The fast-food value wars are heating up again as McDonald's unveils its new value menu with a campaign fronted by actor John Cena. Today (Jan. 7), McDonald's debuted McValue, the first update to its value offering since 2018, where it priced some items between $1 and $3. McDonald's has been teasing McValue since November. The...
After making Super Bowl history last year, DoorDash is returning to the Big Game to spotlight its membership program DashPass. This will be the commerce platform's fourth appearance in the Super Bowl. Agency Wieden+Kennedy Portland and DoorDash's in-house creative studio, Superette, will again partner to create the ad. DoorDash's Super Bowl 2025 commercial will run...
Bumble, the women-focused dating and social networking app, is taking a new marketing direction as it unveils a partnership with celebrity interviewer and Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg. Dimoldenberg is the first star in Bumble's year-long series of celebrity profiles and editorial content in collaboration with Mel Ottenberg, creative director and editor-in-chief of Interview...
Dating apps have gotten a bad rap lately, so Tinder is taking on the skeptics with playful ads that flip the script on negative narratives about modern dating. Tinder has unveiled the latest chapter of its "It Starts With a Swipe" campaign by once again inviting daters to reconsider what they thought they knew about...
This post was previously published at an earlier date. The holiday season seems to come around quicker each year, with brands leading the way into festive celebrations. For many advertisers, the period is a prime creative opportunity as much as a commercial one. Some of the best ads of the year drop during this time....
The year is ending, so it's time to go back down the witches' road and bring you the can't-miss TV of 2024. ADWEEK's "best of" TV and streaming list is a little different from others. Though plenty of lists will include the usual prestige players, we're changing things up and bringing you the shows from...
The real couples featured in Hinge's new campaign share a funny coincidence: All of them unknowingly crossed paths with their future partner in person before connecting on the dating app. Hinge tells these surprising, true love stories in its latest ads, which continue its long-running "Designed to Be Deleted" platform. The campaign-launching amid reports of...
This article was originally published Dec. 18 For better or worse, people had a lot of feelings about advertising this year. Thanks to social media, advertisers can no longer launch their campaigns into a void, hoping their marketing investment later pays off in increased sales. Advertising is now a two-way street, and brands must be...
Industry insiders predict that Omnicom Group's takeover of Interpublic Group (IPG) will likely lead to the consolidation and elimination of legacy creative agency brands. Omnicom announced on Monday (Dec. 9) that it is acquiring rival holding company IPG, creating the world's largest advertising group. The new company will be called Omnicom, and leadership anticipates it...
This story was originally published at an earlier date. ADWEEK recently crowned its 20 best ads of 2024, but this list is different. These are ads that flew under the radar or that you may have overlooked - but that doesn't make their creative quality any less excellent. For the second consecutive year, ADWEEK shines...
It's the end of an era for both Mercedes and Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton as one of the most iconic partnerships in racing reaches the finish line. Ahead of Hamilton's final race for Mercedes in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday (Dec. 8), the auto brand is sending him off with a heartfelt...
To mark the 10th year of Spotify Wrapped, the streaming giant is celebrating the unique and surprising ways artists and creators have shaped fans' lives around the world. On Wednesday (Dec. 4), Spotify launched its global "2024 Wrapped" campaign, which over the past decade has become the platform's biggest marketing moment of the year and...
This story was originally published at an earlier date. Beyonce leaned into her cowboy era, a gecko grew up, a barf bag went viral. Michael Cera pranked the nation, Waldo had an existential crisis, Ben Affleck realized his boy band dreams, and a potato chip lover got stuck in a time loop. The best ads...
Hellmann's is so brat. As brat summer turned into brat fall - with the pop star who inspired a thousand memes, Charli XCX, taking her Brat arena tour to the U.K. - Hellmann's became the latest brand to jump on one of the biggest social media trends of the year. Unilever's mayonnaise brand pulled off...
Apple's emotional holiday ad follows the journey of a father living with hearing loss, as the brand continues to highlight its accessible technology for people with disabilities. "Heartstrings," created by Apple's longstanding agency TBWA\Media Arts Lab, launches on Thursday (Nov. 28) ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3. It is...
Initially, Coca-Cola's AI-powered remake of its 1995 commercial, "Holidays Are Coming," seemed to be well received. System1, which tests emotional responses to ads, found an "overwhelmingly positive" consumer response to the AI-generated campaign, according to svp of partnerships Andrew Tindall. The ad received a perfect 5.9 score from System1 in both the U.S. and U.K....
Welcome to Big Ideas, ADWEEK's semi-regular series in which we talk to the industry's top creative minds. Javier Campopiano is obsessed with the truth. Campopiano, who joined McCann Worldgroup and McCann as global chief creative officer a little over a year ago, says he was drawn to one of advertising's most well-known agencies for its...
