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Netflix Uses One Brilliant Tweet to Show Why You Should Be Afraid of Comcast
Netflix and Comcast have been sparring for a while. But on Wednesday, Netflix delivered a quietly epic uppercut to the cable giant and its interests—thanks to a single creative tweet. It concerns net...
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Bleak Billboards in London Tell Sad Stories of People Priced Out of the City
Bleak black-and-white digital billboards in London (one in Holborn and one in Aldgate) are telling the sad stories of people priced out of London as the city continues to change. If you're headed to...
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Infographic: Here's Just How Much Crappy Beer Americans Are Drinking
Sure, we Americans drink a whole lot of light beer, but do you realize just how much? The infographic below from the team at alcohol-fueled site VinePair shows the staggering scope of mainstream beer...
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Agency Creatives Need to Shut Up About Entering Ad Contests, and Here's Why
Attention, creatives: You have actual paying clients, and shouldn't be pissing your time away working on briefs for some cockamamie ad contest. But if you do, at least keep it quiet. That's the...
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Apple Watch Gets Its First Advertising With a Stylish 12-Page Spread in Vogue
Apple Watch gets a 12-page spread in the March issue of Vogue, part of the run-up to the wearable device's launch in April. Rate-card value: north of $2.2 million. All three versions of the watch—the...
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Mark Mothersbaugh Traces His Life From Blind Kid to Visionary in Great Google...
Google Play has been running a great branded content series from BBH Los Angeles called "California Inspires Me," featuring interviews—which are then set to animation—with famous Californians talking...
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Frank Underwood of House of Cards Gets Campaign Posters Inspired by Those...
The third season of Netflix's government drama House of Cards will officially be available to stream on Friday. And (spoiler alert) Frank Underwood has consolidated his power. Apparently, lots of...
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10 Branded Llama Tweets, From Llame to LLOL
You've got a social media war room during the Super Bowl to generate that genius real-time tweet. But what about when llamas are suddenly, unexpectedly on the loose and the Internet is going insane?...
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'15 Sounds Nice?' Nike Golf Has Some Fun With 14-Time Major Winner Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods has been having a rough time for about half a decade. He's been stuck on 14 major championships since 2008, but it's good to know he can poke a little fun at himself. Tiger gives his...
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Jose Cuervo Mixes a Margarita in Space and Parachutes It Back to Earth
Brands are obsessed with space, getting to space, and anything that's been to space. This week, it was Jose Cuervo's chance to boldly go where no tequila brand had gone before—and hopefully make it...
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Do Competing Bottled Water Brands Actually Taste Different? Rhett & Link Find...
Rhett & Link will slake your thirst for goofy, brand-inspired comedy in the "Ultimate Water Taste Test," a wonderfully wet episode of their "Good Mythical Morning" YouTube show. The guys, best...
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Gripping Powerade Spot With Derrick Rose Includes First Ad Narration by Tupac...
In this inspirational ad from Wieden + Kennedy for Powerade, a boy who represents a young Derrick Rose rides through the south side of Chicago to a voiceover by Tupac Shakur—the late rapper's first...
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Every Brand Wanted a Piece of #TheDress, but Who Wore It Best?
What a day the Internet had yesterday. First we watched llamas on the loose. Then, just after 6 p.m., BuzzFeed posted what might be its single most-shared article ever: "What Colors Are This Dress."...
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Here's the SNL Parody Ad for ISIS That Pissed Off Half the Internet This Weekend
This Saturday Night Live ad parody, in which a dad (Taran Killam) drops off his daughter (Dakota Johnson) to join ISIS, sparked a raging debate this weekend on social media. The sketch lampoons...
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Classic Disney Characters Shadow Shoppers in This Delightful Mall Stunt
What would you do if you were walking through a well-lit shopping mall and your shadow suddenly turned into Donald Duck? It might be enough to strike panic into the heart of any reasonable person. Is...
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Watch This Ad Carefully, and You'll Be Transfixed by the Car Sitting Quietly...
The Skoda Fabia is a pretty special car. Just park it on the street and see what happens. It's way more attention getting than you think. A very clever ad by AIS London and MindsEye director Luke...
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Coca-Cola Celebrates Its Iconic Bottle's 100th Birthday With 15 New Ads
It's the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola's classic glass bottle, and the soda brand is celebrating hard—with 14 new global ads in different styles. The first might be best described as a super-diverse...
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Apple Is Putting Users' Beautiful iPhone 6 Photos on Billboards and Print Ads
Photos taken on iPhone 6 are so good, you can blow them up and put them on a billboard. That's the message of Apple's new "Shot on iPhone 6" print and outdoor campaign, which features real...
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Agency Rigs Its Office to Count Everything That Goes On in Excruciating Detail
Do you love numbers? Not as much as Sid Lee does. The agency's Paris office is channeling Count von Count with a side project in which it set up digital sensors to count everything that goes on—how...
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Jeff Goldblum Is a Loony Futurist in RPA's New Ads for Apartments.com
Jeff Goldblum, who's enjoying something of a renaissance as a pitchman, has scored another gig in a peculiar role as a futurist for Apartments.com—helping to introduce the company's advanced, perhaps...
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