Cards Against Humanity Made Donald Trump Cards, and a Whole Trump Survival Kit
Recently, we wrote about Jeffery DaSilva of the Sid Lee Collective and how he created an off-label Trump Against Humanity expansion that got yuuuge. Well, now Cards Against Humanity has gone and...
View ArticleNutella? Nougat? What Should Android Name Its Next Treat-Themed Operating...
Android—known for naming each version of its OS after various alphabetically ordered treats like eclair, gingerbread and marshmallow—is ready to launch a new version for the letter "N." And for the...
View ArticleThis L.A. Branding Agency Knows How to Do 'Hardcore Engineering'
SpecsWho (L. to r.) Head of production Isaac Swiderski; chief strategy officer Darcie Lamond; CEO and founder Matt Bijarchi; and operations vp Jesse DavisWhat Branding agencyWhere Los Angeles Last...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Secret Took Viewers by Surprise With This Ad on 'The...
The Bachelorette is a show with notoriously pretzel-like gender dynamics. On the one hand, the ABC dating program puts a woman in total control of the traditionally patriarchal dating structure—and...
View ArticleHow HP Turned Unwritten Stories of Illiterate Brazilians Into Books Printed...
Imagine if there were an easy way for people who can't read and write to share their life experiences with the world. HP and agency AlmapBBDO took a crack at coming up with one, focusing on some of...
View ArticleHavas Worldwide Just Dropped the (Giant) Mic on Canal Street's Post-it Wars
Two weeks after the Canal Street #postitwars began with a single word, "HI," one of the main agencies involved—Havas Worldwide—has shut things down in style. With a giant image of a mic drop. It took...
View ArticleGoogle Built an Escape Room, and Is Making People Use a Bunch of Its Apps to...
Google France has built an escape room to seamlessly unite online and offline worlds. Created by We Are Social, Première Pièce will open at an undisclosed location in the heart of Paris. The campaign...
View ArticleSnickers 'Hungerithm' Sets the Candy's In-Store Price Based on the Internet's...
Snickers has dreamed up one of the cooler online/offline advertising-meets-point-of-sale hybrid campaigns of the year, introducing a "Hungerithm" that gauges the mood of the Internet and adjusts the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Droga5 Has Johnsonville Employees Dream Up Their Own...
Undoubtedly eager to take a break from stuffing ground-up meat into sausage casings all day long, employees at Johnsonville try their hand at creating commercials in a new campaign from Droga5 tagged,...
View ArticleGoogle and Levi's Unveil a Connected Jean Jacket. See How It Works in Action
Fashion futurists, rejoice! Google and Levi's first smart garment has arrived, and it's a jean jacket that connects to your smartphone. The tech giant's Project Jacquard, focused on developing...
View ArticleBBDO's Latest Ad for Snickers Ice Cream Bars Is a Real Scream
Can discordant screaming sell ice cream? Snickers sure hopes so, because that's the angle it's going with this new spot for Snickers ice cream bars. Playing on the "I scream, you scream" rhyme, the ad...
View ArticleMcDonald's Makes Green and Red Angry Birds Burgers, Just Makes People Angry
Time was, McDonald's put toys in their Happy Meals to promote movies. Now they just dye their burgers, we guess. McDonald's China is making chicken and pork sandwiches with special red and green buns...
View ArticleSouth Bend Apologizes for Lifting Salt Lake's Tourism Campaign Almost Wholesale
There are imitations, and then there are copies. Unfortunately, Visit South Bend's new tourism and convention advertising is the latter—a pretty blatant knockoff of a well-received 2015 campaign by...
View ArticleThis Gun Control Campaign Lets You Sign a Yearbook for Kids Who'll Never Have...
Tragically, the youngsters in this yearbook will never graduate from high school. In fact, they'll never grow up at all to reach their potential, or experience the fullness of life. And that's because...
View ArticleThese 'Commitment Rings' Stop You From Watching Netflix Unless Your Partner...
Sick of your significant other skipping ahead and watching your favorite streaming shows without you? Lock them into a faithful TV-viewing relationship with a high-tech pair of series commitment...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Kia Hamsters Give Deliverance a New Spin, and a Happier...
That prize banjo scene from the film Deliverance gets a CG-infused makeover in Kia's latest ad, featuring its trademark hamsters, who have basically become the Barbie doll of brand mascots—they do...
View ArticleY&R's Special Olympics Ad Offers a Truly Remarkable Take on Fatherhood
Ahead of Father's Day, Young & Rubicam Mexico launches a spot for the Special Olympics that follows an expectant dad in a frenzy of anticipation over an upcoming blessed event—the birth of his...
View ArticleAd of the Day: How Good Is This Vacuum? You Can Climb a Skyscraper With Its...
We'd like to preface this story by saying "Don't try this at home," but we already know somebody—probably in Ukraine—is going to seize the opportunity anyway. Having warned you, we hereby assuage our...
View ArticleThe Fat Lady Picks Up the Mic and Sings, as Agency Post-it Wars Reach a...
You thought Havas Worldwide's giant mic drop was the end of the agency #postitwars down on Canal Street. But Getty Images and New York magazine picked up the mic and had the fat lady sing on the...
View ArticleSome Very Ugly Fish Star in This Bizarre Ad About Investigative Journalism
The news is like the ocean. On the surface, everything might seem pretty, but the further down you go, the worse things look. That, at least, is the metaphor behind a new ad from Veja, a popular...
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