The Ad Council and R/GA's 'Love Has No Labels' Wins the Emmy for Best Commercial
Count Emmy Award voters among the slew of people nationwide who've been charmed and captivated by The Ad Council's famous, viral "Love Has No Labels" diversity and inclusion PSA campaign, created by...
View ArticleMcDonald's Products Are So Popular, They Autocomplete Themselves
McDonald's is celebrating its "all-time favorites" with a campaign that tells us just how much everybody loves Chicken McNuggets and strawberry milkshakes—without saying it outright. Each print ad,...
View ArticleWilson Unveils a Smart, Data-Tracking Football to Go Along With Its Basketball
Lots of young sports fans imagine themselves playing in the big leagues. Now, sports gear brand Wilson is promising to help them feel closer to the pros with a new Bluetooth connected football, and...
View ArticleWhat Were Chester Cheetah and Burger King's King Hinting at During Those NFL...
Anyone who watched an NFL game on Sunday saw a short teaser commercial about 100 times where Cheetos spokescat Chester Cheetah and Burger King mascot the King were seen sitting together at a BK...
View ArticleMichel Gondry Made This Surprise Music Video for the First White Stripes Song...
Michel Gondry famously directed four classic music videos for the White Stripes:"Fell in Love With a Girl""Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground""The Hardest Button to Button""The Denial Twist" Now, much...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Apple Pitches Its Health App With Soothing Animation and Stop...
Use Apple's Health app, and you'll have an easier time improving your health and wellness. That's Apple's pitch in its marvelously simple new spots, which use stop motion and animation to show the...
View ArticleIce T Talks Lemonade for Geico, and the TV Spot Isn't Even the Best Part
Geico has tapped Ice T as the latest cameo in its ongoing "It's Not Surprising" campaign. And while that may be a surprising follow-up to guys like Marco Polo, he breathes comical new life into the...
View ArticleAdobe Shows Why Sports Stars Should Never Sign Big Contracts With an Actual Pen
Don't lose business because you're still using tedious pen-and-paper legal instruments, says a new ad from Adobe. In the minute-long spot, sports announcers and fans go crazy amid news that a...
View ArticleAll the Ads in This London Subway Station Have Been Replaced by Pictures of Cats
It isn't often in advertising that we get a happy ending that isn't totally fictional and "brought to you by." But here one is, in all its furry glory! In early May, we wrote about Glimpse...
View ArticleGeico Created a Quirky Web Series Made Just for Esports Fans
Everybody's trying to get in with an esports team ... even Geico. In an unexpected web series released in August, Geico-sponsored Team SoloMid (TSM) have moved into a new neighborhood. Convinced that...
View ArticleHyundai Drivers Do the Most Asinine Things for Football in Brand's New NFL Ads
Hyundai drivers are weird, weird people who do weird, weird things because of football, according to Innocean USA's amusing new ads for the NFL sponsor. In "Choices," a Pittsburgh Steelers fan has to...
View ArticleThis Agency Just Made a Whole Music Video to Say a Fond Farewell to a Client
A lot of agency-client splits are unpleasant or downright acrimonious. But ad agency Rinck's breakup with Gorton's Seafood has been quite amicable—so amicable, in fact, that Rinck just unveiled a...
View ArticleWith This Sweet Ad, Ikea Joins Small Group of Brands Willing to Talk About...
As we've mentioned before, very few companies explore the topic of divorce, or its ramifications for families, in their advertising. It's just too depressing, the thinking goes, even if it's also, of...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Adobe Gets Unlikely Artists to Create Together in Photoshop...
Ask a tattooist and a master of gold-leaf design to collaborate on a work of art themed "Zero Compromise," and what do you get? A gaudy gilded shrine to the late, great Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of...
View ArticleAdobe's Cheeky New Clothing Line Celebrates Some of the Worst Stock Photos Ever
If you've ever hankered for a T-shirt collection featuring classic, awful stock photos—like Happy senior couple piggybacking at the beach, or Firm handshake between business associates—then you're in...
View ArticleH&M's Stunning New Ad Subverts What You Think a Lady Should Look or Act Like
Tom Jones' 1971 hit "She's a Lady" was a braggadocio anthem to all the men who'd found the right kind of woman—the kind who has "style and grace," but, and this is important, "always knows her place."...
View ArticleKids Playing This Devious Game in a Car Lose Points If Their Parents Speed...
Kids get bored in the backseat. But instead of suffering through an often fight-inducing game of "Slug Bug," or anesthetizing them with a tablet movie, what if you could teach them how to make you a...
View ArticleGreat Prices Inspire Crazy Fun in W+K's Seriously Loopy T.K. Maxx Ads
Be careful: If you buy a designer dress and a leather biker jacket at British discount chain T.K. Maxx, you'll soon find yourself regularly practicing ballet on a motorcycle—just to match your beloved...
View ArticleThis Agency Created a Fake '90s Boy Band to Protest North Carolina's Bathroom...
In April, North Carolina agency McKinney registered its disapproval of House Bill 2, the law requiring all residents to use public restrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate, by...
View ArticleRidiculous 'Super Trump' Billboard in Times Square Leaps Into Infamy in a...
A lot of people wanted this billboard about Donald Trump to become a reality in New York City. Instead, we got the one above—a masterpiece of unintentional camp that is running on a digital board in...
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