FPSRussia Leads All-Star Cast in Guy Ritchie's Killer 'Black Ops 2' Spot
Robert Downey Jr. makes his North American TV commercial debut in this new 72andSunny spot for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, directed by none other than Guy Ritchie. But the guy getting most of the love...
View Article8 of the Most Extreme Extreme-Weather Ads
Friends: The megastorm is upon us. Hopefully you've all got your flashlights, water, and ammunition at the ready as Sandy bears down on our fair shores. With all the preparations in order, we couldn't...
View Article8 of the Most Extreme Extreme-Weather Ads
Friends: The megastorm is upon us. Hopefully you've all got your flashlights, water, and ammunition at the ready as Sandy bears down on our fair shores. With all the preparations in order, we couldn't...
View ArticleWunderman N.Y. Finds New Planning Chief
The new director of planning at Wunderman's New York office comes from the brand consultancy world. Before joining Wunderman, Nelson Freitas was chief strategy officer at Creative Realities in New...
View ArticleThe Spot: TV's Best Friend
IDEA: Cookies and milk. A prom queen and her limo. A slow-running teenager and a horror-movie monster. Some things were meant to be together. You can add Zeebox and your TV to that list, says a new...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Arby's
Sleep easy, America. Bo Dietl is on the case. What case, you say? The truth about your sandwich meat. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. Dietl, former NYPD detective, current private...
View ArticleA Treasure Trove of Awesomely Weird TV Commercials From Japan
Looking for something guaranteed to brighten your day? Watch the indescribable six-minute compilation of current Japanese TV commercials below, all in HD. It has everything: talking animals, bubbly...
View ArticleAmerican Apparel, Gap Blasted for Hurricane Sandy Ad Fails
Clothing brands appear to have committed the biggest brand fails of Hurricane Sandy, with both American Apparel and Gap forgetting that death and loss make a poor springboard for promotional...
View ArticleBest Craigslist Post Ever, for a Used Samsung Galaxy Note, Actually Isn't
Oh, hey, it's another crazy long-form classified ad. There was that sweet ode to a used snowblower, and the funny used-wetsuit auction, and the amusingly absurdist listing for a used Pontiac Grand Am...
View ArticleWieden + Kennedy Seeks Help on Old Spice in Crazy, Epic Job Listing
Wieden + Kennedy's Old Spice campaign is a hallmark for epic weirdness in advertising. So, it stands to reason that you'd have to complete some kind of weird, epic quest to join the agency's Old...
View ArticlePortrait: Mekanism
Mekanism may be the model agency for the social Web. It specializes in making intrinsically shareable content for brands—like a Star Wars-themed mobile app for PepsiCo’s Brisk Iced Tea and a...
View ArticleMegan Fox, Biology Wiz, Speaks to Dolphins in Latest Acer Ad
Megan Fox … one of the greatest scientific minds of our time? Seems unlikely, which is the whole joke of the actress's new commercial for Acer laptops. In the spot, by Mother in London, Acer's Aspire...
View ArticleFamous Brand Logos Redesigned for the Zombie Apocalypse
When the zombies take over, naturally they're going to have a lot of brand-identity work to do—swapping out healthy-looking corporate logos and replacing them with stinking, rotten, corpse-infested...
View ArticleThree Shops Vie for NYSE Euronext Account
NYSE Euronext has entered the final stage of a creative and media review that marks the end of Havas Worldwide's tenure on the business. The New York office of Havas, formerly Euro RSCG, has handled...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Google Chromebook
Slayer fans rejoice! (Or don't.) Your favorite band is now scoring Google commercials. The tech company shows its fangs this Halloween with the short-and-sweet 30-second spot below for its Chromebook...
View ArticleNYC Digital Agencies Work Around Sandy
In the two days since Hurricane Sandy slammed New York City, digital ad agencies in flooded Lower Manhattan and across the East River in Brooklyn haven’t stopped working. With public transportation...
View ArticleIf 10-Year-Olds Ran an Ad Agency
Are you better at advertising than a 5th grader? Probably not, judging by this entertaining video from Grip Limited, a Toronto ad agency that celebrated its 10th birthday recently by putting a bunch...
View ArticleAT&T Ghostbombs Its Own TV Commercial for Halloween
Leading up to Halloween, AT&T and BBDO New York have been running a campaign called "Ghostbombing," in which ghosts, goblins and ghouls engage in a little freaky photobombing to promote the HTC...
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