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Trulia Terrifies Home Buyers With a Haunted Open House for Halloween
Real-estate companies love haunted-house pranks. We saw it earlier this year with this gotcha video from Denmark. And now, digital realtor Trulia is embracing scare tactics with its own hidden-camera...
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Ad of the Day: How Subaru Perfectly Poked Fun at Itself With Its Great...
Subaru's "Memory Lane" ad from Carmichael Lynch, with the hippie grandma teaching her granddaughter to love nature, has been out for more than a month. But it's still airing, and is one of the more...
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Ad of the Day: Crest Gets Kids All Jacked Up on Candy in Cute and Crazy...
We're approaching the holiday where little kids dressed as Marvel superheroes and the cast of Frozen will descend upon neighborhoods across the U.S., amped up on sugar, requiring that adults fork over...
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NFL Players Say 'No More' to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Powerful...
Nearly two dozen current and former National Football League stars appear in powerful new PSAs condemning domestic violence and sexual abuse. They look straight into the camera as they say "No more"...
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Chrysler Celebrates Being American by Making You Think It's German or Japanese
How do you sell American cars in 2014? By tricking people into first thinking your goods are Japanese or German. Chrysler is launching a tongue-in-cheek campaign for its 200 model with TV ads...
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Peeps Do Their Best to Get Scary for Halloween
More sweet. Less scary. That's the promotional campaign, not the ingredient list. The perennial Easter favorite Peeps continue to try to become a year-round candy with these "peepified" illustrations...
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One Woman and Her GoPro Reveal the True Nature of Street Harassment
If you're a woman, this video is not going to be that enlightening. It documents some of the creepier instances of verbal harassment—from more than 100 total—that a woman received during 10 hours of...
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HP Celebrates Human Hands in This Ad for Its Wild New 3-D Touch Computer
We rely on our hands to get us through our various daily projects, whether it's typing on a computer, creating works of art or instructing others to follow a plan. Now, HP wants us to use the power of...
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Ad of the Day: Sofia Coppola Directs 4 Oddly Charming Holiday Spots for Gap
Gap's new tagline, introduced a few months back, is "Dress normal." But the retailer knows your family is anything but—particularly at the holidays. Having launched the new positioning with David...
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Wearing a Fake Ebola Hazmat Suit for Halloween? Donate a Real One Instead
Planning to dress up in fake ebola hazmat gear for Halloween? That's awfully douchey, don't you think? Nonprofit humanitarian group Doctors of the World has an idea, though. Why not join the "More...
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'Dumb Ways to Die' Returns With a Trick-or-Treat Halloween Special
"Dumb Ways to Die," the famed Australian train-safety campaign from 2012, has done a couple of encores for special occasions. First it did a Valentine's Day ad. And now it's done a little...
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Honda's Double-Sided Story on YouTube Is Mind-Bendingly Brilliant
Well, this might just blow your damn mind. Honda and Wieden + Kennedy London have created a rather incredible "double-sided story" on YouTube to promote the Civic and its sportier sibling, the Civic...
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20 Years Before It Was Cool to Cast Gay Couples, Ikea Made This Pioneering Ad
The mini-wave of brands casting gay couples in TV ads this year continues to rise, with the likes of Honey Maid,Cheerios, and DirecTV all diving in. More power to them. But Ikea was the first marketer...
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Brand of the Day: Petco Picks the Year's Cutest Pet Costume for Halloween
After poring over roughly 5,000 entries in the chain's third annual Halloween pet costume contest, Petco found a winner in a Yorkie named Jack. You see, Jack's owner June Harper created a Mork costume...
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And Here Is Nike's Grand, Gritty Salute to LeBron James and His Return to...
LeBron James can go home again. And again. And again. The NBA star's return to Cleveland from Miami was always going to be fodder for numerous ad campaigns. And indeed, we've already seen spots from...
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Netflix's Fun Outdoor Ads Use 100 Awesome GIFs From Shows and Movies
GIFs have left the nest! The digital video files first made a jump to TV a while back, thanks to Fiat. And now they've ventured all the way outside in a fascinating Netflix campaign from Ogilvy Paris....
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1960s Adman Makes a Hilarious and Obscene Visit to a Modern Agency (NSFW)
We've already seen how Joan Harris (aka, Christina Hendricks) might adjust to life at a modern ad agency. Well, this guy is way more of a train wreck. Canadian ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo put together...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 24-31
Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, we could only scare up one spooky spot for this week's collection of best spots. But don't worry, the other four ads are a treat. Check them out below, and vote for...
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What Makes a Great Creative Director? Here's How 10 of Them Answered That...
Ask what makes a great creative creative director, and you'll probably get as many different answers as there are creative directors.The 3% Conference recently went around asking a bunch of cds about...
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The Best Video Ever About the Sheeplike Insanity of Real-Time Marketing
Ever feel like real-time marketing is all about being first, and not about being good? You're not alone. John St., the Toronto agency that regularly produces scathing parody videos about the ad...
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