Tokyo Airport Terminal Is Designed Like a Running Track Ahead of the 2020...
Tokyo's Narita International Airport has built a new terminal with walkways outfitted in the style of indoor running tracks—a fitting precursor to the 2020 Olympic Games, which the city is hosting...
View ArticleW+K Travels to 1960s Iceland for This Wry and Beautiful Yogurt Commercial
Somebody get this kid a bike! (And snowshoes, while you're at it.) Orri, the plucky lad in this fanciful Wieden + Kennedy London spot introducing Arla's Skyr Icelandic yogurt to the U.K., Germany and...
View ArticleCraigslist User Warns Against Buying Secondhand Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer
If you're not into Star Wars, you might as well sign off the Internet for the rest of the year. Not only are the filmmakers going to bombard you with content, everybody else is, too. Case in point: A...
View ArticleKmart and Joe Boxer's High-Tech Bracelet Measures Inactivity and Celebrates...
Nike FuelBand may have fizzled out, but luckily the Joe Boxer Inactivity Tracker is here to take its place. Kmart is promoting its Joe Boxer pajamas with a new digital bracelet that's just like any of...
View ArticleAd of the Day: This Great Hertz Ad Starts Off Sweet, Then Takes a Sharp Left...
He took the tea kettle? Ouch, that Hertz! This cute British spot from adam&eveDDB starts off sentimentally, as a middle-aged couple are saying goodbye to their son, who is moving out—with help...
View ArticleBlindfolded Kids Try to Recognize Their Moms in This Lovely, Smash-Hit...
Are you unique enough that your child could pick you out of a lineup by touch alone? The charm-bracelet pushers over at Pandora Jewelry have just released The Unique Collection, but you won't see much...
View ArticleNoooooooooo! This Loony British Ad for Mints Ends With a Comic Shocker
This Trebor Mints ad from Wieden + Kennedy London has a bit of that 1990s Gushers weirdness to it, either as a tribute to nostalgic thirtysomethings or just for shiggles. It opens with a teen...
View ArticleTiny Billboards for Ant-Man Are Popping Up That Ants Are Really Going to Love
There's something irresistible about tiny billboards. We've seen them before, of course—for example, there was this LittleBigPlanet campaign from 2008 and this Lego stunt from 2012. And now, the...
View ArticleNYC Agency Sagmeister & Walsh Says It Was Robbed, but It's Strange What Got...
Sagmeister & Walsh says a brazen robbery has occurred at its New York offices, with three men making off with its most valuable property—and the whole thing caught on tape by the ceiling camera...
View ArticleFoot Locker Catches Emoji Fever With 80 Individually Drawn 'Shoemojis'
If your brand hasn't made custom emojis yet, sorry—it's now mandatory. Or so it seems, given the rush of marketers doing so. And the latest brand to jump quite literally into the mix is Foot Locker,...
View ArticleA Man Discovers He's a Bot in This Amusing Warning About Click Fraud
Click fraud is a big problem, but it's also an exceedingly boring topic. So, how do you liven it up to warn marketers about it? The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau has tried a bit of comedy in the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Gun Violence PSA Makes Heartbreaking Statues From Victims'...
Eight victims of gun violence are memorialized in lifelike but faceless plaster statues in FCB Chicago's "The Unforgotten," a traveling public-service installation and media campaign. Created for the...
View ArticleCheck Out this YouTuber Making Some Insane Trick Shots With Oreo Cookies
Showing crazy trick shots is a pretty good way of getting viral video views, as we've seen in branded efforts from Wheaties (bowling), McDonald's (soccer)—and of course, that old, fake-as-hell Michael...
View ArticleDroga5, Morgan Spurlock Show You How the Toyota Mirai Is 'Fueled by Bullsh*t'
Toyota wants you to know it has a car that literally runs on bullshit. This new ad for the automaker's Mirai fuel cell vehicle features an engineer visiting a dairy farm, loading a pickup bed with cow...
View ArticleThese Posh Videos Show You How to Pronounce Ogilvy & Mather 'Like a Lord'
Do the Spanish have a tough time pronouncing "Ogilvy & Mather." Apparently so, judging from this comical video series from the agency's Spain operation—aimed at getting people to pronounce the...
View ArticleHow Snapchats Hidden in Black Ops 2 Led to Today's Big Live-Action Trailer...
Activision unleashed its live-action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 today. And it's a typically impressive production from 72andSunny—a documentary-style look at a world decades from now in...
View ArticleManny Pacquiao Wonders If Mayweather Fight Is On, or If It's All Just a Foot...
Foot Locker is happy it can finally celebrate the upcoming Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight—for real. Last fall, the shoe store released a commercial in which Pacquiao thought Mayweather had...
View ArticleHallmark's Mother's Day Ads Are Shockingly Edgy. Just Kidding, They're...
Adland's trend toward weepy gratitude continues, just in time for Mother's Day, as Hallmark rolls out a series of videos from Leo Burnett in which people express love and appreciation for their moms....
View ArticleYouTube Star Hannah Witton Gives Candid Advice About Sex in Durex Campaign
As brands continue to use popular YouTubers for ad campaign, Durex has found the perfect endorser with Hannah Witton—a vlogger whose non-branded content already includes plenty of talk about sex and...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Apple Watch Gets Three Grand 60-Second Spots for Launch Day
The Apple Watch is here, and with it come the first true commercials for the device. And they're less about the nitty-gritty of product features and more about how the watch will fit seamlessly into...
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