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Consuming Too Much Info? You Might Be Infobese, Say These Very Strange Ads...
There's more than one way to feel the flab. But however much time you spend on the treadmill, French ad publication Influencia hopes to draw your attention to a more insidious fitness foe you may be...
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Ad Veteran and Composer of 'The Oscar Meyer Wiener Song' Dies at 87
The advertising industry said goodbye this week to a very successful, if largely unknown, creative voice with the passing of Richard D. Trentlage, who died on Sept. 21 at the age of 87 in a suburb of...
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Dove Straps Heart Monitors on Men to See How They React to Models, and Their...
Imagine you're asked to assess the beauty of airbrushed photos of professional models—and then regular snapshots of your spouse, or a close family member. A new Dove ad from Portugal does that to a...
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This Director Just Schooled Us on 360 Video With an Immersive Short Story for...
Director Alex Smith has created his first-ever 360 video, as part of an ongoing series called "Picture This," a project started by Facebook in partnership with Semi-Permanent, an Australia-based...
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Vie Awkwardly for Tom Brady's Love in Support of...
If either Matt Damon or Ben Affleck has an actual superpower, it's their epic friendship—a bond so endearing and renowned that it even won them an award. Until Tom Brady arrived. The...
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That Epic Audi 'Duel' Commercial? Here's What It Looks Like Played Forward
Audi's "Duel" commercial, by Venables Bell & Partners, which was made to air around the three presidential debates, is one of the most entertaining ads of the year—partly because of the compelling...
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This Brand Put 16 Cameras in a Family's Home for 2 Weeks and Made Ads From...
How do you shoot real, authentic, unscripted footage of a family for your advertising campaign? Set up a bunch of cameras around their house, and then go away for a long time—so the family can...
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Pepsi Compares Everyday Victories to the Thrill of a Touchdown in Ad Starring...
How similar are the small joys in your life to the adrenaline-fueled highs of a post-touchdown dance by a millionaire football star? The world's No. 2 soda brand thinks the two might just be closer...
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Alexa Is Your Suburban Guardian Angel in Amazon's New Ads for the Echo
The Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo can answer questions, play music, control smart devices and fulfill numerous other suburban needs, according to two new ads for Amazon's command device."The Break Up"...
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Drones Try to Assemble a Layer Cake in This Nutty Norwegian Phone Ad
Finally someone has found a good use for drones: Making a cake. A team of little flying robots assembles a three-tier confection by airlifting genoise, splashing icing, firing candies out of a...
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Ad of the Day: Tituss Burgess of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Gets Feisty for Downy
Comic actor Tituss Burgess invades the laundry room in Grey's latest work for Downy, which promises "a fresh too feisty to quit." Frankly, we don't want our clothes getting too feisty. Especially the...
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Ad of the Day: Dollar Shave Club Shamelessly Mocks Axe and Old Spice in...
Attention, men. If your body wash makes you feel like a muscle-bound rage monster, or a cologne-oozing nightclub sleaze, Dollar Shave Club wants you to consider a simpler option. The subscription...
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The Nike Mag Self-Lacing Sneakers Are Finally Here, but They're Only Making...
The Nike Mag self-lacing sneakers from Back to the Future II are finally a reality—27 years after the movie, five years after Nike built a Mag prototype, and seven months after it announced a...
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DDB Just Figured Out How to Boost Milk's Popularity: Give It a Special Glass
How do you improve a glass of milk? By improving the glass of milk. (Ba dum—tss!) With help from DDB Canada, the Dairy Farmers of Canada introduce The Milk Glass™. Because you don't want to drink...
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This Guy Posed as a Donut Delivery Man to Get Into Agencies and Try to Land a...
Lithuanian marketing professional Lukas Yla arrived in San Francisco this summer with a sweet plan to make a name for himself in what may well be the world's most oversaturated job market. Yla was...
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It Took Three Child Actors to Get This Scene Right in the New Garanimals Ad
Working with toddlers in commercials can be tough. Sometimes, the wee thespians just can't take direction. In these cases, alas, the kid most definitely does not stay in the picture. David Bernstein,...
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Chance the Rapper Meets Chance the Wrapper in Weird, Awesome Kit Kat Ad
In advertising's best pun so far this year, Chance the Rapper encounters Chance the Wrapper in this new Halloween-themed Kit Kat commercial by agency Anomaly. The 23-year-old hip-hop star is seen...
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Havas Chicago Filled a Room With Boobs You Can Play With for #CheckYoSelf...
Havas Chicago certainly knows how to stop pedestrians in their tracks with its office-window installations for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Last October it set up peep-show windows, but the peepers...
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Amazon Made More Than a Hundred 10-Second Ads Asking Alexa the Funniest Things
People are using Amazon Echo in so many different ways, and asking its AI, Alexa, so many different things, that the brand decided it was perfect for little vignettes. So, it's rolling out more than a...
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Ad of the Day: Ask Ordinary New Yorkers to Make a Phone Ad, and You Get This...
To help launch the Asus ZenFone 3, ad agency SuperHeroes dispatched Matt Rubano and Betsy Kenney, members of improv troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, to ask random people on the streets of Manhattan to...
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