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Twix Brings Back Zombie Claus for a Second Hallowmas
Twix Brings Back Zombie Claus for a Second Hallowmas
For the second year, Twix is running Hallowmas, a mash-up of Halloween and Christmas, and has brought back Zombie Claus. The hero ad, made by adam&eveTBWA, shows him arriving at a teenager’s door shouting “Happy Hallowmas” while she asks if she should be merry or terrified. It launched in early October 2026 through a branded episode of Subway Takes, 40 and 15 second spots, influencers and PR, with a $20,000 photo and video contest on social. It culminates on Halloween with Zombie Claus handing out Twix bars in Williamsburg, New York. No campaign results have been reported. (Source: Adweek, 6 October 2026.)
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Aldi Opens A Broomstick Parking Bay At Its York Store
Aldi Opens A Broomstick Parking Bay At Its York Store
Aldi UK opened a pop-up broomstick parking bay at its Water Lane store in York, with a purpose-built rack, spooky signage and broomstick floor vinyl. It runs until 31 October. Taylor Herring created it. Aldi’s commissioned survey of 2,000 Brits (self-reported) found 28% named York the most haunted place in Britain, 84% enjoy Halloween and 66% plan to decorate. No campaign results have been reported. (Source: Famous Campaigns, 22 October 2026.)
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McDonald’s Turns Its Dipping Sauces Into Halloween Face Paints
McDonald’s Turns Its Dipping Sauces Into Halloween Face Paints
McDonald’s UK launched Spooky Sauces, a Halloween face paint collection based on six of its dipping sauces, including Tomb-Mato Ketchup, Curry Cauldron, Boo-Boo-Q and Garlic MayOoOo. Each kit includes fries-shaped brushes, a Chicken McNugget-inspired sponge and a mirror. Leo UK made an ASMR-style film for TikTok and Instagram. An Instagram competition gave away 100 sets, and UK creators posted tutorials through 31 October. No results have been reported. (Source: Famous Campaigns, 21 October 2026.)
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McCafé Turns Its Cardboard Drinks Tray Into a Limited-Edition Bag
McCafé Turns Its Cardboard Drinks Tray Into a Limited-Edition Bag
In October 2026 McDonald’s Australia launched the McCafé Tray Bag, which it calls a world first: a fashion bag modelled on the cardboard tray McCafé drinks are carried in. It comes in a fig colourway with gold hardware, a shoulder strap, a zip pocket and drink holders, with vegan leather replacing the cardboard. Wieden+Kennedy Sydney made the campaign, fronted by influencer Riley Hemson. The first 100 bags were given away free through a microsite on 9 October, and a prize draw for 500 more is open to anyone in Australia aged 15 and over who buys an eligible McCafé drink in the MyMacca’s app until 1 December. The bags can’t be bought in store, and no results have been reported yet.
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Gymshark Signs Its First Celebrity Ambassador, Megan Thee Stallion
Gymshark Signs Its First Celebrity Ambassador, Megan Thee Stallion
On 13 October 2026 Gymshark named Megan Thee Stallion its newest athlete and its first celebrity ambassador, in a multiyear partnership with no financial terms shared. The launch work, Megan Does Gym, sits inside the brand’s wider We Do Gym platform. Photographer Jack Bridgland shot her in heavy lifting, HIIT, Pilates and medicine ball sessions, with women from Gymshark’s own fitness community training beside her. The campaign looks and her favourite picks can be shopped online and in Gymshark’s retail locations.
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Cyklar Gives Perfume Oils A Bottle-Shaped Bag Charm
Cyklar Gives Perfume Oils A Bottle-Shaped Bag Charm
Cyklar, a US body care and fragrance brand, includes a free bag charm with every perfume oil, plus a limited edition charm with select sets. Each charm is a miniature version of the bottle, with a gold-toned label carrying the scent name (Amber Hour, Sacred Santal, Naked Neroli and others), a dark cap and a gold clip ring, so it hangs from a handbag strap. There is one charm per scent, and the brand’s own site doesn’t say how big they are or whether they hold any fragrance.
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DedCool Packages Laundry Detergent Like Fragrance In A Tin
DedCool Packages Laundry Detergent Like Fragrance In A Tin
DedCool sells its laundry detergent, Dedtergent, in a flat metal tin with a white screw cap instead of the plastic jug most detergents come in. The label is styled like a product spec card, with small line-drawn icons and bilingual English and French copy, and the detergent is sold by scent name like a perfume (the tin pictured reads Bergamote + Amber + White Musk). The range also covers dryer sheets and a refill pouch, and DedCool has released collaboration editions, including a Free People Movement tin covered by The Dieline in July 2025.
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Dr. Bombay’s $10K-a-Month Ice Cream Taster Job
Dr. Bombay’s $10K-a-Month Ice Cream Taster Job
Snoop Dogg’s ice cream brand Dr. Bombay teamed up with hiring platform Deel to post a real, paid job listing: International Ice Cream Taster. It’s a genuine three-month contract, fully remote, paying $10,000 a month. The brief asks for curiosity and “social instincts” rather than a culinary background, and applications are open worldwide via Deel’s own campaign page.
