A Breakfast Cereal Mascot in Drag Has Stolen the Heart of Newly Single Kermit...
In the Israeli ad below, created by BBR Saatchi & Saatchi, Kermit the Frog sings a swinging love missive to Denis(e), the mascot for Unilever's Branflakes cereal. Branflakes is targeted to women....
View ArticleAd of the Day: Guinness Tells Athletes' Dark Stories in Gripping Ads for...
The struggle to feel secure with your identity and be your best self is the theme of two short films created for Guinness by AMV BBDO in London. The ads, part of Guinness' overarching "Made of More"...
View ArticleKFC Offers Free Meals to Victims of Social Network Outages
It says something about the world that reporters consider it news to mention when Facebook or Twitter are down for more than a few minutes. With this in mind, KFC Romania and agency McCann came up...
View ArticleBallantine's Is Making a Zero-Gravity Whiskey Tumbler for Rich Space Tourists
People keep talking about space tourism like it's actually going to happen. And the budding interest of brands won't help quiet matters. To reinforce its position as the spirit of choice for "a bit of...
View ArticleDoritos Is Ending Its 'Crash the Super Bowl' Contest, but Not Before One Last...
Over the last 10 years, Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" contest became a staple of Super Bowl advertising, offering anyone with an idea and a camera a chance at the big leagues by making their own...
View ArticleMoleskine Celebrates Coke's 100th Anniversary with Beautifully Designed...
Moleskine, the makers of those sleek black journals that every aspiring poet in America seems to own, is doing its part to revel in Coca-Cola's centennial glory with limited-edition notebooks created...
View ArticleDunkin' Donuts Taps YouTuber to Show NFL What Excessive Celebration Really...
A duck-duck-goose-inspired touchdown celebration at a National Football League game is something I'd pay good money to see. The NFL, of course, would never condone such a silly spectacle. But thanks...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Jose Cuervo Flies Back to the Famously Depraved Rolling Stones...
The opening lines of Chapter 9 of Keith Richards' autobiography Life, in which he describes the Rolling Stones' debaucherous 1972 tour, were all McCann needed to get started on its latest stylish...
View ArticlePot Noodle Smashes Your Gender Stereotypes with This Unexpected Boxing Story
Pot Noodle is about to destroy your gender sterotypes, and you're going to love it. In fact, you'll want to watch it twice. The "You Can Make It" spot plays on your presumptions about what's happening...
View ArticleOscar Mayer Releases Sizzl, a Dating App Exclusively for Bacon Lovers
Oscar Mayer's love for bacon has taken a romantic turn, as 360i today unveils Sizzl, an actual dating app built for people who dig on swine (which is to say, almost everybody). You download the app,...
View ArticleMoe's Southwest Grill Just Made a Real Electric Guitar Out of a Giant...
Now that Moe's Southwest Grill has taken to calling its free queso day "Quesopalooza," it's entirely logical that it would build a playable electric guitar out of a giant tortilla chip. No wait,...
View ArticleCoke Cans Come With Temporary Tattoo of Your Name in Latest Bit of Packaging...
Coca-Cola kicks off National Hispanic Heritage Month (which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) with a line of temporary-tattoo cans, targeted to Hispanic and Latino Americans. Based on the insight that...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Just Published His Latest Story on a Chipotle Bag
A new installment in Chipotle's "Cultivating Thought" campaign—which prints original short stories from successful writers on the sides of its paper bags and cups—has more high culture to go with your...
View ArticleGeneral Mills Will Introduce Gluten-Free Cheerios on the Emmys With This Very...
In early July, Cheerios started shipping gluten-free versions of five products. Now, the cereal brand has released an emotionally rich new ad from Saatchi & Saatchi, telling the story of how that...
View ArticleSnickers Swaps Out Its Brand Name for Hunger Symptoms on Painfully Honest...
The trend toward more personalized packaging continues, with a twist, as Snickers is replacing its brand name on packaging with 21 hunger symptoms. The twist is that, instead of being life-affirming...
View ArticleJude Law and Anomaly Put a Joyful New Bounce in Johnnie Walker's Step
Move over, Coca-Cola. A different beverage is staking a claim to happiness. And this one's 80 proof! Anomaly has updated Johnnie Walker's iconic "Keep Walking" campaign with a new attitude and a...
View ArticleIn France, Burger King Lines Are So Long That the Chain Has People to Wait in...
At Burger King in La Defense, the Paris business district, in-the-know users can get a "personal queuer" to wait in long lines for a Whopper. We'll preface by saying the French are bananas about...
View ArticleRidiculous Stock-Photo Couple Can't Contain Their Joy in Ad for Breakfast...
As Vince Vaughn once taught us, stock photos can sometimes make for some unexpectedly fun marketing. Droga5 amusingly takes that to heart in this spot, running on Facebook, for belVita breakfast...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Bond Gets a New Sidekick in W+K's Entertaining Swan Song for...
Another day, another James Bond movie, another dapper chase scene of a Heineken commercial—but with a new kind of hero. Daniel Craig bookends this new 90-second, high-octane ad—from Wieden + Kennedy...
View ArticleHow the Craft Cocktail Movement Is Driving Competition Among Bitters Brands
In the world of cocktails, everything old is new and trendy again. And yet, few products have been revived as dramatically as bitters. Despite the relative obscurity of the flavorful extract that is a...
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