Finger Lickin’ Gross: KFC Goes Too Far
Performance Marketing
What's got me grossed out and ticked off this time? Ogilvy & Mather teaming up with food technologists at McCormick — the folks behind the Colonel's secret mix of spices [...]
Colonel Sanders Channels Santa, Badly, in W+K’s Silly Holiday Spots for KFC
Creativity
You might call him the Southern Santa. In four new holiday videos from KFC, Colonel Sanders spends most of his screen time stuck in a home's chimney ... while trying [...]
Ad of the Day: KFC’s ‘Friendship Bucket Test’ Is Like a Deep-Fried Newlywed Game
Brand Marketing
Nothing says friendship over the holidays like a heaping bucket of KFC chicken.
David Timm Named U.S. CMO of Pizza Hut
Brand Marketing
Yum! Brands has named one of its veteran executives to fill Pizza Hut's vacant U.S. chief marketing officer slot. David Timm will move from KFC to fill the post, the [...]
This ‘Returnship’ Eases People’s Transition Back to Agency Jobs After Years Away
Brand Marketing
Sue Vering was an associate creative director at DDB Chicago when she left in 1998, ultimately taking seven years off from the ad business to raise her daughter, get involved [...]
KFC Comically Re-enacts Mick Fanning’s Shark Attack, but He’s Not Laughing
Creativity
It was the shark attack caught on a live surfing broadcast, and then seen around the world. But Mick Fanning's family is condemning a comical new KFC ad that revisits [...]