View Post Brands | Campaigns | TV California Lottery Drops Balls On the Golden State’s True Believers By Bob Marshall on Apr. 3, 2013 - 1:49 PM “What do women’s rights, a one-armed surfer, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the first man on the moon have to do with the California Lottery?” begins an actual press release for a new TV spot from David&Gol ...
View Post Brands | Campaigns | People Let’s Go Back to the Future Once Again with Blake Griffin By Jordan Teicher on Feb. 12, 2013 - 9:02 AM The Deadpan Dunker is at it again, traveling back in time for two new spots with his faux-DeLorean Kia Optima. In this latest series from David&Goliath, Blake Griffin targets his younger self in 2006 and 2002 to impart wisdom ...
Brands | Campaigns | TV Kia’s Electronica-Obsessed ‘Hamstars’ Bring the Party to the 18th Century By Bob Marshall on Aug. 30, 2012 - 10:31 AM Love ’em or hate ’em, but Kia’s break-dancing over-sized hamsters must actually be selling units of the Soul. How else do you explain this nonsensical 90-second spot from David&Goliath, which looks like it co ...
Brands | Campaigns Up Up and Away: David & Goliath Strikes It Rich for CA Lottery By Ella Riley-Adams on Aug. 6, 2012 - 2:00 PM Advertising the lottery isn’t a huge challenge. Simply create far-fetched fantasies and convince people that it could all be theirs if they just spend $1.00 on one ticket. Or create an ad that serves as a smiling, twinkly-eyed f ...
Brands | Campaigns | TV NFL Thursday Night Football Promises to Be ‘Serious Fun’ By Bob Marshall on Jul. 31, 2012 - 11:48 AM Football fans, IT’S ALMOST TIME! The past few months have been hard. Sure, we were excited when the MLB season kicked off, but we’ve reached the mid-season lull where it’s become too difficult to feign interest a ...
Brands | Sports | TV Kia’s Super Bowl Spot: Models, Metal and Meaty Sandwiches By Bob Marshall on Feb. 2, 2012 - 10:42 AM For the all screenshots I’d seen of a scantily-clad Adriana Lima holding a checkered racing flag, I didn’t have very high expectations for Kia’s Super Bowl spot. But, I was wrong, and David&Goliath definitely ...
Brands | TV Hardee’s Chicken Tenders Get a Personal Touch By Bob Marshall on Nov. 23, 2011 - 11:12 AM From the ever-prolific David&Goliath comes the above advert for Hardee’s, seemingly the agency’s millionth TV spot for CKE Restaurants since taking over the ad duties for the brand at the beginning of the year. Hey ...
Brands | Campaigns No Worries, Bikinis Still Remain in Carl’s Jr. Southern-Flavored Spot By Kiran Aditham on Nov. 1, 2011 - 2:01 PM Yes, that does appear to be the guy who gets dissed in that Michael Jordan Hanes ad from last year, but now he’s the star of this latest Carl’s Jr. effort from David&Goliath that promotes the chain’s “M ...
Ad Biz | Brands | Digital LMFAO Overexposure Continues, This Time in Kia’s YouTube Dance-Off By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 21, 2011 - 2:30 PM Electro-hop duo LMFAO have already gotten a hell of a lot of mileage out of their “Party Rock” schtick and tracks like ” Party Rock Anthem,” but that doesn’t mean their onslaught is even close to comp ...
Brands | Campaigns | TV Hardee’s is Full of Bologna By Bob Marshall on Aug. 8, 2011 - 1:02 PM From David&Goliath and production company Smuggler comes a new series of TV spots for Hardee’s fried bologna biscuit. When D&G first picked up Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.’s creative business at the begi ...