Ad of the Day: Organic Valley, in Deadpan Style, Celebrates the End of the...
Sugar is the new heroin, and sitting is the new smoking. But one formerly vilified habit—eating butter—is apparently off the naughty list. Gingerbread cookies and basted turkeys for everyone! In a new...
View ArticleThis Year's Lovely Christmas Ad for the Spanish Lottery Has a Surprising...
The Spanish Christmas lottery is special. It boasts one of the biggest prize pools in the world, and paid out more than $2 billion in prizes last year. Lotto tickets are typically sold in...
View ArticleBenicio del Toro Shows How to Act Like You Love Crappy Gifts in Heineken's...
Nothing says "family" like pretending to love the terrible gifts your relatives have gotten you for the holidays. That, at least, is the basic premise of a new 30-second Christmas ad from Heineken...
View ArticleKetel One Vodka's Funny Films From Barton F. Graf Go Down Smooth
Ketel One offers a tipsy take on its quest for vodka perfection in this new campaign from Barton F. Graf. The work consists mainly of self-consciously wacky "training videos," purportedly aimed at the...
View ArticleGeorgetown Optician's Eyewear-Crazed Family Is Back in Another Gorgeously...
You remember the Voorthuis family, the optically obsessed owners of eyewear retailer Georgetown Optician. They were the quirky stars of agency Design Army's beautifully weird (and "true-ish")...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Parents Get Their Kids to Ask Santa for a Lexus in Automaker's...
Lexus has rolled out its 2016 Christmas campaign, the latest installment of its "December to Remember" sales event advertising from agency Team One, and it has various adults manipulating kids into...
View ArticleWhat This Creative Director on Liquor Brands Learned From Opening Her Own...
Creative director Melissa Maher knows the alcohol business well. Over the last 12 years, she's worked with Brown Forman, Mike's Hard Lemonade and, in her current role at The Marketing Arm in Dallas,...
View ArticleWhat This Ad Agency Hopes to Learn by Living With an Ordinary Family for a Week
David Ogilvy once said, "The customer is not a moron. She's your wife." It's easy to say, but how many agencies live by the notion that consumers are people we know and love? Italian agency Le Balene...
View ArticleA King Escapes Drudgery of His Throne Thanks to PlayStation in New Epic From BBH
My kingdom for a console! A bored medieval monarch abdicates his throne—well, he vanishes, at any rate—to find fantastical fulfillment in the larger-than-life world of Sony PlayStation 4 in this...
View ArticleJeff Goodby Reveals His 3 Favorite Ads of the Past, and the Artists Who...
When he's not making tequila, Jeff Goodby is immersed in the worlds of art and advertising. The co-founder and co-chairman of Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco sat down to talk about...
View ArticleHeathrow Airport's Christmas Ad With Two Old Teddy Bears Makes Britain Feel...
Traveling is probably the least pleasant thing about the holidays, but apparently it's bearable (sorry) if you're a couple of elderly teddies on your way to a loving reunion. London's Heathrow Airport...
View ArticleGoogle Is Telling More Transgender Stories at a Critical Time for LGBT Rights
Google is back to celebrate more transgender stories. Three new documentary-style videos offer a glimpse into the lives of transgender people who are making a difference in their communities, with...
View ArticleCossette Came Up With a 'Super-ad' That Can Work for Literally Any Product or...
Why waste your time developing different creative ideas and executions for every client when a one-size-fits-all approach could work just as well? That's the pitch from Canadian agency Cossette in the...
View ArticleLexus Just Made a Sriracha Car, and No This Isn't an April Fools' Joke
Lexus wants you to know it's the hottest automobile brand around. So, it made a red-and-green, hotter-than-hell Sriracha version of its new Lexus IS sports sedan. This isn't a joke, at least not...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Dollar Beard Club Casts a Slew of Shaggy Celebs in Latest...
Grooming its brand for a broader audience, Dollar Beard Club drops a commercial today that's thick with hirsute celebrity endorsers. Seattle Seahawks star Richard Sherman is the most famous of these...
View ArticleThe Ad Council Says Its Work Is More Crucial Than Ever in Dark Times
While its work includes a number of campaigns in support of left-leaning causes, the Ad Council is officially an apolitical organization. Still, the results of last week's presidential election, and...
View ArticleThis Nightmarish Ad Urges Governments to Stop Using Schools as Military Zones
If you're from a city on terrorist watch, you're probably familiar with that unsteady, cold-shower feeling you get when you've suddenly turned a corner to discover a bunch of armed soldiers guarding...
View ArticleA Real Estate Development in Miami Just Got Ads Suited to a Highbrow Fashion...
Your shoes, your books, the computer you buy or the phone you choose reflect something of who you are—at least, we like to think so. We also like to think we imbue our belongings with a certain...
View ArticleAd of the Day: San Francisco Is Shocked by a Store Where Everything Costs...
California's Bay Area—home to nine counties, from Alameda to San Francisco—has always been an enclave of diversity, both in terms of ethnicity and cost of living. But thanks to Silicon Valley, median...
View ArticleBlake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan Can't Stay Mad at Each Other for Long in...
Can BFFs Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, the terrific twosome of the Los Angeles Clippers, stay angry at each for long? We learn the answer in 72andSunny's brief bro-mantic comedy below, the latest...
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