Kevin Nealon Out to Solve Every Problem Imaginable With PSA
With so many niche charitable causes for celebrities to choose, how could you possibly pick just one? In his new PSA, Saturday Night Live alum Kevin Nealon goes for sheer quantity, tackling everything...
View ArticleOgilvy's 'Rugbeer' Vending Machine Dispenses Bottles When You Tackle It
To placate northern Argentina's rugby fans and their insatiable lust for hitting things really hard, Ogilvy created a "Rugbeer" vending machine for local beer Cerveza Salta. You have to tackle the...
View ArticlePress Grand Prix Goes to Benetton's Kissing Ads From Fabrica, 72andSunny
CANNES, France—The Press Lions competition was sealed with a kiss here tonight, with the Grand Prix going to Benetton's provocative "Unhate" campaign showing world leaders kissing, created by Italian...
View ArticlePortait: Heat
Specs Who Partners Steve Stone (l.) and John Elder What Creative advertising agency Where San Francisco offices Steve Stone’s portfolio might read something like a history lesson in the past two...
View ArticleMars Previews New Rivalry-Themed Twix Campaign From BBDO
CANNES, France—The two bars inside Twix are about to have a falling out. Mars, which is being honored as the 2012 Advertiser of the Year at the Cannes Lions festival here, took the opportunity to...
View ArticleAll the Cannes Grand Prix Winners for 2012
CANNES, France—The 59th International Festival of Creativity celebrated a diverse set of Grand Prix Lion winners last week, honoring everything from a simple poster design by an undergraduate student...
View ArticleBritish Airways Doesn't Want Brits Flying
British Airways has an unexpected bit of advice for its typical customers: Don’t fly. The message is aimed at Brits who might be tempted to skip the country during the madness of the London Olympics....
View ArticleNike Gives Voice to Generations of Ass-Kicking Women
Timed to coincide with Title IX’s 40th anniversary, Nike and Wieden + Kennedy have created this “Voices” ad paying tribute to female athletes who triumphed in the face of locker room sexism and...
View ArticleMike Tyson Stars in 'Black Power' Ads for Energy Drink
Hey, scrawny teenage fops. Back-alley vending machine eat your coins? If only a white-clad Mike Tyson were there to free your trapped energy drink with a gentle rap of his knuckle, then leave you one...
View ArticleOne Twitter User Could Win a Million Followers
Who needs $1 million when you could have a million Twitter followers? OK, you're right, most people would choose the money, but two Martin Agency creatives have come up with a clever way of making the...
View ArticleSix Questions Cannes 2012: All the Interviews
Cannes Lions 2012 is over and done. Everybody went home and the only people happier than the winners are the bar staff at the Carlton Pavilion and 72 Croisette. Between strictly adhered to rosé...
View Article'Deserve to Die' Campaign Puts Lung Cancer in Spotlight
A funny thing happens when you plaster U.S. cities with posters saying certain types of people "deserve to die." Namely, those people get a bit upset. Wisconsin agency Laughlin Constable and the Lung...
View ArticleKids Outsmart Smokers in Crafty Guerrilla Stunt
It’s being praised as one of the most effective anti-smoking ads ever, which is especially impressive considering it required little more than a few pieces of paper and two kids. Ogilvy Thailand's...
View ArticleMan-Butts Gyrate to Sell Women Skin Cream
If there’s one thing that generally doesn’t get much attention—in life or mass marketing—it’s the man-butt. After the male stripper flick Magic Mike opens Friday, that may change. Add to that a new...
View ArticleToshiba's Human Guinea Pig Offends Real Test Subjects
You don't often hear about the clinical research community raising a ruckus, but Toshiba's new ad seems to be getting the lab crowd in a lather. The spot, touting the Toshiba Satellite Ultrabook's...
View ArticleCorona Light Can Freshen Up Your Online Life, Too
Are you stuck in a rut? "Stan" and "Mark," the stars of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' humorous ads for Corona Light, sure are. The beer, naturally, is pitched as the antidote—a dose of the...
View ArticleOld Spice's Danger Zone Guy Still Indestructible
The pretentiously suave mustachioed Old Spice guy in a white tux—who made his debut a while back in a crocodile- and piraña-infested ad for Danger Zone products outside the U.S.—returns in a shorter...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Refuge
Lauren Luke is an expert at covering things up—which is why she's the perfect spokeswoman for a campaign urging the opposite when it comes to domestic violence. Luke, 30, is a well-known, self-taught...
View ArticleGirl Makes Out With a Walrus in Latest Crazy Skittles Ad
It's come to this—girls swapping spit with tusked sea creatures in the suddenly bestial Skittles campaign from DDB Chicago. Walruses do make the occasional cameo in advertising; BBH's pat-a-cake spot...
View Article10 Ads That Really Love America
On the face of it, patriotism would seem to be an easy sell for American advertisers. In fact, it's not. Flag-waving spots can so easily come off as cheesy and/or opportunistic. It's rare to see a...
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