This Badass Bodyform Ad Elevates Menstruating Women to Modern Amazonian Warriors
The past couple of years have given us numerous disruptive examples of advertising in the feminine care space, including comical ones from HelloFlo and the award-winning inspirational video from...
View ArticleCentury 21 Helps You Give Dad Just What He Wants for Father's Day: Nothing
If you believe nothing is good enough to give Dad on Father's Day, Century 21 has the perfect gift idea for you: Why not give the big guy a parcel of land in Nothing, Ariz.? After all, he's got plenty...
View ArticleWhy Famous French People Are Suddenly Hating on Their Own National Soccer Team
In eyebrow-raising Twitter fodder this week, the French former professional soccer player and coach Raymond Domenech tweeted, "#JeNeSupportePasLesBleus," which translates to "I can't stand the Blues."...
View ArticleFox Apologizes for X-Men: Apocalypse Billboard Showing Jennifer Lawrence...
Social media has not been kind to this Twentieth Century Fox billboard for X-Men: Apocalypse, which shows the titular villain, Apocalypse, choking Mystique, with Rose McGowan urging others to yell at...
View ArticleOld Spice Just Made Its Weirdest Commercial Yet, and That's Saying Something
It's been more than six years since Old Spice advertising started getting very peculiar indeed, with help from Isaiah Mustafa and, particularly, Terry Crews. But Wieden + Kennedy Portland has now...
View ArticleVerizon's Old Pitchman, Paul Marcarelli, Switches to Sprint in Delicious Bit...
The wireless wars have been getting notoriously dirty, and now Sprint has come up with the most deviously clever attack yet—signing up Paul Marcarelli, who worked for years as Verizon's "Can you hear...
View ArticleHBO Bought a Full-Page Ad in a New Hampshire Paper for Veep's Jonah Ryan
The sheer lunacy of our current election cycle is frightening, but it's also very watchable. The same could be said for HBO's Veep, a show that many Washington, D.C., insiders have reportedly called...
View ArticleThe Writers of Idiocracy Are Planning Anti-Trump Ads Starring Terry Crews
Ted Cruz failed to take down Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but maybe Terry Cruz Crews can get the job done. With elements of the current election cycle often compared to the zany, low-I.Q....
View ArticleDavid Ortiz Keeps Swinging, Even in Retirement, in JetBlue's Charming...
After 13 years playing for the Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz will retire at the end of the 2016 baseball season. And he's contemplating some unusual plans for his next career. In a thank-you ad from...
View ArticleMorgan Fairchild and Erik Estrada Take Self-Mockery to a New Level in...
Faded actors frequently do self-deprecating commercials for a buck. But these new spots for Mattress Firm, from agency Ideaology, really push the lighthearted self-mocking into fairly cringe-worthy...
View ArticleCamera Store Mocks Photos Taken With Phones in Spoof of Apple's iPhone Ads
Apple's "Shot on iPhone 6" print and outdoor ads, featuring real photos taken by real iPhone 6 users, has been very popular since its launch in early 2015, even picking up a Grand Prix award at...
View ArticleA New Magazine Called 'It Ran' Will Run Any Ad You Make, So It's Eligible for...
Bogus ads that never ran are a scourge on advertising award shows. But now, you can make sure your bogus ads actually did run—thanks to a new magazine in Canada that will print them, no questions...
View ArticleMcCann Came Up With a Haircut That Fights Cancer in This Remarkable Campaign
About one in six Romanian women get cancer each year. Understandably, depression can run high among those who lose their hair during treatment. As one survivor puts it in the video below, "All of a...
View ArticleGuys Bribe Their Girlfriends to Watch Soccer Alone in Heineken Ad With an...
What if you had the perfect excuse to watch the UEFA Champions League Final at an epic Heineken party ... without your girlfriend?read more
View ArticleThis 'Meet a Muslim' Video Is Full of Nice, Normal People. And That Shouldn't...
It's a shame when a person introduces herself as "a human" and it actually seems necessary. A new video, titled "Meet a Muslim," aims to mitigate some of the fear and misperception currently pervading...
View ArticleThe Cast of Girls Just Made This Sexual Assault PSA Dedicated to the Stanford...
Lena Dunham and the cast of HBO's Girls just released this sexual assault PSA, which questions the way society treats victims. The 90-second spot urges people to create a "safer, healthier environment...
View ArticleMcCann London Gets Its Very Own Sneaker, Inspired by the Agency's Art Deco...
In partnership with Norman Walsh, a British sports shoe brand, McCann London has created the Herbrand Seven-Eleven, a pair of sneakers inspired by the agency's own art-deco-style building at 7-11...
View ArticleCBS's Hamilton Promo for the Tony Awards Is One of the Best 360° Videos Ever
Sure, we've all been seeing and hearing a lot from Hamilton, the hottest musical in years, but here's a video that puts other clips to shame. CBS' Facebook promo for Sunday's 70th Tony Awards uses...
View ArticleIntriguing or Insulting? Some Russians Object to This Penguin Ad Quoting...
Penguin is running a series of posters in the London Underground featuring quotes from classic literature. But the quote it's pulled from Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons has led to accusations that...
View ArticleThis Unskippable PSA Illustrates How Getting Stoned Affects a Driver's...
Concerns about "drugged driving" have prompted the Colorado Department of Transportation and Amélie Company to create an ad campaign, "Dangerous Combinations," about the dangers of driving under the...
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