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Lockout, What Lockout?
The four-month National Football League lockout may have left football fans scrambling for the Ativan, but for advertisers, a positive outcome to the labor crisis was a given. Ad buys were made...
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Bill Bernbach: Creative Revolutionary
Don’t let the button-down shirt and the rep stripe tie fool you—Bill Bernbach was an aesthete, not an Establishment Man. The Creative Revolution that Bernbach led—which came to define the 1960s for...
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Hollywood's Reality: TV
Hollywood’s dirty secret? Television. Without the flow of revenue from TV, or without the sale of ads on cable, networks, and foreign TV, every major U.S. studio would go bankrupt. Time Warner is by...
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McDonald's Makes You Work for Dollar Coins Embedded in Ice
The Morgan Spurlocks of the world may dream of freezing McDonald's assets, but this probably isn't what they have in mind. Cossette Vancouver's recent Canadian promotion for McDonald's "Dollar Drink...
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Ad of the Day: LivingSocial
LivingSocial, a Groupon rival in the deal-of-the-day category, says its local deals "drive you to surprising and delightful experiences." So, why not literally surprise and delight people—and drive...
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Euro RSCG Becomes Foursquare Mayor of 42 Rival Agencies in Belgium
Here's a sneaky little Foursquare stunt: Euro RSCG Brussels, with help from generally mischievous agency Duval Guillaume, claims that it recently became Foursquare mayor of 42 rival ad agencies in...
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Australia Spends Two Months Deciding Whether Red M&M Is a Bully
As if our friends in Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau didn't have enough inane projects, they just wasted two months examining the social interactions of talking M&Ms in commercials. Some...
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What Do You Think of Budweiser's New Can Design?
Anheuser-Busch has redesigned the Budweiser can for the 12th time since 1936, when it started using cans—a fairly drastic makeover that features the Budweiser script in white over a big red bow tie....
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Cable Porn Problem: Nobody’s Paying for It
As people have increasingly taken to watching their porn online for free, satellite and cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and DirecTV have been feeling the blow in their video-on-demand...
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1912 Titanic Ad Fail: Set Sail to Europe on a Big Ship Today!
Advertising fails are rampant online in 2011. But they've been around in old media since, well, pretty much forever. For example: The On & True blog brings us this image of page 3 of The New York...
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Nielsen Ratings Tool Designed to Compare TV, Web
Measurement company Nielsen has long offered the industry standard for TV ratings, but can it do the same for the Web? Later this month, Nielsen will release a new service that measures online ad...
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Hey Mr. Deejay, Show Me Your License
Are digital music services doomed to a life of ugly licensing wars? The tale of an underdog music startup, brought to tragic demise by greedy record labels, is so familiar it’s practically a cliché....
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Kate Moss-Inspired 'Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels' Ads Banned in U.K.
While Australia frets about aggressive M&M's, the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority is taking on a worthier target (for once): anorexia. The board has just banned Zazzle ads for children's...
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Ad of the Day: FedEx
Golf clubs, among a certain segment of the population, are literally the most precious cargo imaginable. Is FedEx reliable enough to handle them? A pair of new BBDO spots (tied to the company's...
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Don Draper Wishes Bill Bernbach a Happy 100th Birthday
Here's an ad DDB placed in this week's Adweek, on the occasion of the centennial of its most famous co-founder's birth. It's also as much Don Draper as we're going to get for a while, although...
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E*Trade Baby Loses Life Savings as Market Goes South
Everything was going well for the E*Trade baby, until this latest stock market disaster, during which he apparently lost everything. No more shiny toys for the toddler. Distraught, he says he's going...
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United Continental Selects Mcgarrybowen
Mcgarrybowen’s hot streak continues. The New York-based agency that won lead creative duties on Sears and Burger King in the spring now has added United Continental. Collectively, the assignments will...
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True Originals
Referring to “bespoke” as the latest thing is admittedly a bit of a stretch. After all, the term’s usage dates to 1580 (bespeak—meaning “to arrange beforehand”). And, for as long as anyone in the...
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Jonathan's Card: Cool Social Experiment or Starbucks Marketing Stunt?
In July, mobile-app consultant Jonathan Stark decided to buy coffee for the Internet. Or at least, he put his Starbucks mobile-app code online—essentially a virtual gift card, loaded with $30—just to...
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