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McCann’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Will Get to Stay Through February 2018 State Street artwork is added to DOT Art program By Tim Nudd She was never going to give up without a fight. Following a campaign of support from politicians including public advocate Letitia James and Rep. Carolyn Mahoney, New York City has officially invited McCann's "Fearless Girl" statue, created for client State Street Global Advisors, to remain in her spot opposite the Wall Street bull through February...
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North Carolina Jeweler Apologizes for ‘Sometimes It’s OK to Throw Rocks at Girls’ Billboard Spicer Greene says it meant to 'encourage the loving act of gift giving' By David Kiefaber Asheville, N.C., jewelry store Spicer Greene Jewelers' newest billboard, with pictures of gemstones surrounding the headline "Sometimes it's OK to throw rocks at girls," has invited some understandable backlash this week. The billboard was officially rebuked by Chelsea Clinton, and protests have been planned by members of local organizations, including the Women's Rights Committee, Stronger...
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Mexico Just Made a Cloud That Rains Tequila, So Maybe We’ll Be OK After All Lapiz takes fun weather to dreary Germany By Tim Nudd As part of a tasty new tourism campaign, ad agency Lapiz just made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs a reality. But instead of soup and juice, this futuristic cloud rains something altogether more buzzy--tequila. Lapiz, a unit of Leo Burnett, used ultrasonic humidifiers to vibrate tequila at a frequency that actually turned it into...
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A Chanel Bag Causes All Sorts of Problems in This Comic Short Film by Harper’s Bazaar Humor meets high fashion By Tim Nudd UPDATE: Hearst, the publisher of Harper's Bazaar, tells Adweek that this film was produced as editorial content, not branded content. Original story below. Brands like Kate Spade New York have brought a welcome warmth to the coldness of high-fashion advertising lately with charmingly quirky (and product-filled) comedic films. Now, Harper's Bazaar has published a new...
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Twin Peaks Fans Are Salivating Over Mysterious Pie Billboards That Suddenly Popped Up Getting hungry for the Showtime revival? By David Kiefaber As we know from the recent uptick in people on social media pretending they understood Twin Peaks, a remake of David Lynch's surreal ABC series is coming to Showtime soon. The advance marketing has been just as odd as you'd expect, with backwards-talking phone messages for Australian fans and weird billboards popping up in the...
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Sandra Oh Is ‘The Woman Who Can’t Lie’ in Fun Ad for Canadian Film Fest Leo Burnett pitches National Canadian Film Day 150 By David Gianatasio Who can you trust for an honest assessment of the movies being screened at Reel Canada's National Canadian Film Day 150 on April 19? Grey's Anatomy alum Sandra Oh certainly seems like a good bet, based on her character in "The Woman Who Can't Lie," a cinema ad from Leo Burnett Toronto directed by actor...
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Dell Technologies and Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright Tackle Clarke’s Third Law in Y&R Ads Blurring the line between science and magic By Gabriel Beltrone It's not magic. It's science. That's the familiar spirit of a new campaign from Dell Technologies--the company's first major advertising rollout since forming via the merger of Dell and EMC last fall. Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright plays spokesman in a series of ads emphasizing the corporation's computing contributions to a range of industries. Y&R created...
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