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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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How an R/GA Designer Dreamed Up a Way for Anyone to Take the Most Creative...
Does your idea of the perfect vacation involve doing absolutely nothing, with your feet in the sand and your paws on a piña colada? Please move along. There's nothing to see here. If you are, instead,...
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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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College Ad With Couple Kissing in the Library Boosted Applications and Just...
A college recruitment ad that made waves last year for including a scene of a couple making out in a library has been named the best university commercial of the year. Kira Academic, a tech company...
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Ad of the Day: Bret Easton Ellis Directed a Delightfully Debauched Film for...
It's hard to make "high art" like the opera feel relevant to a younger, more fast-moving and mobile audience. But that hasn't stopped the Opera of Paris from trying. Last year it launched 3e Scène...
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How a Product Designer at Imgur Just Became the (Unofficial) New Old Spice Guy
Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews have had a stranglehold on the title of Old Spice guy in recent years, even battling each other for it. But now, you should really meet Colin Hoell. He's not appearing...
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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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Ad of the Day: Pizzeria Uses Periscope-Tracked Delivery Runners to Avoid...
How do you deliver pizza without hurting the environment? This chain in London got runners to do it. Sodo, a U.K. pizzeria that specializes in locally and ethically sourced ingredients, has avoided...
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Friends Strip Down in an American Diner to Plug This French Home-Delivery...
A few years ago here in Paris, people were hard-pressed to find a food delivery service. This changed with the launch of Allo Resto, which enabled Parisians to score delivery from lots of different...
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This Ad Explains Why Everyone in China Might Eventually Grow Very Long Nose Hair
Sometimes, the problem is right under your nose. That's certainly the case in this wacky, well-done anti-pollution PSA from WildAid China and McCann Shanghai. The 90-second spot is set in a...
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Durex Created a Racy Online Art Museum to Get the Chinese Talking About Sex
Concerned that not enough people in China feel comfortable discussing sexuality, condom brand Durex worked with social marketing agency S-Lab to create an online sex museum that broaches the topic in...
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