Coca-Cola Is Now Printing Cans and Bottles in Braille for Blind People
Two new campaigns from Coca-Cola feature cans and bottles printed in braille, so blind people can read them. In Mexico, ad agency Anónimo realized the hugely popular "Shake a Coke" names-on-cans...
View ArticleAustralia's Brutal New Anti-Meth Ads Will Make Your Skin Crawl
In Australia, "ice" is anything but cool. Ice addiction—that is, a taste for crystal meth—has become a terrifying scourge Down Under, prompting the federal government to launch a six-week, $9 million...
View ArticleAd of the Day: W+K Dreams Up Another Quirky Ad Hero, the Cravendale Milk Drinker
Wieden + Kennedy specializes in oddball characters whose very uncoolness—their out-of-time styles and behaviors—is what makes them cool. The agency perfected this approach for Southern Comfort with...
View Article4 Famous Faces Get 20 Years Older in Getty Images' 20th Anniversary Ads
AlmapBBDO celebrates Getty Images' 20th birthday with this fun campaign that looks at how four famous people—Scarlett Johansson, Prince William, Serena Williams and Bill Clinton—have changed in...
View ArticleMan Hunts for a Cherished Lost Possession in Hornbach's Latest Absurdly Epic Ad
German DIY home-improvement brand Hornbach adds to its long list of advertising successes with this fun twist spot from Heimat Berlin. A man storms out of his house in a fit of rage. He's so...
View ArticleThis Fake Erotic Video Uploaded to Pornhub Is Actually a PSA (but It's Still...
DDB has uploaded what it claims is the first fake erotic video on Pornhub. The video starts off porny and then morphs into a (still NSFW) PSA for the Alcázar Gynecology Institute, showing men how to...
View ArticleAd of the Day: SNL's Coneheads Remake the 'Jake From State Farm' Commercial
The "Jake From State Farm" phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, as the insurance company and DDB Chicago just remade the famous 2011 ad with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin's Coneheads characters...
View ArticleMove Over, Tooth Fairy. HelloFlo Tells the Story of the Period Fairy in...
In the pantheon of mythical creatures, one character has been curiously lost to history, though not to herstory—the Period Fairy, who visits girls when they get their first period. HelloFlo tells the...
View ArticleThese 'Cancer Sutra' Posters Show How to Check Your Partner During Sex
Ad agency The Bull-White House's "Cancer Sutra" campaign was a provocative idea in search of a sponsor—until Stupid Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young adults with cancer, signed on....
View ArticleMax Greenfield Helps the Hipster Hamburglar Push McDonald's Sirloin Burgers
The Hamburglar got the Internet's attention last week—the jury is still out on whether he's hot or creepy—but he won't be pitching the Sirloin Burger on TV, at least not this month. That job has been...
View ArticleFox Sports Had Quite a Surprise for the U.S. Women's Soccer Team on Mother's Day
Mother's Day surprises were aplenty this weekend, including a big one for the U.S. women's World Cup soccer team. Due to their demanding schedules, it's been years since many of the players have seen...
View ArticleOutdoor Ad Company Gets CMOs' Attention by Putting Their Faces on Mysterious...
Here's an odd little case study from outdoor ad company JCDecaux and BBDO Belgium. Frustrated that client marketing directors weren't showing up to its business presentations, JCDecaux got personal...
View ArticleMiami Ad School Shows You Just How Gloriously Stupid an Advertising Career...
If you work on the creative side of advertising, you'll earn a paycheck for, among other things, crafting ads where sloths and hairdos sing and piano players caress keys with 30 fingers on a...
View ArticleAfter All That, the Hamburglar's First Video Is One Big Joke About His...
Are we sure we want the Hamburglar back? The cartoon character, who was reincarnated after a 13-year hiatus as a real live human man—whom the Internet simultaneously reviled and love—took over...
View ArticleWWF Now Lets You Donate by Tweeting the Emojis of Endangered Animals
Among the gajillion emoji campaigns out there right now, here's a clever one. Wieden + Kennedy London creatives Jason Scott and Joris Philippart recently had an idea for how to use emojis to help...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Elizabeth Banks Gets Comically Obsessed With Real Estate for...
Elizabeth Banks is everything that ads for online real estate sites are typically not—perky, lighthearted and deadpan funny. And that's precisely why she stars in Pereira & O'Dell's new campaign...
View ArticleThese Creepy Ads for Synthetic Humans Have Britain All Freaked Out
People in Britain who had settled in for a nice viewing of Prometheus this weekend were distressed, to say the least, when a realistic 30-second spot aired—completely unexplained—that advertised...
View ArticleSonic's 3-D Slushes Named the Year's Best Billboard Campaign at 2015 Obies
Adams Outdoor Advertising took home the Best Billboard Campaign award for its "Big Slushes" ads for Sonic Drive-In at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America's Obie Awards on Tuesday night. The...
View ArticleWatch Out, New Hamburglar, Old Hamburglar Is Out of Jail and on the Road Again
If you're underwhelmed by the new Hamburglar's antics so far—and are pining for the original criminal himself—you're in luck, thanks to a spec campaign from production company Whiskey Tongue. The...
View ArticleCold Drinks Give the Women on These Bar Coasters Sudden Cuts and Bruises
A new Japanese campaign aims to combat domestic violence in the country with inventive coasters that hope to tame excessive drinking, which can contribute to the problem. Yaocho, a bar chain, and...
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