Heineken Just Made an HR Campaign That's as Cool as Any Consumer Ads It's Done
Oh, the places you'll go! In 2013, Heineken scored a bronze Lion at Cannes with "The Candidate," an internship contest that generated a whopping 1,734 global entries. Now, the brand is back to...
View ArticleAd of the Day: JetBlue Gave Three Hard-Working Buskers in NYC a Delightful...
Stroll through the busy streets of New York City (or any city, for that matter) and chances are you'll hear and see street performers playing beautiful melodies. If you're like most busy New Yorkers,...
View ArticleVon Miller Shows Off His Many Quirky Talents in His Debut as the Old Spice Guy
Denver Broncos linebacker and Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller has some big cleats to fill as the latest Old Spice guy, following popular pitchmen Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews as the star of Wieden +...
View ArticleCan You Rage Like Cage? These German Creatives Built a Site That Will Tell You
Among Hollywood's few remaining household names, Tom Cruise is famous for acting like a robot, Tom Hanks for doubling as everyone's next-door neighbor, and Nic Cage for freaking the hell out. But can...
View ArticleTommy John Put Live Ferrets Inside Men's Shirts for This Shockingly Squirmy Ad
Ad agency Preacher shoved live ferrets down actors' shirts for the latest Tommy John commercial. It did so to illustrate the indignities men often suffer owing to ill-fitting undershirts, and position...
View ArticleThis Newspaper Turned Its Front and Back Pages Into an Anti-Violence Protest...
Have you ever heard what people say about Latinos? They're intense, passionate and "macho"—a quality that's often seen as protective. Obviously, these are stereotypes. Another side of the "Latin man"...
View ArticleThese Students Made a Song Out of Inactive Twitter Accounts, and It's Super...
To get people to delete their (probably long-forgotten) inactive Twitter accounts, some students from Rotterdam-based Willem de Kooning Academy created a ridiculously catchy @twittersong, with lyrics...
View ArticleAudi and Airbnb Offer Up a Crazy House in Death Valley, and a Great Ad to Go...
If you fancy hanging out in the sizzling-hot middle of nowhere, with an endless expanse of sand all around and the occasional scorpion scuttling by for distraction, Audi's got the promotion for you....
View ArticleConan Made This Hilarious and Perfect AirPods Ad Spoofing the iPod Silhouettes
When Apple introduced its wireless AirPod earphones at its media event last week, there was immediate suspicion that these cute little gizmos might pose a particular problem for consumers. Conan...
View ArticleThis Surreal British Airline Commercial Takes You on a Wild Trip Indeed
Travel has become more accessible for Londoners, thanks to easyJet, whose latest "Why Not?" campaign by VCCP has a pretty basic premise: It's the story of the many adventures awaiting a woman whose...
View ArticleDid This Missouri Democrat Just Make the Best Campaign Ad of the 2016 Election?
Jason Kander, a Democrat, is challenging Republican Roy Blunt for his U.S. Senate seat in Missouri. And Kander will be getting plenty of attention for his cause thanks to this remarkable new campaign...
View ArticleThis Billboard, for Oliver Stone's Snowden, Has Been Spying on People in Toronto
Here's a pretty great out-of-home execution for Oliver Stone's upcoming film Snowden, about the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—a billboard that's been spying on pedestrians in Toronto and streaming...
View ArticleCats Rule This Hypnotically Weird Ad for … a Japanese Delivery Company?
We started the week with cats, and we're ending it that way, too. There's no better time than a Friday afternoon to check out this ad for Japan-based international delivery company Yamato Transport...
View ArticleMovie Marketers Are Already Whipping Up Cool New iMessage Stickers for iOS 10
Earlier this week, Apple finally made iOS 10 available for everyone to download. A big part of the launch was a lot of new features for the iMessage app. But what really got people's attention...
View ArticleApple's First Big iPhone 7 Spot Is One of the Most Gorgeously Lit Commercials...
Apple broke a pair of iPhone 7 commercials during the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, advertising the latest incarnation of the device with the line: "Practically magic." The spots push two improvements...
View ArticleJames Corden Pitches Delightfully Terrible Ad Ideas to Apple Music in This...
There's a certain kind of advertising that you know is vying for a Cannes Lion, the kind of prestige work that will really make you think about the state of humanity—and if you're lucky, the brand...
View ArticleScotts Turf Builder Makes Grass So Green, This Agency Used It as a Green Screen
Here's a little inside-baseball stunt for all your advertising production people out there. Scotts Canada is running a new commercial that shows how Scotts Turf Builder Green Max will make you grass...
View ArticleThe Mythical Safe That Cost Jack Daniel's Founder His Life Just Turned Up in NYC
Every brand story contains an element of myth. In the case of Jack Daniel's, legend has it that the brand's founder, Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, had a mysterious safe that led to his death. One day,...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of MLK's Death Is Woven All Through This Brilliant Memphis...
Basketball jerseys might seem like an odd medium for honoring historical figures or making political statements, but maybe the post-Kaepernick sports era is more woke than the one before it. It's...
View ArticleCan Michael J. Fox Help This New Insurance Company Thrive With a Focus on...
Do you view insurance companies as soulless corporate monoliths powered by greed and shamefully disconnected from the customers they serve? Yeah, that's what a lot of us believe. And Sonnet, an online...
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