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White Castle Is NYC's Cleanest Food Chain
When it comes to choosing fast food, cleanliness is a major factor. Recently, the blog I Quant NY took a closer look at New York City's restaurant inspection data and unearthed some interesting facts....
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Strongbow Cider Goes for Newcastle-Style Humor With 'Slow-Motion Horse'
Droga5 has won raves for its Newcastle Brown Ale work, which skewers beer-marketing clichés. Now, the agency is bringing a similar sensibility to another Heineken-owned brand: Strongbow Hard Apple...
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Saatchi’s New CEO Doesn’t Want to Pick Apart the Past
Robert Senior doesn’t like to dwell on the past, yet many of the challenges he’ll face as Saatchi & Saatchi’s next global CEO date back several years. The churn in the New York office’s top ranks,...
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Mr. Bean Is a Hopeless Ninja in the Most Hilarious Snickers 'You're Not You'...
You're familiar with the joke at this point. Someone is super hungry, turns into a celebrity, eats a Snickers and goes back to being a normal person. Punch line: "You're not you when you're hungry."...
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Apple's Marc Newson Designs a Home Draught Beer Machine for Heineken
Industrial designer Marc Newson, who recently joined Apple, has wrapped up an old project with Heineken called the SUB, which the brewer is calling a "draught beer lifestyle appliance." Hoo boy. Right...
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Brand of the Day: Jack Link's Marks 10 Years With Carmichael Lynch by...
Jack Link's Beef Jerky likes to make mischief, but it has a serious side, too. Take, for example, this new faux-oil portrait of Sasquatch, the brand's longtime mascot. Instead of chucking obnoxious...
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If You're From Pittsburgh, You Probably Think This Iced Tea Commercial Is...
Americans sure have some interesting regional accents. Whether you're from New York, Baltimore, Philly, Chicago, Houston—dialects are fascinating, ya know? So, there's this character on YouTube named...
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Nestlé's 'Bra Cam' Catches People Stealing Glances, but There's a Fun Twist...
Nestlé's Fitness cereal brand, which last year brought us the tweeting bra, has upped the ante with the hidden-camera bra. Watch below as a woman walks around London capturing footage of men and women...
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Beyonce Is the Queen of Commercials in This Supercut of Her Best Ads [Video]
Who runs the world? Women. Or rather one woman: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. That much is clear in her commercial body of work. While dominating the music charts for the better part of a decade, the pop...
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Why Hipsters Are Still Fired Up Over Fiestaware
On a January day in 1936, The Homer Laughlin Co. set up its booth at a trade show in Pittsburgh, poised to introduce a new line of dinnerware. Laughlin had already been a successful pottery company for...
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BBDO Leaders Reflect on a Decade at the Top
As wooing goes, Andrew Robertson’s efforts to seal the deal with David Lubars was not particularly auspicious. In 2004, the newly named BBDO global chief stepped up his efforts to recruit the Fallon...
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The Most Powerful Woman in Restaurants Whom You’ve Never Met
You’ve probably never heard of Claire Dorland-Clauzel, even though she’s among the world’s most important culinary figures. Dorland-Clauzel is svp of brands (the French equivalent of the CMO) for...
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Goat Sings '80s Rock Ballad 'Simply the Best' in Ridiculous Ad for Goat Cheese
Have you ever wondered how a goat would interpret '80s rock ballad "Simply the Best"? Of course you have. The cute beast in this Norwegian commercial for goat cheese sticks pretty close to the classic...
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Billy Eichner Rips Burger King for 'Stealing' His Act, and McDonald's Piles On
Billy Eichner's persona on his show Billy on the Street is so memorable that as soon as fans saw the Burger King ad below, they immediately thought of Eichner—and began lobbing insults at BK and...
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Brand of the Day: KFC Loves Everyone, and Vice Versa, in Maybe the Most...
KFC may be going through tough times, but that won't stop the ubiquitous chicken chain from putting out a new ad about how everyone loves its its fried fare. Or at least, how suburban families, cutesy...
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Ad of the Day: Morris the Cat of 9Lives Leaps Into the Future With Wearable Tech
Morris the Cat, whose 9Lives cat food ads from the '70s and '80s are all over YouTube, shakes off the cobwebs and joins the 21st century in the brand's new campaign—becoming the first cat to wear...
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Brand of the Day: Meet the Bottled Water Company That Will Happily Sell You...
If you like your bottled water to come with actual water in it, this might not be the brand for you. The anti-sugar crusaders at indie brand Fred Water are now selling empty versions of their...
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KitKat's Half-Finished Billboard Cleverly Pays Off Its Iconic Tagline
It was 1958 when J. Walter Thompson's Donald Gilles came up with the line, "Have a break. Have a KitKat." Fifty-six years later, JWT London has found a fun new way to illustrate the line—with a...
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Sprite's 'Bill the Billboard' Keeps Drivers Entertained by Cracking Endless...
If it's more comedy you want from your billboard, Sprite is happy to oblige. Ogilvy Kenya recently put up "Bill the Billboard" at a busy intersection in Nairobi, and programmed him to endlessly crack...
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Ad of the Day: Every Time Taylor Swift Takes a Sip of Diet Coke, Kittens...
Just when you thought Taylor Swift couldn't get any more respect from millennials, here she is proving again that she lives in a reality only believable in a Disney movie. Swifties around the world...
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