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Moet & Chandon Selects BRPR
The corks are popping at BRPR. After an agency review, Moet & Chandon USA has selected the Miami shop to serve as the champagne brand’s digital lead in America. Moet & Chandon didn’t disclose...
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Buy a Piece of Your Favorite City With Delicious Canned Air
Yet another joke from Spaceballs has become real, as photographer Kirill Rudenko has begun selling Canned Air at his Etsy shop. Each can is "100 percent organic" air, and meant as a sort of joke...
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Disney Cloning Human Faces for Theme-Park Robot Guides
We've long known that robots are out to subjugate humankind. They've found a potent ally in Disney, which likewise aspires to global domination. Of course, the company has already established...
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Ad of the Day: Gatorade
And you thought he only ate McNuggets. After his epic performance at the London Olympics, Usain Bolt gets an epic commercial to match—this Gatorade spot from TBWA\Chiat\Day, in which the Jamaican...
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Analysis: Presidential Campaigns in Need of a Brand-Aid
Neither presidential candidate is doing a great job in building the kind of brand that will motivate voters on Election Day. Take a look at any of the nation's major political polls and it's clear...
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An Indecent Proposal from Sarah Silverman (explicit) - ScissorSheldon -...
An Indecent Proposal from Sarah Silverman (explicit) - ScissorSheldon - Barnacle Studios
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Sovereign\Santander Picks New Agency
Sovereign\Santander has a new agency and will soon have a new brand. Arnold Worldwide won the business after a review that included as finalists Mullen and SapientNitro. Boston-based Sovereign was...
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Diet Coke's Limited-Edition Can Is So Lovely, It's Here to Stay
"This new concept will only be around for a short time," William White, group brand director for Diet Coke and Coke Zero at Coca-Cola North America, told Adweek exactly a year ago—when a new Diet Coke...
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Huffington Post Dismisses SVP of Sales
After a short three months on the job, Huffington Post ad sales chief Moritz Loew has been dismissed by AOL. According to Ad Age, Loew alleges the dismissal was the result of a background check and an...
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Slackliner Crosses Wire Between Two Speeding Trucks in Volvo Stunt
How, exactly, does one learn "slacklining"? The subject's not taught at my local adult-ed program (though microwave cookery sounds appealing). I imagine, at the very least, that you'd have to be able...
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Impress Your Neighbors With a 3-D Fantasy Garage-Door Mural
StyleYourGarage.com, a German company that makes "garage billboards printed with images that show exactly what every car owner would like to have in their garage," might not sit well with most people....
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David Beckham Looms Large as H&M Erects Silver Statues
David Beckham is bigger than ever, in almost every way, now that Spellbound Media and Zenith Optimedia have unleashed giant silver statues of the footballer around three U.S. cities for H&M....
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And Now It's Puma's Turn to Brag About Usain Bolt
All Usain Bolt-endorsed companies are exercising their vicarious bragging rights in the wake of the Jamaican sprinter's extraordinary triple repeat in London—winning gold again in the 100 and 200...
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Ad of the Day: Allianz
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the drunkest of them all? Ogilvy Brazil is more determined than ever to stop you from driving drunk. The agency is actually something of an expert in this area. Its...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Aug. 10-17
This week, sports tickets grew on trees, Olympian Usain Bolt stormed the streets, and Google found a detour around a traffic jam on the Internet super-highway. Many of the hundreds of TV commercials...
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Trailer Mash 08-17-12
The midair union of motorcycle and helicopter was first consummated in 1991's Stone Cold, starring NFL bad boy (and worse haircut) Brian Bosworth. Were it not for that very moment, nobody would...
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The Week on AdFreak: Aug. 10-17, 2012
Here are the 10 most-read AdFreak posts of the past week: 5. McCann Says Farewell to the London Olympics With Ad 4. Hated the London 2012 Logo? You Might Like Rio 2016 Better 3. How a Fan Post on...
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The Apocalypse Will Be Televised
In 1983, the same year President Ronald Reagan gave his hawkish “evil empire” speech, ABC aired The Day After, a made-for-TV movie about a full-scale nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the U.S....
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