View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | Digital | People Weird Al Stars in GSD&M’s Holiday Effort for Radio Shack By Erik Oster on Nov. 7, 2014 - 11:23 AM In an attempt to boost holiday sales, GSD&M enlisted the services of one Weird Al Yankovic on behalf of the struggling Radio Shack. The resurgent Yankovic, of course, just had the first number one album of his career with his ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | Digital CP+B LA Gets Sweet for WeMo By Erik Oster on Oct. 24, 2014 - 11:25 AM CP+B has just launched the first ever marketing campaign for home automation company WeMo, taking aim at viewer’s sweet sides with a 60-second broadcast spot. The spot, entitled “The Big Anniversary Rig” tells th ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV 72andSunny Quotes Pop Culture for Samsung’s New, Curvy TV By Erik Oster on May. 19, 2014 - 3:48 PM 72andSunny mined memorable moments in film, TV, and the Internet for their new campaign unveiling Samsung’s Curved UHD TV, called “The Curve Changes Everything.” The new broadcast spot debuted last night during p ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Campaigns | What The?? ‘Call of Duty’ Goes Domestic in UK Spot ‘Faboom’ By Jordan Teicher on Oct. 16, 2013 - 12:30 PM Another day, another commercial from the Call of Duty: Ghosts marketing blitzkrieg. “Faboom,” a 40-second spot for UK audiences comes from 72andSunny and shows regular folk reenacting their favorite moments from the g ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns Best Buy, CP+B Launch Final Back-to-School ‘Techfitter’ Spot By Ella Riley-Adams on Aug. 14, 2013 - 3:24 PM Continuing their back-to-school Techfitter campaign, Best Buy and CP+B are providing Tim Kong, an aspiring games designer, with the tech he needs to design and code his next action-packed adventures. Previously, Best Buy “techfi ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | TV | What The?? Jell-O, CP+B Give Young Boy an Unfortunate Comb Over By Jordan Teicher on Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:34 PM Men with comb overs look hapless. Little boys with comb overs look creepy. To see the difference, please watch the latest Jell-O television spot, appropriately titled “Comb Over.” In the forty-five-second ad built by C ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns CP+B, Best Buy ‘Tech-Fit’ Students with Windows 8 Gadgetry By Ella Riley-Adams on Jul. 31, 2013 - 12:59 PM And now, for something, er, lighter. These back-to-school posts almost make me wistful for the days when a new pencil case was the joy of my September. But as I have grown, so has the sophistication of academic shopping. To keep w ...
View Post Brands | Campaigns Ditto Trade Makes a Bullish Splash with New Campaign By Jordan Teicher on Jun. 11, 2013 - 12:34 PM Water cooler talk seems to be a popular theme this week. Today, our awkward conversational time passing introduces us to Phil and Marty, the bull and bear duo in the first national campaign for social investing firm Ditto Trade. T ...
Agencies | Brands | TV Windows Denounces Apple-on-Samsung Fan Violence in Latest Spot By Bob Marshall on Apr. 29, 2013 - 2:05 PM Son of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director, Francis-Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola was on a bit of a winning streak after co-writing Wes Anderson films The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom. However, after directing the n ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | People ‘The Replacer’ Returns, with JB Smoove in Tow, in New ‘Black Ops II’ Clip By Kiran Aditham on Apr. 8, 2013 - 12:37 PM Nearly three months after 72andSunny introduced us to “The Replacer”–aka Fargo baddie Peter Stormare–in its campaign for Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Revolution trailer, the agency ...