Animated ads have been a thing for ... I don't know how long. Years. There has been no change in that sense. I don't disagree that they can be distracting but it's not something we can control aside ...

They probably don't have quite the following of, say, Mickey Mouse or Charlie Brown, but the athletic, fungus-fighting Jublia toenail and the walking, talking, diarrhea-stricken Xifaxan intestine seem ...

This story was originally published on Marketing Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Marketing Dive newsletter. Instacart is paying homage to the classic stop-motion ...

There are some that are blatantly animated, but there are also the ads from Google. I’m talking about any change in pixels in under a minute. Maybe it’s because I’m dyslexic or whatever, but even ...

FDA investigates whether animated drug ads obscure important safety information The FDA is launching two separate studies to investigate how effectively the use of cartoons and animation in ...

Startup Adnimation is launching an ad network with a new approach to attracting the attention of online viewers. As you can probably guess from the name (and, okay, from the fact that I pretty much ...

Over the past few years, more drug makers have run TV ads featuring cartoon characters or other animation techniques to promote their medicines. But while some may be cute or visually striking, ...

Toyota is one of a number of national advertisers using animation in their TV commercials this season. (Photo by Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images) If you’ve noticed a few more animated ...

Just as we look forward to a vintage year for animation in 2026, Dunkin' has shown that animation still delivers magic for ...

The spot: An animated woman (by animated, I don’t mean excited—I mean that she’s drawn in pencil) has a great idea. We know this because there’s a light bulb floating above her head. The woman travels ...

A series of bizarre-at-best, offensive-at-worst animated ads for a solitaire phone game are making the rounds on TikTok — and boy, oh boy, do we have questions. The ads are for a game called Solitaire ...

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its 25th anniversary this past June (don’t you feel old now?), won’t die. And the animated GIF, in particular, has seen a notable resurgence recently, as a newer, ...