Coca-Cola Just Remastered Its Famous 'Hilltop' Ad From 1971, and It Looks...
Fans of Coca-Cola—and the Mad Men finale—are getting a nice treat today. The soda company just announced that it has remastered and color-corrected its famous 1971 commercial "Hilltop" for 4K...
View ArticleGap Has Apologized for This GapKids Ad, but Did It Need To?
This GapKids ad, posted to Twitter on Saturday, ignited claims of passive racism from some viewers, who objected to what they characterized as a black girl being used as an armrest by a white girl....
View ArticleConverse Invites You to Climb, and Dangle Your Feet Off, a 75-Story Skyscraper
If you're afraid of heights, Converse's new mobile game is not for you. A new ad for the footwear brand features climbers Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov, who've made headlines in recent years...
View ArticleDomino's Debuts Zero-Click Ordering in Latest Effort to Make Your Life...
Domino's won't stop until its customers are able to simply think about Domino's pizza and suddenly find themselves magically munching on it. The pizza chain isn't quite there yet. But today it's...
View ArticleThor Björnsson's Great April Fools' Ad Wasn't at All What We Were Expecting
I admit I was fooled. Sort of. When I saw Thor Björnsson (aka, the Mountain That Rides, aka the Strongest Man on Earth) selling his new sparkling water called HeavyBubbles in the spot below—released...
View ArticleEveryone's a Voyeur in Newport Beach Film Fest's Fascinating, Creepy New Ad
Submitted for your approval, "We're Being Watched," a Twilight Zone-ish slice of sci-fi paranoia from RPA, promoting the 17th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. With dazzling visuals and sharp...
View ArticleHow Refugees Used Radio Ads to Talk to Their Moms Back in Syria When Phones...
Here's an interesting campaign from Swedish agency Akestam Holst that turned commercial radio in Syria into a personal media channel for refugees looking to contact their moms back home on Mother's...
View ArticleDroga5's First Ads for Shea Moisture Address the Racial Divide in the Beauty...
Shea Moisture is using its first TV commercial, created by its new agency, Droga5, to generate awareness about segregation in the beauty aisle. With #BreakTheWalls, the brand looking to "highlight the...
View ArticleSweden Just Got Its Own Phone Number. A Funny Thing Happened When We Called It
In 2012, VisitSweden launched a unique tourism campaign online. It handed off the country's official Twitter handle, @Sweden, to ordinary Swedes—and let them post more or less whatever they liked....
View ArticleKevin Spacey Challenges You to a Staring Contest in Series of Connected...
Kevin Spacey is an accomplished thespian whose talents extend to the possibly related realm of staring contests. In a fun (though tenuously branded) E*Trade campaign from R/GA, the House of Cards star...
View ArticlePulse-Pounding Trailer for Rogue One Proves There's a New Hope for Star Wars...
Do you even know what's happening in the world today? Me neither, because I've been watching the Rogue One trailer on repeat pretty much since I woke up. Officially called Rogue One: A Star Wars...
View ArticleNike Just Made This Remarkable Farewell Ad to Kobe Bryant in China, Where...
Love him or hate him, Kobe Bryant is a legend. In China, they mostly love him—he's made a concerted effort, with Nike, to reach out to his Chinese fans over the past decade. And the Chinese have...
View ArticleGym Billboard Angers People With Claim That Aliens Will 'Take the Fat Ones...
A billboard for a gym in England has upset passersby with its scientifically unprovable claim that when aliens invade our planet, "they'll take the fat ones first." Even in this comic context,...
View ArticleThis Photographer Takes Fun Portraits of People After One, Two and Three...
What do you look like as you get increasingly buzzed from alcohol? Many of Marcos Alberti's friends now have photographic evidence."There is a saying about wine that I really like and it's something...
View ArticleHow Volvo Stole Energy From Other Cars on a California Highway to Power This SUV
Volvo's new XC90 T8 hybrid is more than just a potential getaway car. It's a twin-engine thief that steals power from other vehicles. At least, that's how the seven-seat SUV is portrayed in this...
View ArticleCookie Monster Is Even More Impatient in This Great Bonus Footage From the...
Fake behind-the-scenes footage, where celebrities are playing exaggerated versions of themselves, can be fun if a bit narcissistic. Luckily, that's not the case for Cookie Monster in Apple's latest...
View Article11 Most Interesting Possessions That Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man Is...
Parting is such sweet sorrow when it comes to one of the most iconic brand spokesmen ever. Yes, Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World is leaving us—he's headed on a one-way flight to Mars. So,...
View ArticleA Girl Who Lost a Leg to Cancer Finds Hope in This Lovely, Touching Ad
The week's almost over. Have you wept at your desk yet? If not, have a gander at this powerful animated short for Scarlett Contra El Cancer, made by New York City animation company The Studio—with...
View ArticleThis Skincare Brand Bravely Stood Up for China's 'Leftover' Women Unmarried...
SK-II, a Chinese skincare brand, took over a so-called "marriage market"—where Chinese parents go to post elaborate personal ads for their daughters—to stand up for all the "leftover" women who aren't...
View ArticleIkea Creates a Photo App That Lets You Take Only One Picture Ever
Ikea Belgium wants to save what it considers the dying art of photography ... by creating an app that only lets users snap one picture. Titled "Klikk" (or "Click," in Dutch), it aims to force...
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