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Geico Fast-Forwards Through Its Latest Clever Prerolls, but You Might Want to...
Geico and The Martin Agency had a huge hit with their "Unskippable" preroll campaign on YouTube last year, which Adweek named the best campaign of 2015. This year's follow-up campaign, though, needed...
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Burger King Had a Pretty Good Comeback to That Big, Insulting McDonald's...
Last week, we wrote about that obnoxious and ludicrous (and OK, pretty entertaining) McDonald's billboard in France that displayed absurdly lengthy driving directions to the nearest Burger King...
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M&M's Unveils 75th Anniversary Spot Featuring Zedd and Aloe Blacc's 'Candyman'
M&M's turn 75 years old this Thursday, and the Mars brand is beginning a year-long birthday celebration with a musical collaboration between Zedd and Aloe Blacc, who have reinterpreted Sammy Davis...
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This Video Game's End-of-the-World Simulator Is Scary, and It's All Your Fault
In partnership with Ubisoft—and for the launch of role-playing game The Division, based on a Tom Clancy novel—Paris agency BETC created "Collapse." This choose-your-own-adventure style online...
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If You Run Fast Enough Past This Reebok Ad, It Unlocks a Free Pair of Sneakers
Sneaker brands are fond of running challenges, and they can make for some cool ad stunts. Asics has done this for years, running outdoor ads that challenged people to race against a digital image of...
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Travelocity Has a New Agency but the Same Old Gnome in 'Wander Wisely' Campaign
Travelocity may have parted ways with the agency that created its famous Roaming Gnome character, but the pint-sized spokesman is still a fixture in the online travel agency's advertising—and now he's...
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Ad of the Day: Paul Giamatti Battles a Family of Movie Buffs in His First Ads...
Acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti makes his on-screen commercial acting debut—and jousts with a family of know-it-all movie and TV buffs—in CenturyLink's amusing "Hollywood Insider" campaign from Arnold...
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Diabolical House of Cards Ads in D.C. Metro Reference a Crime Committed There...
New ads for House of Cards reference a now-infamous scene early in Season 2 where—spoiler alert—Frank Underwood pushes a certain aquaintance in front of a D.C. Metro train. Meant to look like...
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Striking Ad for Earth Hour Begins With an Old Woman in 2090 and Backtracks to...
Iris Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund put together some weapons-grade wishful thinking with this new spot for the WWF's Earth Hour event. With help from a little girl's narration, the ad...
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The 2016 Election Just Got Even Weirder With a Racy Debate Between Trojan...
Happy Super Tuesday! This year's election got strange long ago, so surely you won't mind this latest oddity—a mock debate between various Trojan condom products spouting endless sexual innuendo. Even...
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The 10 Best Ads Wieden + Kennedy Made for Chrysler and Dodge Over the Years
Today Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced an end to its six-year partnership with Wieden + Kennedy. FCA, which owns brands including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Maserati, said in a statement that now...
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Ad of the Day: Are These the Strangest, Most Mesmerizing Financial Ads Ever?
Financial ads are normally so buttoned up. But Swedish e-commerce payment brand Klarna loosens things up in its new campaign from DDB Stockholm, with three weirdly entrancing ads that dramatize how...
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Charter Promises Great TV and Internet at the Most Comically Unlikely Times
A quartet of ads for Charter Communications' Spectrum package promise fast and convenient Internet service, and HD television for everyone ... no matter how bedridden, ambitious, desperate or...
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Not Every Brand Loves Emojis. Always 'Like a Girl' Says the Female Ones Are...
Most brands have expressed eternal love for emojis in recent years, as they try to talk the talk of young people today. Not so fast, says Always' "Like a Girl" campaign, which points out in a new ad...
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Tillamook Says a Fun, Violent Farewell to 'Big Food' in Eye-Catching Ads by...
Food fight! Tillamook, the 107-year-old farmer-owned dairy co-operative, cuts Big Food down to size in a series of goofy yet pointed videos from 72andSunny. A continuation of last year's "Dairy Done...
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VW's 'Connected Dog' App Lets Your Best Friend Walk Himself, So You Don't...
Volkswagen has been having trouble with cars lately, so it's moved on to dogs. Or so it would appear from this latest prank video from the automaker's Dutch division and ad agency Achtung! You see, VW...
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Sexual Consent Ads Ditch the Metaphors and Go Right to the Talking Cartoon...
A well-received video made the rounds last fall that addressed the issue of sexual consent through a metaphor of drinking tea. Based on copy written by blogger Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess, it...
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Samsung VR Headsets Help Millennials Overcome Their Fears in Persuasive New Ads
Terrified of heights? Try tricking yourself into thinking you're on the roof of a skyscraper, using virtual reality technology—and maybe, with practice, you'll be better equipped to deal with the real...
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Barbarian Group Chairman Benjamin Palmer Leaves the Agency After 14 Years
Three months after New York's Barbarian Group parted ways with CEO Sophie Kelly, chairman Benjamin Palmer has left the agency he co-founded after 14 years. Palmer announced his departure this morning...
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How Droga5 Branded Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as It Would Any Consumer Product
When Droga5 sold a 49 percent stake to Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavor in the summer of 2013, there was plenty of speculation about how each side might leverage the other—how WME could...
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