Nike Recreated the Toga Party From Animal House With Famous University of...
This one goes out to all the Ducks fans—but all you really need to appreciate it is to have liked the movie Animal House. Nike celebrates its deep ties to the University of Oregon in a new, feel-good...
View ArticleMarsh Broflovski Cartman & McCormick: If South Park Were an Ad Agency
South Park begins its 19th season on Wednesday, which makes it older than plenty of notable ad agencies. (Droga5 isn't even 10 yet.) To celebrate the never-endingly awesome Comedy Central cartoon,...
View ArticleESPN Finds 5 Famous Endorsers After Hours to Kick Off Ads for Late-Night...
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft do late at night at National Park, while winding down after their daily Presidents Race? They...
View ArticleStubHub's Amusing New Ads Feature Ticket Buyers and Their Insane Mini-Me's
Your inner sports fan is a maniac in body paint, a fright wig and tear-away pants. He's a little extreme, sure, but it's OK to let him come out and play, according to a new ad campaign from StubHub....
View ArticleMan Who Hates Seeing So Many Geico Ads Stuffs 300 of Them Into One...
Some say Geico is going through a golden age of creativity, from its super-viral "Hump Day" camel spot to its Cannes Grand Prix-winning "Unskippable" campaign. But Dominick Nero is not among the...
View ArticleThese Shameless Cocaine Ads Prove the '70s Were a Hell of a Time to Be Alive
Inspired by the hit Netflix series Narcos, about the exploits of Pablo Escobar, some fans decided to dig up some of the period's not-so-subtle ads for cocaine paraphernalia. They posted their finds,...
View ArticleWieden + Kennedy Tells the Entire History of the Internet in a Single...
The call for entries for the 20th Annual Webby Awards had to be special. So, the organizer—the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences—got 20 Webby winners to create their own versions of...
View ArticleHappy Emails Have Cries for Help Hidden in the HTML in This Domestic Violence...
In Peru, four women in 10 between the ages of 15 and 49 years old suffer from domestic violence, and only 40 percent of those actively seek help. To remind people that violence can hide in plain...
View ArticleThis Fake 'Tide to Go' Ad Perfectly Spoofs Lingering Opposition to Gay Marriage
Tide has already made one commercial featuring a gay couple—it's been airing in Canada, as Procter & Gamble considers bringing it to the U.S.. And now, an ad for Tide to Go about gay marriage has...
View ArticleKayak Can't Help Everyone in This New Pair of Perfectly Awkward Ads
In recent years, Barton F. Graf 9000 has created some hilariously absurd and sometimes controversial commercials for Kayak. These two new ads are more subtle and less flat-out wacky, but still take...
View ArticleComically Idiotic List of Advertising's '500 Under 500' Spoofs the Industry's...
There's no shortage of lists ranking ad people—people profess to hate them, but of course, everybody reads them. And now, Lex Singer and Jesse Yowell have unveiled the bloated, bloviating mother of...
View ArticlePot Noodle Smashes Your Gender Stereotypes with This Unexpected Boxing Story
Pot Noodle is about to destroy your gender sterotypes, and you're going to love it. In fact, you'll want to watch it twice. The "You Can Make It" spot plays on your presumptions about what's happening...
View ArticleOscar Mayer Releases Sizzl, a Dating App Exclusively for Bacon Lovers
Oscar Mayer's love for bacon has taken a romantic turn, as 360i today unveils Sizzl, an actual dating app built for people who dig on swine (which is to say, almost everybody). You download the app,...
View ArticleThese Print Ads Illustrate Clean Water in the Most Brilliantly...
The Pureit water purifier works so well that it can turn grimy canal water—or a murky rural stream—totally clear. At least, that's what Unilever's latest print campaign seems to say. In this soft,...
View ArticleGas Station Chain Shows You Exactly How to Treat a Superfan in This...
In an unusual promotion, ARCO surprised its biggest fan—yes, retail gas-station brands have fans, too—with a gift that clearly meant the world to him and his girlfriend. It all began when ARCO agency...
View ArticleMoe's Southwest Grill Just Made a Real Electric Guitar Out of a Giant...
Now that Moe's Southwest Grill has taken to calling its free queso day "Quesopalooza," it's entirely logical that it would build a playable electric guitar out of a giant tortilla chip. No wait,...
View ArticleRichmond, Va., Hosts Global Cycling Event With Ads Like It's the Next Civil War
The American Civil War and the UCI Road World Cycling Championship may have more in common than you think ... this year, at least. A new campaign from The Martin Agency toys with the fact that the...
View ArticleCoke Cans Come With Temporary Tattoo of Your Name in Latest Bit of Packaging...
Coca-Cola kicks off National Hispanic Heritage Month (which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) with a line of temporary-tattoo cans, targeted to Hispanic and Latino Americans. Based on the insight that...
View ArticleHeineken Hid a Rugby Legend Inside a Dublin Pub. Here's What Happened Next
Days before the opening match of the Rugby World Cup, Heineken surprised a Dublin pub chock-full of rugby fans with the coolest prize machine ever. In exchange for their names and emails (handy!),...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Just Published His Latest Story on a Chipotle Bag
A new installment in Chipotle's "Cultivating Thought" campaign—which prints original short stories from successful writers on the sides of its paper bags and cups—has more high culture to go with your...
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