Ad of the Day: Diet Coke
Taylor Swift's beverage preferences, like everything else in her life, have been well documented. There was that time she and Jake Gyllenhaal strolled through Brooklyn while drinking "specialty maple...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Dos Equis
"He gave his father The Talk." Dos Equis tries different things with The Most Interesting Man in World, but the campaign's strength lies, and will always lie, in those inspired one-liners—the ones your...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Taco Bell
Taco Bell walks the line between cute and gross in its latest commercial, featuring a teenage boy going in for his first kiss in his parents' minivan. The girl sitting shotgun doesn't really seem that...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Philips Norelco
Almost-obscenities are having a good run in ads this month. First, we had Kmart's "Ship My Pants" spot, which has made millions of people laugh like 9-year-olds. Now, it's Philips Norelco's turn—with...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Ikea
Gno one really gnows how hard it is to make this kind of ad. It's gnot an easy task, obviously, but in my experience, almost gnothing can keep a viewer's attention on a YouTube ad for more than a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: New Era
April 15 is best known as the date for everyone's least favorite federal obligation. But it also marks a significantly more upbeat occasion—the anniversary of Jackie Robinson's opening day with the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Evian
Evian's babies are back, and they look more familiar than usual. The infants, introduced by BETC Paris in 1998 with the beloved French spot "Water Babies," and made famous a decade later by the global...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Legacy
Attention smokers. You're not just destroying yourselves. You might also be destroying the planet. As Earth Day 2013 has again reminded us, environmental advertising is often not as engaging as it...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Coors Light
You're hanging out at the pool, just trying to relax on a sunny Florida day and say hi to some foxy babes, and you say to yourself, "Hey, I'll get a Coors Light," because it's important to hydrate,...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Kimpton Hotels
Life is short and full of pain. And there's nothing worse than being stuck in a lifeless hotel room on the most stressful business trip of your life—reports sprawled about, a calendar you can't make...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson's new corporate image work, from the Playa del Rey, Calif., office of TBWA\Chiat\Day, in some ways harkens back to its last major corporate push, the "Having a baby changes...
View ArticleAd of the Day: H&M
A fashion ad featuring Beyoncé as Beyoncé writhing around in a bikini on a tropical beach? Obvious, maybe. Genius, nonetheless. This is H&M's perfectly simple new ad, starring Ms. Carter, as her...
View ArticleAd of the Day: IBM
IBM and Ogilvy make a big impact with the smallest of building blocks in their latest video, billed as "the world's smallest movie"—a rudimentary stop-motion animation made by IBM scientists using a...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Land Rover
The star of most car commercials, for obvious reasons, is the car. Even when a famous athlete, handsome actor or Sports Illustrated swimsuit model appears in the picture, their job is to show off the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Lexus
There's nothing that car companies seem to love more than showing off their creativity by producing short films that have practically nothing to do with their actual products. Such is the case with...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Samsung
Some smartphones are smarter than other smartphones," Samsung proclaims in this new 90-second spot, which aired Thursday night on Conan. But mostly, some smartphones appear to be younger than other...
View ArticleAd of the Day: LendingTree
To personify new client LendingTree, Merkley + Partners turned to a puppet. In a new TV ad, "Lenny" is a green-faced, straight-shooting friend to Len, his human counterpart. As both sit before the...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Volkswagen
When done right, wryly positioning a product benefit as a potential liability can be a great formula for comedy. So it is with this new U.K. Volkswagen spot, which promotes the automaker's fuel-saving...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Schwinn
The bike: It’s cheap, it's "green," and it's the preferred method of transportation among certain twee millennials. (Seriously, Google “Zooey Deschanel on a bike.” There are 13.4 million hits.) But...
View ArticleAd of the Day: P&G
Procter & Gamble is back to celebrating moms, in time for their big day. The packaged-goods giant has released a beautifully crafted four-minute video looking at the life of Eunice Kennedy...
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