This Hilarious, Epic Film About 'Air Farting' Perfectly Spoofs Inspirational...
Never again will you be able to complain about an unsexy client that doesn't inspire you. The proof in the pudding: For one such El Salvador brand, Ogilvy & Mather created a moving sports...
View ArticleCampbell Ewald Names New CEO and CCO as Agency Rebuilds After Controversy
Campbell Ewald executive creative director Jo Shoesmith will become the agency's chief creative officer following the departure of her predecessor, Mark Simon, who is retiring after 16 years at the...
View ArticleThis App's 'Commercializer' Turns Any Boring Classified Ad Into a Big-Budget...
Big-budget advertising used to be the exclusive province of, well, brands with big budgets. But no more. Now, thanks to classifieds mobile app letgo, anyone can sell any old piece of junk with a...
View ArticleHow Amazon Saves You From the 'Showhole' When You Don't Know What to Binge Next
It's one of the unhappy side effects of binge-watching—that deep emptiness you feel inside after burning through your favorite on-demand series. Amazon calls the common condition a "Showhole," and...
View ArticleFollow a Strawberry From Birth to Grave in This Oddly Emotional Ad About Food...
Strawberries make a powerful statement in "Save the Food," a public service campaign breaking today from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Developed pro-bono by SapientNitro through The Ad...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Persol Sunglasses Is Drawing a Graphic Novel in Real Time on...
Steve McQueen helped make Persol 649 sunglasses famous. But recently, the glasses got a modern redesign, which is being supported by more modern storytelling—including a "Choose your own adventure"...
View ArticleLockheed Martin Rigged a School Bus With 'Group VR' to Take Kids on a Tour of...
A group of kids in Washington, D.C., thought they were taking an ordinary school-bus ride to the USA Science and Engineering Festival recently. But much to their surprise, they suddenly took a...
View ArticleThis Pet Store Tried to Sell a 'Gay Turtle' and Here's How Shoppers Reacted
Reminding us that people are judgmental jerks regardless of nationality, creed or religion, Amnesty International and TBWA Istanbul created the #GayTurtle project, which mocks the absurdity of...
View ArticleChilling Australian PSA Shows How Boys Learn Domestic Abuse ... and Girls...
Knocking a girl over isn't just flirting, a new PSA from Australia reminds us—it's an early sign of contempt for women that could lead to more serious acts later in life. The chilling ad, created by...
View ArticleDove Moves Away From Social Experiments in Its Latest Ad About Loving Your Hair
Women buck hair conventions in Dove's latest campaign, from Havas Helia, which tells women they should wear their hair however they like—despite societal pressures to fit into narrow standards of what...
View ArticleGoogle Translate Totally Fails Foreign Couples Trying to Say Their Wedding...
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to join these couples in holy matrimony. And to compare ElaN Languages with Google Translate when it comes to translating international couple's wedding vows,...
View ArticleHere Are the Year's 4 Best Out-of-Home Campaigns, as Judged by the OBIE Awards
The Outdoor Advertising Association of America gave out its 2016 OBIE Awards for the year's best out-of-home advertising in Boca Raton, Fla., this week. Four agencies walked off with Best of Show...
View ArticleAd of the Day: TBWA Helps to Train Medical Students … Using Origami, Sushi...
In Japan, TBWA isn't just making ads. It's coming up with new—and quite peculiar—ways to identify medical students who have the dexterity to make brilliant surgeons. Kurashiki Central Hospital, a...
View ArticleWatch the Video of JWT's Ex-CEO Making a Rape Joke at a Company Meeting
For the first time, the public can now see one of the incidents listed in a discrimination case against J. Walter Thompson's former CEO, Gustavo Martinez. Filed by the agency's communications chief,...
View ArticleCelebrate Earth Day With Earth Porn, Featuring the Sexiest Stock Nature...
It's time to love Mother Earth a little harder. Stock film company Framepool, with help from ad agency McKinney, has produced the sexiest of natural landscape videos for Earth Day today—featuring hard...
View ArticleIkea Just Made One of Its Loveliest Ads Yet About the Beauty of Everyday Life
Ikea drives home the notion that little things mean a lot—and ultimately aren't so little—in "Wonderful Life," an evocative 90-second ad from Mother London. We start with a young couple apparently...
View ArticleThese Inmates Learn Social Media by Sending and Receiving Tweets Sewn on...
A new campaign titled "Tweet from Prison," created by Dubai-based agency Tonic International, blends rehabilitation, recycling and social media into an unusual message. Italian fashion line Made in...
View ArticleChevy's 'Little Red Corvette' Tribute to Prince Is So Good, It's Running in...
Brand tributes to Prince following his death Thursday at age 57 have been hit or miss. But Chevrolet's Corvette tribute was among the best—a lovely minimalist message from a brand that the singer...
View ArticleNeed Some New Digs? Coldwell Banker Has Put the X-Men's X-Mansion Up for Sale
In advance of the X-Men: Apocalypse release next month, and in partnership with 20th Century Fox, Coldwell Banker has created a fun, fictional listing for the X-Men's X-Mansion. Retailing for a mere...
View ArticleTesticles Give Amusing 'Testi-Monials' in This Straight-Talking Anti-Cancer...
We started the week with testicle-themed advertising, and now we come full circle. Men don't really like to talk about testicular cancer. But the testicles themselves certainly do, judging by this...
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