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Google Chrome's Ad With Stewie From Family Guy Is Super Irritating
Stewie Griffin, the 1-year-old prodigy from Family Guy, is a lovable character, but man can he get annoying. In this 15-second spot from BBH for Google Chrome, he proves just that. "Mom! Mom! Mommy!...
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Nathan Sorrell, Overweight Jogger From Famous Nike Ad, Loses 32 Pounds
Nathan Sorrell, the heavy kid from Nike's infamous "Jogger" ad by Wieden + Kennedy, has lost 32 pounds since last summer—and plans to lose 30 more. The London, Ohio, native, now 13, returned to the...
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Teaser for Band's Album Shows How Shadows and Light Transform the Human Face
French electronic music group Opale got director Nacho Guzman to make a teaser video for their new album, and it turned out to be a lesson on how the human face changes depending on how light hits it....
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Newcastle Brown Ale Lovingly Salutes Its Founder, and the Worms That...
"Col. James Porter was laid to rest in Morpeth, where worms began eating his body." Droga5 delivers one of the best commercials ever about a company's founder—for Newcastle Brown Ale. Read more about...
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How a Martin Agency Duo Created the Geico Gecko Book
Behind every successful gecko is a sharp creative team, and the Geico Gecko is no exception. The green ad critter’s first book, released this week by Workman Publishing, was created by The Martin...
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Disney Film Publicist's Joke Photo With Bloggers Sparks Backlash
For marketers, blogger outreach can often feel like working in a field of landmines, where one misstep can detonate across the Web. The newest publicist to find himself at the center of the blast...
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New Zealand Brewer Shows You How Not to Reference Gay Marriage on a Billboard
The latest Tui beer billboard from New Zealand's DB Breweries is a homophobic eyesore, according to feedback on the brand's Facebook page. Or else it's funny and people should get over it, also...
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'The Work We Judge Now is Going to be Very Important Next Year'
Six Clio Questions: Adam Kerj, CCO 360i
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Ad of the Day: Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson's new corporate image work, from the Playa del Rey, Calif., office of TBWA\Chiat\Day, in some ways harkens back to its last major corporate push, the "Having a baby changes...
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Grey Wins Gillette Creative Account
Grey has won a battle of Procter & Gamble agencies to take home Gillette's creative account, P&G has confirmed. The other finalists were Saatchi & Saatchi and the incumbent, BBDO. The...
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Think Different? Apple's Latest iPhone Commercial Suggests Doing the Opposite
Sometimes Apple's demo spots for the iPhone are charming; other times they can feel cold. The recent ones, with the rapid-fire word jumbles and cheerleader-style chants, had an odd, rah-rah vibe to...
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Jason Collins Could Be Nike's New Star
Athletes, celebrities, media & more show support for @jasoncollins34 announcement via Twitter: nba.com/wizards/twitte…— Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) April 29, 2013 Proud of @jasoncollins34....
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ZenithOptimedia Drops Estimates for 2013 Growth
ZenithOptimedia is revising its 2013 global economic growth estimates to 3.9 percent, to $518 billion, down from the 4.1 percent increase forecast in December. The Publicis Groupe media company said...
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Microsoft to Apple and Samsung Fans: Stop Fighting, You Utter Morons
If smartphone advertising has a recurring theme, it's that the users of rival products are idiotic obsessives. Samsung made that point with its campaign poking fun at Apple fanboys. Now, Microsoft is...
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Weather Channel Aims Twitter-Powered Tornado Winds at Its Helpless Interns
Intern abuse is always good fun. The Weather Channel is celebrating the beginning of Tornado Week today by putting its interns in a room and blowing powerful winds at them, with the force of the...
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Some B-to-B Brands Make Strides in Social Media
It’s hard to find social media standouts among business-to-business brands. In many cases, they’re playing catch-up to their more social consumer cousins. Still, Vivaldi Partners Group identified six...
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Vodafone Goes Time Traveling in Its Raw Tribute to Everlasting Love
IDEA: "Good things should last forever." The core idea dramatized in Grey London's new Vodafone ad couldn't be simpler. The spot has a relatively mundane offer to make—unlimited talk and text through...
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The Terrifying Slowdown for New Creative Business
The quiet is deafening. Where are the creative new-business opportunities out there? While media reviews continue apace, significant creative-only reviews have been relatively scarce this year in what...
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After Streaming Kills Cable, Where Will the Content Come From?
To echo a familiar refrain, consumers are mad as hell and not about to take it from cable companies anymore! Networks are dinosaurs who think the big asteroid in the sky called Netflix is their god,...
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Creepy German Ad Shows Off World's Roomiest and Toastiest Winter Coat
Dr. Who, your jacket is ready. In this odd spot for 66°North outerwear from German agency Grabarz & Partner, some commuter dude shivering at a remote Icelandic bus stop encounters one of the...
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