Injured U.S. Skier Stars in New Ad, Thanks to a Tweet From Alex Bogusky
Funny how Alex Bogusky is still seeing opportunities where brands and agencies are missing them. Case in point: A recent tweet to Liberty Mutual urging the insurance company—whose Winter Olympics ads...
View ArticleMisfits Rule in Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer, but It's the Music That...
Where to start? Benicio del Toro's spiked Billy Idol locks? Chris Pratt in a Michael Jackson leather jacket with an elderly Walkman? A raccoon wielding the very latest in tactical firearms atop a...
View ArticleSamsung Breaks Out Its Own No. 2 Pencil as It Mercilessly Mocks Apple Again
Samsung is keeping up with its favorite advertising pasttime: beating up on Apple. A new spot from 72andSunny takes aim at the iPad air, poking fun at the grandiose Apple commercial, voiced by Bryan...
View ArticleHidden-Camera Video With Freezing Child Is a Whole Lot Warmer Than Most Ad...
If you saw a boy without a coat shivering alone at a bus stop, would you ask if he needed help? Would you lend him your gloves, scarf or jacket? Commuters do just that for 11-year-old Johannes in this...
View ArticleNeil Patrick Harris Sings a Sexy Song for His Favorite Sleep-Inducing Beverage
Neil Patrick Harris goes all Miley Cyrus on a bottle of Neuro Sleep in this goofy music video for the brand's "Sleep with Neuro" campaign. The video was directed by Jon Jon Augustavo, who also did...
View ArticleLive Without Your Phone 10 Minutes and Help a Child Living Without Clean Water
To raise awareness of the millions of children going without clean water each day, Unicef is challenging you to see how long you could deny yourself something as simple as checking your phone.Mobile...
View ArticleCadbury Brings the Joy Yet Again With James Corden's Lip Sync
Cadbury is following up last month's charming "Yes Sir, I Will Boogie in the Office" spot with another winner. U.K. actor James Corden, best known as the creator of hit BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey...
View ArticleA Little Girl and Her Cat Sing the Perfect Duet in Britain's Latest Adorable...
It must be nice to be Three. The British mobile network has the most fun-loving advertising slogan around: "We all need silly stuff." And Wieden + Kennedy in London makes the most of that promisingly...
View ArticleAgency's Ice-Cold Prank Turns DHL's Rivals Into DHL Advertisers
Some evil genius of an agency is getting global buzz for delivery service DHL with a endearingly cold prank on the brand's rivals. There's just one problem: DHL didn't have anything to do with it. In...
View ArticleWhy It's Still Fun to Work in Advertising, Even Without the Hookers and Coke
You yearn for the '60s and the Creative Revolution. You want to go back to the '80s and all those yachts, prostitutes and cocaine. Hell, you'd even settle for the 2000s, before Yahoo plastered its...
View ArticleDo You Like This Incredibly Bubbly Ad for Coca-Cola Light, or Do You Love It?
Coca-Cola is really having a go at social media this week. Earlier, we had the Coke video that offered a fashionably questionable solution to social-media addiction. And now we have this ultra-peppy...
View ArticleLG Advertises Ultra-Thin TV on Magazine Spine That's Exactly the Same Width
Here's your clever media placement of the day: M&C Saatchi in Stockholm has advertised LG's OLED-TV, which is 4 millimeters thick, on the spine of electronics magazine Lyd & Bilde (Sound &...
View ArticleMeet the Superhuman Moms in P&G's Stirring Ad for the 2014 Paralympics
Procter & Gamble's "Tough Love" ad, which celebrates the pride and determination of athletes and their moms ahead of next month's Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, manages to play on the...
View ArticleBarbie's Life Is a Lot Less Perfect in British Artist's Disturbing Photographs
Meet Domestic Abuse Barbie, a doll that will not be modeling for Sports Illustrated or appearing in toy stores anytime soon. Sam Humphreys, an artist out of the U.K., has transformed the iconic doll...
View ArticleAgency Improves Whittling Skills, Carves Faces of New Hires Into a Totem Pole
Philly-based ad agency Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners is back to carving likeness of its new employees, but it's graduated from crayons to wooden totem poles. The details of the faces are pretty...
View ArticlePSA Tells the Popular Kids in High School: 'It Doesn't Get Better'
Hey, it's filmmaker Jason Headley! You might remember him from such short films as "It's Not About the Nail," and now he's lampooning the "It Gets Better" project with this mock PSA from people who...
View ArticleCuervo Imagines What Its Website Would Have Looked Like in 1795, 1880, 1945...
How does the world's oldest tequila maker introduce a brand-spanking-new website? By keeping one foot firmly in the past. McCann New York has launched a new site for Jose Cuervo that's actually five...
View ArticleMila Kunis Puts Her Love of Bourbon to Work as the New Face of Jim Beam
The new face of Jim Beam, the iconic bourbon brand, might not be quite what you expect. While a rough-around-the-edges cowboy or country rock star might seem to fit the bill—Jim Beam has used Kid Rock...
View ArticleThe World's Weirdest Supermarket Ad Is Both Super Cool and Super Crazy
This wonderfully warped three-minute music-video commercial for Germany's Edeka supermarket chain certainly lives up to its title, "Supergeil," which can mean both "super cool" and "super sexy" (or...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence's New Dior Ads: Totally Gorgeous, or a Photoshopped Mess?
You might think that Dior, after paying Jennifer Lawrence a lot of money to be an endorser, would want the woman in its new ad to look pretty obviously like Jennifer Lawrence. But not everyone is...
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