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All the Cannes Grand Prix Winners for 2012
CANNES, France—The 59th International Festival of Creativity celebrated a diverse set of Grand Prix Lion winners last week, honoring everything from a simple poster design by an undergraduate student...
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Droga5 Wins Grand Prix for Good for Inventing Bandages That Save Lives
CANNES, France—Droga5 in New York was honored with the Grand Prix for Good here tonight for helping to develop an unusual new product for pharma boutique Help Remedies: an adhesive bandage that could...
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R/GA Adds Titanium Grand Prix to Its Cyber for Nike+ Fuelband
CANNES, France—Nike and R/GA are going to have to build a new gadget just to keep track of their advertising awards. The pair were awarded the coveted Titanium Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions festival...
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First Mover: Kyle Laughlin
Specs Age 33 Title Vp, Disney Interactive LabsNew product Disney video site As head of Disney Interactive Labs, your first big initiative was a video site that launched in May. What’s special about...
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Door Slams on Girl Scouts' Sweet Treats
The Girl Scouts has become a surprising combatant in the war on junk food. Unfortunately, it may be on the wrong side. Health advocates last week renewed their attacks on the organization following a...
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British Airways Doesn't Want Brits Flying
British Airways has an unexpected bit of advice for its typical customers: Don’t fly. The message is aimed at Brits who might be tempted to skip the country during the madness of the London Olympics....
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Nike Gives Voice to Generations of Ass-Kicking Women
Timed to coincide with Title IX’s 40th anniversary, Nike and Wieden + Kennedy have created this “Voices” ad paying tribute to female athletes who triumphed in the face of locker room sexism and...
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NASA Dials Up the Drama With Trailer for Mars Mission
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory employs slick visuals and a bit of Hollywood hype in this movie-trailer-style clip that seeks to build excitement for the Aug. 5 landing of the $2.5 billion Curiosity...
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Five Songs That Musicians Sued to Keep Out of Ads
The Black Keys say they never signed up to promote Cheesy Bites Pizza and power tools, so the rock duo has filed federal lawsuits against Pizza Hut and Home Depot for allegedly using the band’s music...
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Oreo Surprises 26 Million Facebook Fans With Gay Pride Post
Oreo is widely known to be one of the most successful brands on Facebook, but tonight the brand proved it could be one of the boldest, too. Around 8 p.m. Eastern, Oreo posted a gay-pride-themed...
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Ad of the Day: BMW
The new BMW M5 isn’t just really fast—it's pretty, too. In “Bullet,” a new two-minute ad from agency Cundari BMW Canada, the new model is touted as the world’s fastest sedan. The concept is simple:...
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Taking Stock
You can’t squeeze a ripened tomato with an iPhone. Even with online and mobile shopping at our fingertips and players like FreshDirect thriving, consumers seeking the freshest and healthiest produce...
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From Boy to Man, and Brand
Zach who? If you’re not an obsessive consumer of teen celebrity news gossip, or a regular viewer of Nickelodeon, you’re probably not familiar with Sang, an enterprising 19-year-old Internet radio host...
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The Spot: Justin Bieber's Girl Power
IDEA: To launch Justin Bieber's second fragrance for girls, called Girlfriend, his manager's marketing company could have spent millions on a traditional media rollout. "But why?" said Brad Haugen,...
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Mike Tyson Stars in 'Black Power' Ads for Energy Drink
Hey, scrawny teenage fops. Back-alley vending machine eat your coins? If only a white-clad Mike Tyson were there to free your trapped energy drink with a gentle rap of his knuckle, then leave you one...
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Panera Pulls SheKnows.com Ads After Damning Memo Revealed
Panera Bread has pulled its SheKnows.com ads in connection to a click fraud-styled controversy that’s badgered the women’s content site in recent days, Adweek has learned. The move comes after blogger...
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One Twitter User Could Win a Million Followers
Who needs $1 million when you could have a million Twitter followers? OK, you're right, most people would choose the money, but two Martin Agency creatives have come up with a clever way of making the...
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Ad of the Day: Applegate Farms
Moms—if you're worried the cow that you'll serve this summer might be a junkie, Applegate Farms is the beef for you. So says the purveyor of organic and natural packaged foods in a new campaign,...
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