DavidAndGoliath.com Is Held for Ransom by Masked Villains. Will David Angelo...
Ever since Los Angeles ad agency David&Goliath opened its doors in November 1999, it has suffered the indignity of not being able to get its hands on davidandgoliath.com, which was being used by...
View ArticleHow Copywriter David Burd Became Rap Star (and Hilarious Trojan Man) Lil Dicky
Lil Dicky, the chart-topping MC, is back with more comedy gold for Trojan condoms. David Burd, whose 2015 debut studio album Professional Rapper hit No. 1 on both Billboard's rap and comedy charts,...
View ArticleEven Sexy People Get Skid Marks in This Grossly Funny Attack on Fashion's...
Today in things you shouldn't watch on a full stomach: In an ad for organic clothing brand PACT, agency Denizen reprises the aesthetics of old Calvin Klein ads, producing something that is sometimes...
View ArticleThis Meta PSA About LGBTQ Suicide Ends Much More Happily Than You Expect
LGBTQ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers, but a creative outlet can help stem the tide while time does its work. This is the insight, brought to life, in a...
View ArticleIs This Any Way to Sell a 'Razor Sharp' Eyeliner?
Urban Decay's promotion of its Razor Sharp eyeliner, with what it called "Razor Sharp Swatches," has drawn the ire of some of its consumers. At issue is a photo the brand tweeted of a model with color...
View ArticleProps No More, Ikea's Catalog Models Have Become Delusional Fame Seekers
The humans sprinkled throughout the Ikea catalog traditionally have been pure background material, a supporting cast to the furniture and other brand goods for sale. But no longer! In this spot from...
View ArticleDomino's Pizza Survives Drone Delivery With Only Minor Damage to the Cheese
If you want the best pizza, you're not going to order Domino's. But if you want your pizza delivered in the most innovative way, well, Domino's may have that market cornered. The chain took four years...
View ArticleTiger Beer Turned Air Pollution Into Ink, and Had Artists Try It Out
Imagine grabbing a tube of paint, dipping your brush in the black goop and gliding the brush across a canvas. Pretty normal, right? Now image that black goop is made entirely of air pollution emitted...
View ArticleWe Tested This South Park Fart-Smelling VR Device, and Now We Can Never...
The inside of my nose smells like South Park, and I'm worried it will never go away. If you weren't following the Olympics—which saturated all media—too closely, by now you probably know about Nosulus...
View ArticleDelta Jumps Into Political Fray with a Lofty Patriotic Meditation from the Sky
Overwhelmed as we are with wacky politicals, terrorist hysteria, a looming police state and social media's unending attacks on our peace of mind, more than a few of us feel outsized pressure to do...
View ArticleSlip Into a Blanket Fort of Chocolate Walnut Absurdity In This Strange...
When this Nutchello ad popped up in my feed, it melted my brain into a delicious puddle of chocolate pouring onto a gold cougar statue. You know, in a good way. The ad, from Fallon, throws one quirky...
View ArticleA Real Estate Brand Turned Kids' Drawings of Their Dream Homes Into VR...
When Swiss real estate website Homegate.ch asked kids to draw pictures of their dream houses, it wasn't an empty gesture. It was the first step in a marketing collaboration with the Bandara agency and...
View ArticleTic Tacs Are Little Adrenaline Junkies in The Martin Agency's Charming Ads
They're tiny hard candies that may be small enough to fit between your thumb and forefinger, but they're still packed with adventure, says a fun new campaign from The Martin Agency.read more
View ArticleSubaru Unveils Two New Safety Ads, and They Couldn't Be More Different
Nothing says love quite like twisted steel and shredded tires. Wrecked cars, and their understandably shaken and contrite teenage drivers, appear in Carmichael Lynch's latest work for Subaru, which...
View ArticleThis Distressing PSA Captures the Horrors of Bullying in the Facebook Era
"Betty B. goes to my school. This is my school." In "Betty B.," a PSA written, directed, shot and edited by Matt Bieler, represented by Los Angeles-based Reset Content, a crisp young voice recounts her...
View ArticleSarah Jessica Parker Dropped Her New Fragrance ... on Instagram
Sarah Jessica Parker just dropped Stash SJP, her latest fragrance, on Instagram. This follows the weeks she spent teasing fans with mysterious messages online and in the streets, led by the hashtag...
View ArticleDanny McBride and Walton Goggins Dress Up as Brand Mascots Gone Bad for GQ
What if brand mascots weren't chipper or cheerful? What if, instead of smiling ear to ear while trying to hock Energizer or McDonald's, they were jaded, even sadistic? That's the world GQ has imagined...
View ArticleAbe Lincoln Trashes Clinton and Trump in This Insane Ad for Libertarian Gary...
And now for something completely different in an election season dominated by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump—a political ad starring "Dead Abe Lincoln" telling voters they "just got screwed" by the...
View ArticleMother N.Y. Staff Posed for Hairdo Pics That Their Local Barber Shop Is Using...
It's gotta be the hair. Mother New York staffers have quietly pulled off a very fun agency selfie project, helping to replace the dated hairdo pics in the window of their favorite local barber shop...
View ArticleIs Boring, Oregon, Really Boring? Find Out in This Wonderfully Weird Ad Shot...
Pop culture is full of stories about people trying to escape the boring-ass town they were born in. Not so in Boring, Oregon. As one inhabitant remarks, "Nobody leaves. They think they're gonna go,...
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