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This Darkly Clever Billboard for a Funeral Home Leaves Toronto Motorists Aghast

Brand Marketing

This billboard, which went up this week next to the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, is provocative in the extreme—blatantly urging drivers to text and drive as a way of drumming [...]


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This Annoying Preroll Ad Lets You Kill It, Not Just Skip It

Creativity

Some preroll ads are just so irritating that merely skipping them doesn't seem like meting out proper justice. Sometimes you just want to kill them. And this fun and pretty [...]

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Netflix’s Daredevil Characters Physically Damage Each Other’s Billboards in Hashtag Fight

Creativity

Duelling billboards are a time-honored advertising tradition, going back to Newcastle/Stella Artois and Audi/BMW. Now, Netflix introduces a novel twist on the genre—billboards on which characters from a show battle [...]

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Honey Nut Cheerios Mascot Goes Missing as Brand Addresses Declining Bee Populations

Creativity

In one of the most obvious yet still cool examples of cause marketing, Honey Nut Cheerios in Canada is pledging to help find a solution to unstable bee populations—by launching [...]

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Harlequin’s Latest Romance Novel Ads Pack Every Hunky Cliché Into Your Work Break

Creativity

If you're an overworked office drone in need of steamy relief, romance publisher Harlequin reminds you that you can carry all the fantasies you need for just such an emergency [...]

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This Agency’s New Website Is a Huge, Hilarious Parody of Terrible Agency Websites

Creativity

As a rule, agency websites are pretty wretched—full of self-congratulation, jargon, "creative" headshots and pompous meditations on proprietary philosophies and processes. But Zulu Alpha Kilo's is the absolute worst—in a [...]