Delta Jumps Into Political Fray with a Lofty Patriotic Meditation from the Sky
Overwhelmed as we are with wacky politicals, terrorist hysteria, a looming police state and social media's unending attacks on our peace of mind, more than a few of us feel outsized pressure to do...
View ArticleSlip Into a Blanket Fort of Chocolate Walnut Absurdity In This Strange...
When this Nutchello ad popped up in my feed, it melted my brain into a delicious puddle of chocolate pouring onto a gold cougar statue. You know, in a good way. The ad, from Fallon, throws one quirky...
View ArticleA Real Estate Brand Turned Kids' Drawings of Their Dream Homes Into VR...
When Swiss real estate website Homegate.ch asked kids to draw pictures of their dream houses, it wasn't an empty gesture. It was the first step in a marketing collaboration with the Bandara agency and...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Nike Redefines 'Just Do It' in One Hell of a Crazy Ad From China
Nike is out with its latest ad from Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai, and it's not just a celebration of sports. It's a celebration of freedom. A lyrical and spontaneous picture of athleticism takes center...
View ArticleTic Tacs Are Little Adrenaline Junkies in The Martin Agency's Charming Ads
They're tiny hard candies that may be small enough to fit between your thumb and forefinger, but they're still packed with adventure, says a fun new campaign from The Martin Agency. Anthropomorphic...
View ArticleSubaru Unveils Two New Safety Ads, and They Couldn't Be More Different
Nothing says love quite like twisted steel and shredded tires. Wrecked cars, and their understandably shaken and contrite teenage drivers, appear in Carmichael Lynch's latest work for Subaru, which...
View ArticleThis Distressing PSA Captures the Horrors of Bullying in the Facebook Era
"Betty B. goes to my school. This is my school." In "Betty B.," a PSA written, directed, shot and edited by Matt Bieler, represented by Los Angeles-based Reset Content, a crisp young voice recounts her...
View ArticleSarah Jessica Parker Dropped Her New Fragrance ... on Instagram
Sarah Jessica Parker just dropped Stash SJP, her latest fragrance, on Instagram. This follows the weeks she spent teasing fans with mysterious messages online and in the streets, led by the hashtag...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Volvo's Ads Are Getting Artful and Cryptic, and Maybe That's a...
A dark diner in Anywhere, USA. A writer chasing his invisible muse. A tree set aflame in the midst of a desert. One lone buffalo, roaming. The latest impressionistic Volvo spot by Grey New York...
View ArticleAbe Lincoln Trashes Clinton and Trump in This Insane Ad for Libertarian Gary...
And now for something completely different in an election season dominated by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump—a political ad starring "Dead Abe Lincoln" telling voters they "just got screwed" by the...
View ArticleMother N.Y. Staff Posed for Hairdo Pics That Their Local Barber Shop Is Using...
It's gotta be the hair. Mother New York staffers have quietly pulled off a very fun agency selfie project, helping to replace the dated hairdo pics in the window of their favorite local barber shop...
View ArticleIs Boring, Oregon, Really Boring? Find Out in This Wonderfully Weird Ad Shot...
Pop culture is full of stories about people trying to escape the boring-ass town they were born in. Not so in Boring, Oregon. As one inhabitant remarks, "Nobody leaves. They think they're gonna go,...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Debuts Its Magical New Packaging With Some Actual Magic
Coca-Cola's grown tired of happiness, and is moving on to magic. As one does. In "Taste the Magic," a new spot by agency David, a waiter approaches a table that's ordered an unusual amount of...
View ArticleKLM's New Ads Have a Preposterously Simple Goal: To Tell You It's an Airline
To some extent, all brands seek to define themselves in ads. Airline KLM, however, takes this process to a reductive extreme in new work from agency Mustache, letting prospective passengers know that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sings a Weird Ditty About Why Macbooks Suck, Just for Fun
Microsoft is still getting catty with Apple. This time, in song. A new ad for the Surface Pro 4 pokes fun at the Macbook Air, continuing one of the Windows giant's favoritetraditions of recent...
View ArticleDads Feel Sad About Their Post-Baby Bodies in Latest Comedy From Bonds Underwear
Is it worthwhile to make an ad about dad bods way after that meme peaked? Probably not, but that didn't stop Australian underwear brand Bonds from making a commercial where dads talk about the changes...
View ArticleAd of the Day: AT&T's Latest 'It Can Wait' Film Drives Headlong Into the...
BBDO and AT&T have delivered another powerful offering in the "It Can Wait" ad series. But while last year's "Close to Home" took its time setting up the board—showing us the different people who...
View ArticleNick Offerman and Michelle Obama Take You Through Six Decades of Exercise Fads
No single decade in recent memory has a monopoly on style. Or questionable exercise methods. A new video, "The History of Exercise," stars Nick Offerman and Michelle Obama looking back on past—and...
View ArticleGoogle Gets Nudists, Prancercisers and Dolphins to Amusingly Advertise Its...
For the layperson, internet routers are generally ugly and boring. They either work and are ignored, or they don't and are infuriating. But Google is having some fun promoting its OnHub, taking it on...
View ArticleIBM's Watson Made This Trailer for a Horror Movie, a First for an AI
Don't panic. They're not coming for our jobs anytime soon. But a computer has just created the first movie trailer designed with artificial intelligence. Twentieth Century Fox asked the scientists at...
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