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Bank of America Salutes the World's Most Inspiring Powerlifter in Compelling...
Are you strong? Manimal strong? Powerlifter Chevi Peters, aka "Manimal," stars in this literally uplifting spot by Hill Holliday, part of a year-long, multichannel Bank of America campaign around the...
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This Provocative PSA Argues That Refugees Actually Should Be Treated Like...
Nervous about the rising tide of refugees crossing borders en masse? You're not alone. To help put things in perspective, the Association for the Rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Tunisia (ADIRT)...
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Apple Gives You the Gift of Stevie Wonder and Andra Day This Holiday
Apple grabbed us right in the feels with this holiday ad, in which Stevie Wonder and protégée Andra Day sing his 1967 hit "Someday at Christmas." The ad poses as a thoughtful gift to humanity from...
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Singapore Retailer Apologizes for Writing 'Rape Us Now' on Black Friday Site
It should be obvious that no brand should consider posting anything resembling a rape joke, but that's what Singapore-based fashion brand SuperGurl did—and, of course, has since apologized for. The...
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Giant Sexting Emojis Welcome a Condom for Threesomes in MTV's 'Sext Life' Ad
Sexytime gets weird, and then weirder, in Y&R New York's amusing new commercial for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, featuring actors dressed up as common sexting emoji pairs suddenly getting...
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This Agency's 'Jingle Butts' Video Gets Holiday Card Season Off to a Cheeky...
Stumped for a fun way to say happy holidays? Try playing "Jingle Bells" with any of your private parts, and you're all but guaranteed to get a reaction. Kmart famously did it with "Jingle Balls" two...
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Toys 'R' Us Makes a Poignant Christmas Ad About a Gift That's Better Than Any...
Toys "R" Us is making a heartwarming addition to the Christmas ad file. The new commercial, from BBDO Atlanta, opens with sweet footage of a father and his young son preparing for the holidays—making...
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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Are Banished to the Kids' Table in Old...
Hot off that Snoop Dogg robbery ad with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kumail Nanjiani, Old Navy and Chandelier Creative have put a new creative duo in another improbable situation. In "Kids Table," Carrie...
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Stephen Curry and Shaq Have Cameos in Guitar Hero Live's Crowdsourced...
Pop music's newest supergroup features hoop icons Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry, sports broadcaster Erin Andrews, Vine star King Bach … and you. To showcase Guitar Hero Live's GHTV feature,...
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Pizza Hut Surprises Families With Truly Crazy Holiday Deliveries of Its...
Order a pizza, get a flash mob. And a brass band, drum solo and pyrotechnics display. Pizza Hut, on a relentless tear to promote its limited-time holiday-themed Triple Treat Box, busted out the good...
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Cursed by a Late December Birthday? These New Birthday Cards Feel Your Pain
The sound and the fury of December is always deafening: holiday songs on repeat, nothing on TV but saccharine Santa flicks, hand-wringing news reports lamenting the war on Christmas being tirelessly...
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Nick Offerman's Yule Log for Lagavulin Is 45 Minutes of Silent, Uninterrupted...
Few performers could make staring into a camera for an extended period of time engaging, let alone feel like a treat. But Nick Offerman's love of Lagavulin whisky has been well documented. And now...
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This Director's Wicked Little Film Shows You How to Be Happy at the Holidays
With one notable exception, this year's holiday ads have been uniformly sweet and uplifting. But that can get tedious. So now, have a look at Biscuit Filmworks director Ayse Altinok's twisted take on...
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This Excellent Climate Campaign Makes Saving the World the Easiest Decision Ever
Some decisions aren't hard to make. Saving the world is one of them. The Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore, partnered with Mustache Agency to produce the World's Easiest Decision, a website...
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Bleacher Report Serves Up a Riotous Remake of Blackalicious' 'Alphabet Aerobics'
"A" is for advertising. "V" is for … viral video? Blackalicious' frenetic 1999 tongue-twister "Alphabet Aerobics" gets a sporty update in this animated music video from Bleacher Report. The two-minute...
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In the Doghouse or Dead? It's an Easy Decision in This Powerful Drunk-Driving Ad
Refusing to drive to pick up your wife at the train station because you've been drinking might get you in trouble. But that's better than being dead, says a new U.K. PSA that puts some engaging spin...
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Eleanor Friedberger Plays 'Auld Lang Syne' on 1,000 Flute Glasses for...
Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one-half of The Fiery Furnaces (with brother Matthew Friedberger), has made her first commercial—and it's quite a harmonious production in which she plays the...
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Twitter Erupts in Mockery Over Selection of Sleepy Coldplay for Super Bowl...
Super Bowl fans, are you ready to rock? Hope not, because you're getting Coldplay. The mellow crooners were announced today as the 2016 Super Bowl's halftime headliners, which was music to the ears of...
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KitKat's Christmas Commercial Is 30 Seconds of Blankness, the Ultimate Ad Break
It takes a lot to stand out among the glut of Christmas ads in Britain, where brands jockey like nowhere else to have a hit commercial. KitKat and J. Walter Thompson's strategy this season is to cut...
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A Dirty Old Man Gets the Perfect Gift in Pornhub's Weird, Uncomfortable...
Pornhub is the latest advertiser to feature a sad old man in its Christmas commercial—an oddly common theme this year. But instead of getting a telescope or faking his own death, what bring a smile to...
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