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Barbasol, Jake From State Farm, Applebee's and Totinos Won Twitter Today With...
Brands can be very responsive to people on Twitter, particularly if you are a person named Kim KardashMolon. A few hours ago, this user messaged Totinos, Applebee's, Jake From State Farm, Barbasol,...
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What This Ad Creative Learned From Emailing All 1,109 of His LinkedIn Contacts
Do you find professional value in LinkedIn beyond the occasional glance at someone else's work history? Or is mostly a wasteland of connections made, then forgotten. A year ago, San Francisco-based...
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Belgium's Top Ad Execs Are Donating Sperm and Eggs to Ensure the Nation's...
People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level. The country is extremely proud of its creative reputation. In four years, it has won 78 Cannes Lions, which...
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This Anti-Bullying Ad Tells the Story of a Girl Whose Brave Facebook Photo...
Here's a touching illustration of how social media can combat the effects of bullying. More than a year ago, a little girl reached out to advocacy group The Bully Project after catching flak at...
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Chevrolet Took All the Branding Off This Malibu to See What People Really...
The Chevrolet Malibu is the Folgers Crystals of automobiles—people think it's amazing partly because they don't know what it is—in this latest "Real People, Not Actors" spot from Commonwealth/McCann....
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Thai Brand Apologizes for Blackface Ad That Said 'You Just Need to Be White...
A Thai company has apologized for producing an ad for a skin-whitening product that featured a woman in blackface and suggested people with dark skin are losers. The company, Seoul Secret, pulled the...
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Alligator, Space Invader: The Many Faces of David Bowie in Advertising
In losing David Bowie, we lost an avatar. But you knew that already. Here's a retrospective of Bowie's many appearances in advertising, which are as diverse as the man himself. His close relationship...
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This Jeweler Just Recast the Traditional Proposal Ad With a Rockin' Young...
The combined disposable income of LGBTQ Americans is $884 billion annually. And BVW Jewelers of Reno, Nev., wants a taste. Its most recent ad shows two women kissing on the Crystal Peak Toll Bridge...
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Pepsi Has a Huge Hit in China With This Fascinating Ad About the 'Monkey...
In China, this PepsiCo video about an actor who portrays a "Monkey King" is an absolute beast, racking up, by some accounts, more than 20 million views in two weeks across various versions and...
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Boom Beach Started Its New Campaign on TV and Will End It in the Game This...
If you like absurd cartoon supervillains, here's a campaign for you. Mobile game maker Supercell and New York agency Barton F. Graf 9000 are hyping strategy game Boom Beach with a series of ads...
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For $1, You Can Get Your Name in the Credits of a Campaign Being Entered in...
If you thought ad awards were all about the money—well, it seems you were right. In a cheeky stunt, Canadian agency Rethink is crowdfunding a campaign whose credit list is for sale. For just $1, you...
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Allstate's Mayhem Re-enacts a Homeowner's Real-Life DIY Disaster for the...
Dean Winters is into year seven of his gig as Allstate's "Mayhem" character, but this time—for the first time—he's playing a real-life person whose dangerous ineptitude could have ended really, really...
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This Insane Ad About Australian Grilled Lamb Is Sparking Controversy Down Under
An apparently lighthearted ad celebrating Australia Day is drawing fire in that country for being culturally insensitive. In the commercial for farming group Meat and Livestock Australia, the country...
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Celebrity Cruises Plays a Giant Psychic Game of Marco Polo in This Ambitious...
If you hear voices beckoning you to take a luxury cruise—or you feel an indescribable urge to whisper "Polo" into your coffee cup—Celebrity Cruises might be calling to you. Venables Bell &...
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'Be an Engineer,' Exxon Mobil Tells Apathetic Young People in Equally...
Let's imagine a world without engineers. What does that look and feel like? It's upon this thought experiment that BBDO New York embarks in "Be an Engineer," an effort by Exxon Mobil to motivate young...
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Delicates and Regulars Do Battle in LG's Fun, Theatrical Campaign for a Twin...
Hill Holliday channels West Side Story in this inventive ad for LG that broke on the Golden Globes—staging an impressively choreographed street fight between two rival clothing gangs, the delicates...
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This Agency Has the Perfect Room for Those Who Have Their Best Ideas in the...
Everyone knows the shower is the ultimate generator of great creative ideas. So, why are there so few showers in agency meeting rooms? The folks at Providence, R.I., ad agency Nail had the bright...
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This Emoji Billboard for Deadpool Is So Stupid, It's Genius
Twentieth Century Fox is determined not to take its marketing for Deadpool at all seriously. And it's making for one of the more entertaining movie campaigns in a while. The most recent development...
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This Stunning Ad Shows Why We Need War Reporters Now More Than Ever
If politicians alone controlled the flow of information to the public, war would be tantamount to entertainment, argues a gripping new PSA. A new 80-second video from Paris agency BETC for nonprofit...
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Lita Ford Is the World's Most Rockin' Schoolteacher in This Hilarious Ad for...
Without a doubt, Indeed.com is the best site on the planet for finding a job, especially if you're an aging '80s rocker in need of a gig: The company will be all too happy to put you in one of its...
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