Watch the newest commercials from Allstate, KPMG, Adidas and more

Allstate’s Mayhem character, portraying a bear, breaks into a car parked in the woods.

McDonald’s and Burger King put up dueling outdoor ads both written by ChatGPT

The ‘A.I’m lovin’ it’ campaign went up first—but BK was quick to respond with its own boastful reply.

Pottery Barn partnered with Jazz Jennings reading a story of a transgender-identifying child for kids, reaps backlash

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See Gatorade bring back ‘Be Like Mike’ in new campaign

Marks the first campaign launched under chief brand officer Anuj Bhasin, who talks personalization and energy drinks in interview with Ad Age.

Marketing winners and losers of the week

Messi to Miami scores buzz and American Express B2B marketing wins praise—plus, why it was a bad week for Microsoft and Reddit.

Climate Groups Prioritize Collaboration Over Disruption at This Year’s Cannes Lions

As the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity kicked off, an uninvited, award-winning former marketer bounded onto the stage. The goal of Gustav Martner, now head of creative for Greenpeace Nordic, was to wrench the focus away from the organizers in the name of the climate movement. He returned his own gold lion–which he’d…

Agency news you need to know this week

Crowley Webb’s new CEO, Joan opens London office, and CSAA Insurance creates a boy band.

Former W+K Leaders Founded Opinionated. To Grow, They Tapped an Agency Vet With a Crispin Mindset

In the early to mid-2000s, Wieden+Kennedy and Crispin Porter + Bogusky were kings of creative. CP+B was winning with campaigns like “Subservient Chicken” for Burger King and Mini’s “Counterfeit,” while W+K was going global with Nike, Old Spice and Coca-Cola. Now, former executives from both those storied ad houses have come together at Portland, Ore.-based…

Terry Crews launches agency Super Serious with a mini-musical for Impossible Foods

Matt O’Rourke and Paul Sutton joins Crews as partners in entertainment-driven venture.

With Its Frequency Tool, The Financial Times Fine-Tunes Ad Exposure

With the planned deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome coming next year, The Financial Times is using a solution designed to help marketers replace–and potentially improve upon–one of the cookies’ most vital functions: ad frequency capping. And early indications of its success are encouraging. Introduced earlier this year, the publisher’s frequency optimization tool aims to…

Keegan-Michael Key wants to beat you at Wordle in New York Times campaign

Avid Wordlers have a chance to connect with the actor and comedian via a new social effort.

Farm animals growing old / Coup de vieux ou vieux coup?

THE ORIGINAL?
Florette Sealed Gourmet Salads – 2008
“Sealed gourmet salads”
“You’ll forget about meat”
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Agency : Grey Barcelona (Spain)
LESS ORIGINAL
NotCo, Reinventing the food industry – 2023
“Imagine … a 48 old cow”
“Imagine … a chicken growing old”
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Agency : AKQABloom Miami (USA)

Google Opens Access for Transparency Tool Amid Industry Debate on Ad-Tech Fees

Google is introducing a tool throughout its ad-tech products today that is designed to help publishers and buyers track ad-tech fees, a contentious area of programmatic where Google has not always been seen as an honest broker. While the tool thus far has not revealed any hidden fees, programmatic execs would like to see more…

Agency news you need to know this week

Crowley Webb’s new CEO, Joan opens London office, and CSAA Insurance creates a boy band.

Farm animals growing old / Coup de vieux ou vieux coup?

THE ORIGINAL?
Florette Sealed Gourmet Salads – 2008
“Sealed gourmet salads”
“You’ll forget about meat”
Click the image to enlarge
Agency : Grey Barcelona (Spain)
LESS ORIGINAL
NotCo, Reinventing the food industry – 2023
“Imagine … a 48 old cow”
“Imagine … a chicken growing old”
Click the image to enlarge
Agency : AKQABloom Miami (USA)

Unpacking Unilever’s Pledge to Encourage Disabled Creators Into the Ad Industry

More than half (62%) of content creators from intersectional disabled communities are interested in working in advertising, according to Unilever. However, 90% of those working behind the camera to bring creative to life say industry attitudes and preconceptions impact just how included they feel on production sets. A further 73% feel left out and left…

Let’s Talk About Brand Podcast: Empowered Branding and Persuasion

Stepping into the spotlight of your own personal brand can be a very empowering activity, requiring a certain amount of fearlessness to show up as your true self, to bring your personality into it and really say, “Here’s who I am, here’s what I stand for and what I am all about.” But is that…

Sony Enlists Creators to Help Bring Fans Closer to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse imagines an entire multiverse populated with wildly different versions of the Marvel Comics hero. To capture the film’s spirit, the studio teamed up with content creation platform Tongal to enlist six animators from around the world to recreate its trailer. Tongal put out a call to its global…

The Great Fail: The Downfall of Mars Hill Church

Mars Hill was a Seattle-based church led by Mark Driscoll, a beloved, endearing, powerful presence in the evangelical Christian community. Driscoll built Mars Hill into one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, with close to 15,000 attendees and an additional 260,000 viewers tuning in online every week. But behind the charismatic persona was a…

Posters made with love. Lift Posters from Response Kolkata

Posters made with love.
For the love for ideas and having fun.

A creative stimulus in 2013 from Ram Ray, Founder of Response, led to adorning our office elevator, with Lift Posters. Giving people something to ruminate over to uplift their mood while journeying up to their fifth floor office.

Enthusiastically taken up by the Response team, these posters are celebrating their 10th year. “Constantly inspiring others, even in an elevator ride, is our job. And we love it!”

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