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Ad of the Day: Yes, PSAs for the Blind Can Be Hilarious
The Norwegian Association of the Blind makes some pretty funny commercials. A few years back, the group made ads (scroll to the bottom to see them) suggesting blind people make great employees—because...
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Cheerios Takes Home Dubious Honor of Most Hated Ad During the Golden Globes
Twitter is a tough crowd during any high-profile live TV programming, when snark levels always spike. Cheerios learned that the hard way during the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday when it aired a...
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'Christians Make Better Lovers,' Claims Ad Campaign
Christian singles in the U.K. seeking like-minded partners to share romantic dinners of fishes, loaves and vino on Saturday nights might want to check out these cheeky posters launching today in...
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Kia Preps a Matrix Spoof With Laurence Fishburne for the Super Bowl
The Matrix may be 15 years old, but the reality is, advertisers still love it. Less than a year after GE recruited Agent Smith (actor Hugo Weaving) for its "Brilliant Machines" campaign, Kia has...
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If You're Into Stuffed Animals Licking Your Nipples, You've Come to the Right Ad
Oddvertising is catching on in Hong Kong with this absurd spot for Rio Mints featuring what Shanghaiist calls "just the right amount of nipple licking." The scene opens with a young couple on an...
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Ringo Starr Wishes He Was a Powerpuff Girl. No, Really, He Does
The Powerpuff Girls have been rebooted for a onetime special with a new animation style, and the first look anybody has gotten of the new design is this short where Ringo Starr dons a dress and sings,...
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Working Out at Equinox Will Make You Tough, Naked and a Little Dumb
Getting ripped at a luxury gym will make you want to get more naked everywhere, says luxury gym Equinox. OK, if your prerequisite for being comfortable getting more naked everywhere is having the body...
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Deaf NFL Player Derrick Coleman Tells His Story in Terrific Duracell Ad
As huge of an advertising juggernaut as the NFL is, commercials starring NFL players often feel interchangeable. Here, though, is a great piece of work from Duracell starring Derrick Coleman, the...
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Survey Predicts a Bleak Future for Agencies
If you think the prospects for agencies are challenging right now, look ahead five years. Some 320 marketing and agency leaders did just that, painting a bleak portrait of 2019 in an anonymous survey...
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M&M's Spoof Action Movies in Cinema Plea to Silence Your Cellphone
The iconic M&M's candies call for filmgoers to turn off their cellphones and respect their fellow theater patrons in this mock blockbuster action-movie trailer from BBDO that marks the first time...
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Here's a Colorful, Cryptic Alternative to 'Your Ad Here' Signs on Unsold...
Van Wagner, the outdoor advertising company, has created billboards to advertise advertising on billboards. Catch that? It's kind of meta. When a billboard doesn't get sold, its owner can keep the old...
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Honda's 'Hands,' Fiat's Typeface Drive Off With Top Honors at Auto Ads of the...
The 2014 One Show Automobile Advertising of the Year awards are being presented today at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. And Honda has grabbed the top prizes in both the TV and...
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Ad of the Day: Sony Traces Its Long, Winding Road of Art and Engineering
Sony really wants you to know just how relevant it is. The legacy tech behemoth is out with an ambitious new 90-second anthem spot from Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Ore., that draws on a star-studded...
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Latest Horror-Movie Ad Prank, With a Screaming Devil Baby, Is Completely...
Here's one baby that no one's expecting. "Devil Baby Attack," a rather mean-spirited if grimly hilarious marketing stunt for the upcoming horror film Devil's Due, shows what happens when well-meaning...
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Planet Fitness Parodies the Insanity of Rigorous Fitness Classes at Other Gyms
Planet Fitness is back with the latest spot in its campaign against "gymtimidation." This time, we peek in on an unnamed competitor, where an insanely pumped-up instructor is leading a class of...
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Chocolate and Peanut Butter Try Couple's Therapy in Butterfinger's Racy Super...
Sorry, Bart. It looks like Butterfinger's first Super Bowl ad will have a theme better suited to those over 18. The Super Bowl spot, by ad agency Dailey, will launch Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups....
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The Best-Perceived Brands of 2013
Buoyed by strong sales of its e-readers and expansion of its free-shipping service, Amazon topped the list of best-perceived brands of 2013, as measured by YouGov's BrandIndex. Rounding out the top 5...
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Trailers for New Muppets Movie Hilariously Take Down Peanut Gallery of Online...
Want to see a Muppets movie trailer that skewers illiterate Twitter spats? Of course you do. This new parody promo for the forthcoming feature Muppets Most Wanted does a double public service by also...
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Axe Brings a Message of Peace to the Gender Wars, and the World, in Super...
Axe, the Unilever men's personal-care brand known for inciting controversy in the gender wars with ads often deemed sexist, wants everyone to just get along in its 30-second Super Bowl spot—which...
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If NFL Logos Were Hipsters
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of hipsters and the NFL, the circles would likely overlap in just one tiny spot: this oddly fascinating project from comic artist Dave Rappoccio."What if the NFL...
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