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Posted in: UncategorizedThe King Shaved His Mustache for the First Time for Burger King’s Movember Campaign
Posted in: UncategorizedWith National Bullying Prevention Month and Halloween both out of the way, Burger King turns its seemingly inexhaustible marketing attention to Movember, the annual month-long event in which men grow mustaches to raise awareness of men’s health issues. BK mascot The King already has a mustache, though, along with a full beard. So, the best…
The Foul-Mouthed Parrots in This New PSA Are No Laughing Matter
Posted in: UncategorizedAt first glance, the absurdity of the obscenity-spewing parrots in the video below might prompt you to chuckle. Until you step back and think about how the birds learned those words. Grey New York created the spot, which features undoctored found footage of real parrots uttering curse words and other derogatory phrases. It’s borderline comical,…
Lexus Rolls Through Masterpieces of Art in This Strange Yet Charming European Campaign
Posted in: UncategorizedWe’ve seen artsy advertising before, but this is ridiculous. Luxury car marker Lexus just launched a European campaign that brings famous paintings and sculptures to life. In the ad below, from CHI & Partners, a modern couple drive a new NX sedan through re-creations of scenes from memorable works by Johannes Vermeer, Vincent Van Gogh,…
Is This the Most Beautiful Ad Ever Made About the Throes of Addiction?
Posted in: UncategorizedPrescription drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50. To raise awareness about the opioid crisis happening right under our noses, Malibu, Calif.-based Alo House released an ad addressed not to the public at large, but to people still suffering from addiction. Created by agency Paradam–who name, interestingly enough, means…
Nike Salutes the Astros, and George Springer, With a Cool Congrats Ad
Posted in: UncategorizedAfter the final out of last year’s World Series, Nike aired a lovely 60-second TV spot saluting the Chicago Cubs, who were celebrating their first championship in 108 years. The sports marketer didn’t do Houston quite the same favor last night, after the Astros secured their first World Series in the 55-year history of the…
Toyota Has a Cute Flip Book Animation in the New Issue of The Fader
Posted in: UncategorizedIt’s been a good month for inventive magazine advertising, and Toyota continues that with a very cute execution in The Fader, featuring a flip book style animation across 30 editorial pages–showing the C-HR spinning around the page numbers and then driving off the page entirely, leaving a fuchsia trail behind it. The ad appears in…
Honda Brings Sports Trophies to Life in New Ad That’s an Ode to Striving
Posted in: UncategorizedMeet the Toilet Nerds of ‘Porcelain Valley’ in American Standard’s Savage Spoof Campaign
Posted in: UncategorizedIf you’ve ever wondered where innovations in the toilet industry happen, you’ll kick yourself when you find out. Naturally, it’s in Porcelain Valley. A new campaign for American Standard from Minneapolis agency Solve introduces viewers to Silicon Valley’s less glamorous, more functional cousin, where engineers in lab coats stand in showers fully clothed in ponchos,…
Nike China Tells the Country’s Latest NBA-Bound Star: ‘Don’t Come Back’
Posted in: UncategorizedDon’t Be Like These Horrible Gift Givers, Say eBay’s New Holiday Ads
Posted in: UncategorizedA new holiday campaign from eBay is imploring viewers not to “shop like everybody else.” Because apparently, everybody else gives garbage gifts. In four new ads from 72andSunny, awkward gift-givers stare at the camera while making excuses for their lame offerings. “It’s the thing from the link you sent us,” says a timid middle-aged woman…
Hyundai Made the Year’s Most Lunatic Car Ads, With Help From Tom Kuntz
Posted in: UncategorizedThere’s so much horsepower in Hyundai’s new i30N model that it’ll literally turn you into a horse, says an oddball new campaign from R/GA London and, naturally, director Tom Kuntz. A bizarre 60-second launch ad draws from three shorter dream-sequence spots to promote the automaker’s “N” line of performance cars, with everything but the vehicle…
Bose Made Some Lovely, Moving Ads About the Emotional Power of Music
Posted in: UncategorizedIt’s commonly understood that music in an ad, show or film can transform the way that content will ultimately be received. Would Guardians of the Galaxy feel as good to watch if it weren’t for its Awesome Mix? But that is only the case because there’s something about music itself that changes us–that not only…
Ready or Not, Here’s Your First Big, Colorful British Christmas Ad of 2017
Posted in: UncategorizedHoliday season is almost upon us, which means all the British ad agencies and clients are about to roll out their grandest advertising confections of the year–jostling for attention at a time of year that’s become a kind of Super Bowl-like marketing showcase. First out of the gate, breaking today online and Sunday on TV,…
Here’s the One Word You Should Never Say to Parents Who Have Kids With Down Syndrome
Posted in: UncategorizedWarning: There’s a bad word in FCB Canada’s new campaign for the nonprofit Canadian Down Syndrome Society. It’s not shit or fuck, though you’ll hear young people with Down syndrome say both of those words, repeatedly and with great gusto, in the 90-second video below. Even so, despite the riotous and good-natured profanity, the only…
Why the Ads for Thor: Ragnarok Have Been So Surprisingly Bright and Fun
Posted in: UncategorizedOver the last 10 years, various Marvel Studios executives and actors have been asked why there haven’t been more solo movies for The Hulk. After 2003’s Ang Lee-directed Hulk was widely panned due to its unconventional approach, and 2008’s The Incredible Hulk failed to live up to the Iron Man standard of success, the character…
McDonald’s Dreamed Up a Neighborhood of Green Homes for the Return of Monopoly
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Monopoly game is back at McDonald’s in Canada. To promote it, Cossette Vancouver imagined if the board game’s little green houses existed in real life. The agency set up a pop-up experience where a salesman pushed a fictitious development called Green Estates, “a growing community development that offers leisure, lifestyle and ‘greener’ building practices…