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This Provocative PSA Argues That Refugees Actually Should Be Treated Like...
Nervous about the rising tide of refugees crossing borders en masse? You're not alone. To help put things in perspective, the Association for the Rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Tunisia (ADIRT)...
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Giant Sexting Emojis Welcome a Condom for Threesomes in MTV's 'Sext Life' Ad
Sexytime gets weird, and then weirder, in Y&R New York's amusing new commercial for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, featuring actors dressed up as common sexting emoji pairs suddenly getting...
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This Agency's 'Jingle Butts' Video Gets Holiday Card Season Off to a Cheeky...
Stumped for a fun way to say happy holidays? Try playing "Jingle Bells" with any of your private parts, and you're all but guaranteed to get a reaction. Kmart famously did it with "Jingle Balls" two...
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Toys 'R' Us Makes a Poignant Christmas Ad About a Gift That's Better Than Any...
Toys "R" Us is making a heartwarming addition to the Christmas ad file. The new commercial, from BBDO Atlanta, opens with sweet footage of a father and his young son preparing for the holidays—making...
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Stephen Curry and Shaq Have Cameos in Guitar Hero Live's Crowdsourced...
Pop music's newest supergroup features hoop icons Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry, sports broadcaster Erin Andrews, Vine star King Bach … and you. To showcase Guitar Hero Live's GHTV feature,...
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Pizza Hut Surprises Families With Truly Crazy Holiday Deliveries of Its...
Order a pizza, get a flash mob. And a brass band, drum solo and pyrotechnics display. Pizza Hut, on a relentless tear to promote its limited-time holiday-themed Triple Treat Box, busted out the good...
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Cursed by a Late December Birthday? These New Birthday Cards Feel Your Pain
The sound and the fury of December is always deafening: holiday songs on repeat, nothing on TV but saccharine Santa flicks, hand-wringing news reports lamenting the war on Christmas being tirelessly...
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Ad of the Day: An Unloved Sprout Finds a Family in BBC One's Cute Christmas Ad
Are you a tiny sentient sprout-person who is hated by everyone, even at Christmas, when people are supposed to be nicer to other people (and vegetables)? Never fear. The stars of British TV shows have...
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This Director's Wicked Little Film Shows You How to Be Happy at the Holidays
With one notable exception, this year's holiday ads have been uniformly sweet and uplifting. But that can get tedious. So now, have a look at Biscuit Filmworks director Ayse Altinok's twisted take on...
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This Excellent Climate Campaign Makes Saving the World the Easiest Decision Ever
Some decisions aren't hard to make. Saving the world is one of them. The Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore, partnered with Mustache Agency to produce the World's Easiest Decision, a website...
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Bleacher Report Serves Up a Riotous Remake of Blackalicious''Alphabet Aerobics'
"A" is for advertising. "V" is for … viral video? Blackalicious' frenetic 1999 tongue-twister "Alphabet Aerobics" gets a sporty update in this animated music video from Bleacher Report. The two-minute...
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In the Doghouse or Dead? It's an Easy Decision in This Powerful Drunk-Driving Ad
Refusing to drive to pick up your wife at the train station because you've been drinking might get you in trouble. But that's better than being dead, says a new U.K. PSA that puts some engaging spin...
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Ad of the Day: A 4-Year-Old Pilots a Volvo Truck in Rollicking Follow-Up to...
It's one thing to say your truck is tough, but it's another to hand the wheel over to a 4-year-old and let her crash it through buildings and ravines. That's how Volvo Trucks and agency Forsman &...
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Eleanor Friedberger Plays 'Auld Lang Syne' on 1,000 Flute Glasses for...
Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one-half of The Fiery Furnaces (with brother Matthew Friedberger), has made her first commercial—and it's quite a harmonious production in which she plays the...
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Grey, Canon and Daredevil Nik Wallenda Seek Out the Rebel in All of Us
At one time or another, we'd all like to fancy ourselves as rebels. But how rebellious are we, really? Twenty-five years ago, Canon launched the EOS Rebel SLR camera with the help of Andre Agassi, who...
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KitKat's Christmas Commercial Is 30 Seconds of Blankness, the Ultimate Ad Break
It takes a lot to stand out among the glut of Christmas ads in Britain, where brands jockey like nowhere else to have a hit commercial. KitKat and J. Walter Thompson's strategy this season is to cut...
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Ad of the Day: Why Zappos Delivered 1,900 Boxes to Hanover, N.H., That No One...
Zappos has always taken its "Delivering happiness" mantra seriously, at least where customers are concerned. To express it this holiday, and alongside agency Mullen Lowe, it pulled a stunt that's...
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A Dirty Old Man Gets the Perfect Gift in Pornhub's Weird, Uncomfortable...
Pornhub is the latest advertiser to feature a sad old man in its Christmas commercial—an oddly common theme this year. But instead of getting a telescope or faking his own death, what bring a smile to...
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Colonel Sanders Channels Santa, Badly, in W+K's Silly Holiday Spots for KFC
You might call him the Southern Santa. In four new holiday videos from KFC, Colonel Sanders spends most of his screen time stuck in a home's chimney ... while trying to deliver presents. The Wieden...
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The World Surf League's First-Ever Ad Likens the Volatile Sport of Surfing to...
To distill the unpredictability and drama of competitive surfing, the World Surf League has launched its first global campaign, "You Can't Script This," anchored by "Chaos Theory," a 90-second spot...
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