L’Oréal’s Golden Globes Campaign Aims to Get Women Talking About More Than Just Beauty
Brand Marketing
The politics of the red-carpet conversation have changed. Women may dress to the nines to match the glitz and glamour associated with awards ceremonies like Sunday's Golden Globes, but that [...]
George Clooney Is Finally Pitching Nespresso in the U.S., With Help From Danny DeVito
Creativity
George Clooney has starred in Nespresso ads in Europe and other international markets since 2006. (We've covered a lot of those campaigns, which have often paired the Oscar winner with [...]
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, [...]
Comically Idiotic List of Advertising’s ‘500 Under 500’ Spoofs the Industry’s Love of Rankings
Creativity
There's no shortage of lists ranking ad people—people profess to hate them, but of course, everybody reads them. And now, Lex Singer and Jesse Yowell have unveiled the bloated, bloviating [...]
Ad of the Day: Jose Cuervo Flies Back to the Famously Depraved Rolling Stones Tour of ’72
Brand Marketing
The opening lines of Chapter 9 of Keith Richards' autobiography Life, in which he describes the Rolling Stones' debaucherous 1972 tour, were all McCann needed to get started on its [...]
KFC Offers Free Meals to Victims of Social Network Outages
Creativity
It says something about the world that reporters consider it news to mention when Facebook or Twitter are down for more than a few minutes. With this in mind, KFC [...]