Topic: Canada
Miniature outdoor ads are just so damn cute! Once upon a time we had the tiny billboards for the PlayStation game LittleBigPlanet. More recently we saw the 12-inch-high signs, made…
This BBDO Toronto spot for the Canadian Paralympic Committee takes the gold for inspired visual storytelling. Amputee runner Alister McQueen races around a track at night, initially dodging stray wheelchairs,…
You're tired, hungry, barreling along a dank, fog-shrouded Vancouver highway at 3 a.m. (We'll assume you took a wrong turn at Seattle.) Your tires screech as you round a corner,…
Doing ads for adult-television networks—not an easy job. You can't use the channel's content, for one thing. Yet Amour, an XXX station in Canada, consistently does amusing work. A couple…
BBDO Toronto had a big hit last year with its Skittles Touch campaign (taking home gold Lions in Film and Cyber at the Cannes ad festival, for one thing). The…
Canadian ad agency Rethink pulls what we in the ad-criticism business call a "dick move" with its campaign for Panorama Hair, with ads on the mirrored ceilings of subway trains…
Budweiser is known as an all-American brand. But of late, it's found a sweet spot north of the border. Budweiser Canada has harnessed Canadian pride—more specifically, Canadian pride about hockey—to deliver…
An elderly woman and her caregiver are chatting over tea when darkness descends and the younger woman's smiling countenance turns malevolent and her tone grows harsh. "It's just another thousand.…
We've been focusing on the U.S. Super Bowl ads this week, but here's a good one that will air on the Canadian broadcast. Filmmakers told two recreational hockey teams in…
Craigslist ads have given voice to the pathetic and desperate over the years, and the same can be said for musical theater. So, it's only natural that they join forces,…
