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Kickstarter for Exploding Kittens Asked for $10K Over a Month. It Got $2...
In another crazy viral Kickstarter phenomenon, Mathew Inman, creator of the popular webcomic The Oatmeal, fully funded his Kickstarter for a game called Exploding Kittens in just 20 minutes on...
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Craig Robinson Tries to Crash the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Pepsi's New...
Katy Perry will be Pepsi's top act for the Super Bowl halftime show. But how much better would it be if Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious were the headliners? Pepsi might not want you to ponder...
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Terry Crews Screams Again for Old Spice, Particularly When He Sees Mrs. Terry...
Ready for more screaming, twitchy muscles, explosions and horrifying hallucinations? Good, because Terry Crews just made another Old Spice commercial. The ad, by Wieden + Kennedy and directors Fatal...
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Wonderful Pizza Hut Ad Shows People Being Totally Disgusted by Its New Pizza
There's a brave niche approach in advertising where you show your audience just how much people despise your product. Laphroaig scotch has been doing this for while, turning its polarizing taste into...
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'Shit Girls Say' Returns for One More Episode, and It's a Hair Commercial
Those of you who've been pining for another episode of Shit Girls Say are in luck: Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey's amusing Web series, based on the popular Twitter account, just did a spot for...
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Audi Jumps in the Deep End With an Epic Tale of Rebellion at a Swimming Pool
This Audi spot from Venables Bell & Partners presents a pint-size rebel with a full tummy who's eager to cannonball into a pool even though a sign clearly says, "Wait one hour to swim after...
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After Years Away, Gerry Graf Returns to the Heaven and Hell of Making a Super...
Gerry Graf has made more than his share of Super Bowl commercials over the years while working at agencies like Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi. He's been away from...
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Ad of the Day: Agency Helps Ex-Cons by Turning Their Prison Tattoos Into...
Covering up bad prison tattoos for social rehabilitation isn't an obvious charity, but it's the primary function of the Freedom Tattoos project, a service provided by Poland's Pedagogium The College...
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Movie Stars From Iconic Scenes Stare Right at You in FX's Intense, Eerie Promos
How would you feel if, during high-tension moments in your favorite movies, the cameras cut to slow motion and the lead actors turned to stare right at you? Now you might find out, thanks to a new...
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Apple's New China Store Has One Hell of a Beautiful Facade and a Great Story...
The new Apple Store in China unites ancient and contemporary design elements to striking effect—its modern steel-and-glass exterior draped by a simple yet elegant mural that contains the text,...
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Here's the Simple, Powerful Starbucks Ad You Probably Missed on MLK Day
Amid all the dubious tweets and outright fails from advertisers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day this past Monday, here's a little gem from Starbucks that flew under the radar."It's time to look at...
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Ad of the Day: Meet the Crazy Cameraman Who Films Every Kill in Call of Duty
One of the great mean-spirited pleasures of multiplayer gaming is knowing that whenever you finally seize the day and blow your enemy to smithereens, he or she has to watch it on instant replay. But...
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Similac Has a Big Hit With One of the Most Honest Ads Ever About Parenting
Parenting today comes with more than the stress of kids. It comes with the derision of your fellow breeders when you choose a path that goes against their deeply held beliefs. And it's going to...
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Ad of the Day: Paralympic Snowboarder Amy Purdy Perseveres in Toyota's Super...
Toyota is out with one of its two Super Bowl ads, and it's going hard for the inspirational route. As promised, actress and Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy stars in "How Great I Am," a minute-long...
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Nick Offerman Will Hilariously Pitch Nascar Right After the Super Bowl's...
One of the better ads airing on Super Bowl Sunday won't be from a marketer paying $4.5 million for 30 seconds, but from the network broadcasting the game. NBC Sports has cast Nick Offerman, the...
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Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel Revisit Hilariously Clueless 1994 Today Clip in...
The year was 1994. Ace of Base saw "The Sign." O.J. Simpson's white Bronco sped down the freeway. And of course, this thing called the Internet was a tiny baby. And Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were...
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Coca-Cola Targets Online Hate in Its #MakeItHappy Super Bowl Campaign
If you've spent more than three seconds on the Internet, you know it can be a pretty horrible place, swarming with cyberbullies and trolls who've turned comment sections into rotting hate-fests and...
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America's Most Annoying Family Tries to Crash the Super Bowl With Hidden...
We've already seen Newcastle Brown Ale dig into Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" campaign this year. And now, Hidden Valley Ranch hopes to do the same with popular YouTubers, the Holderness Family....
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Things Are About to Get Even Worse for the NFL, When This Ad Runs on SI.com
Sports Illustrated has reversed its call and will run an NFL-themed domestic violence ad from advocacy group Ultraviolet on its website Thursday, three days before the Super Bowl. The 15-second video...
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These Pun-Heavy Posters About Graphic Design Will Make Creatives Chuckle (or...
Sara Heffernen's "Graphic Design Pun Cards" make gentle sport of designers' compulsive, perfectionist tendencies, while being dad-jokey enough to elicit groans from the rest of us. Having said that,...
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