Have you ever been to a Planned Parenthood, or any similar organization, to fish from their glass bowl of free condoms? It’s awkward. Worse still is what you end up with: A handful of suspect brands you may not recognize, or sometimes–if you’re lucky–a random pineapple-flavored one, more perplexing than exciting. Free condoms get a…
Clash of Clans players finally have some answers about what happened to the Builder. The character, who has been central to the 5-year-old mobile game, was the subject on a video posted online a week ago (it’s gotten 42 million views on YouTube alone) in which he appears fed up with people destroying his creations….
Are GIFs a major problem in the world? Probably not. But Brazilian beer brand Brahma urges its fans to break the cycle of repetition in a literally loopy ad from agency Santo and director Armando Bo (the Oscar-winning writer of Birdman). The spot opens with GIF-like looping footage of a man being kicked in the…
Robots are everywhere. And it’s a problem. They clean our houses (probably while stealing our data), sit around at home getting hacked by pushy brands, take our jobs and beat us at games. Aren’t you sick of it? Thankfully, insurance company SafeAuto’s got the antidote: F?rnh?an, an AI voice assistant whose cold, calculating superiority is…
It’s not every day you get to see a building in the shape of a giant chicken, let alone one that can get up and walk away. But that’s the delightfully hallucinogenic conceit of a sweet little five-minute animated short from KFC and Wieden + Kennedy, celebrating the renovation of one of its marquee restaurants…
Don’t look now, but it’s almost time for kids across America to go back to school. From the perspective of jaded fourth graders Tim and Charlie, this isn’t cause for celebration. It’s just another reason to sigh and bemoan the changing times as younger children–meaning, third graders–lose all sense of perspective. For example, when Tim…
“I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele. … I fell into the bottomless mud, and lost the light.” This description of a Belgian battlefield by British soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon has long been synonymous with World War I’s Battle of Passchendaele, which began in July 1917 and lasted nearly four grueling months. This…
In the opening frames of this Fruit of the Loom ad by CP+B, CGI sizzles and swirls as a pair of pint-sized Harry Potters open a portal to another dimension in the living room. Yeah, kids will do that these days. Here’s how it all plays out: Actually, they’re not working magic. It’s all in…
BBDO is back with another celebrity-fueled campaign for AT&T, this time promoting the DirecTV Now service. And while the “Terms and Conditions” campaign put Mark Wahlberg front and center, this time the spotlight is on actor Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Friday Night Lights, upcoming Marvel release Black Panther, and, of course, The Wire). That seems…
The fact that National Tequila Day fell on a Monday this year didn’t stop Jose Cuervo from celebrating in style. The brand, via agency CP+B, set up three special water fountains in Los Angeles to dispense silver tequila, but sadly only for today. Tequila fountains were set up at the Hollywood & Highland shopping center,…
Dogs aren’t always man’s best friend. In German agency Jung von Matt’s spot announcing the spinoff of Genesis as a standalone luxury brand (rather than just a Hyundai model), a chauffeur quickly develops an adversarial relationship with the small dog in the back seat. When he picks up a Hollywood client–played by actress and model…
Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara once said, “We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.” And clearly what he had in mind was versatile and contemporary rental space in Bristol. According to a passerby’s photo making the rounds on Twitter, a new mixed-use development called The…
It’s become a tradition for engineering toy brand GoldieBlox to release an ad that celebrates women who’ve made a mark over the course of the year. Now, 2017 is far from over, but the brand’s new “Fast Forward Girls” ad is a bright and galvanizing shout-out to those who’ve made waves in just the past…
Remember when you were a kid and the most world-ending of matters could be solved with a Happy Meal? We do. (And we’ve got all the figurines, lost somewhere in the storage unit that houses our dusty childhood, to prove it.) In McDonald’s new ad, “The Door,” TBWAParis explores this idea in a context that…
How does a Big Idea become a feature film? A new spot from Honda and Wieden+Kennedy London sets out to answer that question by quite literally illustrating the creative process of making a movie. It’s an ad for four different cars that doubles as a glimpse behind the scenes at the work of the “Dream…
YouTube rocked its own Ads Leaderboard in June, place the No. 1 and No. 4 spots on the list of the month’s most watched ads on the video platform. #MoreThanARefugee topped the list, while the latest #ProudToBe spot for Pride was fourth. Console and gaming spots filled out the rest of the top five, while…
Last week, we mysteriously received a Colonel Sanders pillowcase in the mail, designed to look like we were sleeping together. Now, KFC has explained what that whole thing was all about: As of yesterday, the brand launched KFC Ltd., an online merchandise shop packed with limited-edition goods and high-quality fried chicken apparel. This includes that…
Picture a world where plastic bottles no longer exist. It’s a world where everyone wants to preserve the environment and laughs at the silly wasting of plastic when water and other delicious beverages can be found through other means-like a SodaStream machine. A new campaign from the brand imagines a time when plastic bottles are…
France is back in the air! And, fueled by fantasies about cr?me br?l?e and macarons over a view of the Eiffel Tower, Air France has conceived a special treat: chewing gum. Created by BETC Paris, the French lifestyle-inspired “Gomme ? Macher” (literally just “chewing gum”) comes in two flavors: pistachio macaron and cr?me br?l?e. They…
Meet Eve. She’s super-pregnant. And everyone she knows and loves is about to freak her out. “Solution”-based maternity brand Fridababy, best known for the NoseFrida Snotsucker, whose name will forever erase any doubt in your mind as to its purpose, is launching its first-ever brand campaign. And in true millennial style, it’s banking on an…
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