How a Brewer Helped This Guy Realize His Dream of Being Punched in the Face...
Can this guy take a punch from a pro boxer? And just as important, wouldn't you like to watch this guy take a punch from a pro boxer? If you would, here's the video for you. Ad agency Mechanica...
View ArticleHBO's Fake Posters for Silicon Valley's Pied Piper Perfectly Mock Tech's...
If there's anything that HBO's Silicon Valley does well, it's deriding the tech world's faux altruistic attitude. While it's easy to applaud the show for the way it perfectly navigates the weird...
View ArticleSolve These 3 Brutal Math Problems for Pi Day, and Win 3.14 Years of Free...
Real-time marketing around random holidays is usually a snoozefest. But Pizza Hut is going all in for Pi Day, honoring the famed irrational number by running an intriguing contest. It got a well-known...
View ArticleNeil Patrick Harris Tries to Explain Why Heineken Light Is St. Patrick's...
Neil Patrick Harris might be the best possible pitchman for Heineken Light, given that both are known for being versatile and unintimidating, but is the actor up to the challenge of making the Dutch...
View ArticleIs This Lane Bryant Ad With Ashley Graham and Other Curvy Models Too Much for...
In a scandal that may spark déjà vu among observers with a long memory, retailer Lane Bryant is accusing TV networks ABC and NBC of refusing to air a body-positive lingerie ad featuring plus-size...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Morphs Into Bernie Sanders in SNL's Latest Hilarious Fake...
A week after excoriating Donald Trump with a fake campaign ad decrying his followers as racist, Saturday Night Live turned its attention to Hillary Clinton this weekend—knocking the Democratic...
View ArticleHoney Nut Cheerios Mascot Goes Missing as Brand Addresses Declining Bee...
In one of the most obvious yet still cool examples of cause marketing, Honey Nut Cheerios in Canada is pledging to help find a solution to unstable bee populations—by launching a whole integrated...
View ArticleIndia's 'Menstruation Man' Tried On Sanitary Pads, and Found Out What It's...
This is the incredibly cool tale of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who, after noticing his wife was using dirty rags to manage her menstruation, decided to do something about it—not just for her, but for...
View ArticleAmnesty International Unveils Incredible VR Experience Showing the...
It's been said virtual reality might be the ultimate empathy machine, allowing people to see through the eyes of others and better understand their struggles. A new campaign by Amnesty International...
View ArticleCristiano Ronaldo Takes an Unreal Number of Selfies With Fans in This...
Here's a weird idea. For ROC Live Life Loud, Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo worked with Shareability, which co-owns the speaker and headphone brand with him, to engage in an odd game, more or...
View ArticleNorton Explores Shady Data Havens Like This North Sea Platform in Amazing...
Anti-virus compay Norton has released a fascinating new documentary on the world of bulletproof hosting—providing server space to clients with little or no oversight on the content—and the hazards the...
View ArticleNikon Touts Its Heritage in a Poster That Actually Shows a Fujifilm Camera
Nikon's eyeglasses division is very excited about touting the brand's rich history of iconic cameras—so excited, in fact, the group didn't even notice the retro-styled camera featured in one of its...
View ArticleMcCann Gave Peru's Poorest Children a Chance to Fly in This Adorable Airline Ad
A girl who dreams of singing in the clouds gets to do just that, on her very first airplane flight, in this Peruvian campaign from South American airline LAN and McCann Lima. The company runs a...
View ArticleGrown Men Make the Weirdest Sounds of Panic in This Hilarious Ad for Liver Pâté
Men, as a general rule, aren't exactly thrilled to eat green lunches. Denmark's most popular brand of liver pâté, Stryhns, runs with that stereotype in this amusing ad—in which male workers sit down...
View ArticleAdBlock Found Some Ads It Actually Liked, and Ran Them, for Amnesty...
AdBlock users were probably pretty surprised on Saturday to see actual ads appear—instead of the blank spaces they're used to—in the banner slots on webpages. That's because AdBlock found an ad...
View ArticleHennessy Tries to Capture the 7 Flavor Notes of Its X.O Cognac in Visuals and...
DDB Paris debuts its first-ever work with Hennessy, "Odyssey XO," a journey through the different notes of Hennessy X.O Cognac, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, who also made the films Drive and Only...
View ArticleEver Heard of Sébastien Artois? Mother London Tells Fun, Secret History of...
It's funny. Yesterday for Hennesy X.O., executive creative director Alexander Kalchev of DDB Paris critiqued the premium spirits sector for its "clichés of success" and "dusty heritage stories." Now,...
View ArticleTwo British Creatives Posted Refugee 'Homes' on Airbnb to Raise Money for Relief
To bring attention to the awful conditions of the infamous refugee camp in Calais, France, colloquially called "The Jungle," London-based creatives Jason Scott and Joris Philippart listed examples of...
View ArticleHuggies Revisits the Baby Whose Ultrasound It 3-D Printed for a Blind Mom
Sequels are tough. Ultimately, they're rarely evaluated on their own terms. The mere existence of a sequel, in most cases, means something noteworthy, and oftentimes excellent, came before. So from...
View ArticleAudi Says 'Intelligence Is the New Rock and Roll' in Latest Ads for the A4
Would Iggy Pop drive an Audi? If the seminal proto-punk rocker got one free for lending his 1973 head-banger "Search and Destroy" to the soundtrack of the automaker's new campaign from Venables Bell...
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