Shake it

Usually I'd embed a YouTube video, but in this case I couldn't, and for good reason. But click here, and you'll see the most inventive and unexpected YouTube ad I've ever encountered. It plays perfectly with the unique gameplay the ad promises, and I love that the little links all still work at the end.

Sometimes words are all you need

Take that art directors.





And yes, I have been saving these up.

Everyone else is talking about it

...but noone knows what it means.




There'd better be a hell of an ending.

The candyman can

Axe has a new spot. I like it. I don't love it, but I certainly believe it's an improvement over the broken record their advertising has been for sooo long. The "every woman will want you" idea is still present, but as a metaphor, versus girls suddenly singing porn music in the grocery store. Much better.

Reminds me of something, though:



But then again, so does everything.

I starting to think it wasn't because of Crispin

Too many commercials have cars doing power slides for no good reason. Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners found one.

via Advertolog

Whoppers are for kids?

I love that this ad uses language from another ad, and that everyone just gets it. Random references like this only fly in advertising. And rap. And I guess sitcoms. Still, fun.

They ditched the red wig for this?

Okay, so Wendy's "kicking trees and making speeches in red wigs" campaign wasn't perfect. But now, as if the "Wendy's gonna get ya" animated logo wasn't creepy enough, Wendy's serves up this "viral" video:






Best of all, the website's only function is allowing you to give Wendy's your email address. Whoopie!

On a related note, the line "If it's not all white meat, it's a gray area, and I don't like gray areas in my chicken." is terrible. Just terrible.

via agencyspy