As part of an ad campaign for Niels Arden Oplev's upcoming neo-noir thriller crime film Dead Man Down, NYC-based marketing firm Thinkmodo decided to see what New Yorkers would do if they happened to stumbled onto a crime in progress — namely, a murder.
All other toy commercials could stand to learn a thing or two from this Russian ad for a talking hamster doll called "WoodyOTime."
As part of a new interactive marketing campaign, telecommunications firm Qualcomm set up a wish-fulfilling bus stop that instantly rewarded impatient commuters with increasingly unconventional rides.
What's Smashing Pumpkins bandleader Billy Corgan up to these days you ask? Oh, not much.
To market its brand of "Stress Protect" deodorant, German skin and body care company Nivea (or, rather, their ad agency) came up with a hilarious marketing "prank" wherein innocent people are transformed into wanted criminals through the use of fake newspapers, public service announcements, and breaking news broadcasts.
A Taco Bell ad chastising party-poopers who bring veggie platters to Game Day has been pulled following a Twitter campaign launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
When TNT launched in Belgium last year, the TV channel hired the Duval Guillaume Modem ad agency to help them introduce the brand to a new audience. The ad campaign that followed — "Push to Add Drama" — went ultra-viral online and was hailed as one of the most creative campaigns in recent memory.
Earlier this month, a now-massively popular comment was left on the Facebook page of Bodyform, the British feminine hygiene arm of Swedish consumer goods company SCA, accusing the company of false advertisement.
Sorry Beliebers and Beliebettes, there's no Justin Bieber sex tape. Not even a measly dick pic either.
Pizza Hut is offering one lucky pizza lover free pizza for life in exchange for one tiny favor: That they embarrass themselves on live television before the President of the United States and millions of their fellow Americans at next week's presidential debate.
A German liquor company has come up with a fairly tasteless stunt intended to titillate its potential clientele: A line of spirits "filtered" through the naked bodies of playmates and glamour models.
The cliched "cop chase" montage prevalent in many '80s action flicks gets a clever anti-DUI makeover in Clemenger BBDO Melbourne's "Beer Chase" ad spot for Carlton Draught.
Try as they might, the folks at Old Spice just couldn't seem to recreate the viral je ne sais quoi of their best known ad campaign.
When Taco Bell execs learned that residents of Bethel had been fooled by a hoax into believing that the fast-food chain was opening up shop in their remote Alaskan town, they quickly arranged to have 10,000 Doritos Locos Tacos airlifted in from Anchorage, some 350 miles away.
To bolster the poignancy of its anti-human-trafficking campaign on behalf of Stop the Traffik, Dutch ad agency Duval Guillaume Modem brought a bunch of female dancers to one of Amsterdam's well-known red-light districts, and had them pretend to be prostitutes putting on a show to attract as many passers-by as possible.
