Let this be the year of itchy, wonky, hand-knitted acrylic holiday ads
Famous Campaigns’ James Herring is about as sick of holiday AI, and AI in general, as I am, which is about as much as everyone else seems to be. In …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Products for Every Bodily Fluid Edition (mostly SFW)
In a past Ads I Wish I’d Made, I highlighted Adam Greenberg, the Diaper King of Chicago, because even though the billboards themselves weren’t terribly creative or conceptual, they did …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Installations for a Good Cause Edition
I’ve happily and gratefully shared numerous Ads I Wish I’d Made — ads of a variety of types that are so good, by some metric or another, that it makes… …
11 Nouned and Verbed Taglines That Cringe My Y’all
Y’all, it’s all in fun. <3 to all the creative (adjective) teams that worked hard on this creative (noun), except maybe the Hotel Chocolat one. One might think that I, …
The 5 Worstbest Tropes in D2C Pharma Advertising
Why is the U.S. one of the only two countries in the entire world that allow D2C prescription drug advertising? Probably because it takes a very specific balance of healthcare …
Give me a passive-aggressive brand-on-brand snarkback.
Someone tell me who willed Fast Food CEO Mukbang into existence. Why did Wendy’s U.S. President Pete Suerken go on Xitter to very pointedly eat a Wendy’s hamburger (while very …
The 2026 Creepy Awards Take a Dark Turn
I introduced the Creepy Awards (a companion piece to our annual Weepy Awards) in 2023 as a celebration of the weird-ass stuff many ad agencies crank out every year for …
Happy Friday, this Italian commercial is bonkers.
Ads I Wish I’d Ever Been Drunk Enough to Make? Happy Friday, here’s an absolutely batshit Italian commercial for Italian breakfast snack Buondì Motta from 2017. Do you have to …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Adult Diapers Edition
We are here today to celebrate the Diaper King of Chicago. Because His Highness Adam Greenberg went on LinkedIn to share a story about outdoor advertising and adult diapers that …
Weepies 2025: The 10th Annual Weepy Awards
It’s Weepy season again, but the 2025 Weepy Awards aren’t just any Weepies. They’re the tenth anniversary of the Weepies — a decade of honoring the ads that make you …