Ad of the Day: Morris the Cat of 9Lives Leaps Into the Future With Wearable Tech
Morris the Cat, whose 9Lives cat food ads from the '70s and '80s are all over YouTube, shakes off the cobwebs and joins the 21st century in the brand's new campaign—becoming the first cat to wear...
View ArticleStrangely Awesome Laptop Stove Lets You Cook and Find Recipes Online at the...
Dragan Trenchevski, an industrial designer from Macedonia with maybe the coolest name ever given to a person, has come up with a prototype for an Electrolux Mobile Kitchen, which is basically a laptop...
View ArticleBrand of the Day: Meet the Bottled Water Company That Will Happily Sell You...
If you like your bottled water to come with actual water in it, this might not be the brand for you. The anti-sugar crusaders at indie brand Fred Water are now selling empty versions of their...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Virgin America's 6-Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian and...
People have a hard time sitting through five seconds of pre-roll on YouTube. How will they react to almost six hours of it—much of which is intentionally, preposterously, stultifyingly boring? Virgin...
View ArticleSafe-Driving Ad Uses Real Footage of Fatal Accident From Motorcyclist's GoPro...
Raw footage of 38-year-old motorcyclist David Holmes smashing into a car at 97 miles per hour, as captured by his GoPro helmet camera, is being used in a British road safety ad with the permission of...
View ArticleBrand of the Day: If You Like Bush on Pandora, You Could Get a Free...
For a few lucky listeners, using Pandora can get you a personal concert with one of your favorite artists. The Internet streaming music service today breaks the new ad below from twofifteenmccann. It...
View ArticleKitKat's Half-Finished Billboard Cleverly Pays Off Its Iconic Tagline
It was 1958 when J. Walter Thompson's Donald Gilles came up with the line, "Have a break. Have a KitKat." Fifty-six years later, JWT London has found a fun new way to illustrate the line—with a...
View ArticleFiat Accidentally Took Viagra and Grew a Bigger Car, Says New Ad That's Total...
There are ads where you can't quite believe the premise, and this is one of them. How did the Fiat 500X SUV come to be? Well, it seems a little Fiat accidentally swallowed a little blue pill—and...
View ArticleSprite's 'Bill the Billboard' Keeps Drivers Entertained by Cracking Endless...
If it's more comedy you want from your billboard, Sprite is happy to oblige. Ogilvy Kenya recently put up "Bill the Billboard" at a busy intersection in Nairobi, and programmed him to endlessly crack...
View ArticleThese Ads for Glass Bottles Are About as Hilarious as Ads for Glass Bottles...
A world without glass would be pretty soulless. That's the main takeaway from these new TV ads that Doremus and sister shop DDB produced for O-I, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Every Time Taylor Swift Takes a Sip of Diet Coke, Kittens...
Just when you thought Taylor Swift couldn't get any more respect from millennials, here she is proving again that she lives in a reality only believable in a Disney movie. Swifties around the world...
View ArticleBrand of the Day: Chanel No. 5 Finds a New Muse in the Stunning Gisele Bündchen
Chanel No 5. makes you irresistible. At least, if you're Gisele Bündchen. The supermodel stars in this new three-minute ad for the brand, a sequel of sorts to Chanel's 2004 love story starring Nicole...
View ArticleSquarespace's Radical Update Is Like a Blank Canvas. So Its New Ads Are, Too
IDEA: Even for a company known for great design, Squarespace 7 was a revelation. The elegant upgrade to the website maker's interface, called a "UX dream" by Wired, completely does away with the...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 10-17
A lavish celebrity fragrance spot. A six-hour preroll ad. A great pop-up store stunt. An ad remake with some crazy stunt driving. And a hilarious spot about the most nondescript product imaginable....
View ArticleAd of the Day: DirecTV Enlists Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe, Its Most Pitiful...
Rob Lowe keeps sinking in DirecTV's campaign. Having already been introduced to Creepy Rob Lowe and Less Attractive Rob Lowe, now we get to meet Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe. Like his fellow lesser Rob...
View ArticleWhat's in McDonald's Food, Anyway? Ex-MythBuster Grant Imahara Is Hired to...
Does McDonald's put horsemeat in its burgers? What about pink slime? Would you feed McDonald's food to your kids? So many questions. But now, taking its cues from a well-received transparency campaign...
View ArticleThis Suite of Fonts Was Made From the Handwriting of the Homeless
Homeless signs have been a font of ideas for creatives, but rarely has the focus been on the fonts themselves. The Arrels Foundation in Barcelona has created Homelessfonts—typefaces based on the...
View ArticleYouTube's Famous 'Slow Mo Guys' Get You Up to Speed in Ads for the Video Site
The Slow Mo Guys are shifting into the fast lane. As part of YouTube's ongoing effort to introduce its popular channel stars to a wider audience, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy are appearing in a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Beats by Dre Thrillingly Welcomes LeBron James Home to Ohio
If you're LeBron James, hell yes you can go home again. The playbook calls for high drama as the King returns to the Cleveland Cavaliers after four years and a pair of championships in Miami. And this...
View ArticleDavid Beckham Invites You to Travel the World, Drinking His Scotch, in Ad...
If you're the type of jet-setter who flies a seaplane to a Scottish estate so you can put on a tuxedo and have a drink with a handful of your posh friends, David Beckham would like you to buy some of...
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