This embrace of culture and speed is a shock to the system for a brand (and a company) that has run clones of the same ad for decades. "Every commercial had to have two generations of people coming together over a cookie and a glass of milk, and there had to be a ritual of the twist, lick, and dunk," says Darren Moran, a former chief creative officer at Oreo's onetime U.S. ad agency Draftfcb. Dana Anderson, an industry feather-ruffler in her own right who happens to be Bough's boss at Mondelēz, says that culture is the ticket to getting Oreo out of a myopic existence. "For 30 years it's been, 'Here's the product, the objective benefits, the subjective benefits—how am I going to get up the ladder?' " she says. "As opposed to, 'I'm going to come from the side and—boom!' "