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Airbnb Turns a Ski Lift Above the French Alps Into a One-Night Crash Pad
For most people, spending a night in cable car 9,000 feet above sea level probably doesn't sound that relaxing. But if you're a ski buff or a sucker for a view, you might enjoy the prize in Airbnb's...
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Merrell Thrills and Frightens People With a Crazy Oculus Rift Mountainside Hike
You know you've designed a good Oculus Rift virtual reality experience when people emerge from it squealing in delight and with their knees trembling. Hiking boot brand Merrell did one such activation...
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Chipotle's Twitter Got Hacked This Weekend and Pushed Out Some Very Unsavory...
There's certainly been a social media hacking spree of late. And over the weekend, Chipotle's Twitter feed fell victim to an attack by some despicable and unoriginal ne'er-do-wells. It was only a few...
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Mad Men Chops Its Pilot Episode Into 154 Clips and Wants Fans to Reshoot Each...
Ahead of Mad Men's final episodes on AMC this spring, the series has launched The Fan Cut, a contest that lets would-be auteurs remake scenes from the show's pilot episode in (almost) any way they see...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov Dances With Lil Buck in Masterfully Edited Fashion Ad...
Rag & Bone designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright opted to eschew the usual runway show and instead showcase their fall 2015 collection with a short film. Why? Because "runway shows don't...
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Everything Is Painfully Awesome in Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer Remade With...
Fifty Shades of Grey, the movie based on the controversial book about BDSM and heavy breathing, apparently, comes out on Friday. Thankfully, Lego has one-upped the trailer (not that it would have been...
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Snickers Took Over the Back of SI's Swimsuit Issue With a Ssssplendid 'You're...
Snickers and BBDO New York have followed up their brilliant "Brady Bunch" Super Bowl ad with an inspired print piece—taking over the back cover of Sports Illustrated's new Swimsuit Issue with a...
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SI's Swimsuit Models Look a Bit Less Lovely If They Have Cable Instead of...
To date, Rob Lowe has been the only celebrity to suffer physical indignities in Grey's DirecTV campaign making fun of cable customers. But now he can add three famous supermodels to the mix—Hannah...
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ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad Reveals the True Identity of Katy Perry's Sharks
Right Shark and Left Shark had great time at the Super Bowl in Arizona. (Well, one of them had a better time than the other.) But now it's back to the grind. And that means returning to the ESPN...
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Can You Identify All These Famous Logos Redesigned by an Artist Into Chinese?
Turkish artist Mehmet Gozetlik has created a fascinating study in iconography with his latest work, titled "Chinatown," where he deconstructs popular Western-based logos and reinterprets them in...
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Infographic: The Crazy Personalities of 5 Archetypal Agency People
Here's an oldie, but new to us: The Anatomy of an Agency infographic from Grip Limited, offering pretty spot-on portraits of agency people (art director, copywriter, account person, developer, finance...
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Red Velvet Oreos Are a Delightfully Awkward Aphrodisiac in Quirky Valentine...
If regular Oreos don't already put you in the mood for love, maybe try the cookie's new Red Velvet flavor. The limited-edition Valentine's Day product stars in a new animated campaign from 360i, and...
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John Oliver Made This Perfectly Bitter, Curse-Filled Farewell Ad for RadioShack
The end of RadioShack is nigh. And in John Oliver's fantasy world, the 94-year-old brand wouldn't sputter out gracefully. No. It wouldn't even be passive-aggressive about its slow decline. It would be...
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Ikea Uses Poorly Assembled Billboards to Admit Its Furniture Is Hard to Put...
Everyone else makes fun of how painful it is to assemble Ikea furniture, so why can't Ikea? And the company does in these fun billboards, from German agency thjnk, that are themselves poorly...
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This Book of Ads Has a Cover That Judges You Back, and Opens Only for Some...
People go around all the time judging books by their covers, but now Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker has created the first book cover that judges you. The book happens to be the Art Directors Club...
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Vanessa Bayer Comes On to Everyone in an Elevator in Audi's Fifty Shades of...
Last week, Trojan took the piss out of the BDSM-light hype around Fifty Shades of Grey. And now Audi is joining the party with a new parody ad. Saturday Night Live's Vanessa Bayer stars as a try-hard...
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Gatorade Digitally Remastered 'Be Like Mike' After 23 Years, and Damn Does It...
For those of us who've spent too many hours digging through YouTube trying to find good-looking versions of classic ads, this is quite a treat: As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, Gatorade has...
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This Demo Video of a New Robot Dog Is Creepy, Cool and Pretty Crazy
Letter carriers should be afraid. Very afraid. Meet Spot, a 160-pound, four-legged, dog-like robot developed by Google-owned defense contractor Boston Dynamics. The mechanical mutt stars in the cool,...
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Brands Are in Love With the #WhatIsLoveIn4Words Game, but They Only Love...
Vanessa Bayer comes on to everyone in an elevator in Audi's Fifty Shades of Grey spoof. http://adweek.it/17mGIgB A Twitter hashtag game like #WhatIsLoveIn4Words is irresistible to brands. It's easy,...
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Ikea Shows Off Its New Range of Beds in Cheeky Ad for Valentine's Day
Ikea often does humorously naughty ads around Valentine's Day. Two years ago it did a fun promotion offering free cribs for babies born nine months after Valentine's Day. And last year it stacked a...
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