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Visitors to This Open House in Canada Found an Elaborately Staged and...
It was advertised like an ordinary real-estate open house, at a residence that looked fine on the outside. But when visitors came for a look inside, they got an eerie surprise—a glimpse at how people...
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Love It or Hate It, Artists Are Already Remixing the New Instagram Logo in...
Much of the backlash against the new Instagram logo can be chalked up to the simple fact that it isn't the old logo. The old logo, in fact, was so well loved that it inspired a widely used hashtag,...
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Nike's Coffee-Looking Shoe Will Go Nicely With the Krispy Kreme One
There's probably a sizable crossover between people who drink Starbucks regularly and people who wear Nikes. But unless they also like ugly shoes, the Nike SB Dunk Low sneaker is going to be a bust....
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Meet Pepper, the Robot Who's Coming to America as an In-Store Customer...
You know how exasperating it feels to call a company and get stuck in an automated voice program instead of being connected to a human being? Soon, you'll be able to experience that same level of...
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Kenan Thompson Returns as Miles Mouvay for Fandango, and Welcomes a Special...
It makes perfect sense that Miles Mouvay, the world's most dedicated film fan, met his bestie in a theater lobby in 1993 while they were both waiting to see Jurassic Park and special-ordering nacho...
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Zappos' Cool New Shoebox Can Be Cut Up and Repurposed in a Bunch of Unique Ways
Zappos wants you to think outside the box. Beginning with the box itself. On June 1, the online retailer will begin shipping some shoes in a very cool new box (designed in-house) that features a...
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Ad of the Day: 30 Rock Returns to Help Explain Verizon's 'Better Network'
Ever wish 30 Rock were still on the air? When members of Tina Fey's unofficial fan club last encountered Jenna Maroney and Kenneth Parcel in the series finale, the former had finally taken "The Rural...
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Cards Against Humanity Made Donald Trump Cards, and a Whole Trump Survival Kit
Recently, we wrote about Jeffery DaSilva of the Sid Lee Collective and how he created an off-label Trump Against Humanity expansion that got yuuuge. Well, now Cards Against Humanity has gone and...
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Nutella? Nougat? What Should Android Name Its Next Treat-Themed Operating...
Android—known for naming each version of its OS after various alphabetically ordered treats like eclair, gingerbread and marshmallow—is ready to launch a new version for the letter "N." And for the...
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This L.A. Branding Agency Knows How to Do 'Hardcore Engineering'
SpecsWho (L. to r.) Head of production Isaac Swiderski; chief strategy officer Darcie Lamond; CEO and founder Matt Bijarchi; and operations vp Jesse DavisWhat Branding agencyWhere Los Angeles Last...
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Ad of the Day: Secret Took Viewers by Surprise With This Ad on 'The...
The Bachelorette is a show with notoriously pretzel-like gender dynamics. On the one hand, the ABC dating program puts a woman in total control of the traditionally patriarchal dating structure—and...
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How HP Turned Unwritten Stories of Illiterate Brazilians Into Books Printed...
Imagine if there were an easy way for people who can't read and write to share their life experiences with the world. HP and agency AlmapBBDO took a crack at coming up with one, focusing on some of...
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Havas Worldwide Just Dropped the (Giant) Mic on Canal Street's Post-it Wars
Two weeks after the Canal Street #postitwars began with a single word, "HI," one of the main agencies involved—Havas Worldwide—has shut things down in style. With a giant image of a mic drop. It took...
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Google Built an Escape Room, and Is Making People Use a Bunch of Its Apps to...
Google France has built an escape room to seamlessly unite online and offline worlds. Created by We Are Social, Première Pièce will open at an undisclosed location in the heart of Paris. The campaign...
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Snickers 'Hungerithm' Sets the Candy's In-Store Price Based on the Internet's...
Snickers has dreamed up one of the cooler online/offline advertising-meets-point-of-sale hybrid campaigns of the year, introducing a "Hungerithm" that gauges the mood of the Internet and adjusts the...
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Ad of the Day: Droga5 Has Johnsonville Employees Dream Up Their Own...
Undoubtedly eager to take a break from stuffing ground-up meat into sausage casings all day long, employees at Johnsonville try their hand at creating commercials in a new campaign from Droga5 tagged,...
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Google and Levi's Unveil a Connected Jean Jacket. See How It Works in Action
Fashion futurists, rejoice! Google and Levi's first smart garment has arrived, and it's a jean jacket that connects to your smartphone. The tech giant's Project Jacquard, focused on developing...
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BBDO's Latest Ad for Snickers Ice Cream Bars Is a Real Scream
Can discordant screaming sell ice cream? Snickers sure hopes so, because that's the angle it's going with this new spot for Snickers ice cream bars. Playing on the "I scream, you scream" rhyme, the ad...
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McDonald's Makes Green and Red Angry Birds Burgers, Just Makes People Angry
Time was, McDonald's put toys in their Happy Meals to promote movies. Now they just dye their burgers, we guess. McDonald's China is making chicken and pork sandwiches with special red and green buns...
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South Bend Apologizes for Lifting Salt Lake's Tourism Campaign Almost Wholesale
There are imitations, and then there are copies. Unfortunately, Visit South Bend's new tourism and convention advertising is the latter—a pretty blatant knockoff of a well-received 2015 campaign by...
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