Cats Rule This Hypnotically Weird Ad for … a Japanese Delivery Company?
We started the week with cats, and we're ending it that way, too. There's no better time than a Friday afternoon to check out this ad for Japan-based international delivery company Yamato Transport...
View ArticleFoodies Rejoice, W+K Is Back With Its Latest Mind-Blowing Lurpak Ad
If you really love food, then you should probably be cooking, says this new ad from Danish butter brand Lurpak and Wieden + Kennedy London. The remarkable 60-second spot argues that foodies should...
View ArticleMovie Marketers Are Already Whipping Up Cool New iMessage Stickers for iOS 10
Earlier this week, Apple finally made iOS 10 available for everyone to download. A big part of the launch was a lot of new features for the iMessage app. But what really got people's attention...
View ArticleA Designer Created a Service to Help Brands Figure Out If Their Logos Look...
Ready to release your new logo to the world? Hold up a tick. Are you 100 percent sure it doesn't look like ladybits or man berries? Truly embracing the tenets of due diligence and risk mitigation,...
View ArticleApple's First Big iPhone 7 Spot Is One of the Most Gorgeously Lit Commercials...
Apple broke a pair of iPhone 7 commercials during the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, advertising the latest incarnation of the device with the line: "Practically magic." The spots push two improvements...
View ArticleThis Japanese Ad With an 18-Year-Old Grandpa Has a Clever and Quite Beautiful...
This story about a young woman and an old man probably won't end the way you think. The duo sit and have a conversation about the elder's health. His spirits are good, despite a few natural aches and...
View ArticleJames Corden Pitches Delightfully Terrible Ad Ideas to Apple Music in This...
There's a certain kind of advertising that you know is vying for a Cannes Lion, the kind of prestige work that will really make you think about the state of humanity—and if you're lucky, the brand...
View ArticleScotts Turf Builder Makes Grass So Green, This Agency Used It as a Green Screen
Here's a little inside-baseball stunt for all your advertising production people out there. Scotts Canada is running a new commercial that shows how Scotts Turf Builder Green Max will make you grass...
View ArticleThe Mythical Safe That Cost Jack Daniel's Founder His Life Just Turned Up in NYC
Every brand story contains an element of myth. In the case of Jack Daniel's, legend has it that the brand's founder, Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, had a mysterious safe that led to his death. One day,...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of MLK's Death Is Woven All Through This Brilliant Memphis...
Basketball jerseys might seem like an odd medium for honoring historical figures or making political statements, but maybe the post-Kaepernick sports era is more woke than the one before it. It's...
View ArticleSkittles Responds Tersely to Donald Trump Jr.'s Tweet Likening Refugees to Candy
Skittles has responded with uncharacteristic yet appropriate seriousness after being dragged into the presidential race by Donald Trump Jr., son of the Republican nominee, who posted a controversial...
View ArticleSonos and Rough Trade Are Giving Music Geeks the Airbnb Listing of Their Dreams
There's an Airbnb for everybody—classy desert dwellers, would-be Mowglis, horror buffs ... and even compulsive TV show-bingers. But if "Netflix and chill" isn't your thing, and you're a high-fidelity...
View ArticleCosmo Designed a Car for Women, and That's Going Over About as Well as You'd...
Women everywhere, rejoice! There is now a car just for us! Women's magazine and marketing menace Cosmopolitan announced at London Fashion Week that it's teamed up with car maker Seat to release a...
View ArticleTimberland Really Wants You to Stop Lying About Seeing This Weird Motorcycle...
Timberland wants to give liars the boot—a comfy boot, that is, and shoes too, with anti-fatigue technology, so folks won't have to invent ridiculous excuses when their tired, aching feet make them...
View ArticleWhy Adidas Is Suddenly Selling Odd Pairs of Shoes … Two Rights or Two Lefts
"Odd, isn't it? For a man to run when technically he shouldn't even be walking?" We live in a magical time, when disability doesn't have to spell the end of an active person's journey. And a...
View ArticleSee What a 14-Hour Flight Is Like in the Insane Luxury of a $21,000 Emirates...
Emirates Airlines recently upgraded Casey Neistat to first class. He filmed the experience, and it's a nine-minute testament to obscene flying decadence.read more
View ArticleCan't Get a Creative Recruiter to Call You Back? No Worries, There's a Bot...
Job hunting is balls, especially when you're fresh to the industry and have little more to your name than some spec work and a wild hope. Where do all those LinkedIn job submissions go, anyway?...
View ArticleHow a Juice Brand Used Unpaid Celebs to Get Fans Clamoring for a Drink Made...
Never mind goji berries, chia seeds and kale. On Sept. 9, Suja Juice, a trendy entry in the ongoing battle for our superfood dollars, released Midnight Tonic, an all-black, limited-edition beverage...
View ArticleA Vote for Hillary Is Largely a Vote Against Trump, Says This Slam Poet's...
What happens when celebrated slam poet, songwriter and rapper IN-Q turns his attention to the current political scene? A lyrical slicing and dicing of Donald Trump without ever saying the candidate's...
View ArticlePro Athletes School Gatorade Drinkers in the Brand's Most Humiliating...
Gatorade is back to gleefully shame more of its own consumers for being lazy and out of shape—this time with a roving crew of top athletes and nasty sportscasters, who all pop out of the back of a box...
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