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Robert Rodriguez Serves Up Two Scoops, a Featurette for BlackBerry
In an attempt to become relevant again, BlackBerry is jumping into the movie business—though shorter than feature length. Two days after wrapping Sin City 2, awe-inspiring film director Robert...
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Soaking-Wet Padma Lakshmi Leads Parade of Bravolebrities Into Network's...
No one feels sorry for Jeff Lewis, and most everybody wants to see Padma Lakshmi in a soaking-wet cocktail dress. These and other truisms come through in Bravo's just-launched summer 2013 commercial,...
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Gamers Grow Increasingly Incensed with Microsoft's Xbox One
With each new announcement about the upcoming launch of the Xbox One, Microsoft seems to be making a few more enemies. Gamers and industry observers have become increasingly skeptical of the next-gen...
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Adobe Live-Photoshops People Into Bus-Stop Ads in Ambush That's Actually Not...
The notion of being secretly photographed, digitally manipulated and publicly displayed might make some folks shudder. But the furtive surveillance in Adobe's "Street Retouch" stunt, via Swedish...
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Insane Energy-Drink Ad Will Pump You Up for a Product That Doesn't Exist
Zombies, beach bodies, Michael Jackson, Street Fighter 2. This might just be the best ad ever made for a product that doesn't exist. The four-minute video below, masquerading as a promo for an energy...
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10-Year-Old Writes Love Letter to Wieden + Kennedy About 10-Year-Old Honda...
Neil Christie of Wieden + Kennedy in London received the letter below on Monday morning from a 10-year-old girl who seems to have fallen in love with the agency's "Cog" spot for Honda—the instant...
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Help Smash a Menagerie of Talking Animals in This Interactive Skittles Ad
After years of weirdness and grotesquerie, Skittles has found its calling—breaking Grandma's knickknacks. This enjoyable interactive YouTube video from DDB Chicago features a young man who breaks a...
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Jell-O's Jigglevision Lets You Send Secret Messages to Friends
Jell-O's new "Jigglevision" social campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky is not quite as titillating as it sounds. You write a brief message on the brand's Facebook app using various "Jigglevision"...
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No, Seriously, Golf Is a Real Sport, Says Nike's New Tiger Woods Ad
Tiger Woods's latest chapter in his blood oath to Nike is this ad from Wieden + Kennedy in which the golfer is compared to a track-and-field competitor, a boxer, a basketball player and a baseball...
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How Does Superman Shave? Gillette Asks Some Supergeeks Who Might Know
Gillette has a super-geeky Man of Steel tie-in and YouTube takeover going on right now, where they ask an impressive list of celebrities, "How does Superman shave?" Bill Nye, the science guy, offers a...
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'Greatness Awaits' in BBH's Grand Launch Spot for the PlayStation 4
While most gamers were focused this week on learning what the new Sony PlayStation 4 will look like and how much it will cost ($399), ad geeks were treated to their own big reveal: the console's new...
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Jack Link's Causes a Meaty Rain to Fall on Omaha for National Jerky Day
Beef jerky raining down from the sky. We've all dreamed about it. I'm pretty sure it's prophesied in the Bible somewhere. Well, Jack Link's and ad agency Carmichael Lynch brought the fantasy to life...
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Senator Strips in Cheeky Ad Aimed at Fighting Money in Politics
Here's something you don't see every day: a stripping politician. No, it's not Anthony Weiner. It's an ad for Represent.us, a new organization created late last year to fight the influence of money in...
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The 11 Grossest Fast-Food Abominations in the World
For all the talk of healthier options at fast-food joints these days, what really seems to succeed is excess. In recent years, restaurants around the world seem to be competing to come up with the...
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Designer Remakes NSA's Slides to Make Them (at Least Look) Less Hideous
This week in celever self-promotions, freelance presentation designer Emiland De Cubber has created a great SlideShare that markedly improves the PRISM slides from the leaked (and terrifyingly...
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Domino's Tests Delivery of Pizza by Remote-Controlled Drone
Drones are in the news for all sorts of horrible reasons, but Domino's might salvage its reputation somewhat by eventually—someday—using them to deliver pizza. The company's DomiCopter—a joint effort...
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Crescent Moon Becomes the Lime in the Bottle on Heavenly Corona Billboard in NYC
The moon isn't made of cheese. It's made of lime. Corona and ad agency Cramer-Krasselt have put up a fun billboard in New York City which—on certain nights of the month, from a certain angle—makes the...
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Volkswagen Uses Sinatra's 'My Way' to Great Effect in Schizophrenic New Ad
adam&eveDDB once again gambles on an unconventional approach for Volkswagen in this new U.K. spot, which offers cornball renditions of "My Way," including one performed on pan pipes, for the first...
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Huggies Makes Pregnancy Belt for Men So They Can Feel Their Baby Kicking
Huggies and Ogilvy & Mather Argentina made a belt for men that allows them to feel their unborn baby's kicks. The belt is synced up with the real-time movements of the baby in the mother's belly,...
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Has O'Charley's Created a Poor Man's Ron Swanson?
I doubt I'm alone in believing that Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson (played by Nick Offerman's mustache) is one of the best characters in TV history. The folks at O'Charley's seem to be such fans...
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