Amy Schumer Isn't All That Great With Kids in Old Navy's Back-to-School Ad
Amy Schumer may be the world's worst babysitter, but she will take her nephew and niece back-to-school shopping at Old Navy. A new 60-second ad marks the star's debut for the clothing chain as its...
View ArticleIkea Finally Agrees to Collaborate With Kanye West, but Not the Way He Wanted
You know how sometimes people fish on Twitter in hopes that a brand will give them free stuff? For the last few months, Kanye West's been doing that with Ikea. And Ikea Australia finally gave him an...
View ArticleElegant Split Screens Balance On-Board With On-Shore in This Cruise-Line Ad
Figliulo & Partners doubles your pleasure through elegant use of split-screen technique in the agency's first major push for Carnival's ultra-luxury Seabourn Cruise Line. Targeting affluent...
View ArticleAll 32 NFL Teams Took a Break From Their Rivalries to Unite for the Olympics
What's more American than mom and apple pie? Or, as Bob Dylan asked in Jeep's Super Bowl spot, "What's more American than America?" One possible answer is the National Football League. Professional...
View ArticleAd of the Day: An Ode to Minor League Baseball, and All Working Class Heroes
"A working class hero is something to be," John Lennon sang in 1970—and that sentiment rings every bit as true more than 45 years later. Coney Island is a long way from North Carolina, but...
View ArticleNationwide's Jingle Gets a Modern Tune-Up in Ogilvy's Olympic Spots
Brad Paisley and Rachel Platten are on your side, performing expanded versions of Nationwide's iconic jingle in the insurance company's new spots from Ogilvy & Mather. Launched during NBC's...
View ArticleBubba Watson's Jetpack: The Story Behind Oakley's Latest Insane Golfing Vehicle
At the Olympics, golfer Bubba Watson will be walking the course like everyone else. But don't be surprised if someone asks him about his insane jetpack golf cart. That's because the colorful...
View ArticleHow 2 Copywriters Convinced Strangers to Take Drugs and Try Building Ikea...
Earlier this week, an updated take on a famous anti-drug PSA posed the classic question: "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" Nope. But what about your Ikea furniture on...
View ArticleOlympic Roundup: Carmelo Anthony Shatters a U.S. Record
Team USA once again had a great night in Rio, staying on top in the medal count (now 32). Here are the most important stories for marketers to know about the last 24 hours of the Olympics:Medal Count:...
View ArticleThis Pepsi Spoof Aims to Ruin Cindy Crawford's Classic Ad Forever
A new ad from a consumer activist group is taking aim at Pepsi's sourcing practices by spoofing one of the soft drink company's most famous commercials—Cindy Crawford's roadside gas station spot from...
View ArticleThis Explosively Bizarre Ramen Ad Is Packed With a Japan's Worth of Viral...
Taiyo Kikaku's TOKYO division made a video for Nissin Chikin ramen that appropriates a dizzying array of Japanese ad...
View ArticleThis Planned Parenthood Ad Reminds Viewers That It's Not All About Abortion
In today's hyperpartisan political environment, Planned Parenthood has long been associated with a single word: abortion. Yet the nonprofit organization, which began in Brooklyn in 1921 under the...
View ArticleOlympic Roundup: After One-Day Slump, Team USA Bounces Back to Gold
Team USA continues to have more 2016 medals (84) than any other country at the Summer Olympics in Rio, and the country quickly broke its one-day gold drought. Here's what marketers need to know about...
View ArticleIn Its First Global Campaign, Uniqlo Ponders Why We Get Dressed Every Day
"Every day we get dressed ... but why?" That's the question that opens "Why Do We Get Dressed?" for Uniqlo Lifewear. Created by Droga5 New York, the brand's first-ever global campaign features a man...
View ArticleU.K. Pokemon Face Deportation in Copywriter's Guerrilla Poster Campaign for...
From Piccadilly Circus to Westminster, London landmarks have recently been ambushed with a flier campaign calling for the deportation of illegal ... Pokemon. The campaign is the work of creatives who...
View ArticleOlympic Roundup: U.S. Women Sweep 100-Meter Hurdles, Bolt's Bromance Blooms
Team USA women's track stars had an outstanding night Wednesday, sweeping the gold, silver and bronze in in the 100-meter hurdles. Team USA continues to have more 2016 medals (93) than any other...
View ArticleSiriusXM Created a Restaurant Called Dick's Pizza Just to Make Tons and Tons...
"Nothing livens up a party quite like a big serving of Dick's." At least that's the promise of Dick's Pizza, an unfortunately named and even more unfortunately fictional restaurant created by agency...
View ArticleThese Brilliant U.K. Posters Ask Pokemon Go Players to Help Find Missing Persons
British nonprofit Missing People wants some of the millions of Pokemon Go players traipsing the country to be on the look out for something other than cartoon creatures: actual humans. An outdoor...
View ArticleOlympic Roundup: Team USA Now Has 100 Medals
Team USA reached 100 medals at the Summer Olympics in Rio on Thursday, keeping the nation atop the medal count. Here's what marketers need to know about the last 24 hours of the Olympics:United States...
View ArticleAir New Zealand Created a Video Asking James Corden to Come Do a 'Cockpit...
If you love yourself some Carpool Karaoke, Air New Zealand's hoping you'll be willing to watch celebrities hit new decibel levels in an airplane cockpit. The below video is a public pitch aimed...
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