Watch: The top 5 creative brand ideas you need to know about right now

Watch the livestream above and follow the conversation on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch and Twitter. Welcome to a live episode of the top 5 creative brand ideas you need to know about right now. Ad Age Creativity Editor Ann-Christine Diaz, Creativity Associate Editors Alexandra Jardine and I-Hsien Sherwood, and Reporter Jessica Wohl look back on the week's standout ideas, including costumed statues, an anger-inducing ad and a Mother's Day tearjerker. 5. Sun Bum: We Are Not Bananas Agency: Funworks Statues of Dolly Parton, Mark Twain and The Fonz are among the 50 nationwide that are sporting full-length banana costumes as part of a campaign for Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Sun Bum and agency Funworks decked out a statue in every state with the help of Hollywood costume designer Erik Dixon, and visitors and tourists are being encouraged to share selfies with the silly-looking sculptures. 4. Hey Girls: Period Poverty Agency: Adam&Eve/DDB Most ads try to elicit positive emotions in viewers, but a new spot for period care brand Hey Girls is trying to do just the opposite. Adam&Eve/DDB enlisted the help of a professor of psychological and brain sciences to craft an ad designed to make people angry, through empathizing with people who lack access to period products—along with a heavy dose of flashing lights and frantic cuts. Directed by Margot Bowman of Prettybird, it can’t be shown on TV due to its depiction of blood, but the brand is looking at a cinema release. 3. Miller High Life: Champagne of Beers Region Agency: Adam&Eve/DDB New York Miller High Life is the Champagne of Beers, and now the brand is gunning for its very own origin designation: the Champagne of Beers region of Milwaukee, Wisconsin—several blocks around its brewery. There’s a real petition fans can sign, and one lucky person will be hired as a brand ambassador for the new region, a post that comes with a $20,000 salary and a year’s supply of free beer. 2. Nivea: Moving Home Agency: Publicis One Touch Plenty of young people (and some not so young) moved back in with their parents during the pandemic. But rekindling that intergenerational magic is tough. Publicis One Touch's latest spot for Nivea is a Mother’s Day tearjerker, complete with misunderstood mom, grumpy 20-something and an eventual reconciliation. Sune Sorensen directed, via Casta Diva Pictures, and the spot features a cover of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" by Birdy. 1. Extra: When It's Time Agency: Energy BBDO Extra Gum and agency Energy BBDO have been known for their highly emotional tales (See the story of Sara and Juan and this daughter-and-father origami tale.) But now, as we prepare to come out of the pandemic, the Mars Wrigley brand is ready to celebrate with this all-out face-sucking fest, backed by the powerful vocals of Celine Dion. So far, it’s one of the best brand expressions we’ve seen of the pent-up energy that’s about to be unleashed before what many are calling the “hot vax summer.” Other highlights of the week included a Durex spot that gets to the point, Joe Jonas’ 3D-printed hand for Expedia and the latest crossover involving two Ryan Reynolds-owned brands. That's it for the Top 5. Make sure to check out more of the best in brand creativity at AdAge.com/Creativity.

Watch: The top 5 creative brand ideas you need to know about right now

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