This Ice Cream Ad Hacks YouTube to Let You Switch Between Two Characters in Love
Unilever ice cream brand Cornetto is continuing its habit of telling cute long-form love stories, but now it's trying to tell one from both sides at the same time. The video below offers interweaving...
View ArticleThe Maytag Man Is a Precision Clone in This Goofy, Patriotic New Ad
Maytag doesn't just make washing machines in the U.S. It makes people. Lots and lots of very zen Maytag Men, to be precise. A new ad from agency DigitasLBi shows the appliance brand's famous...
View ArticleMcDonald's the Musical Is Finally Here, and Leslie Grace Is Lovin' It
If you ever wanted to see a musical set in a McDonald's, your ship has come in. McDonald's lead Hispanic agency, Alma in Miami, on Thursday night will roll out "A Little Lovin'," a three-minute...
View ArticleTBWA Ads for Gatorade and Nissan Are Among 6 Emmy Nominees for Best Commercial
A year after TBWA\Media Arts Lab walked away with the 2014 Emmy Award for Best Commercial (for the Apple spot "Misunderstood"), TBWA\Chiat\Day has placed two spots among the 2015 nominees for the...
View ArticleGeico's 'It's What You Do' Campaign Is in Fair Condition After Emergency Surgery
Is Geico's "It's What You Do" campaign on life support? Not yet, but it's been hospitalized with a severe case of the non-sequiturs. I'm not a huge fan of the insurance company's "It's What You Do"...
View ArticleThese Emoji Flashcards From Domino's Will Teach You How to Talk to Your Kids
These days, if you can't understand emojis, life is not worth living. But there is hope, thanks to an "Emoji Literacy" campaign from Domino's and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. As you might recall, CP+B...
View ArticleAT&T's Latest 'It Can Wait' Ad Shows a Brutal Crash in Reverse, but There's...
AT&T's "It Can Wait" texting-and-driving campaign from BBDO New York has included many notable executions, including the painful Werner Herzog documentary from 2013. And the latest spot is no...
View ArticleA Ticket to This Music Festival in Transylvania Will Cost You Two Pints of Blood
To sell tickets to its first-time event, the Transylvania-based Untold Music Festival is working the Dracula angle. In partnership with Romania's National Blood Transfusion Institute, it has launched...
View ArticleCongrats, Omaha, You Now Have the Country's Most Disgusting Billboards
A graphic sexual health campaign aims to combat rising STD rates in Omaha, Neb., by grossing out young people with giant flesh-and-pus letters that deliver off-putting puns. Billboards and bus posters...
View ArticleSweden's Favorite Fishy Paste Delights in Disgusting the Rest of the World...
Ever hear of Kalles Kaviar? It's cod roe, and you eat it out of a toothpaste tube. Cringe away, but Kalles is a beloved Swedish product. They put it over eggs and eat it on toast. It's basically...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Stars in Global Rebrand for Keds: 'Ladies First Since 1916'
A year ahead of its centennial, footwear brand Keds is launching a global brand platform and fall 2015 ad campaign around female empowerment, and has gotten one of the world's great trailblazing...
View ArticlePainfully Funny Airbnb Parody Reminds You Who'll Really Be Staying in Your House
Airbnb's existential-crisis ad with the waddling baby didn't lend itself to being taken all that seriously in the first place. Now, a parody is helping it along the path to full ridicule. A grown man...
View ArticleArt Director's Portfolio in a Bottle Gets Him Off Desert Island and Into an...
To stand out in the piles of applications DDB Istanbul received when it was looking for an art director, Canhür Aktuglu sent out an SOS and presented his portfolio as a message in a bottle. They hired...
View ArticleThis Creative Director's Clever 'Combophotos' Are Awesomely Off-Kilter
If you like neat visual tricks, here's a set particularly worth checking out."Combophotos" is a project featuring clever pairs of pictures spliced into single images, playing with scale—and often...
View ArticleDanny Trejo Just Made a Funny, Badass TV Ad for Some Random California Lawyer
Danny Trejo raises the bar for personal injury lawyer ads with this memorable outing on behalf of California firm Bergener Mirejovsky. The 30-second, black-and-white spot is fun but also pretty...
View ArticleForever 21 Unveils a Giant, Crazy Machine That Re-creates Your Instagram...
If you want to see your next selfie brought to life as a real-time mosaic of moving thread, Forever 21 and Breakfast are happy to help—and the results are pretty stunning. About a year and half ago,...
View ArticleNew York Lottery Posts Fliers in Last-Ditch Search for Winner of Unclaimed $7...
The popular knock against the lottery is that you can play it, but you're an idiot if you do, cause nobody ever wins. But a new campaign for the New York Lottery is about a different kind of...
View ArticleMcDonald's Billboard With Heat-Sensitive Paneling Doles Out McFlurries in...
Heat-sick Dutchmen rejoice! McDonald's in the Netherlands teamed up with outdoor ad company JCDecaux to create a billboard with heat-sensitive paneling that contained 100 free McFlurry cups. When it...
View ArticlePharrell Got an Architect, Photographer and 2 Artists to Design Adidas' New...
Bringing in artists to design limited-edition shoes is a no-brainer. But an architect and a photographer? That makes things a bit more interesting. Pharrell Williams, who was named to Adweek's...
View ArticleOlive Garden Becomes the 'O.G.' in This Hilarious Gangsta Ad From Jingle Punks
You might think of Olive Garden as a conventional family restaurant, a little on the vanilla side, that sits somewhere near the Best Buy in suburbs across the country. You'd be wrong. It's a dope...
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