Monique Luiz, Star of LBJ's 'Daisy,' Returns in Hillary Clinton Ad About...
Fifty-two years after she appeared, as a 3-year-old, in the most famous political campaign commercial ever made, Monique Luiz is back—and the subject once again is nuclear weapons. Luiz was the star...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Happy Halloween! Here Are Some Very Creepy Ads for Mandarin...
Wonderful Halos seedless mandarin oranges, or a couple of bad seeds. Which would you choose? Those are your options in one of four oddball ads dropping today from Wonderful's in-house team and Hungry...
View ArticleYou Can Help Tomcat Kill Some Rodents on a Special Halloween Facebook Live Today
Ready to do a little indiscriminate rodent killing on Facebook Live today? Then Tomcat pest control has a campaign for you. Barton F. Graf created a fake trailer, along with fake posters, for the...
View ArticleCheck Out 2016's Best Halloween Ads and Stunts From Brands and Agencies
Happy Halloween! Agencies and brands are always fond of scare tactics at this time of year. We've been tracking some of 2016's better Halloween pranks—check them out below. We'll be updating this post...
View ArticleAn Art Director Carved the Coolest 'Stranger Things' Pumpkin You'll See This...
Quite a few amateur costume designers have already appeared in Halloween listicles this year for costumes inspired by the supernatural Netflix smash Stranger Things. But who thought anyone could bring...
View ArticleTwitter Puts Visual Hashtags on a Sweeping Series of Issue-Themed Outdoor Ads...
A week out from Election Day, Twitter is launching a big out-of-home ad campaign that uses visual hashtags—i.e., the hashtag symbol paired with images—to position the site as the place where...
View ArticleCats Totally Destroy a Holiday Wonderland in This Raucous Ad for Temptations...
Cats on Christmas Day, capering beneath an impeccably trimmed tree among the presents, sparkly lights and festive food. Sounds cute and cuddly, right? Nah, the aww's turn to argh's as those Santa...
View ArticleHow This Poster in a Women's Restroom at a Bar Cleverly Combats Sexual Assault
A county council in England has come up with a clever and discreet way of combatting sexual violence and abuse. A photo posted to Twitter (and retweeted almost 30,000 times) shows a poster in the...
View ArticleKrispy Kreme Hid Cameras in Its Donut Boxes to Film People's Unscripted...
A Krispy Kreme box has quite the Pavlovian effect on the donut-crazed populace. This is demonstrated in novel fashion by North Carolina agency Baldwin& in its latest effort for the brand, in which...
View ArticleJeff Goodby, Famous for Milk, Is Hitting the Harder Stuff With His Own...
Tienes tequila? Jeff Goodby may be best known as the guy who dreamed up "Got milk?"—one of the truly legendary advertising taglines of all time. But lately he's been obsessed with a very different...
View ArticleHollywood Not Vine: Why Movie Studios Never Really Embraced the 6-Second Video
Pour out a 40 and loop the video repeatedly until you scroll away for Vine. Twitter announced last week that it's discontinuing the mobile app, which allowed people to shoot and instantly share short...
View ArticleAd of the Day: This Powerful Campaign Has Answers for Parents Googling 'Down...
A powerful new Canadian ad campaign presents the most commonly Googled questions about Down syndrome—and has people living with Down syndrome answer them in a collection of some 40 videos. Titled...
View ArticleThe Green Starbucks Cup, Designed to Bring People Together, Is Just Another...
Heading into the holiday season, Starbucks wants Americans to feel united again after a brutal election season. But Americans clearly just aren't ready for that. They want to fight—over the color of a...
View ArticleBurberry Tells Its Founder's Story in a Beautifully Made Holiday Ad That's...
If Thomas Burberry, the founder of the eponymous fashion label, were to star in an early 19th century biopic, it would be a dazzling tale of love, adventure, war and ambition. It would all revolve...
View ArticleHow Do You Promote an Indestructible Lawn Mower? With a Press Release Made of...
We've seen a lot of intentionallysillypress releases over the years. But this one, sent out by Colle+McVoy for client Cub Cadet, is not kidding around. The Minneapolis agency recently helped the...
View ArticleA NYC Folk Hero and a German Car-Rental Brand Teamed Up for This Bizarre...
Did you think you'd heard the last of Jimmy McMillan, hirsute founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High party? Just because he "retired" late last year, calling New York voters "brainwashed," doesn't mean...
View ArticleA California State Senate Candidate Made the Year's Most Star-Studded,...
Down-ballot races have been contentious this political season, as none of the contenders really know how the bitterly contested presidential race will affect them. So candidates are getting creative....
View ArticleAd of the Day: BBH Gets Nostalgic for Macy's in Salute to the Thanksgiving...
Like most of its brick-and-mortar brethren, Macy's has struggled to keep pace in the era of e-commerce, suffering sales slumps that have forced the iconic chain to shutter many of its stores. And the...
View ArticleApple Brings the iPhone 7 to Game 7, Springing for a Slot on the World Series...
We don't know whether the Chicago Cubs or the Cleveland Indians will emerge victorious in tonight's historic World Series Game 7. But we can predict one winner in advance—the bronzed bloke from...
View ArticleHere's the Lovely Salute to the Cubs That Nike Aired After the Final Out of...
Timing is everything. It was true early Thursday morning for the Chicago Cubs, who are World Series champions after 108 years of futility. And it was true for Nike, which used the first ad slot after...
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