Perhaps the most iconic ad of all time, Apple's "1984" has been repurposed a hundred times over. But this is the first time I've seen it turned against its creator.…
By Brian Morrissey Facebook vp, global media sales Mike Murphy has a simple pitch to brands: Ads on Facebook have a "significantly higher" engagement rate than ads elsewhere on the Internet.…
By Andrew McMains John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen's online division, and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, outlined the broad strokes of the two companies' alliance during an Advertising Week…
Did the Family Guy manatees write this set of ads for Norton's 2010 anti-virus software? Because using '80s band Dokken and a chicken to illustrate how viruses attack your hard-drive…
Don't really want that black guy in the overseas version of your ad? Just Photoshop him out! Compare the English-language version of the company's business productivity infrastructure site with…
Few social-media marketing ideas are as hackneyed as inviting people to upload their own commercials. But it seems like a good fit for Hewlett-Packard with the new "You on You"…
This Toshiba ad from Young & Rubicam in Irvine, Calif., shows what happens when you buy the wrong laptop: You end up sprinting in a panic through an empty city,…
I've been excited for this since the teaser came out, and hoping Jerry Seinfeld wasn't going to star in it. Now, Traffik and Microsoft have finally released the full trailer…
Mother in New York more or less goes the Coca-Cola "Happiness Factory" route for Dell in this musical spot. The Dell factory's a bit too wacky-forced-happy for my taste, with…
Opera Software says it's reinventing the Web. That's pretty much what it'll take for the Norwegian company to boost its abysmal browser share (zing!). This week it unveiled Opera Unite,…

