Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the History of the Trapper Keeper
Mental Floss put up an interesting article about the history of the Trapper Keeper, which is right up there with Lisa Frank stickers in terms of potent nostalgia catnip for my generation. Basically,...
View ArticlePrint Ads Just Can't Keep Up With the Porsche 911
Here's a nice, fun, simple campaign for Porsche China by the Shanghai office of Fred & Farid. And kudos to the client for agreeing to lose the beauty shots of the vehicle almost entirely. Three...
View ArticleFunky Chickens Rule the Viral-Video Roost for Mercedes
Once again, subservient chickens make a branding video go viral. Mercedes-Benz and German agency Jung von Matt/Neckar are nearing 1.5 million views in less than a week with this extremely offbeat ad...
View ArticleHappiness Through the Mail: The Indescribable Allure of Quarterly Co.'s...
From co-founding Netflix to his new role as CEO of Quarterly Co., Mitch Lowe has made it his business to bring the magic back to the mailbox. Quarterly Co., for the uninitiated, is a subscription...
View ArticleDiet Coke's Taylor Swift Can Is Sleek and Skinny, and You Could Be Too
Hi, tween girls who may have body-image issues and also like listening to Taylor Swift. Diet Coke is launching a new, limited-edition "Sleek Can." It's thinner and more glamorous than those plain old...
View ArticleBarilla Chairman Vows Never to Make Ads Featuring Gay People
In recent years, LGBT imagery has been increasingly appearing in mainstream ads for major marketers. Italian pasta brand Barilla has apparently missed the memo. The company is drawing calls for...
View ArticleHeineken Plays Second Game of Departure Roulette With People Who Tweeted...
Heineken and Wieden + Kennedy in New York revisit the concept of unscheduled trips in this sequel to their popular Departure Roulette stunt. That effort, from the summer, dared JFK travelers to ditch...
View ArticleMajor League Baseball Honors Mariano Rivera With Newspaper Ads
Mariano Rivera, the great New York Yankees closer, threw his final pitches at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, and will wrap up his legendary 19-year career in Houston this weekend. Among the...
View ArticleBertolli Makes the Most of Barilla Chairman's Anti-Gay Comments
Barilla is struggling enough this week without its competitors piling on. But Bertolli doesn't care. Seizing on comments made by Barilla's chairman about how the company would never put gay couples in...
View ArticleMost Impressive Metaphor Yet for the Difference Between Broadband and Google...
Provo, Utah, uses a swimming pool as a concrete visual of how broadband just can't compete with Google's high-speed Internet service, which is coming to the city next month. Taken literally, broadband...
View ArticleMeet the Woman Who Beat Out 4,500 Other Applicants for the Toughest Job in...
It was the greatest ad seeking an executive assistant in the history of executive assistants—sending applicants from an intimidating Craigslist post through a set of ludicrous online challenges and on...
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