I attempt to share a curated list of clutter-breaking creative ads, every week. This week, lovely ads from ChatGPT, Legora (an AI platform for lawyers), Coca-Cola ad for FIFA World Cup and more. ChatGPT: Bala vs Waterfall Every major LLM brand is on a mission to ‘educate’ users on how best the platforms can be used. Earlier search engines gave us information to specific questions mostly pertaining to general knowledge. Google managed to weave in…
Every week, I attempt to share a curated list of best new creative ads. It’s a small tribute to brand teams everywhere trying to create clutter-breaking creative ads. This week: ads from British Airways, Sprite, Flipkart and more. British Airways: An Original British Briefing The airline safety video could become a genre by itself in advertising. Many airline brands have done some great work to solve a real problem: both frequent and occasional flyers tend…
Every week I attempt to share a curated list of best creative ads from around the world. This week: ads from Huggies, Citroen, KitKat and more. Huggies: $500K vs 19 Babies đŸ’© Product demonstration is an effective way of showcasing specific features, their benefits and aiming to establish superiority over competition and command a premium over competition. In diapers, the most effective proof of efficacy is how it retains the ‘blowouts’. Absorbing leaks, keeping the…
Every week, I attempt to share a curated list of best new creative ads. It’s a small tribute to brand teams everywhere as getting an ad to be noticed, appreciated and shared is a big achievement in the world of marketing communications. FDJ-Loto: Grandma’s Secret Habitual or even occasional lottery ticket buyers are motivated by the luck factor. They buy tickets hoping that ‘this time’ or ‘some day’ they might turn out to be the…
Every week, I attempt to share a curated list of clutter-breaking creative ads. This week, an interesting project to get consumers to shop offline by HomeGoods, a smart moment marketing move by IKEA Hong Kong and more. Goel TMT: support is strength I used to joke that in India a movie actor’s career arc will include endorsing a TMT brand – especially as a bus back panel or a billboard. ‘Strength’ is the generic benefit…
My weekly compilation of clutter-breaking creative ads was the source for the first part of my mega list of best ads of 2025. Here’s the second and final part. Hope you enjoy it. Five Star chicken: death of a salesman The hallmark of any top-notch advertisement is the right combination of creative strategy and execution. It takes a lot of smarts to figure out what needs to be said and then the ‘how it needs to be said’.…
Every week I attempt to share a compilation of clutter-breaking ads. It’s that time of the year when lists are in vogue as we revisit the best creative ads of 2025. Dreamies: Ad Attack Food advertising has a common proposition for both humans and pets: it is so irresistible that you’ll go to any length to get it or safeguard it from others. DREAMIESâ„¢ from Mars set up what looked like a regular vinyl billboard…
Every week, I attempt to curate a list of clutter-breaking creative ads. Most ads are ignored and only a handful are even noticed or discussed. Ad agency & brand teams which manage to produce ads which stand out deserve our appreciation, given all the chaos during the process. In this week’s edition, ads from Jeep, Ford and more. METT Singapore: attractive In advertising, it is common to dramatise or exaggerate a benefit of the product…
Creative ads that catch our attention are a rarity. Most advertising is eminently forgettable and totally ignored by consumers. Only a fraction get noticed and an even smaller number are liked, remembered or even discussed. My weekly compilation of clutter-breaking ads is a small tribute to brand and ad agency teams everywhere. The Ordinary: The Periodic Fable In the digital world, many D2C brands have gained traction fairly quickly (as compared to the years of…
Every week, I attempt to curate a list of creative ads which break through clutter and information overload. In this week’s edition: ads from the US and Australia for Uber, a TVC for an e-commerce brand in Canada and more. Uber: master class in theme advertising and use of a medium Recently, I came across a campaign for Uber in the US which caught my eye in the context of two things (a) creating theme…