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Here's What Happens When Kids Pick Between Toys and Household Chemicals

This Dutch PSA offers a striking reminder that brightly colored bottles are appealing to children—even when the bottles are filled with toxic liquids. In the Netherlands (not to mention the U.S.),...

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There's a 'Marshmallows Only' Version of Lucky Charms, and Biz Markie Wrote a...

If you were wondering what Biz Markie is up to these days, here's your answer. The brilliantly out-of-tune rapper and Yo Gabba Gabba beat-boxer is putting his chops to work promoting Lucky...

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Google Invites You to Rediscover Paris Nightlife With Its Exploratory 'Magic...

Yesterday, Google France launched the second edition of "Les Heures Magiques" ("The Magic Hours"), created with 72andSunny Amsterdam. For 31 nights, the interactive, mobile-first campaign will invite...

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Coffee-mate's New Marketing Guy Is a Gingerbread Man, and It's Making Things...

You may want to grab a coffee with this guy, but you also might have to think twice before bringing him anywhere.  That's because Nestlé Coffee-mate's new spokesperson, Joel Hubbard, is a gingerbread...

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Artist Fixes Bratz Dolls by Turning Them Into Iconic, Inspiring Women

Bratz Dolls, the polarizing children's toys known for their heavy makeup, pouty lips, and ability to give sensible adults a general feeling of discomfort, have just gotten a makeover. And it's...

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Westin Hotels Hires McSweeney's to Write You a Better Out-of-Office Message

To encourage Americans to actually go on vacation every once in awhile—and ideally stay at a Westin-owned hotel—the hospitality chain has partnered with McSweeney's, via BBH New York ,to create the...

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Audi's Airbags Keep You From Damnation, or Salvation, in These Turkish Print Ads

Imagine you're mid-car-crash, face firmly planted against against an airbag, and you get a brief window into the afterlife. Will you be going to heaven, or somewhere a tad hotter? Either way, two...

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Ebony's Cracked Huxtables Cover Ignites A Mix of Praise and Outcry

   It's a testament to the power of Ebony's latest cover, posted yesterday, that its design has simultaneously sparked fierce outrage and wild applause. The magazine's November issue highlights black...

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This Chicken Chain Got an Actual Chicken to Write Its Tweets, and Look What...

If you read some recent tweets from Australian barbecue chain Chicken Treat, you might conclude that a strange bird is running its feed. And you'd be right. Literally. The franchise put a keyboard...

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Does Niagara Falls' Creepy Recycling Mascot Want Your Trash, or Your Soul?

The city of Niagara Falls, N.Y.,  wanted to get people—particularly millennials—more excited about recycling, so it came up with what it hoped would be a memorable mascot: Totes McGoats, a man in a...

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Hulu Is Off and Running in Its Big, Fast-Talking New TV Commercial

Hulu tries to balance its fun, quirky brand persona with a ton of actual product mentions in this big new brand spot from twofifteenmccann, which broke Sunday night as a :60 on TV and is running...

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Royal Caribbean Courts Millennials by Promising Them an Anti-Cruise That...

Mullen Lowe positions Royal Caribbean as something of an anti-cruise line in its first campaign for the brand since adding the assignment in May. Vivid colors and good vibes permeate sun-splashed,...

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IHOP Tries to Make a Joke About Women's Breasts, Fails Miserably

Brands are generally getting less error prone on Twitter, as evidenced by the longer period of time between epic fails. But IHOP on Sunday obliged with a doozy—a tweet about pancakes that doubled as...

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This French Ad, Aimed at Celebrating Women, Is Ridiculed for Stereotyping...

Here's a new one: An anti-sexism ad has been pulled for being, well, sexist. French TV station France 3 pulled its latest campaign after widespread criticism. The offending ad shows a home in a state...

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KFC Comically Re-enacts Mick Fanning's Shark Attack, but He's Not Laughing

It was the shark attack caught on a live surfing broadcast, and then seen around the world. But Mick Fanning's family is condemning a comical new KFC ad that revisits the Australian's recent brush...

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The Original Paranormal Activity House Scares the Daylights Out of People in...

To get people excited about Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the horror-movie franchise staged the ultimate haunted-house prank—an open house in the actual home where the first Paranormal...

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India's Most Famous Wrestler Stars in India's Most Hilarious Ad for Cement

It's tough to find a cement commercial that's all it's cracked up to be, but India's Ambuja Cement has managed it with this amusing mockumentary starring an aging WWE wrestler. The one-minute spot...

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Snickers' Halloween Ad Profiles a Guy Who's Scary Good at Carving Pumpkins

You might think you carve a mean pumpkin, but Jon Neill will kick the orange pulp and seeds out of you any day of the week—particularly in October, when his master carving skills are most in demand....

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Stephen Curry and Jamie Foxx Put on a Fireworks Show in Under Armour's Cosmic...

Under Armour recently showed you hundreds of Stephen Currys in an ad from Droga5. But of course, you only need one Stephen Curry to rewrite the NBA record books. And that's what we get in Droga's...

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Why This Mad Man Just Got Back Into the Ad Business at Age 94

Larry Rinck, a 94-year-old Mad Man who steered advertising for the famous S&H Green Stamps in the 1960s and '70s—has come out of retirement to show today's millennial whippersnappers how it's...

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