Pizza Hut: Hut Date

On Valentine’s Day, we created a chatbot so Pizza Hut fans could try to flirt with their real love: a pizza.

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Why Hyundai Scrapped Plans to Use Live Game Day Footage for Its Super Bowl LII Ad

Hyundai’s plans for its Super Bowl LII ad, “Hope Detector,” went through two changes before the Big Game. The ad, which was created by Hyundai and agency Innocean, features footage of visitors to Hyundai’s NFL Super Bowl Experience driven by Genesis setting off a “hope detector” and being taken aside to a private screening of…

Verizon: Best for a Good Reason

Video of Handrail Antennas | Best for a good reason.

Video of Rows and Seats | Best for a good reason.

Video of Stadium Catwalk | Best for a good reason.

Video of Nerve Center | Best for a good reason.

Video of Control Room | Best for a good reason.

Video of Street Lights | Best for a good reason.

T-Mobile – #LittleOnes (2018) :30 (USA)

T-Mobile - #LittleOnes (2018) :30 (USA)

Pepsi CEO Says It’s Targeting Women With Doritos That Are Cleaner and Less Crunchy

Are you a woman who’s always wished she could indulge in a nice snack, but you’re just too darn ashamed of eating something so loud that you may repulse potential male suitors? If so, you’re in luck, because PepsiCo is working on a new project that absolutely no one asked for: women-only snacks. In an…

How Netflix’s The Cloverfield Paradox Changes the Movie Marketing Game

In the end, there wasn’t even really a campaign. A movie called God Particle has been on the backburner for a couple years now. Reports began circulating in mid-2016 that the movie was finished and was going to be the next installment in the Cloverfield franchise, which began in 2008 with that movie and continued…

How Social Media Has Changed the 2018 Winter Olympic Games for Marketers

In the decades before the internet, smartphones and social networks, the Olympic Games were only available through television screens, and this meant that the conversation ended at the edge of the swimming pool. The evolution of social media has since opened up previously inaccessible topics–behind-the-scenes politics, Olympic Village conditions and other topics of interest that…

McDonald's: Celebrate Any Day

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. Wiggle Your Toes Day. National Ship in a Bottle Day. Thanks to social media, there’s one of these not-so-special days, pretty much every single day of the year—and millennials can’t get enough of them. So, we invited this penny pinching generation to celebrate all these small days they love so much, with a treat at a small price.

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Tomboyish Londoner Portraits – Thanos Poulimenos Captures Glassbook Magazine's Guttersnipe Series (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Photographer Thanos Poulimenos captures ‘Guttersnipe’, a tomboy-themed image series for style publication Glassbook Magazine. The image series features ELITE London face Nina who is…

Mucinex: Postgame

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Instagram: Here’s How to Switch Font Types in Stories

Instagram recently launched Type mode in Stories, allowing users to share Story posts containing just text, without pictures or videos. With the launch of Type mode, several new font styles also became available for use in Stories’ other modes. Our guide will show you how to switch between font styles in your Stories posts. Note:…

Plasmon: Ninna Mamma – A Mother’s Lullaby

Mothers often struggle with babies who only fall asleep in their arms, resulting in extreme fatigue and stress. Plasmon’s solution is triggered by a scientific insight: the sound of a mother’s heart has an instant soothing effect and helps the baby fall naturally asleep.

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Super Bowl LII ad review: Big Game vets weigh in on this year's offering

A year after their spot for 84 Lumber became the most talked about ad in Super Bowl LI, creatives at Brunner critique the new crop.

Naruhodo #116 – Razão e emoção estão em lados diferentes do cérebro?

Quem nunca ouviu falar que “o lado direito do cérebro é mais criativo” ou que “pessoas racionais têm o lado esquerdo do cérebro mais desenvolvido”? Pois já vamos dar o spoiler aqui mesmo, ilustríssimo ouvinte: tudo isso é bobagem. Mas como surgiu esse mito? E qual o entendimento correto sobre o funcionamento dos hemisférios do …

> LEIA MAIS: Naruhodo #116 – Razão e emoção estão em lados diferentes do cérebro?

Comercial da Ram é criticado por usar discurso de Martin Luther King

A fabricante de caminhonetes Ram lançou um comercial especial durante o Super Bowl 2018 que não agradou em nada os telespectadores. No vídeo, a empresa mostra cenas de pessoas se ajudando enquanto a narração é um discurso de Martin Luther King. No final, a frase “Built to Serve” é mostrada na tela, juntamente com o logotipo da …

> LEIA MAIS: Comercial da Ram é criticado por usar discurso de Martin Luther King

RAM Trucks – Dr Martin Luther King Jr / Built to serve (2018) :60 (USA)

RAM Trucks - Dr Martin Luther King Jr / Built to serve (2018) :60 (USA)

As soon as the ad aired, Kidsleepy who was manning the adland account tweeted:

The Kid Who Watched Skittles’ Super Bowl Ad Reveals What Happened in It

In the chaos of watching last night’s real Super Bowl commercials on NBC, it was tough to break away for Skittles’ Super Bowl ambush–the Facebook Live stunt it orchestrated during the game in which a single person got to watch its “Super Bowl” ad, with the Facebook audience simply watching the kid watch it. So…

McCann Worldwide broaches #MeToo with internal memo

McCann Worldwide has sent a memo to staff to encourage them to speak up if they have a behaviour or concern in the workplace.

Monday Morning Stir

-BBDO Guerrero launched “#AllForBaby” to celebrate Johnson’s Baby’s 125th anniversary (video above).

-Adweek lists “the 3 Big Trends That Ruled This Year’s Super Bowl Ads.”

-The New York Times examines advertisers’ shift from politics to humor this year.

-Aging beauty brands are struggling to compete against recent online rivals, trying to stage a comeback.

Washington Post to Bud Light: Stop trying to make “Dilly Dilly” happen.

-Over at The Drum, University of Oregon ad students also have opinions about this year’s ads.

-Did Dodge steal former W+K creative director Joe Staples‘ 6-year old idea for GSD&M’s “Empty Streets?” Maybe so

American Greetings Finds the Words Amid the Difficult Moments of Love

It is very, very hard to be a greeting card company in the digital age, where we don’t even have time to open our e-cards. (They’re usually just full of inanely grinning dancing heads anyway, so…) But never mind that. So many of the most important things we have to say–take “I love you,” for…