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Eat Domino's and Lose Total Control of Your Mouth, Advise Odd New Ads
Eating Domino's pizza renders folks insensibly slack-jawed and incapable of coherent speech in "The Mouth Boggles," a strange and silly U.K. campaign from Iris Worldwide. Ads show people in different...
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Netflix's Clever YouTube Prerolls Use Your Searches to Cue Up Specific Scenes...
How do you make a sitcom like Friends, which went off the air 12 years ago—a year before YouTube even existed—seem relevant to YouTube users today? If you're Netflix, which recently acquired the...
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Watch People Climb Toyota and Saatchi's Insane RAV4 Rock Wall in Times Square
We're three months into 2016, and it might be the year advertisers redefined the billboard. We've already seen obnoxious, stupid yet fun billboards that play with the form in delightful ways. And last...
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Lil Dicky Just Found a Perfect Side Project as Trojan's New Spokesman for...
Lil Dicky, the rapper, wants you to wrap your dick. The YouTube star, whose raunchy comedy helped catapult him to chart-topping fame, anchors "The Big Talk," a new four-minute Trojan ad from agency...
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Billy Dee Williams Is Back as Colt 45's Spokesman, and It Still Works Every Time
You never know when old friends might show up—25 years later. It was one of the most memorable ads of the '80s, for better or worse—Billy Dee Williams, the Star Wars actor, cracking open a can of Colt...
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Art Director Totally Nails the Humor and Heartbreak of Millennial Life in Ads...
Much has been made of the quarter-life crisis. And for millennials, an unforgiving job market, impersonal hook-up culture and the pressure to be Instagram-perfect don't help. But few have captured the...
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New Zealand Just Had the Creepiest Idea for Reminding Drivers Not to Check...
Those little red dots over your apps, a subtle vibration, that ringtone from last summer. Our phones are the most attention-craving objects we own, and our brains are hard-wired to leap to attention...
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This 5-Year-Old Agency Just Did a Photo Shoot Imagining Its 50th Birthday in...
Some agencies are scared of the future. Happy Medium can't wait to get there already. The Des Moines, Iowa, shop is celebrating its fifth birthday this year, but wasn't satisfied with that. Instead,...
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This Blunt PSA About Illiteracy Features the Most Depressing Alphabet Song Ever
"A" is for AIDS. "B" is for bloodshed. "C" is for child brides. A new ad imagines the alphabet as a set of abbreviations for all the awful consequences of not being able to read. Then it sets the whole...
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Pepsi Light Creates a Dumbbell Bottle, So You Can Guzzle Soda While You Work Out
Pepsi is tapping into its healthier side—sort of, maybe—by transforming its two-liter Pepsi Light bottle into a two-kilogram dumbbell. While Pepsi Light is calorie free, it's not generally the kind...
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Hotel Chain Makes Duvet Suits, So You Never Have to Leave That Comfy Bed Again
The branded April Fools' pranks are coming later this week, but Jurys Inn Hotel Group swears this one isn't a joke—well, not an April Fools' joke, anyway. Hate getting out of bed? Now you can take...
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Scores of People Ignore a 'Homeless' Boy in This Police Department's Social...
Given the times we live in, we prepare for the worst when we see articles about police running social experiments. Thankfully, the New Zealand police weren't up to anything sinister when they hired a...
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Mountain Dew Tries to Get a Little Classier With the Launch of Its Black...
Let's get refined, sugar! PepsiCo introduces Mtn Dew Black Label, a dark-berry beverage (with herbal bitters, no less), in a campaign from VaynerMedia that revolves around several "Gentlemen of the...
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Geico's Latest Crazy Talking Animal Is a Shady Alligator With Tiny Arms
It turns out there are advantages to being an alligator, like dodging the check when eating out with friends because your arms are just too short to reach it. That's the premise of the latest gag in...
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No, Virgin America Doesn't Actually Have a New Logo That's a Pair of Boobs
Is Virgin America making fun of Airbnb a year and a half after the latter's infamous logo redesign? It's quite possible. The airline's own apparently new design looks like, well, a pair of breasts....
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Line of Fake Baby Food Urges Parents to Stop Feeding Their Kids Gender...
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America has a lot of opinions about gender roles in childhood ... and it's channeled them into Gender Baby Food, a parody product based on the design of the...
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Rory McIlroy Gets Serious in His Most Intense Nike Golf Commercial Yet
Rory McIlroy keeps a grueling schedule, but he likes it. The pro golfer stars in a new ad for Nike, from Wieden + Kennedy Portland, as he gears up in real life for this weekend's Masters tournament,...
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Pretzels Are Totally Badass in Barton F. Graf's Funny First Ads for Snyder's...
Barton F. Graf's signature absurdist humor arrives fully baked in its first campaign for Snyder's of Hanover pretzels. Broadcast spots and brief social videos introduce the line "Pretzels, Baby,"...
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See How This Agency Is Branding a City That Won't Exist for Another 20 Years
The branding of cities is obviously nothing new: R&R Partners' "What Happens in Vegas" campaign all but defines the city in the popular imagination, and consultancies have been hired in past years...
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This Hotel Group Is 'Unadvertising' Its Properties With Intentionally Dull,...
We've seen hotel advertising evolve past the typical saccharine copy and cheesy stock photos of smiling guests—for example, the Loews Hotels and Resorts campaign, which uses ordinary people's candid...
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