Factory Farming Playset Encourages Kids to Be the Worst Farmers Ever in...
Lots of kids play with barnyard toys, but the reality of factory farms isn't as rosy. A new anti-factory-farming campaign takes that probably obvious truth to the extreme, with a series of online...
View ArticleThe 5 Strangest Things the 2016 Presidential Candidates Are Selling Online
The 2016 election may be more than a year away, but things are already getting weird. One of the first places the strangeness is showing is in candidates' campaign stores, so we decided to compile a...
View ArticleAmazon Gets Shamelessly, Ridiculously Cute in Prime Ad Starring a Dog With a...
My heartstrings are getting awfully sore, Amazon U.K.! Last month, it was the "Nursery" ad with that bespectacled, mop-topped kid struggling to fit in on his first day of school. I wept for a week....
View ArticleKevin Durant Goes Nuts for a Street Baller's Dunk in Ad for Nike and Foot Locker
Kevin Durant may be a basketball star, but he knows how to cheer for the little people, too. In this new co-branded ad for Nike and Foot Locker, the Oklahoma City Thunder player gets so excited while...
View ArticleTarget Loved the Guy Who Trolled Its Haters, Judging by This Genius Facebook...
How did Target really feel about Mike Melgaard posing as a Target customer service rep on Facebook and caustically replying to angry messages left by haters opposed to Target's gender-neutral product...
View ArticleAlfa Romeo Responded to This Forlorn Fan With One of the Best Personalized...
A lot of brands try for a personalized, poignant touch with their social media fans, but few have ever pulled it off this well. When Daniel Hancox of England's Burton upon Trent tried to buy an Alfa...
View ArticleBaby Brand Tommee Tippee Made Baby Wipes From Reams of Actual Parenting Advice
New parents eventually get so sick of advice, they'll want to wipe their baby's butt with it. And now, infant feeding brand Tommee Tippee has made that possible—with a limited run of baby wipes made...
View ArticleClothing Crackles With the Meaning of Life in These Excellent European Fabric...
Kudos to Procter & Gamble brand Lenor (known in the U.S. as Downy) for managing to eroticize fabric softener in surprisingly poetic fashion. Each of these four long-form ads from Grey Dusseldorf...
View ArticleTBWA Designs a Bike-Lock Poster From Pieces of Competitors' Broken Locks
To introduce AXA's Victory bicycle lock, TBWA\Neboko scoured the streets of Amsterdam looking for other companies' broken bike locks, and used pieces of them in this memorable poster and billboard...
View ArticlePhilly Police Lifted an Anti-Drug PSA From Saved by the Bell and Made it...
At a time when young people have a conflicted relationship with police, it's good to know there's one reliable voice of unity: Zack Morris, circa 1991. The Philadelphia Police Department, which is no...
View Article3M Builds a Rube Goldberg Machine From Its Esoteric Products, but Is It the...
3M, which makes lots of different kinds of random, practical objects like sandpaper and stethoscopes, has now combined a bunch of them into one highly impractical but somewhat entertaining object—a...
View ArticleTwo L.A. Ad Guys Welcome Zombies to Their Midst With 'Cheer the Walking Dead'
"Just what Los Angeles needs. Fewer brains." Unfortunately, that's not a tagline for Fear the Walking Dead, which premieres this Sunday on AMC as the second series in the cable-television-eating...
View ArticleTwo Men Dressed as Turds Emerge From Butt to Tell You About Dude Wipes
Meet Plip and Plop, the anthropomorphized piles of feces who star in this ad for Dude Wipes. After exiting a giant butt crack with some unsavory jets of brown liquid and plopping into a pool below,...
View ArticleKyle Chandler Is Back as Coach Taylor in This Great PSA, but Is Anyone...
Kyle Chandler's got one more inspirational speech in him, and we'd all better listen up. The Austin-based actor reprises his best role—as Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights—in this great spot for...
View ArticleThis London Bar Serves Drinks in the Form of a Liquor Cloud You Breathe In
If "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" taught me anything, it's that getting loaded from strange fumes is probably unhealthy, but possibly lucrative. British food design firm Bompas & Parr evidently learned the...
View ArticleBob Dylan Went Electric. And You Should Too, With a Plug-In Hybrid, Says Audi
A new hybrid-electric Audi is just like that time Bob Dylan shocked audiences by playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, says Audi. This new video from the automaker, a sponsor of the...
View ArticlePeyton and Eli Manning Punk College Kids With a Very Demanding Gatorade...
Peyton Manning is back to shame more lazy people into earning their Gatorade with sweat, and this time he's brought his brother with him. In a new reality-style ad series from TBWA\Chiat\Day, Peyton,...
View ArticleTaiwan Has Fallen in Love With This Doll-Faced 'Goddess' Who Works at McDonald's
Could this part-time McDonald's worker in Taiwan become the next Alex from Target? The stunning, porcelain-doll-faced gal, who has earned the unofficial title of "McDonald's Goddess" to go along with...
View Article72andSunny's 72U Just Turned a Vacant Lot in Venice Into a Great Community...
What's inspiring about a dusty patch of ground in Venice, Calif., populated with a few scraggly weeds and hemmed in by a chain link fence? Plenty, according to the team at 72andSunny's in-house...
View ArticleThis Art Director Just Designed a Shower Cap You Might Not Be Horrified to Wear
Grandma used to wear a flimsy plastic shower cap, and when she stepped under the shower it sounded like angry rain on a tin roof. And her hair always got wet anyway. That's a throwback image, to be...
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