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Ad of the Day: Guinness
Arthur's Day isn't quite as historic as St. Patrick's Day. The latter has been celebrated for centuries, while the former was invented in 2009 by Guinness as a fabricated holiday honoring its founder,...
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Catching a Buzz
In a summer heat wave, it’s hard to go wrong selling cool drinks, which helps explain why brands like A&W, Miller and Diet Pepsi dominated YouGov BrandIndex’s monthly Top 10 list of improvers in...
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Major League Baseball and Anheuser-Busch Renew Sponsorship Pact
Major League Baseball and Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced a continuation of their 33-year relationship, finalizing an extension that locks in the brewer as baseball’s official beer sponsor...
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Beef Jerky Brand Makes Meat-Mosaic Portraits of Obama and Romney
If you're at all like me, you've probably wondered what Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would look like in meat-sculpture form. Well, now we know. Jack Link's and ad agency Carmichael Lynch commissioned...
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John Cleese Orders Strike on Iran in Israeli Ad for Chocolate Spread
We've already established that John Cleese will do anything for money when it comes to shooting ads. (Faulty showers, anyone?) He seemed to redeem himself just a little bit recently with the amusing...
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Ad of the Day: Velveeta Shells & Cheese
Wieden + Kennedy's latest work for Kraft's Velveeta brand sheds the skillet-wielding blacksmith in favor of a series of characters that scream, "Man's man." Why? Because this time, in advertising...
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Election-Themed Tostitos Ad Greeted With Bipartisan Ridicule
Here's the frontrunner for 2012's most inane election-themed ad brought to you by a brand that has nothing to do with politics. If Democrats and Republicans would just share a bag of tortilla chips,...
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Useless Product of the Day: A Spoon for Dunking Cookies in Milk
If you're looking for something to keep your Shake Weight and Comfort Wipe company while they sit, unused, in your closet, you might consider the Dipr, a spoon designed for dunking sandwich cookies in...
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How a Brick-Shaped Heineken Bottle Almost Changed the World 50 Years Ago
You may have never heard of Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, but he should be a hero to drinkers and kids'-toy enthusiasts everywhere. Laughing Squid has the story of how Freddy—the third-generation...
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Campbell's Soup Creates Limited-Edition Andy Warhol Cans
Fifty years after Andy Warhol first displayed his seminal work 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, the marketer is celebrating the artist with a set of four limited-edition Warhol-inspired cans of the...
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Carlton Draught Presents an Epic Car Chase, Without the Cars
Australian brewer Carlton Draught's long history of stupid-funny advertising continues this week with "Beer Chase," its latest faux-epic spot from Clemenger BBDO. The new :90 is a cops-and-robbers...
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Ballantine's Whisky Pioneers World's First Internet-Enabled T-Shirt
Using a T-shirt to access the Internet sounds pretty far out to me. C'mon, that's as unlikely as being able to (what's the cool word all the kids use?) surf the Web on a cellular phone or some sort of...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Aug. 24-31
This week, a tablet computer became a child's playground, Eddie Money went from rock 'n' roll to bittersweet, and Jack Bauer executed some moves in the kitchen (presumably after saving the president)....
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Excedrin and Tylenol Suffer Recall Headache
It’s enough to give brand marketers a whopping headache. After years of brand advertising around famous slogans such as “Excedrin Headache Number 24,” Excedrin products were voluntarily and quietly...
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The Spot: The Bottle Boy
IDEA: What's the point of a wide-mouth bottle? It makes beer easier to drink. But that's … kind of boring. Couldn't someone think of a more exciting purpose for it, or at least make one up? Enter...
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McDonald's Hmong Billboard in St. Paul Gets Lost in Translation
Always on the lookout for fresh arteries to clog, McDonald's has begun advertising in Hmong on billboards in St. Paul, Minn., which has more Hmong people—tens of thousands—than any other U.S. city....
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Ad of the Day: Absolut
You are a special snowflake. There is no other person like you. And now, you have your very own personalized bottle of booze to match. Absolut vodka is taking limited-edition liquor packaging to new...
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Cravendale's Cats With Thumbs Set for Evil, Prehensile Return
The cats with thumbs, stars of last year's hugely popular Cravendale milk commercial in Britain (which placed at No. 8 on Adweek's list of 2011's best spots), are back—and seemingly more evil than...
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Katy Perry Brings Popchips Back From the Brink in New Ads
Following a pretty disastrous campaign starring Ashton Kutcher, which was sunk by complaints of racism, Popchips is back with one of the more inoffensive endorsers around: Katy Perry. In four new...
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Carlton Draught Thanks Practically Everyone on Twitter Who Liked Its Ad
It can be difficult for brands to know how—and how often—to respond to people on Twitter. Some limit their interactions to pressing customer-service needs. Others reply enthusiastically (if...
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