A Cisgender Guy Learns to Love His Transgender Buddy in One Sleepless Night...
Absolut Vodka's #AbsolutNights campaign centers on archetypes that don't get much attention in traditional advertising—including a widow, a woman attracted to other women and now a transgender person....
View ArticleAd of the Day: Coors Light Makes Masterful Use of 360° Video in...
If you were on the fence about whether to become a pro surfer this summer, Coors Light is out with a new campaign that might make you wonder why you ever hesitated. The ads, created by 72andSunny,...
View ArticleWant Fresh Produce? This Agency Helped a Grocer Grow Food Right in the Store
As if self-checkout and bagging our own groceries at the supermarket weren't humiliating enough, now we're expected to harvest our own vegetables in the produce section! Supermarket chain Zona Sul...
View ArticleDos Equis Puts Two Fairly Interesting People, Erin Andrews and Luis Guzmán,...
Jonathan Goldsmith's Most Interesting Man in the World might have said adios (and flown off to Mars), but Dos Equis is hardly finished with its "Most Interesting" theme. The Heineken brand just...
View ArticleAd of the Day: A Droll Talking Plank Is the Perfect Pitchman in California...
At first blush, wooden planks might not seem like the most exciting of topics. But a new campaign for Humboldt Redwood manages to make them surprisingly fun. Agency barrettSF created four 30-second...
View ArticlePfizer and Its Scientists Take Us Through the Lengthy Creation of a...
From price gouging to tax evasion, the pharmaceutical industry has made some pretty hefty missteps in recent history. With that in mind, drug maker Pfizer has set out to repair its sector's crumbling...
View ArticleState Farm Will Debut a New Tagline During Game 1 of the NBA Finals Tonight
State Farm is still there ... but it's no longer simply "like a good neighbor." In a new campaign by longtime lead creative agency DDB Chicago, the insurance giant debuts a new pitch and a new brand...
View ArticleElizabeth Banks Helps People Find Their Dream Homes ... in Their Actual Dreams
Boy, Elizabeth Banks can sure get inside your head. The actress returns for a self-consciously wacky house party in Pereira & O'Dell New York's latest work for Realtor.com. In new ads, she invades...
View ArticleThis Badass Bodyform Ad Elevates Menstruating Women to Modern Amazonian Warriors
The past couple of years have given us numerous disruptive examples of advertising in the feminine care space, including comical ones from HelloFlo and the award-winning inspirational video from...
View ArticleCentury 21 Helps You Give Dad Just What He Wants for Father's Day: Nothing
If you believe nothing is good enough to give Dad on Father's Day, Century 21 has the perfect gift idea for you: Why not give the big guy a parcel of land in Nothing, Ariz.? After all, he's got plenty...
View ArticleWhy Famous French People Are Suddenly Hating on Their Own National Soccer Team
In eyebrow-raising Twitter fodder this week, the French former professional soccer player and coach Raymond Domenech tweeted, "#JeNeSupportePasLesBleus," which translates to "I can't stand the Blues."...
View ArticleStare Too Long at Snickers' Marilyn Billboard, and You Get a Scolding From...
Here's a nifty bit of tech-fueled out-of-home advertising from Snickers and BBDO New York, extending the candy bar's Marilyn Monroe-themed Super Bowl campaign. In April, the agency set up a digital...
View ArticlePinterest's Real-World Pins Let In-Store Shoppers Save Real Items to Virtual...
It's a real pin that looks like a virtual pin that looks like a real pin. In a bit of reverse engineered skeuomorphism, Pinterest has taken its virtual "Pin" button, which was always visually modeled...
View ArticleAd of the Day: How MTV Is Telling Millennials to Vote in This Craziest of...
MTV has a crazy plan for getting young voters excited about the 2016 election cycle: Talk about the issues. This week, the network is launching "Elect This," a sweeping new campaign to drive...
View ArticleFox Apologizes for X-Men: Apocalypse Billboard Showing Jennifer Lawrence...
Social media has not been kind to this Twentieth Century Fox billboard for X-Men: Apocalypse, which shows the titular villain, Apocalypse, choking Mystique, with Rose McGowan urging others to yell at...
View ArticleOld Spice Just Made Its Weirdest Commercial Yet, and That's Saying Something
It's been more than six years since Old Spice advertising started getting very peculiar indeed, with help from Isaiah Mustafa and, particularly, Terry Crews. But Wieden + Kennedy Portland has now...
View ArticleVerizon's Old Pitchman, Paul Marcarelli, Switches to Sprint in Delicious Bit...
The wireless wars have been getting notoriously dirty, and now Sprint has come up with the most deviously clever attack yet—signing up Paul Marcarelli, who worked for years as Verizon's "Can you hear...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Google Set This Gorgeous Father-Daughter VR Story Entirely...
The gifts parents give their children last a lifetime. It's a familiar trope, but one illustrated to poignant effect in a new six-minute animation from Google Spotlight Stories, the tech company's...
View ArticleThe Writers of Idiocracy Are Planning Anti-Trump Ads Starring Terry Crews
Ted Cruz failed to take down Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but maybe Terry Cruz Crews can get the job done. With elements of the current election cycle often compared to the zany, low-I.Q....
View ArticleDavid Ortiz Keeps Swinging, Even in Retirement, in JetBlue's Charming...
After 13 years playing for the Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz will retire at the end of the 2016 baseball season. And he's contemplating some unusual plans for his next career. In a thank-you ad from...
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