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Ad for Meat Marinades Takes Woman Down Rabbit Hole of Wiener Gobbling and Ham...
Hey there, incredibly hip and hot millennials. Packaged seasoning brand Flava-it wants you to know its marinades are like a raunchy meat party in your mouth. This loony new ad for the U.K. marketer...
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Ad of the Day: Guinness Has Made the Only Ad You Need to See This Fourth of July
Guinness is on a roll globally with its "Made of More" advertising. Now, for the Fourth of July, the brand has released the latest installment of the campaign in the U.S.—the lovely, quietly patriotic...
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Nescafé Print Ads Include Pop-Up Paper Mugs for Two, So You Can Both Scald...
Ahh, the morning paper. You've just settled into your seat on the train, or perhaps a park bench, to enjoy the morning light and digest the news of the day. But there are two things missing: your cup...
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Ad of the Day: Skyy Vodka Gives You Cosmic Tips on Having a Better Night Out
Renowned ad critic Neil deGrasse Tyson should really be the one reviewing Skyy Vodka's new ads from Venables Bell & Partners, but we'll fill in for him this time. The spots, which break Wednesday...
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Shock Top Beer Is One Smooth Talker in Fun Series of Bar and Liquor Store Stunts
The next time you're perusing the shelves at your local beer shop and you hear a voice coming from the cooler, there's a chance it's a sixer of Shock Top Belgian White trying to chat you up. Not since...
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7-Eleven Extends Birthday Celebration With Mobile App
As you may already know, July 11 (7/11) is the day convenience store giant 7-Eleven has adopted as its birthday, and every year for the past dozen years the chain, to mark the occasion, has given away...
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Joel McHale Stars in Online Video Series for Purity Vodka
Purity Vodka, a small Swedish brand, teamed up with comedian Joel McHale for a series of online videos, the first of which debuted yesterday. McHale created and produced the videos with a team of his...
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Ad of the Day: Wendy's Croons a Pitch-Perfect Pretzel-Bun Love Ballad
Wendy's isn't known for meat on a stick, but it is doing a pretty good job of skewering schmaltzy pop ballads. The fast-food chain is promoting the return of its pretzel-bun products with a series of...
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Colorless Coca-Cola Can Is Lovely, and Might Be Good for the World, Too
Most spec redesigns of classic brand logos aren't that great, so I cringed when I saw that someone was putting a new spin on Coca-Cola cans. Turns out I underestimated Ryan Harc, whose colorless can...
View ArticleApplebee's Files Trademark Application for 'No Tech Tuesday'
Technophobes, rejoice. Applebee's has filed a trademark application for "no tech Tuesday," which would presumably curb the use of devices at its restaurants on that day, Today reports. This is despite...
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Boyz II Men's Wendy's Pretzel Bun Love Song Is a Thing of Cheesy, Pretzelly...
Boyz II Men's Pretzel Bun Love Song for Wendy's is here, and if a fast-food ballad could make you swoon, it would.The more generic first video in the campaign was pretty excellent in its own right. In...
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Carlton Draught Is Re-Airing This Awesomely Cheesy '80s Ad to Go With Its...
Oh, the 1980s. Such quaint times. The tank tops. The big hair. The now-unsettling sense of enthusiasm. Even though the '80s revival was so 2000s, Carlton Draught is still dusting off a real ad from...
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Put Away the Duff Beer and Pour Yourself a Glass of Simpsons Wine
Looking to stock up on beverages for FXX's 12-day, 25-season Simpsons marathon? Simpsons wine would do the trick—if only it were real. Russian designers Constantin Bolimond and Dmitry Patsukevich did...
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CPG Marketers Are Going Digital With Loyalty Programs
Not long ago, packaged-goods brands were accused of being slow movers in digital. Now, that reputation is changing as more marketers enlist social media and mobile to link loyalty programs with...
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Oh, Snap! Slim Jim Brings Back Famous Old Tagline, With a Modern Twist
IDEA: It's been two decades since "Macho Man" Randy Savage bellowed at young men to "Snap into a Slim Jim." Many in the current target market for the ConAgra meat sticks (males 18-25, mostly) weren't...
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Ad of the Day: Jude Law Dances for Johnnie Walker Blue in Jake Scott's Short...
Jude Law hasn't had the best of luck on boats in the past. But he puts that behind him for this stylish short film for Johnnie Walker Blue, directed by Jake Scott. It begins with Law and co-star...
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Top Marketing Exec Leaves Mondelez
Mary Beth West, CMO of Mondelez International, is leaving the company as the snacks powerhouse undergoes a major reorganization effort. West has been the top marketing officer at Mondelez since 2012...
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See the Ad That Just Eclipsed Volkswagen's 'The Force' as the Most Shared Ever
The mighty Empire has fallen … thanks to some yogurt. Deutsch/LA's 2011 Super Bowl spot "The Force" for Volkswagen, which enjoyed an astonishing 41-month reign as the most shared ad of all time, has...
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My Goodness, a Blonde Guinness!
Like so many foreigners before it, Ireland’s most famous beer brand is hoping that an all-American look will make it more popular in the U.S. Guinness will debut a Blonde American lager in September,...
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Bud Light on Secretly Creating Its Own Party Town: 'This Is Content Marketing...
Bud Light had a major success with its 2014 Super Bowl campaign from BBDO, in which it ditched its traditional gameday dog and bro jokes for a real-world stunt that rewarded a random Bud Light drinker...
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