JWT Amsterdam’s Chef and Photographer Made a Delicious Menu. And Then Wore It
J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam reportedly has a pretty top-notch cafeteria. And now the agency is taking its passion for food to a somewhat disquieting new level. Robbie Postma, the agency's chef (yes,...
View ArticleThis Bookstore’s Clickbait Headlines on Facebook Are Actually the Plots of...
Does the end ever justify a means like clickbait? That's debatable. But a new contender in the discussion is Dallas bookstore The Wild Detectives, which is using what it wryly calls "Litbait" ... to...
View ArticleThis Souped-Up 3-Wheel Motorcycle Comes Out Cursing in Its First Big Ad
Let's be perfectly clear about the target demo for this UFO-looking, three-wheeled exotic open-air roadster: If you do currently or have ever ridden a Segway, this vehicle is most definitely not for...
View ArticleIn New Ads, Ohio Lottery Winners Feel Like a Million Bucks Even After Winning...
Sometimes, winning as little as $50 can make you feel like a million bucks. And that's a good thing, because the odds of scratching an Ohio Lottery instant game ticket and finding a seven-figure payout...
View ArticleTituss Burgess and Sasquatch Hit the Sauna for R&B Duet in Latest From Jack...
Jack Link's, makers of Squatch beef jerky (as well as the suggestively named Hot Squatch), premiered their first-ever music video on Funny or Die, because I guess that's what that website does now....
View ArticleSwiss Brand Cheers Its Country’s Skiers by Carving Fan Tweets Into a Giant...
The execs at Swiss telecom provider Swisscom and agency Heimat wanted to find a unique way to cheer on the country's athletes at this year's FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. So they decided to write...
View ArticleThis Airline Partnered With Uber to Turn an Ordinary Taxi Ride Into a Flight...
Wake up, go to work, come home. Wake up, go to work, come home. It's an invariable grind that's almost impossible to see past. The logistics alone of even tiny weekend trips can stop us from starting...
View ArticleW+K’s Easter Egg Hunt for Milka Chocolate Is Hunger Games but With a Soft,...
While we're on the subject of the modern merits of literature, Milka has released its first cross-European Easter campaign, "All for One," a name inspired by The Three Musketeers. Created by Wieden +...
View ArticleYouTube Gets Ad Agencies to Delightfully Cram Classic Books Into Six-Second...
A puppet of a cockroach lies on its back, flailing its arms wildly. A mouse cursor hesitates over an order on the website "Poison Depot" before changing it from one bottle to eleven. A gleeful...
View ArticleFor St. Patrick’s Day, This Agency Made Metal Bar Coasters From Wrecked Cars
Bar-coaster creativity has a long and proud tradition. Here's the latest interesting twist on it--coasters made from the metal from real car wrecks, reminding bar patrons of the perils of drinking and...
View ArticlePlanning on Having a St. Patrick’s Day Hangover? These Ads Show How to...
Whether you're Irish or not, pub crawls and green beer for everybody! A new campaign from Blowfish, a hangover cure, isn't encouraging anyone to overindulge today on St. Patrick's Day, or during the...
View ArticleCats, Husbands and Babies Are All Better Online in These Darkly Comic Ads for...
It's a great paradox of the internet that it makes a lot of real-life things seem better than they actually are. Swedish telecom company Telia plays wonderfully on this fact in a new campaign from...
View ArticleSanta Clarita Diet Keeps Mispronouncing ‘Realtor,’ and Now It’s Brilliantly...
Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet is a brilliantly dark comedy with two stomach-turning caveats: It's super gross, and it can't pronounce the word "Realtor." Sure, it's common for normal people to...
View ArticleMeet the Two Guys Who’ve Made Ridiculing Chevrolet Ads a Wicked Funny Art Form
For Ali Shahriari and Dave Irwin, advertising is a funny business. Under the name Zebra Corner, they've earned their stripes with a series of outrageous online parody videos, frequently zinging...
View ArticleThis Pop Singer’s New Music Video Is Actually a Powerful Message About...
Let's talk about flowers. Flowers are living things that, to thrive, generally require a few nice things--fertile soil, sunshine, water, a friendly community of bees or other pollinators to move things...
View ArticleAnger Meets Art: How a Cuban Immigrant Dreamed Up Der Spiegel’s Shocking...
SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda--Edel Rodriguez was just a kid when he fled Cuba and came to the U.S. as a refugee in the 1980s. So, it's not too surprising how he reacted to President Trump's proposed travel...
View ArticleThis Funny Down Syndrome Ad Will Change the Way You Feel About ‘Special Needs’
Able society is weird about people with disabilities. Eyes dart away. We're overly helpful, not helpful enough. We call their needs "special," as though demanding the same access to stuff we all want,...
View ArticleAdobe’s Latest Comedy Shows How Great Customer Service Isn’t So Great for...
Doubling down on the notion that data helps drive great consumer experiences, Adobe introduces its latest software suite with "Heist," an amusing spot in which a bank's customers (and staff) aren't...
View ArticleThis Agency Sent a House to Sea for a Lovely Ad About the Choppy Waters of Life
To illustrate the personal aspects of taking on a massive home improvement job oneself, Leroy Merlin--a kind of French Home Depot--has released "Life's Adventure." Created by BETC Shopper, this is Up...
View ArticleKids Leaving Home? Try This ‘Child Replacement Program,’ Says Fun Pedigree...
Empty nesters literally go to the dogs in Pedigree's cheeky "Child Replacement Program," which encourages parents to adopt Fido after their kids move out. "We were laughing about friends who had left...
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