Esurance Suits Up for an In-Game Ad on the Super Bowl, a Year After Its...
After thumbing its nose at the in-game advertisers on last year's Super Bowl, Esurance is set to become one of them. The online insurance company confirmed Monday that it is suiting up and ready to...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Kim Kardashian Mocks Herself Perfectly in T-Mobile's Super...
First, she rocked a controversial cover of Vogue with hubby Kanye West. Then she teamed up with Paper Magazine to break the Internet. Now, Kim Kardashian can add an amusing Super Bowl ad for T-Mobile...
View ArticleNewcastle Unveils Its Smorgasbord of a Super Bowl Ad, Featuring 37 Different...
Newcastle just released its "Band of Brands" regional Super Bowl commercial, and it turns out Jockey, Boost Mobile, Lee Jeans, Brawny and Match.com are among the recognizable brands—along with some...
View ArticleAdorable Puppy Gets Lost, and Then Things Get Worse, in GoDaddy's Super Bowl Ad
Budweiser melted hearts with its "Puppy Love" commercial on last year's Super Bowl, and is prepping a sequel, "Lost Dog," that's expected to break Wednesday online. But a day early, here is...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Have Unicorns Today? This Ballsy French Ad Explains Everything
We would still have unicorns around today, were it not for an epic screw-up by Noah's son during the loading of the Ark all those years ago. That's the premise of this amusingly overblown Canal+ ad...
View ArticlePierce Brosnan Drives a Whole Different Kind of Getaway Car in Kia's Super...
Kia has released an extended version of its 60-second Super Bowl ad, and it's a really fun spot with Pierce Brosnan that manages to have its cake and eat it, too—by both celebrating and poking fun at...
View ArticleGiant Polar Bear on the Loose That Frightened London Today Turns Out to Be an Ad
New York was supposed to be the city dealing with a scary winter visitor on Tuesday, but instead it was London that was thrown off-kilter—by a giant polar bear wandering around. The eight-foot male...
View ArticleSpeedo Gets Deep in a New Campaign That Includes This 91-Year-Old Swimmer
Speedo delivers a bit of a surprise package in its latest advertising. Meet 91-year-old Masters swimmer Jurgen Schmidt, one star of the brand's "Fueled by Water" campaign, which focuses on the joy and...
View ArticleForget Football. Nick Offerman's Glorious Nascar Music Video Will Get You...
You got a taste the other day. But now it's time for the whole damn gluten-stuffed main course, as NBC Sports has rolled out its complete two-minute video with Nick Offerman singing gloriously about...
View ArticleBudweiser Unleashes Its 'Lost Dog' Super Bowl Ad, Hoping to Catch Lightning...
Sequels are tough. For every Godfather Part II, there's a Godfather Part III. But Budweiser and Anomaly had such a big hit with "Puppy Love" on last year's Super Bowl, they couldn't resist going back...
View ArticleJeff Bridges Stars in the First Super Bowl Ad That Actually Wants to Put You...
Kia may have James Bond in its Super Bowl ad, but Squarespace has the Dude. Yes, Jeff Bridges, the Oscar winner and star of cult classic The Big Lebowski, is featured in Squarespace's 30-second ad,...
View ArticleYou Made an Amazing Super Bowl Ad. Now What? Creatives Talk About the Monday...
Getting a commercial on the Super Bowl is a career milestone for any advertising creative. And so, after their spot airs, the feeling of joy and fulfillment must be pretty intense—buoyed surely by the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Ads Don't Get Much More Joyfully Hypnotic Than Samsung's Latest
Ad agency Heaven and the directing duo Vallée Duhamel rolled out this quirky video set to electronic music for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 S-Pen. Titled "Creativity at Work," it makes a sort of kinetic...
View ArticleYou Know Gay Ads Have Gone Mainstream When Even Hallmark Is Making Them
The mainstreaming of ads with gay couples, which really accelerated in 2014 thanks to brands like Honey Maid, continues into 2015—and now it's Hallmark's turn to join in. The greeting-card company is...
View ArticleEverlast's Inspiring Ad With This Girl Boxing Packs Quite a Punch
Boxing gear company Everlast lands a blow against sexism in "I'm a Boxer," a minute-long spot directed by Claire Edmondson through Steam Films. Scenes of a young girl shadow boxing and psyching...
View ArticleCP+B Lets Twitter Choose Its Office Music Through 'Subservient Speaker'
The Subservient Chicken may be long gone, but its spirit of unquestioning obedience lives on at one of the agencies that spawned it. Crispin Porter + Bogusky's staffers in Stockholm, Sweden, are...
View ArticleWatch This Ad Agency Tell Its Staffers They Have to French Kiss Their Clients
Plenty of agencies describe themselves as full service, but one really wants to take that commitment to the next level. At least, that's the premise of a video Geometry Global Paris made as an...
View ArticleThis Year's Craziest Super Bowl Ad Is From GrubHub and Stars an Angry Flying...
In the mini Super Bowl of regional ads, GrubHub is introducing a flying burrito that crashes into the heads of anyone foolish enough to order food by phone. The message is anything but subtle: Order...
View ArticleWatch This Video and Learn How to Turn Your Child Into the Next Social Media...
If you're a parent trying to make sense of this social-media-soaked world, you might feel a little bit lost and intimidated—not quite clear on how you can turn your child into an Internet phenom....
View ArticleAd of the Day: Mountain Dew's Kickstart Turns Dudes Into the Craziest Dancers
Take a sip of a Mountain Dew Kickstart, and the world's greatest and strangest dance party will unfold. At least, that's what goes down in this very entertaining 90-second spot from BBDO New York...
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