Best Ads This Week: Uber, Better Help, Australian Lamb


Best Ads This Week

Uber, Better Help, Australian Lamb, and more.


So many great ads.

And it's only January.

It looks like we're in for a great year.

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Great ad: Uber

🧪 Principle: The 10x Visualisation

Uber using playful visualisations of people's journeys in their latest campaign in Gatwick Airport.

Great ad: The Devil Wears Prada Musical

🧪 Principle: Break the 4th wall

Clever way to hack the surroundings of your ad.

Social media ad: Better Help

🧪 Principle: Speak Your Audience's Language

Social media ad: Mind Journal

🧪 Principle: Call Out Your Competition

Great spin on the classic Us vs. Them format.

Sometimes you have to add some brutal honesty.

Great TikTok ad: Australian Lamb

🧪 Principle: Position Your Product As The Ultimate Solution

Australian Lamb took a viral problem "hate comments online"

And positioned their steaks as the thing that unifies the world.

The more exaggerated the claim, the better.

This ad is hilarious.

Watch the full video here.


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