An eight-year-old girl playing an iPhone game about cats called "My Talking Tom" was understandably a little confused — and, in that eight-year-old way, verrrrry curious — when a pop-up ad appeared asking, "Tired of Your Birth Control Routine? Tap Here."
"In the age of knowing what you're made of, there's no room for erectile dysfunction," says Viagra, who claims that their most recent batch of commercials show men "engaging in daily activities without letting anything get in their way." Right: they don't let anything get in their way of BEING HOT.
SCENE: Offices of London ad agency Subliminal, Persuader, & Manipulate, 1957.
Katniss is alive and well and coming to your movie screens this holiday season. But before you can see the movie, Lionsgate is going to tease you until you burst with beautiful promos featuring everyone from Alex Minsky as a worker from the lumber district (not in movie) to Julianne Moore as President Coin. Let the…
Know this up front: This is an ad. But it's so fun, so awesome, so cleverly done and amazingly produced, the nanoseconds of product placement at the end are totally worth it.
And your dad told you that you'd be unemployable with a degree in green screen hair flipping.
This commercial for Indian telecommunications service MTS is one of the strangest, most terrifyingly delightful things I think I have ever seen. India's take on the CGI baby is currently the most viral ad ever in the country, and it's not hard to see why.
Women's health groups in Mexico City are understandably unimpressed by the city's new strategy to encourage and normalize breastfeeding with mothers. The series of posters, which has already been taken down from the city's website, feature a few very slender and toned female celebrities topless and braless. …
If you look past the fact that this Thai "My Woman is Beautiful" advertisement is from a lingerie company, then you can just watch a mom and her rosy-cheeked daughter be cute. If not, meet me at this post's end.
With the Super Bowl only a few super short days away, marketers are gearing up to unload the big guns: their Super Bowl ads. If this year is like every previous year, some of those ads will prominently feature tired sexist tropes that would be outdated even in a smoky rooms full of Roger Sterlings. But now, rather…
Look here! During this year's Superbowl, Jaguar will air an ad featuring Tom Hiddleston in a tuxedo. Now usually, I think it's gross to get excited over Superbowl ads because I think it's gross to get excited about ads in general. But then I read "Tom Hiddleston" + "tuxedo" and all my anti-consumerist principles flew…
If you're not among the denizens of a smattering of major US cities (or Toronto), chances are you've been spared the confuzzling weirdness that are ads for Equinox gyms. Last year, they demanded to know if I was "skinny-fat," which is 100% not a thing, and now, they're implying that working out there can make you…
In the ramp up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, we can anticipate an influx of emotionally manipulative schmaltz designed to sell product, but this series of ads by Proctor & Gamble has somehow managed to overcome all of my anti-schmaltz defense mechanisms and made me cry like a toddler who just experienced her first ice…
Photoshopping and airbrushing in advertisements is so ubiquitous that it's expected. But every once in awhile, an ad comes along that is so cartoonishly reliant on, uh, turning a person into a cartoon that it makes the other ads look like Dove commercials. Well, we've found that ad — and it's hilarious. Just watch.…
When in doubt, advertisers often seem to default to stuff that's as seXXXy as possible. "Sex sells!" they cry to anyone skeptical of this approach. Turns out that's maybe not the case, though—as long as we're talking about female consumers.
This ad is one of the most viral web videos of the year. It's not short — at three and a half minutes, it dwarfs the attention span most advertisers assume their target audience has. It's not sexy — the raciest thing about the ad is some teen hand holding. It's not star-studded — the main characters in the ad are…
GoDaddy, that website hosting company that has a stronger brand association with "trying-too-hard 'sExY' Super Bowl ads" than with, uh, actual website hosting, has announced plans to tone it down. Let's all pour one out for the boobies commercials we'll never know.
This ad, created for the United Nations Women campaign (which is unfortunately shortened to the UN Women campaign), becomes more devastating when you realize that the Google search boxes are the results of genuine searches, and although the ad-crafting and Googling were all done by Christopher Hunt at Ogilvy & Mather…
Sears seems like a family-friendly, clean cut kind of brand, so it's interesting that Terry Richardson, "The World's Most Fucked-Up Fashion Photographer," was hired to photograph the ad campaign for the Kardashian Kollection, sold exclusively at Sears.
Prance your way to payday, Prancercise Lady.
