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In one corner of the BrandLab, Jeff goes to work running VW's folks through a rapid-fire succession of video ad campaigns the BrandLab feels have worked.

I don't understand what the BrandLab "feels" about.

Also I'm not sure what "have worked" tries to tell... does it mean "a repid-fire sucession of video ad campaigns have worked well"?

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I parse the sentence:

There are some video ad campaigns that BrandLab consider (believe, feel) to have been effective (worked).

Jeff quickly shows (rapi-fire) people from a client VW) these video ad campaigns, or possibly shows extracts from them, giving the VW folks a rapid overview of the campaigns.

The overall sense here is one of enthusiasm and urgency. I don't see any great ambiguity here.

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    'Brandlab' is used as a metonym for '[the majority of] the [important] people working at Brandlab'; this is standard. Many Brits would use '... that Brandlab feel ...' to signal the implied 'people'.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 15:20
  • Right. The noun phrase campaigns the BrandLab feels have worked comes from a relative clause campaigns which the BrandLab feels have worked, which in turn comes from the clause the BrandLab feels that the campaigns have worked. In this case, feels is a generalized sense verb, and means 'finds/thinks/believes/perceives'.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 17:16

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