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Hire 3 Women to Disrupt White-Male Hegemony
Last month, Business Insider published an article headlined “Why Advertising’s Most Powerful Creative Thinks So Few Women Are Able to Break Through,” quoting Susan Hoffman, ecd of Wieden+Kennedy, as...
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Doritos Picks 5 'Crash the Super Bowl' Finalists, and There's Already a Clear...
You've got to hand it to "Finger Cleaner" for nailing an edgy, icky tone that really sticks out among the five finalists in Doritos' annual "Crash the Super Bowl" contest for consumer-generated...
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Ad of the Day: Old Spice Sprays Boys Into Men, and Moms Lose Their Minds
Old Spice appears to be gunning directly for Axe with a new line of refresh body sprays, two new spray scents—with the explosively awesome names of Bearglove and Lionpride—and some of its first spots...
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Leave It to Ben & Jerry's to Write the Best Tweet About Colorado's New...
On Jan. 1, Colorado became the first state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana to anyone 21 or older. Sales have become so successful that stores are unable to keep up with the demand. Ben...
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Restaurant Cooks Up a Hot Ad for Char-Grilled Steaks by Just Lighting the...
Today in crazy Russian advertising news: A restaurant in Yekaterinburg decided to promote its flame-broiled steaks by flame-broiling its billboard as well. It is a pretty hot idea, if maybe overly...
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Time Freezes, and Doomed Drivers Talk, in Amazing and Heartbreaking...
This eerie safe-driving PSA from New Zealand employs an Outer Limits-style time freeze to impressive, heartbreaking effect as we watch two drivers, poised to collide in a matter of seconds, emerge...
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Netflix Revels in the Clichés in DDB's Amusing 'Pep Talk' Ad
You guys remember that blog post about that ad that did a familiar thing in a fresh way? When a creative team took a clichéd trope and offered a meta commentary illustrating how hackneyed it was, but...
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Stephen Colbert Gets Crackin' as Super Bowl Star for Wonderful Pistachios
At this year's Super Bowl, Wonderful Pistachios will take a break from its usual "what's hot this minute" approach and feature a star with a bit more lasting power: Stephen Colbert. The host of Comedy...
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NBC Celebrates NYC and Its Own Past in First Ads for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is moving from one smug cultural petri dish to another, thanks to Jimmy Fallon, who will be taking the show back to NYC when he replaces Jay Leno next month. To commemorate this...
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Ad of the Day: P&G Has a Winner With Latest Big Tearjerker Spot for Moms
While most of the ad industry is busy buzzing about Super Bowl XLVIII, let's not forget that other massive sporting event (i.e., branding opportunity) on the horizon: the 2014 Winter Olympics. Procter...
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Heinz Ketchup Returns to the Super Bowl After 16 Years With an Ad About Happy...
America's favorite sporting event is about to get reacquainted with America's Favorite Ketchup. Heinz Ketchup will return to the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 with a 30-second commercial from Cramer-Krasselt...
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Life and Taxes: TurboTax Celebrates Your Milestones in Super Bowl-Bound Campaign
Don't think of your tax return as an annual blood sacrifice to our merciless bureaucratic overlords. Think of it more as a delightful recap of your exciting and eventful life! That's the upbeat...
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See Denny's Devilish Tweet to Auburn Fans After the BCS Championship Game
Raise a giant Cherry Coke and toast Denny's for this great tweet after the BCS Championship Game—offering distraught Auburn fans a road map for where they can comfort-eat their miseries away on the...
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Nissan Delivers a Versa Note to One Lucky Buyer in an Enormous Amazon Box
When Nissan offered to sell its Versa Note on Amazon last fall, it promised to ship the cars to three lucky buyers in actual Amazon boxes. Well, this weekend it was delivery day! A Reddit user on...
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Sonic Drive-In Gives Your Taste Buds a Workout in Faux Fitness Video
IDEA: T.J. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz have been comically patronizing the same Sonic Drive-In restaurant in the same minivan for more than a decade as spokesmen for the fast-food chain. Now, Jagodowski...
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Ad of the Day: Life Gets Even Worse for Cable Customers in DirecTV's New...
It's been two years since DirecTV and Grey New York launched their "Cable Effects" ad campaign, detailing the strange and terrible fates that can befall cable customers. In that time, the formula has...
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Ads for Comedy Central's Kroll Show Imagine the Dumbest Award Show Ever
With those saucy Two Broke Girls hosting and a category that pits the Bible against Sharknado, the People's Choice Awards, airing live Wednesday night on CBS, should be a hoot. No, not really. It'll...
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Italian Imports Always Sell—Unless They're Cars
In most of the branded world (fashion and food especially) being an Italian import is a good thing. Not always so for cars. Case in point: Fiat, a nameplate that never really found a smooth road in...
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This Agency Helps Builds Brands at Warp Speed
SpecsWho (From left) Brian Pettigrew, president; Lady Liberty; Dimitry Ioffe, founder and CEOWhat Digital marketing agencyWhere Los Angeles office Dimitry Ioffe got a taste for entertainment at a...
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Ad of the Day: The Guardian's New Lifestyle Magazine Is Dangerously Great
It was exactly a year ago that the Guardian and BBH London unveiled the "Own the Weekend" campaign, envisioning a world in which the newspaper literally owned the weekend—or as it would be known...
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