most tweets have a shelf life shorter than a fourth down on the goal line, but a few hundred Emmitt Smith fans will be keeping their tweets around for a good long time. To help promote Comcast...
View ArticleThe 'Camp Gyno' Girl Is Back in a Remarkable Trailer for Her Father's New Book
You remember "Camp Gyno," the 2013 viral video for tampon subscription service Hello Flo in which the first girl to get her period at summer camp becomes a tyrant, dispensing products and advice like...
View ArticleThe New Star Wars Trailer Has Arrived, and the Year-Long Wait Has Begun
What will the next Star Wars film look like, feel like and sound like? We've had no idea...until now. The trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has finally arrived, and it's packed with...
View ArticleThe Meaning of 35 Brand Names, From Etsy to Reddit
Inspirations for company names can be as varied as the founders themselves. The infographic below, by 7Brands, collects the stories behind 35 of them—including Cadillac, Reebox, Lego, Pez, Toyota and...
View ArticleThis Japanese Cellphone Company's Shrimp Gun Will Make Your Day
We came here from the Internet as fast as we could to tell you of a brand-new development in seafood technology: the fried shrimp gun. With flour, egg yolk, tempura flakes and a soupçon of billowing...
View Article'Hurry Down the Chimney' Gets a Whole New Meaning With Kmart's Pregnant Dance...
Last holiday season, Kmart clearly had a ball (or two) with its advertising. This year, it's all about bellies. In a nice upgrade from the retailer's spot featuring guys playing their beer guts like...
View ArticleSkeletor Is Waging a Twitter Takeover of @Honda. Here Are the Best Moments So...
One of the universe's greatest villians has conquered the Twitter feed of one the world's most recognized automotive brands. Yes, it appears that Skeletor, the nemesis of He-Man (both of '80s Saturday...
View ArticleHere's Harvey Nichols' Follow-up to One of the World's Most-Awarded Ad Campaigns
Luxury retailer Harvey Nichols practically swept the 2014 Cannes Lions with its last holiday campaign, which won a staggering four Grand Prix. Now the brand has returned with its highly anticipated...
View ArticleGrab a Tissue and Watch How WestJet Created a Christmas Miracle for...
WestJet does the holidays right. Last year, the Canadian airline surprised its passengers with gifts at the baggage carousel; a lovely spot and a tearjerker for sure. Now WestJet has me sniffling yet...
View ArticleA Bank Hired an Actor to Tell You He's an Actor Hired by a Bank. And It's...
Commercials about financial institutions are notoriously snooze-worthy, but Nordnet has changed it up with a fun new campaign rich in meta-humor. The Scandinavian financial institution, operating in...
View ArticleArby's Forgot to Feature Pepsi in an Ad, But This Apology More Than Makes Up...
Arby's wants you—and Pepsi—to know it's really sorry that it forgot to feature the soft drink in two of its own ads this year. The roast beef chain's deal with the soda brand requires Arby's to...
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