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The Nominations Are Out, and Here's a New Eye-Bending Oscars Ad With Neil...
Whether you agree with the nominations (The Lego Movie was ROBBED), it's an exciting day for Hollywood, as the Oscar contenders were announced this morning, including esteemed cinematographer Dick...
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Sleater-Kinney's Great New Music Video Is a Big Sing-along by Their Famous...
Sleater-Kinney's return from indefinite hiatus with a new album, No Cities to Love, due out Jan. 20, surprised and delighted many fans. And now that the album is just a few days away, the band is...
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Advertising Could Use Another Adorable Dog, Right? Sure It Could, Says Dr Pepper
Deutsch LA unleashes some potent adorbs for Dr Pepper in this ad starring a super-shaggy "mop dog"—a Hungarian herding pooch known as a Puli with a dreadlock-style corded coat. Try as it might, our...
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If Apple Made Milk, and Other Super-Cool Imaginary Product Packaging
Next time you're at the supermarket scanning the shelves for whichever loaf of bread is on sale, because you don't really care which brand you buy—because bread is bread is bread—imagine if the top...
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Bud Light's Super Bowl Teaser Offers a Glimpse of Life-size Pac-Man Game
Waka waka waka. Bud Light on Friday released the 15-second teaser below for its upcoming 60-second Super Bowl commercial, in which—as promised—a man accepts a challenge to play a crazy, life-size game...
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Loft's Video of a Woman Exercising in Plastic Wrap Bombs Big Time
Loft, the more relaxed of the Ann Taylor fashion houses, recently posted a video of a young woman frantically binge-exercising enveloped in plastic wrap because she's going to a wedding. While the...
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This Samsung Headphones Ad Is Such Utter Arty Nonsense, It's Actually Kind of...
Moody black-and-white photography. Whispered dialogue. Ethereal soundtrack. Pouty orgasm faces. Sensual mid-air ballet. Amazingly, this isn't a perfume or fashion ad from the '90s but Cheil...
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Maker of Giant Tablets Has a Magician Accost People on the Street and...
If you could magically turn your iPad into a much bigger tablet, would you? Fuhu is promoting its giant new Nabi tablets. (They're available in 24-, 32-, 43-, 55- and astonishing 65-inch versions.) To...
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Ikea Loved This Artist's Fantastical Doodles on Its Catalog So Much, It Hired...
Some companies might take exception to your scribbling all over its catalog. But not Ikea. For a while now, British illustrator Sarah Horne has found the Ikea catalog to be an inspiring canvas on...
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Ads Urge British Women to Get Out and Exercise in All Their Jiggly, Sweaty Glory
Exercise is hard enough already without your arm fat flapping like a chicken wing to discourage you. But if we could learn to stop worrying and love the sweaty slap of our chubby thighs, we might...
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SNL Piles On by Ruthlessly Mocking Justin Bieber's Calvin Klein Ads
You gotta hand it to Biebs. He had the balls to show his (heavily Photoshopped) nuts to the world in the latest ads for Calvin Klein underpants. But given the kid's—aherm—the man's previous...
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Brands Salute MLK, but When Does Inspiring Become Exploiting?
Here we are celebrating the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And right on cue, brands are tweeting out messages of rememberance stamped with the company's logo, or...
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Seahawks Follow Up Their Big Win With a Bigger Fail: a 'We Shall Overcome'...
One day after their unbelievable, inspiring win over the Green Bay Packers, which sent them to the Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks hit rock bottom on Twitter with a tweet that read, "We shall...
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Adman Photobombs Stock Photos, Turning Awkwardness Into Comedy
The last time we checked in with Matt Vescovo, it was 2003 and he was doing Instructoart—hilarious award-winning graphic-design pieces (some of which ran as animated promos on MTV) detailing how to...
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Could Kool-Aid Man Really Bust Through a Brick Wall? Science Finally Has an...
The Kool-Aid man's explosive antics have been unquestionably cool since he busted through his first wall in the 1970s. But could he possibly survive such a dramatic entrance? Wouldn't he shatter when...
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Oreo Launches 'Play With Oreo' Campaign, Rolls Out Red Velvet Oreos for...
Lots of big brands are all about distilling their essence down to a single basic universal theme. For Coca-Cola, it's happiness. McDonald's is trying to go with loving. And now Oreo is zeroing in on...
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Robot Mom Breastfeeds Baby in the Weirdest NSFW Milk Ad Ever
Milk ads have a storied history. From the iconic "Got Milk?" franchise to the recent super-gross Fairlife ads, there are many ways to milk a cow—and sell it. Here's yet another way—and frankly, it's...
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Acura Catches Lightning in a Bottle, Quite Literally, in Mullen's New ILX Spot
An engineer ventures out during a thunderstorm and literally catches lightning in a bottle to power the Acura ILX in this cinematic spot from Mullen. Johnny Green of Reset Productions—much lauded for...
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No Joke: Overstock.com Is Getting Into Streaming, as The Onion Predicted It...
Today, in a move that pits the company against Amazon, online retailer Overstock.com said it would launch its own streaming and video-on-demand services, slated to be available by the middle of the...
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This Hilarious Ad Imagines How Awesome Facebook Would Have Been in 1995
In its early days, the Internet was sort of the Wild West. Message boards, chatrooms and newsgroups were huge. Browsers, apps and social media were just a twinkle in its eye. Well, what if...
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