Amy Schumer Unleashes a 'Big Booty' Anthem to Rule Them All
Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer is back for another season on April 21, but instead of a boring promo, she made a satirical music video offering an important cultural perspective on booty anthems,...
View ArticleHyundai Sends a Girl's Message of Love to Her Astronaut Dad Watching From Space
A lot of brands attempt space-related stunts. But for all the wonder inherent in the heavens, many of these campaigns forget that just being up there isn't enough. You need a human connection for any...
View ArticleJemima Kirke Talks About Her Abortion in This Frank and Powerful PSA
Actress and artist Jemima Kirke, best known as Jessa on HBO's Girls, terminated a pregnancy while she was in college in 2007. In this new PSA for the Center for Reproductive Rights, she shares that...
View ArticleCentury 21's New Campaign Is Made Entirely of Moving Boxes
When you're moving, you're so beset by cardboard boxes that your life might as well be made of them. And now, Century 21's new ad campaign actually is. The new stop-motion campaign from Mullen uses...
View ArticleFor Tax Day, BBDO Tells the True Story of a Woman Who Tried to Write Off a...
Tax Day isn't usually a time for great brand creativity, but BBDO New York goes the extra mile this year with a short documentary about an Arizona woman who tried to write off a Snickers bar in 2005....
View ArticleIkea Brightens Up Little Corners of the World in These Fun Print Ads
Ikea nicely contrasts its colorful design sense with the drabness of the world at large in these print ads from TBWA in Portugal. Apparently, going with Ikea means you get a balcony in buildings that...
View ArticlePentagram Designs Climate Change Posters Made Completely Out of Emojis
Emojis are everywhere these days—even printed on posters at an environmental rally. The popular social-media symbols found their way onto protest signs (made of what isn't clear) at the recent People's...
View ArticleBikes Ride Themselves in This Heart-Pounding Ad for Cycling in Canada
Canada is a great country for cycling, but the bikes aren't going to ride themselves. Well, actually they do in this inventing and intense spot for Cycling Canada from ad agency Innocean, Sons and...
View ArticleWhoa, Sony Trained This Octopus to Take Photos of Visitors to Its Aquarium
Holy mackerel, this octopus can use a camera! Sony and FCB Auckland trained a female octopus named Rambo (no relation) to take pictures with a Cyber Shot TX30 camera for this captivating minute-long...
View ArticleBoost Mobile's 'Come to Data' Ad Campaign Is Pervy and Totally Ungodly
Your inner barbarian tells you it's quite all right to use your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. Play that dice game at the urinal? Sure, even though it requires vigorous arm-shaking motions that make...
View ArticleCarlsberg Makes Londoners Happy With a Billboard That Gives Out Free Beer
If you thought Coke Zero's drinkable billboard was impressive, Carlsberg would like to serve you some outdoor advertising with a bit more kick. The Danish brewer, with help from ad agency Fold7 and...
View ArticleA-B InBev Throws a Masquerade Party in Stylish First Ad for Oculto Lager
Anheuser-Busch InBev introduces Oculto, a new high-alcohol lager, with a roomful of men and women wearing masks inside a dark club in this spot from Mother New York. The mood is mysterious and...
View ArticleGrim Reaper Sings About Kids Dying in Unicef's Insane Sound of Music Parody
The hills are alive with the sound of Unicef Sweden singing about cholera. A jolly grim reaper does a Broadway number on waterborne diseases in Forsman & Bodenfors' insane new ad from the...
View ArticleClient Feedback on Famous Novels Reminds Ad People There's Other Writing Out...
A number of famous novelists spent time in ad jobs—among them, F. Scott Fitzgerald (who worked at Barron Collier in New York, where he wrote the line, "We keep you clean in Muscatine"), Joseph Heller...
View ArticleTourists Give Jason Sudeikis Some Directions in AT&T's Tribeca Film Festival Ad
Live from New York … it's Jason Sudeikis. The former Saturday Night Live cast member appears in "The Tourists," a 45-second video from BBDO promoting AT&T's sponsorship of the Tribeca Film...
View ArticleTinder Introduces Its Instagram Tie-in With This Dreamy New Ad
In a move that in retrospect seemed inevitable, Tinder has partnered with Instagram. The dating app's latest update allows users to link to their Instagram profiles. The last 34 Instagram photos pop...
View ArticleTwitter Unveils Star Wars Emojis, and All Is Right With the Galaxy
Emoji product placement on Twitter just advanced a few light years today, as the social network—in partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm—unveiled Star Wars emojis at the Star Wars Celebration in...
View ArticleIkea Gets Into the Wedding Business, Promising to Marry People via Webcam
If your dream wedding includes getting married via webcam, you should sign up for Ikea's newest service. The Swedish furniture chain has launched "Wedding Online," a (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek site...
View ArticleGroupon Employees Read Their Favorite Sexual Comments About the Nonsexual...
For Groupon, it's the Bunker that keeps on bunking (but not bonking). The Banana Bunker, that famously suggestive-looking banana holder, is back "by popular demand" on the Groupon site this week. And...
View ArticleEmpty Wheelchair Chases People Around a Mall in One of the Meanest Ad Pranks Yet
Hand out fliers about the dangers of osteoporosis pretty much anywhere and see what happens. Crumple. Toss. No one reads all those statistics. But chase those same folks with a remote-controlled...
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