Crazy Youngsters Break Out in a Worldwide Dance Party for Pitch Perfect 2
Never underestimate the promotional power of feel-good fan service. More than 100 fans were featured out of a whopping 1,500 total submissions for this Pitch Perfect 2 promo. Together they created a...
View ArticleWhy Domino's Went Nuts and Wrote Hundreds of Tweets Almost Entirely in Pizza...
On Tuesday, Domino's flooded its Twitter feed with a heap of tweets written almost completely in pizza emojis. They looked like sentences. They were even punctuated. Not only that, but Domino's had...
View ArticleBaristas Are Terrible Therapists, Warns This Hilarious Ad for Online Counseling
If you're relying on your local barista to talk you through life's challenges, stop right now, says this amusing video for a text/video-chat counseling service called In Your Corner. The spot was...
View ArticleOnly One Thing Can Save the Grumpy Monster From His Hellish Day in This Cute Ad
In "Shed the Monster," the brief, pleasingly silly film below, some guy in a brutish latex mask—he looks like Geico's caveman—grunts a lot in pissed-off fashion, as all of life's little challenges...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Heidi Klum Starts Her Silliest Business Yet in Wix.com Spot
Heidi Klum is a renowned entrepreneur. But she hasn't really had a business idea that's—how should I put this?—really, really silly. Until now. In a delightful new spot for Wix.com—a follow up to the...
View ArticleThis Clever Volkswagen Ad Is Exactly as Long as the Time You Can Spend With It
If you don't have time to watch this whole new commercial for Volkswagen Trucks, you can just skip to the end for a quickie version—no matter where you are in the story—and it will still make sense.Go...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: May 8-15
This week's collection of best ads includes four comedies and one very special Thai tearjerker. Check out all five spots below and vote for your favorite.
View ArticleAd of the Day: These Sunglasses Bathe the World in an '80s Glow, and the Ad...
For sunglasses company Tens, making an eye-catching ad was imperative. But in a world of sleek and sexy ads all looking to break through, how do you stand out? You go analog. Tens, a six-person...
View ArticleHigh Fashion Is a Prison in These Striking Print Ads Opposing Child Labor
The striped patterns on dresses, shirts, tunics and sweaters become prison bars—with small, sad faces peeking through—in this Brazilian campaign against child labor. Lew'Lara\TBWA created the print...
View ArticleYou Loved Bobblehead Bret Michaels So Much That Nissan Gave Him His Own Ad...
Bobblehead Bret Michaels sure drives a hard bargain. Must be the frozen stare and the defiant stance. You should probably take him along on your next car-buying venture. You want the leopard-print...
View ArticleThis Copywriter Is Traveling Around Europe Doing Freelance Work for Gas Money
If you love your job but are bored with your city, maybe you can make like Jonay Sosa and become a traveling adman. The Spanish copywriter is bouncing around Europe, freelancing at different agencies...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe's Dress Blows Around on These New York Subway Ads as Trains...
Lifetime has brought a neat out-of-home advertising trick to the U.S. for the first time to promote its upcoming miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Kelli Garner. Garner began...
View ArticleGroupon Finds an Even More Ridiculous Product to Pretend Doesn't Look Sexual
Groupon sees your Banana Bunker and raises you a Bike Chain Wash and Scrub Kit. That's the latest phallic-looking product that the deal-of-the-day website has posted on its Facebook page, all but...
View ArticleThis Agency Snuck a Testicular Cancer PSA Into the Adult Film Game of Balls...
Adult movies have suddenly become the hot place to put cancer PSAs. M&C Saatchi in Sydney worked with adult film studio Digital Playground and the Nonprofit Blue Ball Foundation to place an...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Y&R Ages Car-Crash Victims to Show What They'd Look Like Today
Any road-safety campaign that uses actual victims in its advertising is bound to be difficult for the families involved. This latest, from Y&R New Zealand, is no exception. Indeed, it's crushingly...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Spotify Helps Deaf People Hear in This Emotional New Spot
Hearing brings a world of joy to people, but it's a sense not everyone is lucky enough to have. Spotify recently took a trip to Puerto Princesa, Philippines, with hearing aid manufacturer Starkey...
View ArticleKristen Bell, Dax Shepard Kill You With Cuteness in Their Latest Samsung Ads
For those who couldn't get enough of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard in their hit Samsung Galaxy Tab S holiday ad, the hyper-cute Hollywood couple—married in real-life—have returned for an encore, this...
View ArticleThis Outdoor Ad in Moscow Hides From the Police When It Sees Them Coming
Last summer, Russia imposed a full embargo on food imports from the European Union (as well as the U.S.) in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine. This left authentic European food merchants in...
View ArticleDarrell Hammond Is Colonel Sanders in W+K's Big New Campaign for KFC
Boy, howdy, have things changed." That's Colonel Hardland Sanders, 35 years after his death at age 90—but reincarnated in the form of ex-SNL star Darrell Hammond—weighing in on modern culture in...
View ArticleThis Foot-Care Brand Made the First Magazine You Read With Your Feet
What better way to sell foot-care products than with an entire magazine for and about feet? Hansaplast, a Beiersdorf-owned band-aid brand, is launching a line of creams, deodorant and antiperspirant...
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