View Post Agencies | Campaigns BBDO NY and Joe Montana Stay Strong for AT&T By Patrick Coffee on Jan. 12, 2015 - 12:00 PM In a campaign scheduled to culminate with tonight’s first-ever College Football Championship, BBDO New York focuses on a single fact for client AT&T: the provider offers customers “the nation’s strongest LTE ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns BBDO and Foot Locker Bravely Defend Against Sports Cliches By Patrick Coffee on Dec. 9, 2014 - 2:39 PM BBDO New York and Foot Locker continue their extended winning streak with this just-released spot in which Oklahoma City point guard Russell Westbrook promotes the client’s new Air Jordan line: We like that the spot plays o ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns ‘Johnny Football’ Goes Lululemon in Snickers Spot By Patrick Coffee on Aug. 28, 2014 - 6:00 PM Since this is pre-football week, here’s a BBDO ad for Snickers that tells us that Johnny Manziel is trying to improve upon his personal “brand” after a rough start. Rather than simply sweating because he was pick ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns BBDO Makes Short Shorts for Mountain Dew By Patrick Coffee on Aug. 26, 2014 - 3:51 PM In the latest BBDO-helmed project for client Mountain Dew, the agency has created something even our own sharpest critics must call unique: an animated/live-action mini-series. Make that a “mini mini-series” — i ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns BBDO Reads Subtitles, Rearranges the Furniture for AT&T By Patrick Coffee on Aug. 1, 2014 - 3:01 PM A spot from BBDO’s latest campaign for AT&T combines the 70’s sitcoms that our more mature readers all loved with what looks and sounds a lot like a 90’s metal show hosted in…a high school auditorium? ...
Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV BBDO New York Ruins Classic Beach Boys Song for AT&T By Erik Oster on Apr. 24, 2014 - 1:04 PM This one’s been making the rounds for awhile, but we figured we’d add our two cents since it involves the ruining of a classic Beach Boys track. BBDO New York employs the Beach Boy’s “Wouldn’t It Be N ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns Snickers Plays What-If in Two New Commercials By Jordan Teicher on Jan. 27, 2014 - 2:42 PM To promote Snickers Bites, BBDO New York went retro. Bites give hungry customers a bag full of tiny pieces of Snickers bars, a pretty big switch for the consistent candymaker. But what if Snickers had thought of the idea decades a ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | People BBDO Brings More Funny to Foot Locker in Star-Studded Spot By Erik Oster on Nov. 19, 2013 - 3:26 PM BBDO’s solid streak for Foot Locker continues with a new spot promoting the chain’s annual “Week of Greatness” event, “the one time each year when the most premium kicks come out.” Entitled “All ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns BBDO, Twix Encourage More Right Twix Vs. Left Twix Feuding By Erik Oster on Oct. 10, 2013 - 2:43 PM BBDO’s latest spot in its feudal Twix campaign, “Break Room,” continues to stoke the feud between left and right Twix. In the spot, a worker in the left Twix factory wonders what a right Twix tastes like. As he takes a bite, ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Sports | What The?? Stephen Curry Bests James Harden with Soulful Diss Track for Foot Locker By Jordan Teicher on Aug. 20, 2013 - 3:30 PM Here’s an update on the James Harden/Stephen Curry commercial-pretending-to-be-a-music-video we covered last week: while Harden may have uncorked his vocal cords first, Curry is back with an unsavory r&b diss track that ...