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Work It, Kitty! Cats Get Toned With Aerobics Routine From Temptations Treats
Cats doing aerobics? DDB Chicago's amusing new video for Temptations cat treats is likely to blow up the Internet. No wonder Temptations-eating felines have the leg muscles to be able to cling so...
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Ad for Bike Light Illuminates Cycling Magazine's Entire iPad Edition
Here's a clever idea from Publicis Frankfurt—an ad for a bike light that readers must "turn on" in order to be able to read an intentionally darkened version of a cycling magazine. Too intrusive?...
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Adorable Coca-Cola Ad About Young Love Is Sort of Perfect
This adorable little spot from Fitzgerald + Co. encapsulates everything that's fun and young about the Coca-Cola brand. It shows two kids falling in love, Cokes in hand, at a Six Flags. They ride the...
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Google Chrome's Ad With Stewie From Family Guy Is Super Irritating
Stewie Griffin, the 1-year-old prodigy from Family Guy, is a lovable character, but man can he get annoying. In this 15-second spot from 72andSunny for Google Chrome, he proves just that. "Mom! Mom!...
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Nathan Sorrell, Overweight Jogger From Famous Nike Ad, Loses 32 Pounds
Nathan Sorrell, the heavy kid from Nike's infamous "Jogger" ad by Wieden + Kennedy, has lost 32 pounds since last summer—and plans to lose 30 more. The London, Ohio, native, now 13, returned to the...
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Newcastle Brown Ale Lovingly Salutes Its Founder, and the Worms That...
"Col. James Porter was laid to rest in Morpeth, where worms began eating his body." Droga5 delivers one of the best commercials ever about a company's founder—for Newcastle Brown Ale. Read more about...
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Disney Film Publicist's Joke Photo With Bloggers Sparks Backlash
For marketers, blogger outreach can often feel like working in a field of landmines, where one misstep can detonate across the Web. The newest publicist to find himself at the center of the blast...
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Killer From Lionsgate Horror Movie Invades Posters for Studio's Other Films
Dude's got an axe! He's gonna chop up movie posters! Aaaaahh! Lionsgate has overlayed images of scary, animal-masked killers on posters for some of its non-horror releases—such as Tyler Perry's...
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New Zealand Brewer Shows You How Not to Reference Gay Marriage on a Billboard
The latest Tui beer billboard from New Zealand's DB Breweries is a homophobic eyesore, according to feedback on the brand's Facebook page. Or else it's funny and people should get over it, also...
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Think Different? Apple's Latest iPhone Commercial Suggests Doing the Opposite
Sometimes Apple's demo spots for the iPhone are charming; other times they can feel cold. The recent ones, with the rapid-fire word jumbles and cheerleader-style chants, had an odd, rah-rah vibe to...
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Microsoft to Apple and Samsung Fans: Stop Fighting, You Utter Morons
If smartphone advertising has a recurring theme, it's that the users of rival products are idiotic obsessives. Samsung made that point with its campaign poking fun at Apple fanboys. Now, Microsoft is...
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Weather Channel Aims Twitter-Powered Tornado Winds at Its Helpless Interns
Intern abuse is always good fun. The Weather Channel is celebrating the beginning of Tornado Week today by putting its interns in a room and blowing powerful winds at them, with the force of the...
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Creepy German Ad Shows Off World's Roomiest and Toastiest Winter Coat
Dr. Who, your jacket is ready. In this odd spot for 66°North outerwear from German agency Grabarz & Partner, some commuter dude shivering at a remote Icelandic bus stop encounters one of the...
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Microsoft Ad Turns Forbes Print Magazines Into T-Mobile WiFi Hotspots
Microsoft stuffed a functional WiFi router into a limited number of the most recent issue of Forbes, perhaps inspired by Entertainment Weekly's use of tiny LCD screens in one of its print issues last...
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Paris Agency Introduces Come4.org, a Porn Site Devoted to Charity (NSFW)
What if being bad could do some good? That's the question asked by Come4.org, which describes itself as "the first user-generated, nonprofit pornography site devoted to funding charitable and...
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Ogilvy Creates Saudi Arabia's First Major Ad Campaign Condemning Violence...
Saudi Arabia, which ranked 131st out of 134 countries for gender parity in a recent report from the World Economic Forum, has unveiled what is believed to be its first major ad campaign condemning...
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The Most Awkward Ad Ever for a Local Transmission Repair Shop
George from Arlen's Transmission might not be the next Chuck Testa, but he certainly gave 100 percent to this new commercial, created by local-ad legends Rhett & Link. Compare and contrast the new...
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Budweiser's 'Buddy Cup' Might Be the Dumbest High-Tech Brand Innovation Yet
All you've ever wanted is to make it easier for that too-friendly guy you were too polite to while drunk at that party to stalk you the next day. No? Budweiser Brazil has the solution for you, anyway....
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Man Killed and Stuffed Down Toilet at Ad Agency, Google Photos Suggest
Google Business Photos is an interesting service through which companies can pay to add interior shots of their offices to Google Street View. The temptation to abuse the service by posting goofy or...
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JetBlue Aims High With Online Tribute to NBA's Jason Collins
The outpouring of support has been impressive for NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly gay male athlete in a major U.S. professional sport. Marketers, though, have been largely silent about...
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