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Already Hot in Australia, This Agency Means Business After Opening in New York

Brand Marketing

Specs Who (L. to r.) Chief innovation and strategy officer Arwa Mahdawi, global CEO Sean Cummins and CCO Todd Irwin What Full-service ad agency


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Your Favorite Balls Are Back and Under More Duress in This Crazy Underwear Ad

Creativity

You remember these two fellows from Clemenger BBDO's hilarious Bonds underwear ad a couple of weeks ago—the anthropomorphized testicles who suffer all manner of abuse down under, until they are [...]

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This Chicken Chain Got an Actual Chicken to Write Its Tweets, and Look What She Posted

Creativity

If you read some recent tweets from Australian barbecue chain Chicken Treat, you might conclude that a strange bird is running its feed. And you'd be right. Literally.

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Auto Tests (and the People Who Run Them) Get Downright Weird in These Australian Ads

Creativity

CarAdvice prides itself on its highly detailed car reviews. And in a new series of ads, its headquarters is portrayed as a mix of Consumer Reports and Aperture Science, where [...]

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The Sad, Painful Life of Two Testicles Improves Dramatically in This Hilarious Underwear Ad

Creativity

Anthropomorphized testicles are nothing new in advertising. But Australian agency Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne offers a humorous new addition to the pantheon with this campaign for Bonds underwear—in which two [...]

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Ads for Colleges Are Usually Terrible, but McCann Melbourne Just Made a Fascinating One

Creativity

Creative ads for universities are very rare. Most rate about a D+ (particularly this 2010 campaign for Drake University, whose actual theme, hilariously enough, was "D+"). But now and again, [...]