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Apple dropped several great new ads for its new iPhone, based on the tagline “Practically Magic”, highlighting low light camera and other features. Anyone getting the new phone? Via Adweek: Apple broke a pair of iPhone 7 commercials during the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, advertising the latest incarnation of the device with the line: […]
ICYMI: Netflix aired ads for their powerful SheRules campaign over the Emmys, celebrating female characters in their programmes. Via CNN: Netflix didn’t take home a ton of hardware at the Emmys this year, but the company was able to make waves on Twitter with an ad it ran during the TV awards show ceremony. The […]
The UN launches its VR app, teeing up with filmmakers from around the globe to share their 360 videos, and highlight global issues. Via Adweek: “[T]he UN is launching UNVR, a mobile app that will be a destination for VR films created by the UN and filmmakers around the world. Thanks to partnerships with Samsung […]
A Depressed T-Rex and Audi… a parodic, strangely heartwarming ad about a tyrannosaurus rex with issues and how Audi helps it out. Because car ads have to do something weird to stand out from the pack nowadays. Via Adweek: This unexpected heartbreaker of an ad goes on to explore the depths of T-Rex’s debilitating depression. […]
The future according to kids – and play doh – is an adorable ad campaign that asks kids to imagine what they think the future would be like. Via Mental Floss: Play-Doh, the wallpaper cleaning material-turned-sculpting compound, turns 60 today. To celebrate, the brand asked parents from around the world to share their kids’ predictions […]
This incredible new Netflix series is part of a push to get the White Helmets of Syria recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize. Via IndieWire: As the U.S, and Russia agree upon another tentative ceasefire in Syria, civilians on the ground are not holding their breath that the fighting will end. Syrian civilians have been […]
Maisie Williams, better known as Arya Stark from Game of Thrones, parodies make up ads in this hilarious campaign for Three. Via TIME: Maisie Williams is taking on the beauty industry in a new commercial for Three, an internet service provider in the U.K. During the nearly two-minute long spot, the 19-year-old actress, who plays […]
Geico is on a roll, with another hilarious commercial starring a bunch of cute neighborhood kids and Ice T by the Martin Agency. Funny, if not as near the level of genius as Geico’s previous “Unskippable” ads. Via CampaignLive: Rapper and actor Ice-T helps kids run a lemonade stand in the latest punny spot in […]
TGIF! What are you guys up to this weekend? We’re planning to catch up on Netflix’s Stranger Things. In case you haven’t heard about it, it’s the latest Netflix hit starring Winona Ryder, a love letter to 80s supernatural films, right down to the typefaces. Via Vox: Stranger Things is a knowing genre pastiche, an […]
This hilarious new ad for Virgin Atlantic warns against taking a vacation in the office. The ad tries to promote taking an (actual) vacation by highlighting the drudgery of office drone life. Via Adweek: The ad does a nice job of inciting the kind of desperation that makes you want to tear off your necktie […]