American Apparel shows off yet another nearly naked woman, this time in the name of fair labor practices. Because boobs and decent pay for a day's work are completely corollary. (Excuse me while I check my breasts and look for a paycheck to fall from the sky.) The company's newest ad features an actual employee named…
Car manufacturers spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to sell cars to millennials. Apparently they're still very confused, because Chevy just released an ad that's basically a minute-long reminder that one day, your brand new puppy will die.
Are you experiencing Award Season Withdrawal? (It's a real thing; I don't care what my stupid doctor says.) Jonesing for another round of guessing who is or isn't going to be a big winner, but sick of seeing all those gosh darned movie stars showing off all their fancy attire? Then do we have something for you—the 2014 …
Apparently, Diet Coke's new ad campaign: "You're on!" is drawing fire for being a terribly irresponsible and naughty DRUG REFERENCE FOR DRUGGIES. Sometimes the billboards say, "Diet Coke. You're on." And sometimes they say, "You're on. Diet Coke." But either way, they're clearly talking about your brain being on something…
Microsoft spends a lot of time attempting to zing Apple. Their latest try is pitched to the ladies and focuses on the fact Mac laptops don't have touch screens. A pretty simple concept! But just in case, the company decided to explain it in terms of wedding planning. Because ladies love weddings.
Sometimes advertising agencies get creative and it’s great. Other times, the sentiment might be there but the message makes you say, "Wait, what?" Enter Dove’s new deodorant campaign in the Garden State.
We have this phenomenon in advertising called "creative license"—you're allowed to stretch logic (to a certain point) to dramatize a product benefit.
Charged with promoting Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, a new book of photographs of the star, ad agency Preuss und Preuss decided on a rather sketchy approach. They slapped Marilyn's legs on poles around the city, attached a flapping skirt at the waist and waited for curious passers-by.
Cancer is a lot of things — fucking unfair, tragic, horrible, frightening, a terrifyingly indifferent monster. Cancer is not a pissing contest. Guess no one told that to the British Pancreatic Cancer Action organization, which this week launched what may be the worst disease awareness ad campaign of all time. "I wish I…
Times really were different in the '60s and '70s. Not only was it still cool to smoke back then, but it was also cool to pin your cigarette ad campaign on women's lib.
GoDaddy, taking a break from their usual marketing of casual sexism
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 than …
Because Summer's Eve wasn't sure if their last Cleansing Wash advertising campaign was stupid enough
It's still January, but the worst Valentine's Day ad has already been released. The only thing that might top this is aTaco Bell ad of someone sitting alone inside a Taco Bell with the caption, "Treat yourself with a Valentine's Day table for one," followed by a little Open Table URL for making reservations. At Taco…
Hey, laaaaaadiiiiiies!!! If there's one thing I know about you, it's that there's one thing you know about me, and that's that there's one thing we know about us, and that's YOGURT YOGURT YOGURT.
An ad for a DC grocery store welcomed Howard University students back from winter break with big savings on sushi!!! ...And a photo of a smiling white woman. As Howard is a historically (and famously and OBVIOUSLY) black university, the ad has critics' eyes rolling.
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
Hey, ladies! C'mere, Microsoft wants to give you a big you-go-girl high five. Oh, but first—have you considered switching to BING?
The company responsible for one of the stupidest
Between the royalty-free stock music playing in the background, the whole goddamn narrative of a dude's robot-watch helping him 'get the girl,' and the fact that this commercial goes on for more than two minutes, I can't tell which part of this Samsung Galaxy Gear ad makes my right eye twitch more.
But really, who…
