Poke The Bear Highlights Go Bowling's Mass Appeal
The campaign rolls out across TV, print, digital, and social. It highlights the fun of the game — not an individual's skill set. Or as the spot notes: “It's mischief for the masses.” Additional major media placements across Nascar and other sports and entertainment events are scheduled in 2026.
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GOBOWLING Embraces The Joy of Not Being Good
In a marketing landscape obsessed with optimization, offers, and calls to action, a new campaign from Dallas indie agency Poke The Bear and GOBOWLING takes a refreshingly different approach. Titled “Don’t Go Boring, GO BOWLING,” the work leans into one undeniable truth: you can be terrible at bowling and still have an incredible time doing it.
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See's Candies Breaks Out 'The Good Stuff' For A New Generation
The San Francisco brand is rolling out the platform out for the second year in a row, again working with Dallas agency Poke The Bear. Seven new spots anchor the push across paid social, TV and streaming, mixing holiday ads with fresh evergreen work about classic See’s moments: the get-well box, the overachiever’s hostess gift, the family drowning out life’s noise with peanut brittle crunching
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Bill Milkereit and Todd Tucker of Poke the Bear on Learning to Read the Room
A lad realizes he’s been a bit more naughty than nice, which isn’t a great position to be in come Xmas time. To help persuade Santa that he’s deserving of some holiday cheer despite a “rough year,” our youngster taps into the heavy artillery – a treat from See’s.
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Poke The Bear, Director Jorn Threlfall Help Put A Lad In Santa’s Good Graces With Sweet Treats From See’s
New Work: Poke The Bear & GOBOWLING Say “Don’t Go Boring, GO BOWLING”
Dallas indie agency Poke The Bear has teamed up with GOBOWLING, the national marketing arm of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA), to launch a new national campaign that debuted December 27 during the GOBOWLING Military Bowl. Titled “Don’t Go Boring, GO BOWLING,” the work leans into a simple, sticky truth: you can be terrible at bowling and still have an amazing time doing it.
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See’s Candies measures nostalgia with modern sensibilities in holiday campaign
The Break Out the Good Stuff campaign, now in its second year, features work developed by Poke The Bear.
Strike! Poke the Bear Wins Go Bowling Creative AOR Account
Dallas agency Poke the Bear has a new account. It's been named creative AOR for Go Bowling, the national marketing arm of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America. BPAA estimates 67 million people hit the lanes each year.
The confectionery brand’s holiday campaign features a wily little scamp who realises he's going to have to bribe the big guy on the sleigh if he wants any gifts this year.
Sucking Up To Santa with See's Candies
Recently named #1 in Kentucky on Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, RD 1 Spirits partnered with Dallas Independent Agency Poke The Bear for its first campaign showing off its award-winning bourbon for September’s Bourbon Heritage Month.
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In today’s creative news, we have new holiday ads from Crayola, Home Depot and See’s Candies. We also have an artful tattoo project from Fuck Cancer and a splashy “Stranger Things” campaign from KFC U.K.
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Developed in collaboration with creative agency Poke The Bear, this year’s campaign expands on its debut with an even more robust approach—telling stories through the eyes of See’s fans, young and old, who have made See’s a part of their most cherished holiday — and everyday — traditions.
Break Out The Good Stuff
Noah’s Ark? Babe’s Bat? POKE THE BEAR Crafts Wordplay for RD One Campaign
Known for their innovation in the bourbon space, RD One takes exotic woods from all over the world to create wooden staves that are then inserted in their bourbon barrel and aged for months to create the unique taste of their crafted bourbon.
Kentucky Bourbon Brand RD One Showcases What Makes Their Wood Finished Craft Bourbon Different in New Campaign from Poke The Bear
For the print campaign, each letter, that tells the story of the bourbon, is handcrafted – similar to the product.