Man Shaves Beard Off After 14 Years, and Family Reacts in Shock, in...
"Maybe it's a new chapter in my life." That's how Amit (aka, "Mook"), a 44-year-old dude who's had a thick beard for 14 years, describes the experience of shaving it off in "My New Face," a remarkbaly...
View ArticleDon't Get Too Excited About the Steamy Curves in Carl's Jr.'s 'Natural...
If you were looking forward to drooling over whatever hot, near-naked model would grace Carl's Jr.'s notoriously lascivious advertising next, you're in for a disappointment. In a new 30-second...
View ArticleFoster's Embraces a Male Rugby Cheerleader and the Tagline 'Why the Hell Not?'
Adam&eveDDB and Glue Society director Gary Freedman made this British spot for Australia's Foster's beer about, of all things, a male rugby cheerleader. The ad is part of a growing trend of...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Eli Manning and Tony Romo Do Their Best Rob Lowe for DirecTV
DirecTV killed its long-running Rob Lowe campaign in April after more than six months of spots in which the actor introduced pathetic versions of himself—the kind of guy who has cable instead of...
View ArticleHarrowing Ad About Kids in War Puts a Girl at the Center of a First-Person...
Anyone who's ever played a war-themed video game like Call of Duty has effectively imagined what it might be like to be a soldier. But it's far less common for people to imagine themselves as children...
View ArticleThis French Drink Brand Took 7 Days to Post the World's Slowest Facebook Status
Pulco, a French drink brand owned by Orangina Schweppes, is a default summer drink. (Because when else would you have a cool citrus-lemon beverage?) And amid an epic heat wave recently, it capitalized...
View ArticleFreshpet Tricks People Into Eating Its Dog Food, and It's Pretty Hilarious
Tricking someone into eating something disgusting—tarantulas, worms, insects in general—is nothing new. Some game shows have whole segments based around that look of horror that comes over someone's...
View ArticleTD Bank Gets Absurdly Cinematic to Show Off Its Drama-Free Banking
You expect big-budget, slam-bang drama from Hollywood action movies. But doing simple banking chores like depositing checks shouldn't make you feel like you're trapped in an out-of-control Michael Bay...
View ArticleHey Developers, Unlike HP, Betabrand Doesn't Give a Crap What You Wear
If you've got killer programming chops and a closet full of ill-advised sartorial selections, Betabrand might be the workplace for you. HP took some heat this week for reportedly telling enterprise...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger Re-creates Terminator 2's Bar Fight Scene for Video...
"I need your clothes. Your boots. And your motorcycle." Arnold Schwarzenegger really needs some new material. A quarter century after walking naked into a seedy bar and uttering that famous line in...
View ArticleThese Might Be the First Condom Ads That Try to Make You Less Excited
Most condom ads are all about sensual pleasure, but what if the product is just too good at delivering that? That's the theme of three 15-second spots for Okamoto condoms from Cleveland agency Marcus...
View ArticleGoogle Paints Stunning Portraits of Disability Rights Heroes on Washington,...
In 1990, a group of disabled people pulled themselves up the steps at the U.S. Capitol building to advocate for the Americans With Disabilites Act, protesting delays in an event that became known as...
View ArticleActor Enacts a Whale Killing, With Himself as the Whale, in Shocking PSA
The killing of majestic animals is big news this week. And now, the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd has unveiled a brutal PSA protesting the slaughter of whales by demonstrating how they die at...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Droga5's Clever Energy Ad Lets People Choose Their Fuel Source
If you had the option to use sunshine, wind or fossil fuels to charge your cellphone, which would you choose? Droga5's first work for its newest client, energy company NRG, shows air travelers getting...
View ArticleWhy These 3 Agency Guys Are Walking 125 Miles to a Company's Office for a Pitch
It's good to walk a mile in your client's shoes. But is it even better to walk 125 miles?Le Balene will soon find out. The Italian agency is wooing an unnamed mobile accessories client with a unique...
View ArticleOld Spice Creates a Loony Sci-Fi 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Game on Instagram
Wieden + Kennedy has hacked the tagging function on Instagram to create an amusingly absurd "Choose your own adventure" social game for Old Spice, filled with robots, retro monsters and meta jokes....
View ArticleAd of the Day: Check Out Geico's First Spots in a While Not Made by The...
Geico is out with its first commercials that aren't from The Martin Agency in a good long while, but they do continue the brand's tradition of absurd, offbeat humor. Four 15-second spots, created by...
View ArticleHelloFlo's Creative Team Is Back With an Ad About a 'Fitbit for Your Vag'
From HelloFlo founder Naama Bloom and writer Sara Saedi (who penned HelloFlo spots "Postpartum: The Musical" and "The Period Fairy") comes another quirky, humorous look into the anonymous world of...
View ArticleConverse Blows Up Chuck II to Show Off the New Sneaker's Snazzy Insides
Converse's Chuck Taylor II All-Stars debut with a bang, literally, in the Nike brand's "Ready for More" campaign touting its highly anticipated line extension. Ad agency Anomaly and visual-effects...
View ArticleBlake Griffin Takes on Marvin the Martian in New Jordan Campaign
In case you weren't feeling quite old enough today, the classic Michael Jordan vs. Looney Tunes drama Space Jam will celebrate its 20th anniversary next November. But Nike's newest ad, created by...
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