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IKEA Conceals Household Clutter Behind Billboards
IKEA Conceals Household Clutter Behind Billboards
IKEA Sweden turned messy homes into outdoor media, a new campaign hides everyday household clutter behind its own billboards, with the mess packed neatly into the brand’s SAMLA storage boxes, visually proving the product’s value inside the ad itself.
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Vaseline Rebrands To Baseline After Viral Mispronunciation
Vaseline Rebrands To Baseline After Viral Mispronunciation
After a beauty creator’s viral video mispronouncing “Vaseline” as “Baseline” took off online, Vaseline leaned all the way in, rolling out a full mock rebrand as “Baseline” across its own social channels. A sharp case study in reactive marketing played at internet speed.
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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Dreams Freezer Pillowcases
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Dreams Freezer Pillowcases
Ben & Jerry’s launched “Ice Dreams,” a limited-edition product drop that turns the familiar “cool side of the pillow” ritual into actual freezer-ready pillowcases, tying a hot-weather ice cream brand into a bedtime comfort ritual beyond the tub itself.
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Riksbyggen Built The Home A 25-Year-Old In Stockholm Can Actually Afford (1.9m²)
Riksbyggen Built The Home A 25-Year-Old In Stockholm Can Actually Afford (1.9m²)
Riksbyggen has its own Square Metre Index, tracking what an average 25-year-old can actually afford to rent or buy across Swedish cities once you factor in income, property prices and mortgage conditions. Instead of publishing the numbers as a report, Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics built three real, furnished micro-homes to those exact affordability footprints, 4.5 square metres in Umeå, 3.1 in Gothenburg, and just 1.9 in Stockholm, each styled to a different era of Swedish architecture, then sent them on tour so people could step inside and see what the index actually means in square metres and furniture.
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DuckDuckGo sells “Normal F*ing Sunglasses” to mock AI smart glasses
DuckDuckGo sells “Normal F*ing Sunglasses” to mock AI smart glasses
DuckDuckGo partnered with eyewear brand Knockaround to sell “Normal F*ing Sunglasses”: $35 sunglasses with, as the copy puts it, “no camera, no microphone, no AI, no battery and no electronics of any kind.” The launch video poses a “radical question: what if we just didn’t do that?”, spoofing smart-glasses features with a sarcastic “360-degree panoramic lens” (you turn your head) and a guarantee they’ll “never record nude videos of you”, a direct dig at the backlash Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses faced over non-consensual recording. The drop sold out within a week.
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Knorr Turns Chicken Fails Into A Live Comedy Roast
Knorr Turns Chicken Fails Into A Live Comedy Roast
Knorr paired comedian Meg Stalter with chef Sohla El-Waylly for the Knorr Chicken Roast, a live event at NYC’s Nine Orchard Hotel (August 10) where Stalter roasted the internet’s worst chicken-cooking fails on stage, then El-Waylly actually fixed them, positioning Knorr Chicken Bouillon and Premium Flavor Base as the real answer for time-strapped home cooks rather than just an event sponsor.
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Graza Turns Its Olive Oil Into A NASCAR Heat Test
Graza Turns Its Olive Oil Into A NASCAR Heat Test
Ahead of NASCAR race weekend, Graza (Official Olive Oil of NASCAR) partnered with creative agency nice&frank on The Hot Lap Test, built around one deadpan question: “How many hot laps heat a hood hot enough to sizzle an egg sunny side up?” A 30-second spot and series of stills, directed by Jasper Cable-Alexander and produced by Drool, put Graza’s olive oil through the same high-heat conditions that define race day, literally testing the product against the world it’s sponsoring.
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“Worst Aquarium Ever” Merch
“Worst Aquarium Ever” Merch
New Bedford Whaling Museum (Massachusetts) got a one-star Google review calling it the “worst aquarium ever” fair, in a way, since it documents 19th-century whaling history and has no live marine life beyond a suspended whale skeleton. Instead of contesting the review, the team printed it on hoodies, t-shirts, and tote bags and sold them in the gift shop. The line launched quietly in fall 2025, then went properly viral in July 2026 after national news coverage: a 250% jump in weekly orders, 738 orders during a single CBS broadcast, and 2,400+ orders since July 20, selling out multiple times. Their Chief Engagement Officer’s response when asked about it: “We do not have live whales here.”
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Heinz Love Lid
Heinz Love Lid
Heinz released a limited-edition ‘Love Lid’, a customisable ketchup cap with three pour settings, ‘Like it,’ ‘Love it,’ and ‘Crazy Love,’ turning a common condiment behaviour (how much sauce someone drowns their food in) into a shareable packaging gimmick.
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Lufthansa Travel Etiquette Collection
Lufthansa Travel Etiquette Collection
Lufthansa dropped the Travel Etiquette Collection, a limited-edition fashion line created with agency Serviceplan that puts flying’s unwritten social rules on merch, including “middle seat gets the armrest.” The collection includes hoodies, t-shirts, caps, and accessories, given away free through social channels and to select creators rather than sold.
