Similac Has a Big Hit With One of the Most Honest Ads Ever About Parenting
Parenting today comes with more than the stress of kids. It comes with the derision of your fellow breeders when you choose a path that goes against their deeply held beliefs. And it's going to...
View ArticleKatie Couric, Bryant Gumbel Revisit Hilariously Clueless 1994 Today Clip in...
The year was 1994. Ace of Base saw "The Sign." O.J. Simpson's white Bronco sped down the freeway. And of course, this thing called the Internet was a tiny baby. And Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were...
View ArticleSonos' Brilliant New Logo Appears to Vibrate When You Scroll Thanks to an...
It's not easy to capture the idea of sound through visuals. But Sonos has done so quite brilliantly with its new logo, which appears to pulsate when a user scrolls up or down—thanks to an optical...
View ArticleAmerica's Most Annoying Family Tries to Crash the Super Bowl With Hidden...
We've already seen Newcastle Brown Ale dig into Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" campaign this year. And now, Hidden Valley Ranch hopes to do the same with popular YouTubers, the Holderness Family....
View ArticleThings Are About to Get Even Worse for the NFL, When This Ad Runs on SI.com
Sports Illustrated has reversed its call and will run an NFL-themed domestic violence ad from advocacy group Ultraviolet on its website Thursday, three days before the Super Bowl. The 15-second video...
View ArticleThese Pun-Heavy Posters About Graphic Design Will Make Creatives Chuckle (or...
Sara Heffernen's "Graphic Design Pun Cards" make gentle sport of designers' compulsive, perfectionist tendencies, while being dad-jokey enough to elicit groans from the rest of us. Having said that,...
View ArticleFusion Posts '20 Reasons You Shouldn't Work at BuzzFeed,' Then Freaks Out and...
Right in the middle of the #Blizzardof2015 brouhaha on Monday, Fusion quietly dropped a glove-slap of a video making fun of BuzzFeed—prompting a mini storm on media Twitter. At around 5 p.m. Monday,...
View ArticleNewcastle Unveils Its Smorgasbord of a Super Bowl Ad, Featuring 37 Different...
Newcastle just released its "Band of Brands" regional Super Bowl commercial, and it turns out Jockey, Boost Mobile, Lee Jeans, Brawny and Match.com are among the recognizable brands—along with some...
View ArticleAdorable Puppy Gets Lost, and Then Things Get Worse, in Go Daddy's Super Bowl Ad
Budweiser melted hearts with its "Puppy Love" commercial on last year's Super Bowl, and is prepping a sequel, "Lost Dog," that's expected to break Wednesday online. But a day early, here is Go...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Have Unicorns Today? This Ballsy French Ad Explains Everything
We would still have unicorns around today, were it not for an epic screw-up by Noah's son during the loading of the Ark all those years ago. That's the premise of this amusingly overblown Canal+ ad...
View ArticlePierce Brosnan Drives a Whole Different Kind of Getaway Car in Kia's Super...
Kia has released an extended version of its 60-second Super Bowl ad, and it's a really fun spot with Pierce Brosnan that manages to have its cake and eat it, too—by both celebrating and poking fun at...
View ArticleMarshawn Lynch Finally Talks ... in Funny, Weird Ads for Skittles and...
Those who follow the saga of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch's media interviews know he is notoriously a man of few words. Whether it's answering every question with a laid-back "Yeah" or...
View ArticleFrom Alerts to Apologies: Tracking a Meteorologist's Tough Night on Twitter
For ages, when a dire weather prediction came up lacking, there was little the average person could do beyond shaking a fist at the TV. But now we have Twitter, an outlet not just for bitching, but...
View ArticleGiant Polar Bear on the Loose That Frightened London Today Turns Out to Be an Ad
New York was supposed to be the city dealing with a scary winter visitor on Tuesday, but instead it was London that was thrown off-kilter—by a giant polar bear wandering around. The eight-foot male...
View ArticleStella Artois and Matt Damon Want You to Buy a Lady a Drink, but Not Like That
When you think of buying a lady a Stella, you think of handing a chalice to a hot Italian woman who lives in the 1060s. But what if instead you were buying five years of clean water for a woman in the...
View ArticleSpeedo Gets Deep in a New Campaign That Includes This 91-Year-Old Swimmer
Speedo delivers a bit of a surprise package in its latest advertising. Meet 91-year-old Masters swimmer Jurgen Schmidt, one star of the brand's "Fueled by Water" campaign, which focuses on the joy and...
View ArticleForget Football. Nick Offerman's Glorious Nascar Music Video Will Get You...
You got a taste the other day. But now it's time for the whole damn gluten-stuffed main course, as NBC Sports has rolled out its complete two-minute video with Nick Offerman singing gloriously about...
View ArticleBudweiser Unleashes Its 'Lost Dog' Super Bowl Ad, Hoping to Catch Lightning...
Sequels are tough. For every Godfather Part II, there's a Godfather Part III. But Budweiser and Anomaly had such a big hit with "Puppy Love" on last year's Super Bowl, they couldn't resist going back...
View ArticlePet Foundation's Kitten Bowl Ad Is Soooo Cute, and … Oh God No, Wait, Seriously?
A good way to succeed on Super Bowl Sunday is to put a bunch of animals in your ad, though as GoDaddy learned, you have be careful with your message. Director Sam Nicholson (the visual effects wizard...
View ArticleYou Made an Amazing Super Bowl Ad. Now What? Creatives Talk About the Monday...
Getting a commercial on the Super Bowl is a career milestone for any advertising creative. And so, after their spot airs, the feeling of joy and fulfillment must be pretty intense—buoyed surely by the...
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