Burger King's King Finally Speaks, by Signing, for American Sign Language Day
From the days when he would pop up, unannounced, in your bed in the morning, Burger King's King character has never actually spoken a single word, preferring to let his creepily silent visage speak...
View ArticleGoogle Tested 3 Versions of This Honey Maid Ad to See Which Worked Best Online
It's a fundamental choice for online video marketers: Should you hit viewers with a quick, memorable pitch that's (hopefully) less skippable? Or should you engage them with longer-form content that's...
View ArticleHow Millennials Can Get Ahead at Work: Bring Ice Breakers and a Unicorn to...
Ice Breakers breath mints are actually unicorns that will help millennials squeeze extra perks out of job negotiations, according to a new campaign by Crispin Porter + Boguksy for the Hershey's-owned...
View ArticleSnickers Gets Wrapped Up Like Other Candy Bars in Latest 'You're Not You' Ads
BBDO Moscow takes the "You're Not You When You're Hungry" campaign for Snickers into meta territory with these three print ads, in which the Snickers bar isn't itself—it's packaging to look like Mars,...
View ArticleThis Pizza Delivery App Made a Pizza Box That Turns Into a Smokeable Pipe for...
Normally you smoke weed and then have an uncontrollable urge to eat pizza. But mobile app Push for Pizza suggests you do it the other way around—and has the perfect invention to make it happen. The...
View ArticleY&R Staff Worldwide Make McWhoppers in Adorable Video Celebrating Major Ad...
Y&R New Zealand's celebrated McWhopper campaign took home the highest honor, the Grandy, at the 52nd annual International Andy Awards on Tuesday night. And Y&R staffers from around the globe...
View ArticleDomino's New Pizza Delivery Boxes in the U.K. Are Just Bloody Awesome
Here's a great bit of packaging design work from Jones Knowles Ritchie—pizza delivery boxes for Domino's that recreate the brand's logo across two boxes. The design shop explains:Over the years,...
View ArticleKFC's Pixelated 'NSFW' Tweet Proves a Bit Too 'Hot & Spicy' for the Internet
Brand Twitter fails are few and far between these days, which is either good or bad, depending on your schadenfreude levels. But here's a bizarre and baffling one from Australia, where KFC somehow...
View ArticleDroga5 Beautifully Tells One of History's Most Incredible Father-Son Stories...
If you're looking for iconic brand ambassadors for your adventure-themed liquor campaign, you could do a lot worse than the Piccards, the father and son who accomplished incredible—and incredibly...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Waitrose Is Livestreaming Delightfully Boring Farm Videos for...
Want to see where Waitrose gets it food from? Just go on YouTube and watch live footage of its partner farms—for an entire week. That's the interesting premise of adam&eveDDB and Manning Gottlieb...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Evian's Babies Try Surfing, and Chilling With Gigi Hadid, in...
Whether you find them adorable, hilarious, creepy—or maybe all of the above—Evian's famous advertising babies aren't going anywhere. And they return today with a splash in a new campaign from BETC...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Is Seeing (Even More) Red in New Designs for Its Cans and Bottles
When a brand as iconic as Coca-Cola decides to change its packaging, it's a big deal. While different colors have always denoted different products—red is classic Coca-Cola, silver is loved by Diet...
View ArticleMcDonald's Launches Creative Review, Moves to Consolidate U.S. Advertising...
McDonald's is reviewing its creative advertising business in the U.S. A spokesperson for the restaurant chain told Adweek on Monday: "We are committed to modernizing McDonald's, including how we...
View ArticleAlabama Governor's Sex Scandal Just Inspired a Beer With the Grabbiest Label...
Alabama may be in a sour spotlight after its governor admitted making sexually charged remarks to a onetime senior adviser. But one brewery in the state is sweetening the situation by putting the...
View ArticlePepsi Embraces the 5-Second Spot, Making 100 of Them for TV and Digital This...
Sometimes, longer is better. But Pepsi is going super short with its new emoji-themed commercials, creating a slew of 100 five-second spots that will air on TV and in search-triggered digital media...
View ArticleAre Your Eyes Playing Twix on You? Twins Freak People Out in Candy's Fun New Ad
Playing on the double-sticked nature of the product, Twix in the Nordics pulled a modern—and more discomfiting—version of Doublemint's "Double Your Pleasure." Patchwork Group in Denmark helped prep...
View ArticleGoogle Says These 5 Food Trends Are Sweeping America
Trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight? No shame in Googling it like the rest of America. When it comes to learning new recipes, it's no surprise that everyone's turning to the search engine...
View ArticleCider Brand Is Broadcasting a 'Live GIF' of a Guy Making the Same Movements...
Livestreaming brand stunts are getting more and more popular—one of our recent favorites being the Waitrose campaign from the U.K. that showed live feeds from the grocery chain's farms. Here's a more...
View ArticleNestlé Reintroduces Dreyer's Ice Cream to the World With Campaign Featuring...
Dreyer's has long been a steady presence in your neighborhood supermarket's ice cream aisle, but a new campaign from Goodby Silverstein & Partners aims to reintroduce this classic brand of sweets...
View ArticleMcDonald's Turns Placemats Into Little Music Production Stations Connected to...
Wasn't it fun when we were kids to doodle on restaurants' paper placements with crayons? Well, McDonald's has introduced a high-tech, musical version of that sort of play with McTrax—a snazzy placemat...
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