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Pixar’s Purl is a Sparkshots short film featuring an animated ball of yarn trying to fit in at her new job in an all-male startup company called B.R.O.. Via Short of the Week: Though Pixar have become somewhat synonymous in the world of animated shorts, finding these films online is more of a rarity, than […]
Burger King had a surprising ad for Superbowl which was accused of being “advertising for advertising people”. It involved Andy Warhol. Yes, the real Andy Warhol, eating a Whopper. Via AdAge: In the future, maybe everyone will eat a Whopper for 15 minutes. Or at least 45 seconds. “I still remember the first time I […]
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds bury the hatchet by making ads for each other. Or did they…. Via News.com.au: With muscles like those, you’d think they’d fight it out offline. Marvel men Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have put to peace their fan favourite internet feud. The ultimate truce maker? An advertising collaboration, of course. […]
Chance the Rapper x Backstreet Boys for Doritos. That’s right. The Backstreet Boys are still alive. Their band name hasn’t aged well. We could link you a glowing review of the ad, which while we didn’t think was great was at least amusing to us, but here’s Rolling Stone magazine being really upset about it […]
Another year, another Superbowl Alexa commercial. This one isn’t as funny as 2018’s, but at least it has Harrison Ford and a cute dog. Via Digital Trends: Amazon’s having fun with Alexa with this year’s Super Bowl Sunday TV commercial. The online retail giant is set to run at least one television commercial for the […]
A Day in the Life of a Sushi Master — as can be seen through films like Jiro Dreams of Sushi, it’s a lot more work than you’d think. Via High Snobriety: We’ve shown you how to make your favorite sneakers out of sushi, but you probably don’t realize what it takes to become a […]
The DeLorean Paradox — once, thanks to Back to the Future, this car was supposed to be the car of the future. What went wrong? Via Vox: The video above explores the past and present of the DeLorean Motor Company, which made the infamous DMC-12. Though many today know the car through the movie Back […]
Animal Planet’s Puppybowl and Kittenbowl is back for another year, following the Superbowl! It encourages adoption of rescue cats and dogs. And, it’s adorable. Adoption is for US only, but in case you were curious, Bustle has the low down: Whether you love the Super Bowl or hate it, pretty much everyone can agree that […]
Shutterstock has made a hilarious recreation of the Fyre Festival promo video, using stock video from its website, as part of the It’s Not Stock campaign. Via AdNews: Shutterstock has cleverly recreated the infamous Fyre Festival ad using its own stock footage as part of its new global campaign “It’s Not Stock”. The ad capitalises […]
Australia Lamb had a new ad campaign out in time for Australia Day, which hilariously proposed merging with New Zealand to become New Australialand. New Zealand Tourism has since responded in equally hilarious fashion, given that Lamb forgot to buy the URL. Via News.com.au: New Zealand has hijacked a key part of the popular annual […]