Hasta La Creative!

“It makes great cocktail napkins, bookmarks, facial tissues. But you know what’s best to do with it!” Yes, Durham, N.C., agency McKinney knows where its home state’s controversial House Bill 2 belongs—in the toilet.

The Charlotte City Council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance in February that included a rule allowing transgender people to use public restrooms assigned to the gender with which they identify. Furious opposition groups supported by Gov. Pat McCrory then ran ads arguing that the ordinance would make it easier for male sexual predators to get closer to victims by posing as women. 

The state legislature later called a special session to pass “HB2,” which requires all North Carolina residents to use the public restrooms associated with their birth gender. The move has enraged civil liberties groups nationwide, and North Carolina has been the focus of plenty of backlash over HB2. 

McKinney proposes a solution to the HB2 problem: Flush it. And they mean this quite literally, as you’ll see in the video below.

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Allergy season is here, which means it’s time for a fun song about snot and sucky genes!

Set to Justin Bieber’s hit “Sorry,” pop-song parody artists Laughing Moms—aka Alisha Found Eden—croon about wheezing, antihistamines and hives, while apologizing to their kids for passing along the miserable immune response. 

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With less than 100 days to go before the Rio Olympics, Lacoste builds on its “Life is a beautiful sport” campaign with a chic new video called “Support with Style.” 

Created by BETC and its music subsidiary BETC Pop, “Support with Style” follows a troupe of “beautiful supporters” through Paris, whose landscape has been transformed into an eerily empty (and clean!) playground for Rio 2016 stadium seats. 

The clip reinforces Lacoste’s relationship with the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF), for whom it will outfit all French Olympic teams. The partnership was born in 2013, and will conclude this year (barring an extension of the contract). 

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Some swaggering cartoon pandas sing a slightly more animalistic version of Lonely Island’s viral blockbuster “I Just Had Sex” in a new campaign about endangered wildlife. Those bears aren’t looking for back slaps just because they got lucky, though. They’re propagating the species. So it’s OK if they tell the world about their adventures in shagging, even if they admit their partner ate bamboo the whole time. (Doesn’t matter, had sex!)

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EasyJet, the budget airline, has released a European campaign marking its 20th anniversary, which asks customers to tell their travel stories.

Jennifer Aniston wakes from a “nightmare” in which she cannot have a shower on an aeroplane, in her first TV ad for Emirates.

Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R has tried to banish memories of Virgin Atlantic with a new spot for Emirates.

American Airlines has chosen Crispin Porter & Bogusky and MediaCom as its global creative and media agencies respectively after a competitive pitch.

British Airways has picked Creston Unlimited and data analytics consultancy Aquila Insight to handle the airline’s customer relationship management work.

British Airways has created a new TV ad, to launch as post-Christmas gloom hits the nation.