Lyft Creates a Surreal, Circus-Themed Driving Scene in Its First National TV...
Imagine you're stuck in summer traffic underneath a humid overpass. A booted car clunks its way along in front of you, while a group of men and women who had too much to drink the night before laugh...
View Article39 Great Ad Copywriters Just Got Book Jackets for Novels They Haven't Written
Some of the biggest creative names in advertising just received snail-mailed prototypes of book jacket designs ... for novels they haven't yet written. It's all part of an ambitious call for entries...
View ArticleHonda Says If You Can't Do This While Texting, You Shouldn't Drive While...
Since April is apparently Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Honda is running a series of short videos called #PhoneDownEyesUp that urge us to respect our own limits when it comes to multi-tasking....
View ArticleThis Dishwashing Liquid Says One Drop Does the Job, So It Made Single-Drop...
A little dab'll do ya. Of Pril dishwashing liquid, that is, which has claimed for years that it can get any job done, no matter how greasy, with a single drop. And these are no empty claims: In 2008,...
View ArticleAlabama Governor's Sex Scandal Just Inspired a Beer With the Grabbiest Label...
Alabama may be in a sour spotlight after its governor admitted making sexually charged remarks to a onetime senior adviser. But one brewery in the state is sweetening the situation by putting the...
View ArticleThese Agency Creatives Really, Really Want You to #UnfollowTrump on Twitter
Many people working in advertising prefer not to broadcast their personal political beliefs for fear of upsetting the often delicate client/agency balance—and giving their PR teams something else to...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Kids Fall in Love, and So Do Their Homes, in Sweet Short Film...
Be it ever so humble… A pair of suburban houses display human characteristics in "House Love," BBDO New York's sweet online video for Lowe's home improvement stores. Over time, as a love story...
View ArticleThe Toronto Silent Film Festival Just Built an Escape Room Entirely on Instagram
We don't know how it happened—a human compulsion for puzzle-solving, coupled with a fun flirtation with claustrophobia?—but escape rooms are huge. Every third agency we know takes a client to one...
View ArticleAxe Asks Women About the Ideal Man, and the Results Are ... Weird
Since Axe is all about helping its male consumers out with the ladies, why not just let them know exactly what women want? Axe Puerto Rico and DDB decided to do just that—so they conducted The Sexy...
View ArticleThis L.A. Shop Helps Brands Create Marketing Strategies With Designs to Match
SpecsWho President Chris Lowery and founder and ecd Margo ChaseWhat Design and brand consultancyWhere New York and Los Angeles Chase Design Group knows how to make something pretty—they're designers...
View ArticleAd of the Day: The World Is Weeping Over the Beauty of This Video Shot on an...
The iPhone 6S video camera is so good, it will make just about anything like a groundbreaking art film. So says a new ad about a tween girl who leverages her high-definition smartphone camera into a...
View ArticleOne Tough Hijabi Stars in Nike Training's Latest Ad About Inner Strength
Female weightlifter Amna Al Haddad appears in the latest online documentary for Nike Training's "Inner Strength" series. The young athlete hails from the United Arab Emirates and hopes to qualify for...
View ArticleThis Woman Snoops on People's Phones in a Great Hidden-Camera PSA About Privacy
Would you give a complete stranger who walked up to you on the street access to all the personal data on your phone? Ad agency Don't Panic stages such a scenario in an amusing video for Liberty Human...
View ArticleP&G Raises the Stakes in Its Latest, Darkly Brilliant 'Thank You, Mom'...
We're exactly 100 days out from the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and less than two weeks away from Mother's Day. To mark both occasions, Procter & Gamble has brought back its "Thank...
View ArticleThis Annoying Preroll Ad Lets You Kill It, Not Just Skip It
Some preroll ads are just so irritating that merely skipping them doesn't seem like meting out proper justice. Sometimes you just want to kill them. And this fun and pretty brilliant Canadian ad for...
View ArticleDroga5 Unleashes a Menacing Ad Campaign for MET-Rx, the Sports Nutrition Brand
Something wicked this way comes in Droga5's first work for sports supplement brand MET-Rx, featuring an ominous 80-second spot about a football player arriving with his team in an opponent's...
View ArticleAxe Kills 'Sexy Beast' Campaign, Calling It Out of Step With Its...
Axe on Wednesday killed a campaign from DDB Puerto Rico that dealt in regressive, simplistic notions of male-female relationships, signaling once again the Unilever men's personal care brand's...
View ArticleThis Graphic Design Firm Used a Road-Lining Crew to Create Its New Identity...
O Street, a graphic design firm in Scotland, hired one of Glasgow's finest road-lining crews to create a typeface for its new visual identity, using molten thermoplastic on asphalt. Glasgow native...
View ArticleThis Bank Made a Couple of 120-Year-Old ATMs, and They're So Money
Saatchi & Saatchi partied like it was 1899 in a this campaign for CIB Bank, building two ATMs that looked 120 years old to celebrate a neighborhood anniversary in Budapest. The city held...
View ArticleTemptations Made a Collar That Finally Gives Your Cat a Human Voice, So It...
Since the dawn of time, humans have been confounded by cats, those mystifyingly aloof creatures whose inner thoughts are famously inscrutable. But no longer! Temptations Cat Treats has invented a cat...
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