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T.J. Miller Warms Up for Critics' Choice Awards Hosting Gig With Booze-Soaked...

Actor and comedian T.J. Miller was "dumb, and not in a funny way," in the big-screen flop Yogi Bear in 3D. And he's game for trotting out the memory of that critical drubbing if it means driving...

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These Fake Local Grocery Ads Brilliantly Skewer Northern Canada's Surreal...

If you want to pay $48 for a bag of flour, head to northern Canada. It might even come with the same cheesy smile that your local grocer promises in its own ads.  A new public-service campaign uses...

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Ad of the Day: Geico Expands Its Brocabulary to Sell Brotastic Brosurance

Bro bro bro bro BRO! That word will be lodged in your brain but good thanks to its unholy repetition in The Martin Agency's latest work for Geico. A 30-second "Flextacular" spot presents two dead-eyed...

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No One on This Earth Loves McDonald's All-Day Breakfast More Than This Guy

Meet Will Perkins, a cardigan-clad Milwaukee resident who loves all-day breakfast at McDonald's so much that he's composing power ballads in its honor. Thanks to the parody mavens at Jingle Punks, we...

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Stephen Fry Offers a Hilarious Guide to British Etiquette for Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport has gotten Stephen Fry, a well-known British person, to take the piss out of British manners. The video below functions as both a guide to etiquette and a guide to British humor, as...

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Taco Bell Announces Its Super Bowl Return With an Amusingly Redacted Press...

Taco Bell said Thursday that it is returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2013 with a 30-second spot in the first quarter of the Feb. 7 game. The ad will unveil one of Taco Bell's...

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Old Spice Has a New Spokesman, and He's Legendary in an Utterly Foolish Kind...

Sweat. It's the reason men have never quite reached their full potential ... until now, Old Spice's latest campaign proclaims.  Its new line of body wash and antiperspirant comes with a new spokesman,...

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It's Dolph Lundgren's Turn to Make a Comedic Comeback in an Ad

Probably after seeing his Rocky IV nemesis Sylvester Stallone in all those Warburtons ads, Dolph Lundgren (or, if you prefer, Ivan Drago) has signed up for a commercial project of his own—the promo...

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Barbasol, Jake From State Farm, Applebee's and Totinos Won Twitter Today With...

Brands can be very responsive to people on Twitter, particularly if you are a person named Kim KardashMolon. A few hours ago, this user messaged Totinos, Applebee's, Jake From State Farm, Barbasol,...

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Belgium's Top Ad Execs Are Donating Sperm and Eggs to Ensure the Nation's...

People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level. The country is extremely proud of its creative reputation. In four years, it has won 78 Cannes Lions, which...

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Ad of the Day: Lemmy Returns for One Final Ad, This Sublime Milk Spot From...

True to form, Lemmy is back for an encore. Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, the iconic hard rocker who led British band Motörhead for five decades before passing away last month, returns in the commercial below...

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This Anti-Bullying Ad Tells the Story of a Girl Whose Brave Facebook Photo...

Here's a touching illustration of how social media can combat the effects of bullying.  More than a year ago, a little girl reached out to advocacy group The Bully Project after catching flak at...

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Chevrolet Took All the Branding Off This Malibu to See What People Really...

The Chevrolet Malibu is the Folgers Crystals of automobiles—people think it's amazing partly because they don't know what it is—in this latest "Real People, Not Actors" spot from Commonwealth/McCann....

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Thai Brand Apologizes for Blackface Ad That Said 'You Just Need to Be White...

A Thai company has apologized for producing an ad for a skin-whitening product that featured a woman in blackface and suggested people with dark skin are losers. The company, Seoul Secret, pulled the...

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This Jeweler Just Recast the Traditional Proposal Ad With a Rockin' Young...

The combined disposable income of LGBTQ Americans is $884 billion annually. And BVW Jewelers of Reno, Nev., wants a taste. Its most recent ad shows two women kissing on the Crystal Peak Toll Bridge...

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Ad of the Day: Hungry Folks Get Even Stupider in Ads for Snickers Crisper

"Hunger keeps inventing new problems" is the first part of the tagline for Snickers Crisper, a new product extension from the Mars brand. But it's probably more accurate to say that BBDO keeps...

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Pepsi Has a Huge Hit in China With This Fascinating Ad About the 'Monkey...

In China, this PepsiCo video about an actor who portrays a "Monkey King" is an absolute beast, racking up, by some accounts, more than 20 million views in two weeks across various versions and...

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Boom Beach Started Its New Campaign on TV and Will End It in the Game This...

If you like absurd cartoon supervillains, here's a campaign for you. Mobile game maker Supercell and New York agency Barton F. Graf 9000 are hyping strategy game Boom Beach with a series of ads...

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For $1, You Can Get Your Name in the Credits of a Campaign Being Entered in...

If you thought ad awards were all about the money—well, it seems you were right. In a cheeky stunt, Canadian agency Rethink is crowdfunding a campaign whose credit list is for sale. For just $1, you...

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Ad of the Day: Women Hunt for Heroes Who Aren't Drunks in Heineken's Night...

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night. He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast, and he's gotta be fresh from the fight ... Oh, and he'd better not be drunk off his ass!"Holding Out...

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