Bud Light Teases Epic Night With Arnold, Reggie Watts and Don Cheadle
Just a day after we learned that Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear in one of Bud Light's Super Bowl ads, Anheuser-Busch InBev has released six teaser clips for the celebrity-stacked spots. The ads...
View ArticleZzzQuil Gets Awkward With MLK Day Tweet
In yet another example of why brands might just want to sit out serious events instead of posting "topical" social media updates, sleep aid ZzzQuil is being hammered on Twitter today for a post about...
View ArticleSeahawks' Richard Sherman Gets Hounded by Media in This Perfectly Timed Ad
This is the kind of timing that professional media planners dream of pulling off. On Sunday, the same day that Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman drew national attention for his post-game trash talk,...
View ArticleSimple, Revolutionary Lingerie Ads Feature Beautiful Models and No Photoshop
If I could stand up and Top Gun high-five a brand right now, it would definitely be Aerie and its new Aerie Real campaign. The sister brand of American Eagle markets bras, panties and sleepwear to...
View ArticleDannon's Super Bowl Ad Will Be a Full House Reunion
Have you dared to dream that a reunion of the Full House uncles might someday be in the cards? Well, in the immortal words of a young Michelle Tanner, "You got it, dude." That's right, children of the...
View ArticleVolkswagen Pledges to Put Everything You Love in One Super Bowl Ad
If you like puppies, bikinis, babies, dinosaurs, pirates, Carmen Electra and Abraham Lincoln, then have I got the Super Bowl ad teaser for you. Volkswagen, always a highly anticipated advertiser in...
View ArticleMost Inclusive Ad Ever? Swiffer Spot Stars Interracial Family, and Dad's an...
Here's a feel-good moment from Swiffer. A new ad for the brand stars an interracial family, which deserves some credit, if lamentably, in light of the idiotic controversy around last year's Cheerios...
View ArticleIs Kayak's 'Stairlift' Commercial Bringing You Down?
Some folks are finding Barton F. Graf 9000's latest advertising excursion for travel site Kayak.com a less than uplifting experience. In the 30-second spot, a middle-aged man commandeers his elderly...
View ArticleIf Patrick Bateman Were a Hipster, He'd Kill For Denham Jeans
What if Patrick Bateman were a hipster? It would look a lot like this brilliant remake of two American Psycho scenes, updated for our decade of obsessive beard cultivation and vintage clothing...
View ArticleAd for the World's Tallest Waterslide Will Make You Feel All Woozy and Weird
When you think of Kansas City, you don't think death-defying, super-fast waterslides. Actually, I'm not sure what you think when you think of Kansas City. But pretty soon you'll think Verrückt, a...
View ArticleOld Spice, Isaiah Mustafa Stage 'Interneterventions' on 9 Fake Websites for...
Isaiah Mustafa, who recently returned to the Old Spice world in a British campaign, is now fronting a new online initiative for the P&G brand's new body spray. The campaign is built around nine...
View ArticleFun, Ludicrous Dancing Jacket Springs to Life When You Eat Cadbury Chocolate
Cadbury has invented a trench coat that basically dances when you eat the brand's chocolate. Because eating Cadbury chocolate brings euphoria so intense that it makes even your clothes dance, or...
View ArticleMom Begs Son to Come Home for Chinese New Year in Front-Page Newspaper Ad
A mother bought a full-page ad on the front cover of the Chinese Melbourne Daily—a newspaper for the Australian city's Chinese community—begging her son to come home for Chinese New Year and promising...
View ArticleCarMax Re-creates Its Super Bowl Ad Shot for Shot With Puppies
It's the eternal Super Bowl conundrum: Make a funny ad with people, or make a funny ad with puppies? If you're CarMax, you do both. For its first Super Bowl appearance since 2011's "Kid in a Candy...
View ArticlePSA Warns Rest of the Universe About Ferocious, Deluded Beasts Known as Humans
Humans fit a lot of stuff in the time capsule on Voyager 1 to give any aliens who stumble upon the space probe a sense of our civilization. But they might have just included this mock PSA by Tom Scott...
View ArticleWarren Buffett and Quicken Loans Will Pay You $1 Billion for a Perfect March...
It's not quite Dr. Evil money, but Warren Buffett—through Berkshire Hathaway and Quicken Loans—is offering a cool $1 billion to anyone who completes a perfect March Madness bracket this year. Think...
View ArticleThe Muppets Mentor Terry Crews in Toyota's Super Bowl Ad
After watching Terry Crews scream his way through many an Old Spice ad, it's hard to imagine him as boring. But that's the premise of Toyota's upcoming Super Bowl ad for the Highlander, in which Crews...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger Goes Undercover at Gold's Gym in Amusing Charity Video
Given the rough few years he's had lately, it's not surprising Arnold Schwarzenegger might want to be someone else for a while. He's making a habit of it, anyway. The Governator, who looked hilarious...
View ArticleApple Cuts 'Your Verse' Into Shorter Ads, But It's the Website That's Really...
Apple's "Your Verse" commercial, which rolled out 10 days ago, was a pretty nice start to 2014 for the company's marketing. The 90-second spot, advertising the iPad, is great to look at, and has an...
View ArticleDerrick Coleman Writes Amazing Letter to Hearing-Impaired Girl Who Liked His Ad
Derrick Coleman's recent ad for Duracell made him one of the most admired players in the NFL, and with one handwritten letter, he just proved he was worthy of all the praise. This week, a father of...
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