Carl's Jr.'s Super Bowl Ad Is Here, and What a Surprise, It Stars an...
Hold on to your patties, because Carl's Jr. just released an extended version of its regional Super Bowl ad, in which it shows even more skin than usual. The spot, by 72andSunny, stars Charlotte...
View ArticleCraig Robinson Tries to Crash the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Pepsi's New...
Katy Perry will be Pepsi's top act for the Super Bowl halftime show. But how much better would it be if Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious were the headliners? Pepsi might not want you to ponder...
View ArticleWonderful Pizza Hut Ad Shows People Being Totally Disgusted by Its New Pizza
There's a brave niche approach in advertising where you show your audience just how much people despise your product. Laphroaig scotch has been doing this for while, turning its polarizing taste into...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Targets Online Hate in Its #MakeItHappy Super Bowl Campaign
If you've spent more than three seconds on the Internet, you know it can be a pretty horrible place, swarming with cyberbullies and trolls who've turned comment sections into rotting hate-fests and...
View ArticleNewcastle Unveils Its Smorgasbord of a Super Bowl Ad, Featuring 37 Different...
Newcastle just released its "Band of Brands" regional Super Bowl commercial, and it turns out Jockey, Boost Mobile, Lee Jeans, Brawny and Match.com are among the recognizable brands—along with some...
View ArticleBudweiser Unleashes Its 'Lost Dog' Super Bowl Ad, Hoping to Catch Lightning...
Sequels are tough. For every Godfather Part II, there's a Godfather Part III. But Budweiser and Anomaly had such a big hit with "Puppy Love" on last year's Super Bowl, they couldn't resist going back...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Mountain Dew's Kickstart Turns Dudes Into the Craziest Dancers
Take a sip of a Mountain Dew Kickstart, and the world's greatest and strangest dance party will unfold. At least, that's what goes down in this very entertaining 90-second spot from BBDO New York...
View ArticleMcDonald's Unveils Endearing Super Bowl Ad, and Finally Reveals Its Mystery...
With no shortage of new advertising coming from McDonald's (for better or worse), it can't come as much of a surprise that it's joined Super Bowl lineup, too. Following a teaser earlier in the week...
View ArticleTotino's Beat Everyone to This Year's Super Bowl by Live-Tweeting It a Day Early
Brands will gather in their social-media war rooms tonight, still attempting to top Oreo's lightning-in-a-bottle template for real-time Super Bowl marketing. But in a sense, they've already lost....
View ArticleSNL Shows Housewives All the Fun They Could Be Having While Not Watching the...
One of the things Saturday Night Live does best is skewer advertising tropes, so it's no surprise that in last night's pre-Super Bowl episode, the show did just that. With a parody Totino's ad, no...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Newcastle's 2016 Super Bowl Ad Teaser Is Here, and Whoa Is It...
We're still technically more than a year away from the 2016 Super Bowl, but the first ad teaser is here. And of course, it's from Newcastle Brown Ale. The brewer and its agency, Droga5, evolved their...
View ArticleMcDonald's Finally Selling Bottles of Big Mac Secret Sauce, but They're Going...
For a company no one actually likes, people sure are interested in McDonald's food. This interest often takes shape as vulgar curiosity and conjecture about specific menu items. I still remember...
View ArticleAn Egg McMuffin Rises With the Sun on This Tasty McDonald's Billboard
You probably remember McDonald's famous, Grand Clio-winning sundial billboard, created by Leo Burnett almost a decade ago, which used the sun's shadows to suggest what you should be eating and...
View ArticleU.S. Media Agency of the Year: MediaCom's Team-First Approach Landed a Ton of...
Last August, during final presentations for Anheuser-Busch InBev's $575 million domestic planning and buying assignment, Sasha Savic took his vow to raise the creative bar at MediaCom to a whole new...
View ArticleCarl's Jr. Has Some Voluptuous Data on the Charlotte McKinney Ad, Its Biggest...
Its agency is one of the more sophisticated out there. And ads about female empowerment are on the rise. So why does Carl's Jr. remain stubbornly Neanderthal, continuing its now decade-long obsession...
View ArticleSnickers Took Over the Back of SI's Swimsuit Issue With a Ssssplendid 'You're...
Snickers and BBDO New York have followed up their brilliant "Brady Bunch" Super Bowl ad with an inspired print piece—taking over the back cover of Sports Illustrated's new Swimsuit Issue with this...
View ArticleHow a Naked Woman, a Horse and a Family in Belgium Created Godiva Chocolate
If you're not among the 54 percent of Americans planning on celebrating Valentine's Day, you may wish to reconsider. Some 53 percent of women surveyed a few years ago reported that if their spouses or...
View ArticleRed Velvet Oreos Are a Delightfully Awkward Aphrodisiac in Quirky Valentine...
If regular Oreos don't already put you in the mood for love, maybe try the cookie's new Red Velvet flavor. The limited-edition Valentine's Day product stars in a new animated campaign from 360i, and...
View ArticleThe Tall, Cold Tale of the Big Gulp
The average American citizen will drink 44 gallons of soft drinks this year, and a good many of them will head off to the local 7-Eleven to fill up. In fact, 7-Eleven dispenses 38 million gallons of...
View ArticleAd Campaign Hilariously Wants to 'Save the Bros' From the Junk in Protein Shakes
You probably didn't know bros were an endangered species. Dairy brand Organic Valley is out with "Save the Bros," a mock PSA asking for help weaning musclebound dudes from conventional protein shakes...
View Article