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Fiat's Abarth 500 Is So Fast, You Can't Follow It on Twitter
Here's a fun Twitter stunt from Germany for Fiat's Abarth 500 turbocharged hatchback. If you try to follow the vehicle's official Twitter page, you get a direct message saying that no one can follow...
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Family Guy Pleads for an Emmy With Racy Spoof of HBO's Girls
Fox's Family Guy has a new "For Your Consideration" ad for this year's Emmy Awards, because Seth MacFarlane's unfunny Rat Pack schtick hasn't ruined enough award shows yet. The latest ad references an...
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Heineken Celebrates Corny #DadJokes in Father's Day Hashtag Campaign
If you are male, the moment you have a child you are required to drastically alter your sense of humor in ways both profound and irreversible. Where before you were witty and sharp, you must now...
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Max Page, Volkswagen's Little Vader, Makes the Most of His Jedi Powers
A year ago this week, Max Page—known to ad geeks as the 8-year-old actor who played Little Vader in Volkswagen's 2011 Super Bowl ad—had open-heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. He's had eight...
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Another Handy Map of the U.S. Shows Each State's Biggest Liquor or Beer Brand
The only downside to Steve Lovelace's Corporate States of America map, showing the most famous brands founded in each of the 50 states, was that there wasn't enough liquor involved. Only two were...
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Biker Bee and Friends Swarm a City in Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey Ad
The Jack Daniel's biker bee is back in this new spot from Arnold in Boston, and this time he brought a whole swarm of friends to tear through a weirdly empty city to find a bottle of Tennessee Honey....
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Epic Meal Time Guys Bring Their Supersize Appetites to Carl's Jr. Ads
It was only a matter of time. YouTube's gurus of gluttony, the EpicMealTime guys, have partnered with the burger pornographers at Carl's Jr./Hardee's to promote the chain's new Super Bacon...
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Virgin Atlantic Turns NYC Park Bench Into the Lap of Luxury
Young & Rubicam placed an "Upper Class Bench" on Broadway and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in the pedestrian park near the Flatiron Building, as the centerpiece of its experiential campaign designed...
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Newcastle Ambushes July 4 by Inventing 'Independence Eve,' Celebrating...
British brands, understandably, don't have much to say around the Fourth of July—until now. Newcastle Brown Ale, among the cheekiest of U.K. marketers, has turned America's most patriotic holiday to...
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Horrible Giant Babies Urge Londoners to Bet on the Royal Infant's Hair Color
William and Kate's incoming royal baby has been a hot topic of conversation in England for a while now, but apparently it's also the subject of high-stakes betting. In fact, gambling website Paddy...
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BBH Finally Gets to Add Storybook Ending to Its Wimbledon Ad for Robinsons
Britain had to wait 77 years—until Sunday's win by Andy Murray—to celebrate another British male singles champion at Wimbledon. So, BBH London should feel fortunate that it had to wait only four years...
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Purina's Beneful Goes for Maximum Viral Appeal With Dog-Operated Rube...
Wook at the poochies! Wook at the widdle poochie-woochies! What else do I really need to say about Deep Focus's "Dog Goldberg Machine" commercial for Purina's Beneful dog-food brand? It's doggone...
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Adidas's Tribute to Andy Murray Is Pretty Sweet, Too
Robinsons isn't the only British brand drafting off Andy Murray's historic win at Wimbledon yesterday. The Adidas ad above, posted to Twitter, is nice and simple and a worthy tribute. The tennis...
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Impressive Man Sings 20 Advertising Jingles in 60 Seconds
Random YouTube person Chad Neidt put out a call on Twitter for classic advertising jingles and promised to include them in an epic acoustic-guitar mashup. I must say, he covers a lot of ground. Big...
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Thirsty for the Hoff? He's Back, and Singing About Iced Coffee, for...
Hey, David Hasselhoff, want to make a cheesy video? That rhetorical question came from East Coast convenience-store chain Cumberland Farms. His answer? Well, what do you think? The Hoff, long past the...
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Ikea Has the Hottest Malms on the Internet at Slutty HotMalm.com Site
Ikea is a family brand, except when it comes to showing dozens of Hot Malms in compromising positions. A new website, HotMalm.com, shows loads of explicit (yet completely safe for work) photos of...
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Little Caesars Pulls Off the Most Explosive Twitter Stunt in World History
Barton F. Graf 9000 just sent around this amusing case study outlining its social-media activity for Little Caesars during the week of July 4. Without giving too much away, let's just say the Twitter...
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Cat Acts Like a Dog, and So Should You, Says Mobile Company's Ad
Sure, I've tried to cross a dog with a cat. Who hasn't? All I got for my trouble was a face full of claws and another year in therapy. Ad agency VCCP does a better job of it for U.K. mobile telecom O2...
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Is This Surfing Ad From Roxy Apparel Too Sexy for Its Own Good?
Surf and sports apparel brand Roxy's teaser ad for the Pro Biarritz 2013 surfing contest, which it's sponsoring, is more about butts than surfing, which hasn't sat well with some viewers. (See what I...
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Tiny Billboards for Dollar Shave Club Will Soon Appear in Bushy Beards Across...
It was probably just a matter of time before Whit Hiler and Michael Dubin worked together. Hiler—the ass-kicking Kentucky adman, flier-making crazy person and mastermind of Beardvertising—has lured...
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