The Story Behind Fidget Cube, the $4 Million Phenomenon You Didn't Know You...
If your friends know you to be a restless pen-clicker, you've probably already been tagged a dozen times or so on the promotional video for Fidget Cube. Viewed tens of millions of times across social...
View ArticleKids Playing This Devious Game in a Car Lose Points If Their Parents Speed...
Kids get bored in the backseat. But instead of suffering through an often fight-inducing game of "Slug Bug," or anesthetizing them with a tablet movie, what if you could teach them how to make you a...
View ArticleGreat Prices Inspire Crazy Fun in W+K's Seriously Loopy T.K. Maxx Ads
Be careful: If you buy a designer dress and a leather biker jacket at British discount chain T.K. Maxx, you'll soon find yourself regularly practicing ballet on a motorcycle—just to match your beloved...
View ArticleAndrew Bird's New Music Video Is Also a Quietly Heartbreaking PSA About Gun...
If you've ever wondered about the effect that the increased frequency of mass shootings has had on the lives of young children, and how it can impact their day-to-day lives, this remarkable music...
View ArticleRidiculous 'Super Trump' Billboard in Times Square Leaps Into Infamy in a...
A lot of people wanted this billboard about Donald Trump to become a reality in New York City. Instead, we got the one above—a masterpiece of unintentional camp that is running on a digital board in...
View ArticleDid Lane Bryant Just Make the Most Brazen Theft of an Artist's Work Yet?
New York artist Shantell Martin is accusing retailer Lane Bryant of stealing her work in the latest online flap over a fashion brand lifting designs from creatives without asking permission—or paying...
View ArticleHeineken Just Made an HR Campaign That's as Cool as Any Consumer Ads It's Done
Oh, the places you'll go! In 2013, Heineken scored a bronze Lion at Cannes with "The Candidate," an internship contest that generated a whopping 1,734 global entries. Now, the brand is back to...
View ArticleVon Miller Shows Off His Many Quirky Talents in His Debut as the Old Spice Guy
Denver Broncos linebacker and Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller has some big cleats to fill as the latest Old Spice guy, following popular pitchmen Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews as the star of Wieden +...
View ArticleCan You Rage Like Cage? These German Creatives Built a Site That Will Tell You
Among Hollywood's few remaining household names, Tom Cruise is famous for acting like a robot, Tom Hanks for doubling as everyone's next-door neighbor, and Nic Cage for freaking the hell out. But can...
View ArticleTommy John Put Live Ferrets Inside Men's Shirts for This Shockingly Squirmy Ad
Ad agency Preacher shoved live ferrets down actors' shirts for the latest Tommy John commercial. It did so to illustrate the indignities men often suffer owing to ill-fitting undershirts, and position...
View ArticleThis Newspaper Turned Its Front and Back Pages Into an Anti-Violence Protest...
Have you ever heard what people say about Latinos? They're intense, passionate and "macho"—a quality that's often seen as protective. Obviously, these are stereotypes. Another side of the "Latin man"...
View ArticleThese Students Made a Song Out of Inactive Twitter Accounts, and It's Super...
To get people to delete their (probably long-forgotten) inactive Twitter accounts, some students from Rotterdam-based Willem de Kooning Academy created a ridiculously catchy @twittersong, with lyrics...
View ArticleThis Bold Motorola Ad Has Some of the Most Damning Anti-Apple Copy We've Seen
In the mid-aughts, Motorola's Razr was the it phone. Until the iPhone came along. So, it's easy to imagine Motorola's excitement when the competitor that knocked it down seems to be faltering, and it...
View ArticleAudi and Airbnb Offer Up a Crazy House in Death Valley, and a Great Ad to Go...
If you fancy hanging out in the sizzling-hot middle of nowhere, with an endless expanse of sand all around and the occasional scorpion scuttling by for distraction, Audi's got the promotion for you....
View ArticleConan Made This Hilarious and Perfect AirPods Ad Spoofing the iPod Silhouettes
When Apple introduced its wireless AirPod earphones at its media event last week, there was immediate suspicion that these cute little gizmos might pose a particular problem for consumers. Conan...
View ArticleThis Surreal British Airline Commercial Takes You on a Wild Trip Indeed
Travel has become more accessible for Londoners, thanks to easyJet, whose latest "Why Not?" campaign by VCCP has a pretty basic premise: It's the story of the many adventures awaiting a woman whose...
View ArticleA Depressed T-Rex and His Tiny Arms Find Relief in This Oddly Wonderful Audi Ad
"You think things are gonna stay the same, then one day, boom, 25 million hits in two days." The Tyrannosaurus Rex is real. And we have ruined his life by teasing him, en masse and without shame, over...
View ArticleDid This Missouri Democrat Just Make the Best Campaign Ad of the 2016 Election?
Jason Kander, a Democrat, is challenging Republican Roy Blunt for his U.S. Senate seat in Missouri. And Kander will be getting plenty of attention for his cause thanks to this remarkable new campaign...
View ArticleSeamless Is Back With More Witty Poster Ads That New Yorkers Are Going to Love
When you've lived in New York City for a while, you develop a certain impatience for, well, a lot of things. Selfie sticks, slow-walking people, Times Square, slow-walking people in Times Square,...
View ArticleThis Billboard, for Oliver Stone's Snowden, Has Been Spying on People in Toronto
Here's a pretty great out-of-home execution for Oliver Stone's upcoming film Snowden, about the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—a billboard that's been spying on pedestrians in Toronto and streaming...
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