Japanese Think Obama Is Bananas

Internationally-loved Barack Obama is not surprisingly big in Japan (especially Obama, Japan). Marketers there...

Skyy's Twig and Berries Ad

The alcohol bottle as erect penis (examples one, two, three): nothing novel. So to introduce...

Absolut Wants To Save Earth While Polluting Us

Understanding that, these days, nothing is cooler than hand-wringing eco-consciousness, Absolut has positioned themselves...

Doctors Butcher Childhood Obesity Ad

One assumes physicians are relatively smart people. And advertising isn't brain surgery. Yet, this...

NoHo Reflections With Jennifer

...does John think I'm smart? I like paper boats...and docks...he really cock-rocks my love...

Buygone Ad of the Week: O Brother

The "Anti-establishment" Post-Grad slacks...My guess is Stokely Carmichael never wore this particular pair of protest...

PETA Exploits Sex To Death

Shamelessly using T&A to sell vodka? pathetic. But using it to promote cruelty-free chicken killing,...

Lauren Rides In On Pony To Save East Hampton

ANIMAL was digging through the wires and found a press release from the East Hampton...

How's This for Intrusive Advertising?

First off, this ad effort is for a good cause: Feed SA is a...

Ok, But Will It Give Me Gas?

Flygbussarna, which operates shuttle buses for Sweden's major airports, is catching flak for this particular...

Brits Sully National Monument

In Web ads promoting the launch of their new American news site, the Guardian digitally...

Buygone Ad of the Week: The Prince of Pants

Before The Prince of Tides, Cape Fear, and even 48 Hours, Nick Nolte began his...

L.A. Pride—American Apparel Style

This past Friday evening, to "honor" L.A. Pride, American Apparel's West Hollywood store held a...

Hey PETA? Time To Boycott Alka Seltzer

Friday is Caturday on Animal New York! Plop-plop, fizz-fizz, oh what a great sponge my...

We Are All Smokey Bears

Since neither hide nor hair of the stocky blue jeans-wearing fire warden bear had...

Can Colt 45 Go From Homeless To Hipster?

Long the nectar of the downtrodden because of its low cost and higher-than-beer alcohol content,...

Buygone Ad of the Week: Ladies Love Cool Jeans

In the 60s, on scorching summer days, cool hepcats wore groovy turtlenecks to the beach—turtlenecks...

Hey, Need An Auto Loan?

Apparently tired of having the bankable David Spade being the only thing people remembered...

The Lean Mean MTA

It's SubTalk time again with the MTA! Yay! I LOVE it when the Authority shows...

Buygone Ad of the Week: Green Spot Dicknic

Once a week, Copyranter brings you retro advertising good/badness. Green Spot non-carbonated orange soft...

POM! You're Dead!

Those two? They're already zombies! Pomegranate product pusher POM gets real intrusive here on what...

Glow-In-The-Dark Pedophilia

Come play with Uncle Sammy's glowworm (sorry)...Euro RSCG Brazil has created a special spooky...

Cigarette Hitler, Mosquito Hitler

Images: |Coloribus| Heil Hitler! Hitler is the Shitler these days when it comes to...

Starbucks' Awful New Yorker Cartoon Ads

Following in the missteps of many an advertiser, Starbucks this week placed their own...

Dear Ketel One Maker: Take Your Meds

The Dutch vodka continues its crackbrained US ad campaign that reads like the scribblings...

"Dildo Holding Sex Toy"

It's the latest wonderful piece by the fake American Apparel ad artist, this time featuring...

Spitzer Shtupped In Ass By Kenneth Cole

Since 1985, noted pun butcherer Kenneth Cole has produced amfAR's advertising. When he has...

Skyy's Sapphic Sky Sex Sell

(Click to enlarge) According to advertising, drinking vodka is the sexiest fucking thing you...

Maybe the Most Depressing Billboard You'll Ever See

(Click image to enlarge dismal fine print) You're riding through depressing East New York,...

Is It... Italian Freedom Fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Why the fuck is a New York accounting firm asking LIRR riders if they recognize...

PETA Roasts San Diego State Students

Never shy about taking advantage of absolutely anything and anyone in the name of animals,...

MTV Anti-Piracy Ad Guilty of First-Degree Stupidity

MusicTeleVision, a company that apparently has something to do with music, produced an in-house ad...

The Strangest Lightbulb Commerical You'll Ever See

In America, advertising this batshit insane is usually the work of a local furniture...

SVA Ad Reaches For the Stars, Fails Miserably

As a former (non-matriculating) student of NYC's School of Visual Arts, I get sharp, shooting...

Upstate Attractions Anthropomorphized In New "I Love NY Campaign"

(Click to enlarge) Apparently New York ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi thought the best...

Amnesty International Thinks They Bug the World's Tyrants

(Click image for bigger) Here, the human rights organization makes like an eight-year-old scamp,...

Trouser Snakes On A Plane

If you walk anywhere in Manhattan these days, you're likely to spot one of the...

That's Still the Boss's Daughter's Ass

Though Georgi vodka importer Star Industries is supposedly in negotiations with Eliot Spitzer hooker...

Belvedere Blow Job Ad Gets Blow Jobbier

Just to settle the argument about whether or not the Polish vodka brand's latest...

Indian Airline Hates Liberty, America

A bindi on Lady Liberty! And right outside Penn Station! While you're at Jet...

When Men Create A PMS Ad

When I found this Singapore billboard for Panadol PMS relief pills, my first thought...

MTA's Surrealistic Sickness Poster

New Yorkers—SubTalk time. If, when you step outside in the morning, it's raining generic analgesic...

Belvedere's Blow Job Ad

In a painfully forced effort to become the ultra coolest luxury vodka, Belvedere has pulled...

Sprint's Signal Weak On Canal Street

Might as well jump right into it. ANIMAL has a new columnist. Many of you...