The 2024 Weepies
It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for: the 2024 Weepies, our annual celebration of holiday ads that make you cry. The holidays are always a great source of sentimental …
The Three Best Football(-Adjacent) Ad Campaigns of All Time
If you missed UGA’s domination (har) of Georgia Tech for the seventh year in a row in the 118th annual Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, you… are like many people, because viewership …
Five Lazy-Ass Advertising-Related Halloween Costumes
So as of this writing, it’s October 27. Friday. Halloween is on Tuesday, and if you haven’t picked out your costume by now, you’re cutting it close. I mean, you’re …
Orange and Bleue: Because soccer sexism is for suckas
Fun fact: Players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be earning, on average, just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at the 2022 Men’s World Cup, which …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: Visual Solve edition
As a non-art director, I’ve always been a fan of visual solves. I mean, I kind of hate them, because I’m a copywriter and they don’t have copy on them …
Introducing: The Creepy Awards, Super Bowl LVII
I hadn’t planned to provide any further commentary about this year’s Super Bowl ads — I’ve already done my obligatory post — but I’ve received an actual, honest-to-dog request, which …
How to make ads on the fly like Ryan Reynolds
Update 12/17: And Just Like That… Peloton has pulled the ad because it turns out Chris Noth might be a rapist. The turnarounds keep turning. All indications are that Maximum …
The 2021 Olympics Ads Olympics* (*please don’t sue me)
I know 2021 has been a weird year for anything Olympics-related because, well, there wasn’t supposed to be an Olympics in 2021. The Olympics were supposed to be last year, …
Ad Campaigns That Haven’t Gotten Old
I’m a bit of an advertising gourmand. I know, theoretically, I should have the highest of standards for the industry that has become my life, and I do. But no …
On mastery
I’m not jealous of mastery. Okay, I am a little bit. (Who wouldn’t be?) But I’m more impressed with it. And fascinated. I love watching people who are masters at …