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How BBH Perfected the Twist Ending for the Year's Best Beverage Ad Careful clues for Robinsons

IDEA: Twist endings aren't always the best idea for commercials. Ads need staying power, and relying too much on a surprise can ruin them after the first viewing. BBH London…

May 13, 2013, 10:25 PM EDT

Astronaut Outsexys Lifeguard in Axe's First-Ever Super Bowl Ad :30 pitches Apollo line, offers trip to space

Not surprisingly, Axe's first-ever Super Bowl commercial features a woman in a skimpy bikini jogging rather bouncily along a beach. Also not surprisingly, she's running toward a geeky dude who…

January 28, 2013, 11:11 AM EST

Ad of the Day: Axe Firemen are hot, but astronauts are hotter, says the brand, which plans to send 22 people into space

On the list of sexy male professions, fireman is a perennial top pick. Just ask any male stripper (or the audience at Magic Mike). But according to Axe, the maker…

January 11, 2013, 11:02 AM EST

Ad of the Day: The Guardian The British newspaper wants to own the weekend. No, really, own it

The Guardian wants Britain to know it's taking over the weekend. No, literally taking it over, to the point where Brits will soon be forced to refer to their days off…

January 10, 2013, 1:17 PM EST

The Spot: Toy Overload Paying for a gift is a lot easier than choosing one in BBH's Christmas ad for Barclaycard

IDEA: It's no secret that holiday shopping, particularly offline, can be hell. Britain's Barclaycard, a credit- and debit-card company, doesn't claim to ease all the pain—just a portion of it.…

November 27, 2012, 4:09 AM EST

The 10 Best Commercials of 2012 The year's most entertaining, intriguing, powerful and beautiful spots

After three decades, Sir John Hegarty and Dan Wieden are still trying to one-up each other. That was immediately clear at Cannes this summer when they took the stage together…

November 26, 2012, 12:01 AM EST

Never Mind the Bollocks, BBH N.Y. Presses On Despite exec shuffles and a reliance on corporate U.K. culture, the agency still hopes to break through

Call it the umbilical cord syndrome. The New York office of London-based Bartle Bogle Hegarty continues to rely on home turf clients like Diageo and Unilever and mostly imported CEOs,…

October 15, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 5-12 Alcohol gets fantastical, Heinz welcomes winter, and Jordan Brand freezes L.A. in its tracks

This week, DDB hijacked the #FirstWorldProblems hashtag for a good cause, polar bears wanted you to skip the Coca-Cola, and your family could never love you as much as HBO…

October 12, 2012, 10:01 AM EDT

Ad of the Day: St. John Ambulance A man survives cancer, then tragedy strikes, in BBH's shocking new spot

Few things build sympathy for a character quite like a battle with cancer. Such a battle encompasses three-quarters of this hard-hitting new PSA from BBH London for St. John Ambulance—beginning…

September 17, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT

Ad of the Day: Axe BBH has everything you need should you happen to win a trip to a Caribbean island

The correct mode of transit to a Caribbean island goes something like this: You are standing, chest forward and chin up, on a speedboat. It is part of a triangular…

August 14, 2012, 1:35 PM EDT

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