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Ad of the Day: Ikea Hypnotizes Customers and Time Travels to Their Future Lives
Ikea is really going down the rabbit hole to promote its new catalog, and it wants to take you along for the ride. The brand has launched a campaign from Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors (maker...
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'Got Milk?' Isn't Dead. In Fact, It Just Made Two Curious New Ads
There was major media hubbub earlier this year about the death of the "Got milk?" campaign. But while it's no longer being used nationally by the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), it's still...
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You'll Be Hot and Cold on W+K's New Honda Work, and That's a Good Thing
This Honda Civic campaign by Wieden + Kennedy London is cool. And pretty warm, too. The centerpiece is an engaging 30-second film that shows the freezing and thawing of a Civic on a stylized desert...
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Fanny Glitterwinkle and Harmony Freebush Give World's Worst Vagina Advice in...
Feminine hygiene brand Carefree has released some videos from DDB Sydney promoting its new website, and they're absolutely 100 percent not your typical feminine hygiene ads. No mysterious blue liquid...
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Ad of the Day: See Which Classic SNL Characters Are Now Working for State Farm
The State Farm-meister wants to pump … you up! The insurer has found some amusing brand endorsers deep in the Saturday Night Live vaults, as '90s characters Hans & Franz (Kevin Nealon and Dana...
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The World's Biggest Dandy Wants to Teach You All About PUR Water
Arnold has enlisted a Chris McDonald (circa Thelma and Louise) doppelganger to tout the taste of water filtered with PUR. The new spots feature Arthur Tweedie, a self-proclaimed water critic, and his...
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Ad of the Day: Van Damme Awesomely Sculpts a Mountaintop Ice Bar for Coors Light
Jean-Claude Van Damme is still ice cold, but also still not as frosty as a Coors Light, says the brewer. It's been more than two years since the Gen X icon philosophized about his tight, frozen pants...
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Airbnb Posts Its Strangest Listing Yet, Inviting You to Spend the Night at Ikea
I love the smell of Hemnes in the morning. Some lucky Australians will soon wake up in an Ikea store in New South Wales after spending a night there as part of an oddball promotion with Airbnb....
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Gap's New Celebrity Ads Tell Us to 'Dress Normal.' What Does That Mean, Exactly?
See this Gap ad with Anjelica Huston? How would you describe her look? Stylish? Sophisticated? Exceptional? Not according to Gap, which, as you can see, chooses a more unlikely word: Normal."Finding...
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Why Droga5 Thinks Its Jockey Campaign Could Last for a Decade
IDEA: What would Buzz Aldrin do? It depends on his underwear. He did impressive things in the '60s while wearing Jockey briefs—walking on the moon, for one. But imagine what he'd conquer today in more...
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John Malkovich Makes a Pretty Damn Good Vampire in This Fun French Ad
John Malkovich plays a vampire in this amusing, cinematic spot from Buzzman promoting French streaming video service Canal Play. His character is also a bank manager. The fangs work either way. You...
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New Yorkers Try to Quiet Union Square From a U.S. Open Umpire's Chair in...
Chair umpires in tennis have a thankless job. Sure, they have real work to do, but they spend much of their time babysitting the crowd—and sometimes even babysitting the players. As part of its...
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How Do You Advertise to an Ad Agency? Put Up a Billboard Right Across the Street
Here's one way to pitch your design studio directly to an ad agency: Buy a billboard right across the street from the shop. Intridea, a D.C.-based product design and development consultancy, did just...
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Belize Thanks Journey's Keyboardist for Visiting by Recording 'Don't Stop...
You can't make this stuff up. Jonathan Cain, the keyboard player for Journey and writer of perhaps the band's biggest hit, "Don't Stop Believing," vacationed in Belize recently—and tweeted about what...
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See the Painfully Funny Science Museum Ad That Was Too Violent for Canadian TV
The guy in this sublimely sophomoric spot for a Vancouver science museum should be in a world of hurt. Yet he smiles and shrugs off a nail through his shoe, a bitey dog, a neighborhood kid's expertly...
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Ad of the Day: Bissell Cleans a Grimy Subway Floor, but That's Not the Crazy...
Ravi Dalchand really, really believes in his product. The senior brand manager at Bissell Canada demonstrates the effectiveness of the new Bissell Symphony All-in-One hard floor cleaner (it vacuums...
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Ad of the Day: David Fincher Brings Darkness and Mystery to Gap's Fall Campaign
For years, Gap's ads—and its clothes—were all about bubbly, drenching color. But this fall, it's time for a new look in both, as the brand has brought in David Fincher to drain the color, quite...
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Nocturnal Beer Drinkers Just Hang Around in This Batty Ad From Brazil
When you get to a certain point, usually around your mid-20s, you realize there's not much more to life than drinking delicious beer. Imagine a world where you only wake up when it's time to imbibe a...
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Tweet This Hashtag in NYC, and Reebok Could Run a Pair of Sneakers Over to You
Starting today, New Yorkers who tweet their shoe size and address with the hashtag #ReebokHDS could get a visit from the brand's Human Dispatch Service. The team of runners will personally rush pairs...
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Ad of the Day: Johnny Manziel Gyrates From Hunger in Latest Snickers Ad
Johnny Manziel isn't Johnny Football when he's hungry. He's Johnny JamBoogie. In this new Snickers ad from BBDO New York, the Cleveland Browns quarterback stars as a Spandex-clad man leading an...
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