Last month, rumors leaked that the creators of the 2006 film Idiocracy were teaming up with actor Terry Crews to make anti-Trump TV commercials. But now those rumors have been put to rest, and Crews has given us a hint about why. It seems that Mike Judge, the director of Idiocracy, might be afraid of offending fans of…
In a wonderful, wonderful demonstration of how the Internet Personal Essay Economy can go awry, xoJane ran a personal essay by a lady named Brenna Phares, about how she recovered from her painful breakup with the use of a “breakup box.” Turns out Brenna works for the company she was writing about, which she didn’t…
On Tuesday, Kristin Cavallari visited a chapter of the Boys & Girls Club in New York City as part of a campaign to get the children to eat mandarin oranges—Wonderful Halos, specifically. Directly thereafter, we received a PR email from Wonderful Halos about Kristin’s experience promoting Wonderful Halos, which you can…
Former Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari spent an indeterminate amount of time with our nation’s youth yesterday, according to the following PR email I received directly after she left them:
Don’t you hate it when you’re out with your wife for lunch and you walk up by the dessert counter and then who do you see? Tim—the guy who can’t shut up about pneumococcal pneumonia.
First Look Media, the lavishly-funded media company founded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, has yet to generate any meaningful revenue—which is a problem if First Look hopes to remain independent in the long term. Today First Look star hire Glenn Greenwald floated an unconventional solution: Online advertising.…
While not quite as beautiful as last fall's animated short film, Chipotle's new TV show—about the horrors of industrial farming—seems like it'll be a hit with the burrito chain's diehard fans.
I achieved the near-impossible Monday morning, October 7, at approximately 9:30 am. I got fired from BuzzFeed.
OHHHHHH, YEAH. OHHH.... no. Oh, no. Oh, dear.
Late last week, Facebook announced that it would be reworking the set of various formats it offers to advertisers, to "simplify" its ad offerings. Among the changes, Ad Age reported, will be the end of a product called "sponsored stories" (although a Facebook executive said the stories would survive "as an idea"). …
Liberals love Subaru cars. In certain woodsy towns filled with wealthy former hippies, Subarus have long been the default automobile. So why is the company now mocking public transportation, the most hallowed of elite coastal liberal institutions?
On the one hand, we shouldn't really give One Million Moms any more attention: they're trolls, not a legitimate political advocacy group, and if we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.
Max Page, the adorable little boy who dressed up as Darth Vader in last year's Super Bowl Volkswagen commercial, was forced to undergo open-heart surgery to treat a congenital heart defect that has been plaguing him since he was three months old.
Maybe you don't speak Arabic, in which case this ad might not mean much. But to the people of Egypt, it's a strong warning against trusting outsiders.
In an effort to spread word of its imminent arrival in Belgium, TNT, the drama queen of cable television, set up a mysterious red button in the middle of "an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town," and invited passers-by to push it "for added drama."
The "Google Glasses" video that swept the web yesterday — a point-of-view shot featuring all of the helpful little maps, messages and answers that Google Glasses will theoretically provide for you one day — was ridiculous for a couple reasons: one, who takes the 6 train one stop from 23rd Street to Union Square??…
You know what season this is? It's hot dog season. Winter's over, baseball's spring training has begun, and people are wearing shorts again. Here in New York, it is time for hot dogs.
Via Copyranter, the tale of University of Calgary Hayley Wade, whose innovative campaign for Vice President of Student Life used this poster ("Great dick bro!") above urinals in the men's bathrooms on campus. She won. Mitt Romney, take note. [Copyranter]
Perpetual Palin enemy number one, the pro-choice PAC EMILY's List has responded to last week's contraception controversy with an ad of their own. It uses Foster Friess' Aspirin recommendation and the woman who narrates all Kotex pad commercials to get "YOU," ladies, riled up over the issue.
Kim Kardashian's lawsuit against Old Navy just got juicy: To combat Kim's claim that the company damaged her "reputation" by airing an ad featuring Kardashian lookalike Melissa Molinaro, the clothier has launched an investigation of Kim's crappy reputation.
