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Princess Leia and Ridley Scott Reintroduce the World to Artifical...
Here's what millions of Star Wars fans around the world want to know: What has General Leia Organa been up to since helping destroy the Starkiller Base and defeat the evil First Order (for now)? We...
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Ad of the Day: Oscar Viewers Fall in Love With Android's Game of Rock, Paper,...
The winner for best animated short at Sunday's Academy Awards? When it came to the commercials, it was no contest—as Droga5's adorable "Rock, Paper, Scissors" spot for Android walked away with...
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McDonald's Is Now Making Happy Meal Boxes That Turn Into Virtual Reality...
McDonald's Sweden is launching a promotion that invites kids to turn Happy Meal boxes into virtual-reality viewers. Dubbed Happy Goggles, some 3,500 of them will be made available at 14 restaurants...
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94-Year-Old Iris Apfel Is Cooler Than You'll Ever Be, as the New Face of Two...
Iris Apfel is the unlikely but unquestionably perfect new face of not one but two brands right now: Australian fashion label Blue Illusion and the new DS 3 car in the U.K. and France. Why is a...
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Kohl's Had an Oscar Night to Remember With Its Funny Lip-Dub Acceptance...
A few days ago, Anomaly debuted the first spot in its Kohl's Oscars campaign, which took a snippet of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s 1997 acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor ... and put it in the mouth of...
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Geico Fast-Forwards Through Its Latest Clever Prerolls, but You Might Want to...
Geico and The Martin Agency had a huge hit with their "Unskippable" preroll campaign on YouTube last year, which Adweek named the best campaign of 2015. This year's follow-up campaign, though, needed...
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These Are the Oscar Ads and Moments Viewers Paid Attention to the Most
It may not have won Best Original Song, but Lady Gaga's show-stopping performance of "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground documentary was the top moment during a politically charged Oscars...
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Burger King Had a Pretty Good Comeback to That Big, Insulting McDonald's...
Last week, we wrote about that obnoxious and ludicrous (and OK, pretty entertaining) McDonald's billboard in France that displayed absurdly lengthy driving directions to the nearest Burger King...
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M&M's Unveils 75th Anniversary Spot Featuring Zedd and Aloe Blacc's 'Candyman'
M&M's turn 75 years old this Thursday, and the Mars brand is beginning a year-long birthday celebration with a musical collaboration between Zedd and Aloe Blacc, who have reinterpreted Sammy Davis...
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This Video Game's End-of-the-World Simulator Is Scary, and It's All Your Fault
In partnership with Ubisoft—and for the launch of role-playing game The Division, based on a Tom Clancy novel—Paris agency BETC created "Collapse." This choose-your-own-adventure style online...
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If You Run Fast Enough Past This Reebok Ad, It Unlocks a Free Pair of Sneakers
Sneaker brands are fond of running challenges, and they can make for some cool ad stunts. Asics has done this for years, running outdoor ads that challenged people to race against a digital image of...
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Travelocity Has a New Agency but the Same Old Gnome in 'Wander Wisely' Campaign
Travelocity may have parted ways with the agency that created its famous Roaming Gnome character, but the pint-sized spokesman is still a fixture in the online travel agency's advertising—and now he's...
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Ad of the Day: Paul Giamatti Battles a Family of Movie Buffs in His First Ads...
Acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti makes his on-screen commercial acting debut—and jousts with a family of know-it-all movie and TV buffs—in CenturyLink's amusing "Hollywood Insider" campaign from Arnold...
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Diabolical House of Cards Ads in D.C. Metro Reference a Crime Committed There...
New ads for House of Cards reference a now-infamous scene early in Season 2 where—spoiler alert—Frank Underwood pushes a certain aquaintance in front of a D.C. Metro train. Meant to look like...
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Striking Ad for Earth Hour Begins With an Old Woman in 2090 and Backtracks to...
Iris Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund put together some weapons-grade wishful thinking with this new spot for the WWF's Earth Hour event. With help from a little girl's narration, the ad...
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The 2016 Election Just Got Even Weirder With a Racy Debate Between Trojan...
Happy Super Tuesday! This year's election got strange long ago, so surely you won't mind this latest oddity—a mock debate between various Trojan condom products spouting endless sexual innuendo. Even...
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How an R/GA Designer Dreamed Up a Way for Anyone to Take the Most Creative...
Does your idea of the perfect vacation involve doing absolutely nothing, with your feet in the sand and your paws on a piña colada? Please move along. There's nothing to see here. If you are, instead,...
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The 10 Best Ads Wieden + Kennedy Made for Chrysler and Dodge Over the Years
Today Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced an end to its six-year partnership with Wieden + Kennedy. FCA, which owns brands including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Maserati, said in a statement that now...
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Ad of the Day: Are These the Strangest, Most Mesmerizing Financial Ads Ever?
Financial ads are normally so buttoned up. But Swedish e-commerce payment brand Klarna loosens things up in its new campaign from DDB Stockholm, with three weirdly entrancing ads that dramatize how...
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Charter Promises Great TV and Internet at the Most Comically Unlikely Times
A quartet of ads for Charter Communications' Spectrum package promise fast and convenient Internet service, and HD television for everyone ... no matter how bedridden, ambitious, desperate or...
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