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Grocery Chain Reminds Shoppers to Check Their Melons in Cheeky Breast Cancer...
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but that doesn't mean refraining from making breast puns until next fall. Up in Canada, the Nesters Market grocery chain is giving its melons a makeover this...
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This Emotional Ad About Grandparents Raising Their Grandchild Is for What, Now?
There are still a solid six weeks left in 2015, but this ad is a strong contender for the most uplifting, then perplexing, commercial of the year. It features an older couple who talk openly about the...
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Fruit of the Loom Redefines Business Casual With Its Ridiculous...
Back in April, Fruit of the Loom and Crispin Porter + Bogusky made fake transparent plastic pants. Now, the brand and agency have upped their fake-clothes game to create a very special line of...
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Ad of the Day: HP Vows to 'Keep Reinventing' in Fun Series of Star Wars Ads
The Force is strong with this one. HP ties in with Star Wars: The Force Awakens in these fun, impressive commercials from BBDO New York and 180LA that introduce the technology company's "Keep...
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Tate Britain's Striking New Ads Ditch the Artwork for the Stories Behind It
It's a pretty established rule of museum marketing that your advertising should show off, you know, what's inside the museum—particularly if you've got some famous artwork in there. But Grey London...
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This Mesmerizing 5-Minute Mashup of '80s Ads Is Like a Time Machine
It's hard to listen to A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)" without feeling some hint of superiority. The song is arguably good, a perfect entry in the time period's myriad synth-pop hits. But...
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This Muppets Musical Kicks the Christmas Ad Season in Britain Into a Higher Gear
No self-respecting British advertiser wants to be left behind at this time of year, since the run-up to Christmas has become known as the U.K.'s version of the Super Bowl for commercials. And...
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Ad of the Day: Netflix Shows You the Consequences of Being the Worst Kind of Rat
You've seen this kind of torture scene before. A man sits bound to a chair, preparing to feel unimaginable pain after crossing a line with his tough-guy boss. He seems to have leaked some sensitive...
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Danny McBride Soars in W+K's Brilliantly Bizarre Music Video for Southern...
If anyone can help make "ShottaSoCo" a word people actually say at bars, it's Danny McBride. Or rather, a flying version of Danny McBride who repeats the word endlessly, over a pulsating beat, while...
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This Strange Mockumentary for Ford Stars a Young Man With Freakishly Strong Arms
In this spot for Ford Asia Pacific, a happy-go-lucky protagonist talks openly about an affliction he's lived with all his life: his small—but mighty—arms. The mockumentary-style piece, directed by...
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Life Is Still (Mostly) Hell for These Two Testicles in Their Third Underwear...
After watching the third in a series of amusing ads for Australia's Bonds underwear, starring a pair of anthropomorphized testicles, it's becoming clear that things won't be getting much better for...
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Lego Is Finally Making Slippers to Protect Your Feet From Those Painful...
Every parent knows the searing pain of stepping on an errant Lego brick in the middle of the night. It might even be how your kids learned their first curse words. Luckily, Lego has heard our cries of...
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72andSunny Wins Seventh Generation, Breaks Scathing Ad About Carefree...
Here's a fun send-up of live-for-the-moment advertising aimed at millennials. 72andSunny just picked up the ad account of Seventh Generation, the environmentally minded cleaning, paper and personal...
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Mattel Wins Praise for Having a Boy in This Barbie Ad, but There's More to...
The Moschino Barbie, a collector's edition Barbie doll featuring clothes designed by the Moschino fashion label, is already sold out. But that didn't stop Moschino and Mattel from making an ad...
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This Art Director Is Selling His 1968 Ford Ranchero by Hilariously Redoing...
Art director Matt Moore recently left Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo to take a creative director job at Barton F. Graf 9000 in New York—and he needed to sell his 1968 Ford Ranchero GT 390, which he'd been...
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Ad of the Day: Would You Act If You Were in Imminent Danger? Maybe Not, Says...
If you were alone in a room that started filling with smoke, you'd take the cue and make a hasty exit, right? But if you were in the room with a group of full of strangers, you might react differently...
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Durex Is Lobbying Very Hard Indeed for a Condom Emoji
In anticipation of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, and based on the frightening revelation that 80 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds use emojis for basic communication, Durex is demanding a condom emoji from...
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Ford Is Using Instagram Perfectly for These 'Don't Like and Drive' Posts
There are many PSA campaigns out there warning people not to use cellphones while driving, but few are as wonderfully simple as this one—Blue Hive Brazil and Team Detroit's Instagram posts for Ford...
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This Kids' Clothing Ad Might Be the Most Whimsical Depiction of Child Labor Ever
To support its new signature, "For Serious Kids," children's clothing company Petit Bateau has launched "The Mini Factory." This marks its first brand film since its charming child sailor ad of 2010,...
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FCB and UTEC's Latest Green Innovation Is a Plant-Powered Lamp for Remote Peru
FCB Mayo and Peruvian engineering college UTEC—the folks behind award-winning ventures like the "Potable Water Generator," "Purifying Billboard" and "Air Orchard"—are back with what may well be their...
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