Would You Help a Freezing, Abandoned Baby? This Ad Stunt Isn't So Sure
Humans are so empathetic and caring. No, wait, they're selfish and horrible! Advertising stunts can't seem to decide. Six weeks ago, we were impressed by several humans who helped a smaller human get...
View ArticleAd for Popped Wheat Thins Has the World's Slowest Airborne Police Chase
Wheat Thins revisits the golden age of ballooning in this weird spot from New York agency Being for the cracker brand's new air-popped snacks. Why they went with cops trying to pull someone over, I...
View ArticleAd Guys Make Popsicle Stick Jokes That Are So Sad, They're Hilarious (GIFs)
You probably remember popsicle stick jokes as a fun, charming, innocent part of your childhood. Jason Kreher and Matt Moore are here to wreck those memories. The pair of creatives at Wieden + Kennedy...
View ArticleTell Everyone What You're Doing This Sunday Night With Mad Men Out of Office
If you can't wait for Mad Men to return for part one of its seventh and final season this Sunday, and you're itching to declare your intention to watch it to all your social media friends, AMC would...
View ArticleHere Is the Game of Thrones Theme Screamed by Goats
It's always hard to find the best goat scream for the occasion (Doritos devoted a lot of effort to the task). But sometimes, with what sounds like a little bit of AutoTune and some well-chosen goats,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Creates a Surprisingly Amusing Game to Help Wean Us Off Windows XP
With millions of Windows XP users clinging desperately to the reliable but officially obsolete operating system, Microsoft has created a surprisingly fun new game to nudge us all into the future. Or...
View ArticleReincarnation Isn't Kind to Trump, Zuckerberg and Gates in Luxury Magazine Ads
Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg get reincarnated as an owl, a llama and a sheep, respectively, in AlmapBBDO's unusual campaign for Top Magazine, a luxury fashion and lifestyle title in...
View ArticleThis Japanese Vitaminwater Ad Set in New York City Is So, So Bizarre
It's usually off-putting when inanimate objects have faces, but in this new Japanese Vitaminwater commercial, which features a person with a boom box for a head and spinning turntable eyes, that...
View ArticleThe Oscars Selfie Has Now Been Immortalized as a Painting in Twitter HQ
If it's starting to feel like you'll never be able to escape that Oscars selfie, just imagine working at Twitter headquarters, where it's now an official piece of office art. Twitter employee Lauren...
View ArticleChewbacca Rips It Up in Our Galaxy's Latest Parody of Cadbury's 'Gorilla'
"A short time ago, in a county far, far away in the U.K. …" Chewbacca shows off his mad Wookiee drumming skills in this great self-promo ad—a parody of Cadbury's "Gorilla"—for a real band made up of...
View ArticleBrewer Goes for Adorably Terrifying With Half-Pony, Half-Dinosaur Mascot
Durham, N.C., resident Keil Jansen may have quit his job as a teacher to start a nanobrewery, but judging by its name, Ponysaurus Brewery, his old profession clearly rubbed off on him. Raleigh ad...
View ArticleDiesel Creates an Alphabet of Dance to Promote Flexible New Jeans
Diesel's promoting its new Jogg jeans collection via a fun and informative A-to-Z of Dance video featuring all manner of talented dancers sporting the flexible jersey-denim hybrid line. Each letter...
View ArticlePaper Acts Like a Touchscreen and Plays Music in This Super-Cool British Food...
Who says print is dead? If anything, it's alive and sounds delicious! This unique poster, created by Grey London and print production and software developer Novalia, is essentially an app made of...
View ArticleMake Her Prom Truly Magical With a KFC Chicken Corsage
Here we are in prom season again, and there's a delicious scent in the air. But this time it's not fragrant flowers. It's fried chicken. Enter KFC, who is encouraging prom-goers to adorn their wrists...
View ArticleBillboard Made With Rabbits Advertises a Pizza Made With Rabbit
It's just like your mom always said: When life gives you a plague of rabbits, make a rabbit-pelt billboard. Hell Pizza in New Zealand has been grabbing international attention in recent days with a...
View ArticleThis Rad Mountain Dew Bottle Has a Built-In Hex Nut Wrench, So You Can Fix...
Fresh from the gnarly folks at Mountain Dew comes "the first soda that is also a tool." A nifty new Dew bottle designed by Sancho BBDO Colombia is fitted with a hex nut wrench in the cap, so you can...
View ArticleH&R Block Has Spent Most of This Tax Season Making Fun of Hipsters
Mocking hipsters was cool until H&R Block started doing it. (Actually, it's probably been passé for a while now. Really, it was so 2012.) Nonetheless, in an effort to reach millennials, the tax...
View ArticleKevin Spacey Joins E*Trade's New Ad Campaign as a 'Type E*' Talent Scout
When Kevin Spacey appears on screen these days, you expect him to speak to camera in a South Carolina drawl, assess his chances at screwing over a rival, and perhaps even (spoiler alert) kill a person...
View ArticleExtreme Oatmeal? Not Real, but the Gamers at Pax East Didn't Know That
Pwnmeal Extreme Gaming Oatmeal goes way beyond steel cut. This hot, lumpy cereal is EXTREME!!! Alas, the caffeinated glop won't be coming to breakfast aisles anytime soon. The "official porridge of...
View ArticleWho Will Save This Famous Billboard in Baltimore With Mr. Boh and the Utz Girl?
After seven years overlooking Baltimore's Penn Station, the Smyth Jewelers billboard showing National Bohemian beer mascot Mr. Boh proposing to the Utz girl has to move. Turns out the dorks who own...
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