Ad of the Day: Santa Gets a Naughty Visitor in Droga5's Comical Christmas Ad...
Santa abuse is not a common theme of Christmas commercials, but it certainly leaves a mark in this amusing Coach spot from Droga5 and director Matt Aselton of Arts & Sciences. Claus is seen...
View ArticleCreator of Beanie Babies Just Made Its First-Ever TV Spot, for This Brand-New...
Beanie Babies, introduced in 1991, were once the hottest toys in the world. Yet they managed to get so popular without benefiting from a single TV commercial (aside from a McDonald's Happy Meals...
View ArticleAd of the Day: KFC's 'Friendship Bucket Test' Is Like a Deep-Fried Newlywed Game
Nothing says friendship over the holidays like a heaping bucket of KFC chicken. That's the premise, more or less, of BBH London's "Friendship Bucket Test" for the brand's U.K. and Ireland operations....
View ArticleSamsung Choreographs an Awesome Human Kaleidoscope for Its Gear S2 Watch
If Busby Berkeley were alive today and choreographing commercials for tech products, he might have come up with something like this two-minute mini-movie by R/GA for Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch....
View ArticleQuality Street Celebrates the Holidays With the Most Epic Littering You've...
Around the holidays, one item you'll find in a British home is a Quality Street tin, packed with chocolates whose flavors vary by wrapper color. The appearance of the tin—developed in the 1930s, when...
View ArticleSlack Just Took Over 4 Cities With Its First Big, Extremely Bubbly Ad Campaign
If you live in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland or Charlotte, N.C., you're about to get a major dose of happy vibes, thanks to Slack's new effervescent outdoor ad campaign. The workplace...
View ArticleWhy This New York Agency Is Taking All 42 of Its Employees to Japan for the...
New York agency Chandelier Creative is known for many things: its ads for retailers like Target and Old Navy; its founder and creative director Richard Christiansen's taste in interior design; and its...
View ArticleStar Wars Characters Run for Office in These Amusing Parody Campaign Ads
A stock media company is paying homage to the new Star Wars movie with a series of ads featuring characters from the sci-fi series competing in a faux election to rule the galaxy. New York-based...
View ArticleAd of the Day: A Boy's Christmas Wish Comes True in This Lovely Coca-Cola Film
Coca-Cola isn't producing a new Christmas commercial for the U.S. market this year (it's doing some festive packaging instead) but has produced an impressive cinematic short film in Brazil that...
View ArticleClothing Line for People Who Use Wheelchairs Rebrands to Be Much More Than...
Here's a stylish corporate rebranding that's also designed to make the world easier to navigate for folks who use wheelchairs. For a half-dozen years, Canadian couturier Izzy Camilleri, whose star...
View ArticleSee the Dark and Controversial Christmas Ad From Germany That Has Everyone...
Here's a candidate for either the saddest, or the most ridiculous, Christmas ad of 2015. With help from Jung von Matt, which created its smashing "Supergeil" ad last year, German supermarket chain...
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes Peace With Apple in a Holiday Stunt That's Surprisingly Sweet
Having weathered plenty of Microsoft attacks over the years—including the well-known Windows Phone spots that mercilessly mocked Siri—Apple might have had reason to feel skeptical, perhaps even...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Rick and Morty Fans Find Their Carl's Jr. Ad to Be Quite Tasty...
Die-hard fans of Adult Swim's cult favorite hit Rick and Morty are jonesing for Season 3, but they'll have to settle instead for a Season 2 marathon this week on Cartoon Network—and the title...
View ArticleBank of America Salutes the World's Most Inspiring Powerlifter in Compelling...
Are you strong? Manimal strong? Powerlifter Chevi Peters, aka "Manimal," stars in this literally uplifting spot by Hill Holliday, part of a year-long, multichannel Bank of America campaign around the...
View ArticleThis Provocative PSA Argues That Refugees Actually Should Be Treated Like...
Nervous about the rising tide of refugees crossing borders en masse? You're not alone. To help put things in perspective, the Association for the Rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Tunisia (ADIRT)...
View ArticleGiant Sexting Emojis Welcome a Condom for Threesomes in MTV's 'Sext Life' Ad
Sexytime gets weird, and then weirder, in Y&R New York's amusing new commercial for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, featuring actors dressed up as common sexting emoji pairs suddenly getting...
View ArticleThis Agency's 'Jingle Butts' Video Gets Holiday Card Season Off to a Cheeky...
Stumped for a fun way to say happy holidays? Try playing "Jingle Bells" with any of your private parts, and you're all but guaranteed to get a reaction. Kmart famously did it with "Jingle Balls" two...
View ArticleToys 'R' Us Makes a Poignant Christmas Ad About a Gift That's Better Than Any...
Toys "R" Us is making a heartwarming addition to the Christmas ad file. The new commercial, from BBDO Atlanta, opens with sweet footage of a father and his young son preparing for the holidays—making...
View ArticleStephen Curry and Shaq Have Cameos in Guitar Hero Live's Crowdsourced...
Pop music's newest supergroup features hoop icons Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry, sports broadcaster Erin Andrews, Vine star King Bach … and you. To showcase Guitar Hero Live's GHTV feature,...
View ArticlePizza Hut Surprises Families With Truly Crazy Holiday Deliveries of Its...
Order a pizza, get a flash mob. And a brass band, drum solo and pyrotechnics display. Pizza Hut, on a relentless tear to promote its limited-time holiday-themed Triple Treat Box, busted out the good...
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