• NEW! Strong Residents Aim To 'Settle It' In Skittles' Super Bowl Teaser
    The water in the town featured in Skittles' Super Bowl teaser spot must be contaminated with a heavy dose of vitamins, because every resident sports some big guns. When the clock strikes in town, each resident drops everything and heads outside. Men and women alike have biceps the size of your face and are ready to settle something. Or, they are just in need some protein, stat. See it here, created by DDB.
  • NEW! Danny Trejo Plays Marcia Brady In Snickers' Super Bowl Teaser Ad
    Snickers released a teaser video of its upcoming Super Bowl ad, airing in the first quarter of the big game. Continuing with the brand's "You're not you when you're hungry" theme, the ad takes place in "The Brady Bunch" house with Marcia Brady played by action star Danny Trejo.
  • Retina Calc App Helps Designers Calculate Screen Resolutions
    Random iPhone App of the week:Show+Tell launched Retina Calc, an app that helps designers calculate ideal screen resolutions and viewing distances for large-format digital displays. When users enter the dimensions of a planned digital display along with the average viewing distance, the app calculates what the optimal screen resolution should be. If the resolution of the prospective screen has already been decided, users can calculate the best viewing distance for the display. The app is available for free in the App Store. Download it here.
  • Sad Clown Encourages Cubicle Dwellers To Pursue Their Small Business Dreams
    It's not every day that you see a seven-foot-tall sad clown with a good voice singing alone in an empty office about working in corporate America. Puddles the Clown (of the band Puddles Pity Party) sings "Keep on the corporate side of life" to the tune of "Keep on the Sunny Side." But what is this sad clown promoting, other than how to photocopy your face and steal office supplies? The video is for Kabbage, a provider of online loans for small businesses. As Puddles aimlessly wanders through an empty office, singing …
  • Small Donations Make Big Difference For Best Friends Animal Society
    Even a small donation can help save animals from death in America's shelters. Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization, illustrates how a donation can mean life or death for dogs and cats in shelters.
  • 'Five Minutes' Game Combines Zombie Apocalypse With Product Placement
    Desktop PC users and zombie fans, get ready to play FIVE MINUTES, a live-action game that combines the zombie apocalypse and product placement. Players meet John, a man fighting for his life following a run-in with fast zombies. No walkers here. The game is based on the notion that the first symptom of infection is memory loss. John has five minutes to figure out his fate and for the player to help him and his daughter survive. The aim is keep John focused on his memories, which is the only way to …
  • NEW! M&M's Crispy Candies Are Back, Yellow Tells All 'Fans'
    Product placement combined with zombie apocalypse. Embrace your body jiggle. Let's launch!
  • NEW! Toronto Crime Stoppers Launches 'Cookin' With Molly' PSA
    Toronto Crime Stoppers has launched a public service campaign to educate recreational or party drug users about MDMA, a/k/a. ecstasy or Molly. "Cookin' With Molly" is a cooking show where the host cooks a batch of Molly in his garage. The man describes each step and ingredient used before crushing the batch into pills.
  • NEW! Juicy Fruit Chewers Communicate Via Armpit Farts, Zipper Noises
    Why talk and chew gum when you can chew gum and speak using armpit farts? That's the gist of one of Juicy Fruit's new ads, the brand's first TV spots in more than a decade. The brand's tagline, "so sweet you can't help but chew," gives two men in a locker room the green light to finish their conversation using armpit farts. See it here. Siblings on a road trip are so busy chewing Juicy Fruit that they speak by zipping their sweatshirts up and down. Their infant sibling shakes his …
  • NEW! Sport England Encourages Women To Embrace Body Jiggle
    Sport England, a provider of services and funding to sport in England, launched  "This Girl Can," which aims to free women from the judgments that might hold them back from participating in regular activity. The 90-second ad uses no actresses but everyday women of all ages and sizes, exercising. Set to Missy Elliot's "Get Your Freak On," the video opens with a view of a woman's tush as she walks to a swimming pool. There are shots of women running and owning it, regardless of whether their body jiggles. These women are …
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