PAUL STANLEY dons his KISS 'Starchild' makeup again for WORKDAY's 'Rock Star' campaign
08-04-2025
Workday, Inc., the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, is bringing AI agents center stage in its latest “Rock Star” campaign featuring Paul Stanley (KISS),Billy Idol and Gwen Stefani (NO DOUBT). The rockers, dressed in business attire, hilariously try to navigate the corporate world — refusing to believe that Workday‘s AI agents are making people “rock stars.” The two new TV commercials, titled “Carmen The Rock Star” and “Goodnight Rock Stars”, are debuting at The Masters from April 7-13.
The commercials playfully contrast the worlds of rock ‘n’ roll and business with Stefani, Idol and Stanley trading their leather studs for power suits and attending countless meetings, engaging in small talk with colleagues in the office, and grappling with corporate jargon.
Superstar Gwen Stefani quips, “You think AI agents can handle your tasks? Watch me handle my agent!”
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Paul Stanley comments, “So you corporate types think you’re rock stars? That’s as ridiculous as us being corporate types! When your weekend routine involves smashing guitars on stage, a boring office job just doesn’t compare…”
Punk rock legend Billy Idol adds, “You think that using AI to help you get work done is challenging the status quo? How about trashing hotel rooms?!”
While the rockers might not understand, Workday AI agents are making its customers rock stars of the business world. While most agents in the market today are task-based, follow specific step-by-step instructions, and complete a single task repetitively, Workday‘s role-based agents contain a configurable set of “skills” and can perform hundreds of individual tasks. These agents help streamline and automate processes across a particular job or role, freeing people up to focus on more strategic work. Workday‘s previously announced role-based agents include Contracts, Payroll, Financial Auditing, Policy, Recruiting, Talent Mobility, Succession, and Optimize Agents.
“Agentic AI is not just changing how work gets done, it’s reshaping the future of work itself — a future where human employees and digital labor will work side-by-side,” said Emma Chalwin, chief marketing officer, Workday. “Our latest campaign playfully illustrates how our customers – the true ‘rock stars’ of business — use Workday to manage their people, money, and agents, reflecting our core value of fun and commitment to helping our customers move forever forward.”
Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries — from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500.
KISS played the final concert of its “End Of The Road” farewell tour on December 2, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Regarding why now was the right time for KISS to call it quits, Simmons told USA Today: “The touring band that is KISS with the makeup and the dragon boots and fire-breathing, that has to stop and that has to do with Mother Nature and Father Time. If we were a blues band or I was blessed to be Keith Richards in THE ROLLING STONES, I’d show up in my comfy sneakers and T-shirt and stand still and play. But we’re different bands. Physically, we are the hardest-working band on the stage. We idolize (Mick) Jagger and Bono and the great showmen, but if you put those guys in my outfit, they would pass out in half an hour. It’s 40 pounds of armor and studs and seven-inch dragon boots that are about the weight of a female bowling ball. So you’ve got 20 pounds on your feet and then you’ve got to spit fire, fly through the air and the entire band is doing that for two-plus hours. If you have any love for the fans, get off the stage before it’s too late. How many boxers have stayed too long in the ring? We’re doing the right thing.”
