At last, some bank advertising that tells it like it is! No vanilla platitudes here! In ads from Y&R Lima, Banco Financiero faces the truth about the world today: that we are (or might as well be) under assault from rampant meteor strikes and roaming dinosaurs, terrible storms and rising sea lev...

Michael Jansen and Bas Kirsten, co-founders of Selmore and former ecds at DDB's operations in Holland, today launched a new shop in Amsterdam called Nothing. It's built almost entirely of cardboard. Says Jansen: "Nothing is about the power of ideas, about how a single idea can transform nothing into...

There's a problem with this "Feel the bubbles" spot by JWT London for candy bar Aero, and it has nothing to do with the controversy AgencySpy is reporting—that hard-core skaters are angry that the idea was lifted from some skateboarding film. No, as usual, the IQ-challenged, scabby-kneed kids (the...

Cultivator Advertising & Design crafted the pro-biking message above on behalf of New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, Colo. The headline, "Work to bike more," sounds like the work of a tipsy copywriter, so it's probably good that he or she doesn't drive a car. (We're told the billboard's pl...

To think, just last week, I thought Boost Mobile's latest Spanish-language ad was annoying. Well, the English-language effort by 180LA is downright disgusting. The lead character in "Coroner" drops his breakfast burrito inside a corpse during an autopsy, plucks it out and continues eating it. But th...

Leave it to the Dutch to make public utilities and the laws of physics kinda sexy. Ad shop THEY has created two cinematic spots for power company RWE, which apparently employs hangars full of uniformed female flight attendants. They manipulate levers that operate giant metal balls, achieve release f...

Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins gives an amusing performance in this Wieden + Kennedy co-op spot for Nike and Dick's Sporting Goods. Rollins flinches ever so slightly and grunts in quasi-orgasmic fashion as baseballs shot from a pitching machine careen off his body. The message: in sports, performa...

Canadian directing team the Purchase Brothers created the video above, "Escape from City 17 - Part One," the first in what may be a series of (uncommissioned) short films based on the videogame Half-Life. The five-minute clip sure is violent, with pails of blood spilled in semi-industrial, minimalis...

Lowe Bull in South Africa has fashioned a pair of new "Stop the abuse" ads for the Animal Anti-Cruelty League. This one imagines a dog as a soccer ball; another casts a very furry friend as a mop. (See larger images here and here at Ads of the World.) My view is: animals would mop the floor with hum...

"Keep obesity away from your child" is the tagline of a new campaign by Texas-based Hispanic shop LatinWorks for an organization called Active Life Movement. Instead of fat kids, the ads show fat toys: a superhero, pirates and a Barbie-like doll. See the full ads here, here and here over at Ads of t...