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Dollar Shave Club's Holiday Ads Show the Few People Who Wouldn't Want a...
For its holiday campaign this year, Dollar Shave Club takes an approach that recalls adam&eveDDB's Harvey Nichols work, rolling out amusing portraits of people who actually wouldn't be too happy...
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Ad of the Day: This Coca-Cola Campaign Can Be Deciphered Only by Color-Blind...
Can you connect the dots? Ad agency Essencius recently launched a teaser campaign in Denmark touting stevia- and cane-sugar-sweetened Coca-Cola Life, but only about 5 percent of the population could...
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AT&T Is Pulling Its Retail Ads This Holiday to Run This One Instead
AT&T finds itself in a bit of a bind at the holidays. Yes, it's a mobile-first company, but at this time of year, it can be irritating for families when kids spend all day on their phones. To...
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Cards Against Humanity Threatens to Cut a Picasso Into 150,000 Pieces This...
Cards Against Humanity recently bought a Picasso. And it's now asking 150,000 people to vote whether to donate it to a museum or laser-cut it into 150,000 pieces. And I'm one of those people. Which...
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Ad of the Day: Kids Live With Their NBA Heroes to Pick a Favorite in Nike's...
In "Bring Your Game," a five-minute Nike film that debuted during NBA telecasts on Christmas Day, a bunch of kids can't decide on their favorite player. So, like all kids facing this dilemma, they jet...
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Taco Joint Turns Security Footage of a Burglary Into an Ad About 3 Really...
Here's another entry for the security-cam ad file: In what could perhaps pass for a case study on the power of storytelling, a Las Vegas taco restaurant turned footage of a real late-night burglary...
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Saatchi & Saatchi Defends Its Much-Ridiculed 'Stoner Sloth' Anti-Marijuana Ads
Amid the chorus of derision aimed at Australia's "Stoner Sloth" anti-marijuana ads, one group still wholeheartedly believes in the campaign—the agency behind it, Saatchi & Saatchi."The videos have...
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Watch Motörhead's Lemmy Slow Down 'Ace of Spades' for a Kronenbourg Beer Ad
Metalheads worldwide are quoting Nietszche in the wake of Motörhead singer/bassist Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister's death on Monday, but some may not have noticed he was in a Kronenbourg 1664 ad back in 2010....
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Subway Returns to a Pre-Jared Era of Innocence in First BBDO Campaign
You might not have known this, but Subway practically invented fresh food. BBDO has unveiled its first campaign for the sandwich chain. The post-Jared Fogle approach features a wholesome,...
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Can This Existentially Distressed Family of Bears Convince You to Go on...
When life gets unbearable, you need an escape claws. If you're thinking such silly wordplay heralds a campaign with ursine imagery, you're right. In "Bears," a delightful minute-long TV spot touting...
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Ad of the Day: Grey Just Designed a Bicycle That Has the Symptoms of MS
This is a terrible bike to ride. Those are the first words you'll hear in "This Bike Has MS," a campaign by Grey Australia for nonprofit MS to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis ahead of the MS...
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GoPro's Year-in-Review Ad Is Action Packed With Sports, Kids and at Least One...
GoPro's Year in Review video for 2015, comprised of footage shot entirely on its Hero4 camera, features a little bit of everything: snowboarding, skateboarding, skydiving, rugby, people jumping in...
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Wired Interviews Lex Luthor in Fiendishly Fun Escalation of Comic-Book Movie...
Comic books are about world-building. The marketing for film adaptations of comics follows the same format: It cultivates an ever-expanding universe, one even populated with fictional advertising for...
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Millennials Don't Care If You Don't Get Them, Samsung Says in Its Latest Grab...
Samsung is looking to cozy up with the youths by proving it gets what it means to be a millennial ... and that it's cool with it. A new commercial from R/GA for the Galaxy A series of phones opens on...
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DirecTV Ridicules Cable Users as 'Settlers' in Frontier-Themed Ads
DirecTV: the final frontier? A bunch of "Settlers"—a modern suburban family dressed like the cast of Little House on the Prairie—settle for cable rather than DirecTV in Grey's latest ads for the...
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Ad of the Day: Here's the Craziest Holiday Ad You Didn't See About the Worst...
You remember Tadas Vidmantas. He's the director who made that insane spec ad for Lithuanian mineral-water brand Vytautas back in 2012. (The brand loved it so much, it hired Vidmantas to do ads in a...
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Physics Geniuses Illustrate the Mind-Bending Simplicity of TurboTax in W+K's...
Winning a Cannes Lion or a Gold Clio would make George Smoot's Nobel Prize for Physics look like garbage, right? In Wieden + Kennedy's latest TurboTax campaign, some of the world's greatest...
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Ad of the Day: John Cleese Resurrects Basil Fawlty for First Time Ever in...
John Cleese has brought back his iconic Basil Fawlty character for the first time on screen since Fawlty Towers ended in 1979—in a British commercial for optical retail chain Specsavers. Cleese helped...
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This Indian Retailer's Ad Draws Praise for Its Modern Take on Arranged Marriage
A new clothing ad is making waves in India with a modern depiction of negotiations for an arranged marriage. The two-minute commercial by Brandmovers for fashion brand Biba opens on a young woman...
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A Claw Machine Dispenses Sunscreen on This Cool Beachside Bus Shelter Ad
Sun protection has become a game at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Cancer Institute NSW, JCDecaux, UM and Soap Creative teamed up to build mechanical-claw-game-style SPF50+ sunscreen dispensers to...
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