Ad of the Day: Tituss Burgess of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Gets Feisty for Downy
Comic actor Tituss Burgess invades the laundry room in Grey's latest work for Downy, which promises "a fresh too feisty to quit." Frankly, we don't want our clothes getting too feisty. Especially the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Dollar Shave Club Shamelessly Mocks Axe and Old Spice in...
Attention, men. If your body wash makes you feel like a muscle-bound rage monster, or a cologne-oozing nightclub sleaze, Dollar Shave Club wants you to consider a simpler option. The subscription...
View ArticleThe Nike Mag Self-Lacing Sneakers Are Finally Here, but They're Only Making...
The Nike Mag self-lacing sneakers from Back to the Future II are finally a reality—27 years after the movie, five years after Nike built a Mag prototype, and seven months after it announced a...
View ArticleDDB Just Figured Out How to Boost Milk's Popularity: Give It a Special Glass
How do you improve a glass of milk? By improving the glass of milk. (Ba dum—tss!) With help from DDB Canada, the Dairy Farmers of Canada introduce The Milk Glass™. Because you don't want to drink...
View ArticleThis Guy Posed as a Donut Delivery Man to Get Into Agencies and Try to Land a...
Lithuanian marketing professional Lukas Yla arrived in San Francisco this summer with a sweet plan to make a name for himself in what may well be the world's most oversaturated job market. Yla was...
View ArticleIt Took Three Child Actors to Get This Scene Right in the New Garanimals Ad
Working with toddlers in commercials can be tough. Sometimes, the wee thespians just can't take direction. In these cases, alas, the kid most definitely does not stay in the picture. David Bernstein,...
View ArticleChance the Rapper Meets Chance the Wrapper in Weird, Awesome Kit Kat Ad
In advertising's best pun so far this year, Chance the Rapper encounters Chance the Wrapper in this new Halloween-themed Kit Kat commercial by agency Anomaly. The 23-year-old hip-hop star is seen...
View ArticleHavas Chicago Filled a Room With Boobs You Can Play With for #CheckYoSelf...
Havas Chicago certainly knows how to stop pedestrians in their tracks with its office-window installations for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Last October it set up peep-show windows, but the peepers...
View ArticleAmazon Made More Than a Hundred 10-Second Ads Asking Alexa the Funniest Things
People are using Amazon Echo in so many different ways, and asking its AI, Alexa, so many different things, that the brand decided it was perfect for little vignettes. So, it's rolling out more than a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Ask Ordinary New Yorkers to Make a Phone Ad, and You Get This...
To help launch the Asus ZenFone 3, ad agency SuperHeroes dispatched Matt Rubano and Betsy Kenney, members of improv troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, to ask random people on the streets of Manhattan to...
View ArticleWhat Will Kevin Hart Do Next? Well, for Starters, This Ad Campaign for Xfinity
Kevin Hart's upcoming stand-up concert film is called What Now? Which is the question he poses to his uninterested wife and son in this Xfinity ad by 72andSunny New York. This is one of those weird,...
View ArticleBritish PSA Urging Cyclists to Avoid Turning Trucks Draws Fire From Riders
A road safety ad by AMV BBDO is sparking cries of victim-blaming in the U.K. for warning cyclists to hang back from trucks that are making left turns—the driver's blind side on that country's roads....
View ArticleThe Diamond Industry's First Campaign in 5 Years Encourages Millennials to...
The diamond business saw the writing on the wall: Retails sales of diamond jewelry are on the decline as young people delay marriage, work to save money and take a somewhat skeptical view of the...
View ArticleHere Are a Bunch of Nicknames for Breasts in 1-Second Animations, for a Good...
Breast Cancer Awareness Month began on Oct. 1. To get us all in fighting spirit, and alongside Breast Cancer Care, London's Seed Animation Studio united well-known animation directors with a singular...
View ArticleJohn Cena Is Not an Elephant, but Now He's Playing One on TV for Wonderful...
Hey, that elephant sounds awfully familiar! WWE superstar and commercial pitchman extraordinaire John Cena, named to Adweek's Creative 100 this year, voices Ernie, an animated mascot debuting today in...
View ArticlePedigree Salutes Guide Dogs With a Scary and Emotional Ad About Blindness
Pedigree's latest "Feed the Good" video is timed to Blindness Awareness Month, which it's observing with "Dark to Light," a long-form ad about single mom Liz Oleksa's struggle with sight...
View ArticleADT Reassures Boy Who's Terrified of Ghosts That His Home Is Safe in This...
ADT alarm systems don't just protect you against burglars. They protect you against ghosts. At least, that's what one salesman told a scared child during a phone call that agency SapientNitro has now...
View ArticleSpider-Man Is the Ultimate Everyday Hero in This Touching Healthcare Ad From...
You don't need Spidey sense to be a superhero. In "Philips Everyday Hero," part of an Australian campaign for Royal Philips by Ogilvy & Mather London, a disheveled guy leaps out of bed, consumes a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: You Might Feel a Bit Dirty After Watching These Wry New Ads...
Saatchi & Saatchi wrings wry humor out of some socially awkward scenarios in its latest campaign for detergent brand Tide. Look, this stuff isn't soil-yourself funny—which is kind of a shame,...
View ArticleZocdoc Invites American Workers Everywhere to Take an 'Unsick Day' for Their...
Feeling a tad unsick today? Well, don't come in to work … but feel free to spread it around. Healthcare scheduling service Zocdoc is proposing Unsick Day—a day off each year for workers to attend...
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