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Two Ad Guys Want to Save the World With Stock PSAs, but at Least They Know...
Are you unhinged enough to quit your advertising job for six months so you can create a campaign that you believe could solve all of humanity's problems? A couple of creatives are framing themselves...
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Wrangler Busts Out Its Cringeworthy Evil Twin, Wrongler, in These Bizarre Ads
This week's honors for goofiest mangling of one's own brand name goes to Wrangler, which is launching a social and out-of-home campaign in Europe contrasting "Wrangler" and "Wrongler" ways of living....
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This Branding Video Cleverly Celebrates Famous Logos Without Actually Showing...
You know, some elements of this video from Denmark-based digital agency Inetdesign seem awfully familiar. That's because the clip uses famous logos to explain the importance of branding. Sort of. The...
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Older Women Tell Younger Ones How to Live a Life Without Regret in Lovely...
Sanctuary Spa, a skincare brand in the U.K., conducted a survey that found a disturbing 40 percent of women feel ready to burn out at any moment. Maybe it's because 70 percent feel pressure to be...
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KFC Offers Free Meals to Victims of Social Network Outages
It says something about the world that reporters consider it news to mention when Facebook or Twitter are down for more than a few minutes. With this in mind, KFC Romania and agency McCann came up...
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Bank of America's Marketing Morons Torment Billy Idol in Hilarious Ads From...
Bank of America and Christopher Guest would like to remind you ad people that there is, in fact, such a thing as a bad idea. And the argument, which doesn't need much help to start with, gets an...
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These Ridiculous Ads About Terrible Bosses Have Surprisingly Smart Twist Endings
If you've ever had the misfortune of working under an immoral, irrational or just plain incompetent boss, you'll appreciate these clever management training ads. In three new videos, actors—gently...
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Ballantine's Is Making a Zero-Gravity Whiskey Tumbler for Rich Space Tourists
People keep talking about space tourism like it's actually going to happen. And the budding interest of brands won't help quiet matters. To reinforce its position as the spirit of choice for "a bit of...
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Here Are Apple's 8 Promo Videos From Today's Event, Including a :60 for the...
If you missed today's Apple event, get caught up with these eight promo videos showing off the sleek and shiny new toys. Most notably, there's the 60-second spot below for the iPhone 6s, outlining how...
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These 3 Instagrammers Just Got $10K Each From Getty Images for Their...
Getty Images just handed out its inaugural Getty Images Instagram Grants, awarding three photographers $10,000 each for their incredible work documenting stories from underrepresented communities...
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Fat- and Period-Shaming Collide in Easily the Year's Most Offensive Ad Aimed...
Fat-shaming and period-shaming in a single commercial? J. Walter Thompson Melbourne has managed it, with predictably bad results, in this spot for Unicharm's SOFY BeFresh Pads. The ad is titled "Ugh...
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Zac Posen Debuts an LED Dress Made by (and for) Female Coders
Fewer than 1 percent of high school girls plan to study computer science in college. Hoping to change that, Google's Made with Code initiative recently encouraged girls to design a "little black...
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Old Spice's Pitchman Battle Heats Up as Terry Mocks Isaiah's Signature Line
Not many brands could pull off a campaign that escalates the weirdness in each new spot. But anything can happen in an Old Spice campaign, and transforming Terry Crews into an angry woodpecker is just...
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This Japanese City Created a Street View for Cats (and for Humans, Too)
Over in the magical land of Japan, the tourism board of Hiroshima prefecture has created street view for cats. That's right—a site that offers a cat's-eye look at the city of Onomichi and its...
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This Cleverly Designed Movie Poster Makes a Bad Review Seem Like a Good One
It turns out negative movie reviews can be turned into positive ones, with just a little ingenious design. Guardian film critic Benjamin Lee didn't like the new Tom Hardy movie Legend very much,...
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Under Armour Welcomes Hundreds of Tom Bradys Back to Football in Ad for...
As expected, Under Armour added Tom Brady to its new "Rule Yourself" campaign on Thursday, and the timing couldn't have been better—as the Droga5 spot premiered during the NFL's season opener between...
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Ikea Just Had the Perfect Reaction to the Apple Pencil
Ikea Singapore continues its run of amusing advertising (which has included everything from the famous Bookbook catalog-as-gadget film to a slew of comical Facebook memes) with a quick-hit ad poking...
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A Man Finds Commuting Zen in This Brilliantly Silly Ad for Mobile Train...
If you're the type of person who wants to feel spiritually at one with the act of commuting by train, then British ticketing company Trainline would like you to try its app. In this new ad from...
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People Magazine Celebrates Jennifer Lawrence's Compulsive Photobombing in New Ad
Keen celebrity followers probably already know that Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is a notorious red-carpet photobomber. But did you have any idea how extensive her list of victims is? It...
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Moleskine Celebrates Coke's 100th Anniversary with Beautifully Designed...
Moleskine, the makers of those sleek black journals that every aspiring poet in America seems to own, is doing its part to revel in Coca-Cola's centennial glory with limited-edition notebooks created...
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