Volkswagen: Wings (Super Bowl ad)

Volkswagen’s Super Bowl ad entertains by giving wings to engineers. The ad celebrates the fact that in the USA there are more Volkswagen cars still being used with over 100,000 miles on the clock than any other brand. Although it’s… Continue Reading

Newcastle Brown Ale: IfWeMadeIt.com

Newcastle Brown Ale and Droga5 have just created this brilliant teaser for an ad they never made that they could have shown at the Super Bowl. The ad leads you to www.IfWeMadeIt.com where you can watch more entertaining teasers for… Continue Reading

Toronto FC: It’s a Bloody Big Deal

As of next month England striker Jermain Defoe will be moving from Tottenham Hotspur to Toronto FC. To celebrate his imminent arrival they got local Toronto based agency Sid Lee to create the spot below. I’m not really a football… Continue Reading

13 of the best ads from 2013

This year has been a pretty good one for advertising. Rather than big new trends coming in there has mainly been an evolution of existing ones. The traditional 30 seconds TV spot is no longer de rigueur, only 2 or… Continue Reading

Carlton Dry: #HelloBeer

Aussie beers ads are more often than not hilarious, and Carlton ads tend to be up there. The below short compilation of short ads are from Melbourne agency Clemeger BBDO who say that to make the ads they threw four… Continue Reading

Coke Life: Parenthood

Coke Argentina has beautifully captured some of the highs and lows of early parenthood. Coke Life is a new type of Coke sold in Chile & Argentina where they are substituting sugar with Stevia, a natural plant based sweetener. The… Continue Reading

Burger king: Pre-roll ads

Burger king recently created the below rather clever YouTube pre-roll ad. This year has seen its fair share of pre-roll ads but the below stands out as a shining example. Basically they created 64 YouTube ads specifically targeting individual videos,… Continue Reading

Doritos: Finger Cleaner

Every year Doritos hosts a competition to air the best user generated Dorito videos as an actual ad during the Super Bowl, I think we have a winner already. The below ad was directed by Australian Tom Noakes and is… Continue Reading

Skittles: Get Skittles Rich

Interesting competition from Skittles in Canada. They created a fictional spokesman named Danny Falcon, and offered a million skittles (5,500 packs) to the person that share the YouTube video the most. The video parodies a pyramid marketing scheme, so far… Continue Reading

Harvey Nichols: Sorry, I Spent It On Myself

UK posh department store Harvey Nichols have created a very tongue in cheek Christmas campaign. The TV ad features different families giving their loved ones cheap and trivial gifts, such as toothpicks, from the Harvey Nichols “Sorry, I spent it… Continue Reading