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Shot on…Faber-Castell
Shot on…Faber-Castell
In 2024, Faber-Castell and DAVID São Paulo hijacked the visual grammar of Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone’ OOH. They ran ‘Shot on Faber-Castell’ across billboards and Metro stations in Brazil, presenting what look like stunning photographs that are actually hyper-realistic pencil illustrations made with Faber-Castell (Supersoft) pencils. Keeping the word ‘Shot’ (rather than ‘drawn’) makes the work feel like a direct head-to-head with smartphone photography, and the billboard itself becomes the product demo.
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Audible Story House
Audible Story House
Audible opened Audible Story House in Manhattan: a free, public, 6,000+ sq ft space across three floors designed for audio storytelling and community. Instead of physical books, visitors browse 300+ audio stories using tactile ‘Story Tiles’ that can be taken to listening stations for playback or tapped on a phone to stream in the Audible app. The space includes multiple listening environments, a Listening Bar staffed by ‘Story Tenders’ who recommend titles, immersive Dolby Atmos experiences, events, and a café.
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FRAKTA Point-Of-You
FRAKTA Point-Of-You
IKEA Sweden rolled out ‘FRAKTA Point-Of-You’, an outdoor campaign that shoots everyday life through the open top of the iconic blue FRAKTA bag. The camera POV sits inside the bag looking up at the sky, with the bag’s blue weave and yellow handles forming a consistent frame across executions. Created by Stockholm agency Åkestam Holst NoA, it turns a recognisable retail object into a repeatable creative system for OOH.
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Burger King ‘Whopper of a Finish’ turns marathon finishers into burger ‘results’
Burger King ‘Whopper of a Finish’ turns marathon finishers into burger ‘results’
Burger King UK launched ‘Whopper of a Finish’ (BBH) around the London Marathon and other UK marathons as part of its Foodfillment platform. It positions the Whopper as the ultimate post-race reward, featuring real runners photographed by documentary photographer Sophie Green mid-bite (medals on, foil blankets on).
Each poster uses a race-results layout: “Finished” plus a time stamp showing how long it took to eat the burger. The rollout spanned hundreds of OOH sites plus social and print for one week, and included race-day activations: a free Whopper for finishers with a medal at Strand or Leicester Square, buy-one-get-one-free at selected sites, and pacemakers leading runners to ‘Mile 27’ in Leicester Square.
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Vaseline becomes the London Marathon’s ‘Official Nipple Protector’
Vaseline becomes the London Marathon’s ‘Official Nipple Protector’
Vaseline partnered with the TCS London Marathon as the event’s Official Nipple Protector, tackling a common but rarely talked-about runner problem: nipple chafing. The one-year partnership was announced ahead of the 2026 race (Sunday 26 April). Vaseline products were made available on-course, and the campaign leaned into the unexpected sponsorship category to make the pain point instantly visible and memorable.
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Icelandair hires a ‘really bad photographer’
Icelandair hires a ‘really bad photographer’
Icelandair posted a classified-style job ad looking for a “really bad photographer” to help prove that even the worst snapper can take great photos of Iceland. The role includes an ~10-day trip to Iceland in June (travel + accommodation covered) plus US$50,000 for photography/content/participation, with a chance the images appear in a global campaign.
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Nutella floats through a NASA livestream
Nutella floats through a NASA livestream
A jar of Nutella floated through a spacecraft cabin on a livestream with the logo perfectly facing camera. NASA said it wasn’t a product placement. Nutella’s social team didn’t overthink it: they simply posted the clip and it went viral.

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Matrescence Campaign
Matrescence Campaign
While slang like ‘IDGAF‘ makes it into dictionaries, ‘matrescence’ – a 50-year-old term defining the physical, emotional and psychological shift into motherhood – still isn’t recognised. While approaching Mother’s Day in 2026, Peanut and Tommee Tippee campaigned to change that.
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Almond Cow Native Campaign
Almond Cow Native Campaign
Instead of a generic headline-style claim (“save thousands a year”), Almond Cow uses a familiar Instagram poll graphic in a static ad. That platform-native UI pattern makes the creative feel like organic content people already consume, lowering the “this is an ad” defence.
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Huggies Expensive Sh*t
Huggies Expensive Sh*t
Huggies turns a gross-but-universal parenting fear (the blowout) into a high-stakes product demo: 18 just-fed babies crawling over nearly $500k worth of luxury items, where the diaper is the only thing preventing chaos.
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Choccybel’s April Fools
Choccybel’s April Fools
Babybel’s April Fools collab with Monty Bojangles (“Choccybel”) is a perfect category collision: creamy cheese x chocolate truffle. The copy does the heavy lifting (“Unexpected? Absolutely. Irresistible? You decide”) and the collab gives it instant credibility and shareability.
Source: Instagram post
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Tony’s Chocolonely Merch Idea
Tony’s Chocolonely Merch Idea
Instead of only selling to consumers, Tony’s Chocolonely repackaged what they already do (chocolate) for a completely different buyer: companies. Their pitch isn’t “buy chocolate,” it’s “ditch dull merch” with bespoke branded bars for events and corporate gifting opening a whole new segment without inventing a new product.