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Bear From Chobani's Super Bowl Ad Is Now Ambushing People in NYC
Marketers are officially obsessed with trying to frighten the world-weary populace of New York City. Following the recent devil baby and zombie stunts, here's footage of the Chobani bear—an...
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Entire Ad Break Is Made of Lego in Delightful Stunt for Toy Company's Movie
Here's a fantastic ad stunt orchestrated by media agency PHD on Britain's ITV. On Sunday night, the TV broadcaster devoted a whole commercial break during an episode of Dancing on Ice to airing remade...
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McDonald's Sweden Taunts Norway With Big Mac Billboard at the Border
Here's a fun neighbor-shaming McDonald's billboard from DDB Stockholm. Sitting right at the border between Sweden and Norway, the billboard displays comparative pricing for Big Macs in the two...
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Ad of the Day: Big Lots Gets Moms Dancing for Twinkies in Wacky Campaign
Thanks to sugar, savings or both, Big Lots—and its suddenly endless supply of reduced-price Hostess products—just makes moms want to dance. Big Lots recently struck a deal to become the "Official...
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How to Make Paris Even More Beautiful? Replace the Ads With Classical Paintings
Classical paintings replace advertisements on Paris billboards in "OMG, Who Stole My Ads?"—a series of provocative photographs by French artist Etienne Lavie. The project recalls last summer's "Art...
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Meet Devin Graham, Advertising's Daredevil
IDEA: Want to appeal to young, attractive people who like watching other young, attractive people do insane stunts? Devin Graham is your man. The 30-year-old filmmaker, aka "devinsupertramp" on...
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Getty Images, Sheryl Sandberg Team Up to Make Stock Photos of Women More...
I just did a search for "working woman" on a popular stock photography site, and got photos of women in pantsuits wielding brick-sized cellphones, photos of women pouting sexily while adjusting their...
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Epic Acura Ad Presents the World's Most Brutal Mechanical-Horse Race
You probably didn't know your Acura isn't really a car. It's actually a real live dark horse. In a world full of creepy and brutish mechanical horses. It will catapult from the back of the pack to...
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'One Hour Agency' Promises Quality Advertising Ideas in 60 Minutes
Sweden's One Hour Agency is the brainchild of interactive art directors Ben Langeveld and Ingmar Larsen, who, along with a half-dozen other creatives from the Hyper Island program, want just 60...
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Adult Swim Is Touring U.S. Colleges With an Inflatable Fun House
Yes, you read that correctly: Adult Swim is making the rounds with a gigantic black-and-pink blow-up castle filled with (sponsored) attractions like a KFC-branded rotating mirror-tunnel, an Ice...
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Norway's Pro-Gay Olympic Ad Is Cheesy and Absurd, but Also Kind of Incredible
Thanks to the country's anti-gay laws, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia have turned into a de facto platform for LGBT marketing. Earlier, we had the Canadian ad that said the two-man luge is "a...
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Ad of the Day: Heineken Wants Guys to Show Their Feelings This Valentine's Day
It's Feb. 11. You know what that means? There are only three days left until Valentine's Day! Oh, and it also means you'd better have solid dinner plans for Friday night, because all the good...
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Q&A: How Cards Against Humanity Won the Holidays With a Whole Load of B.S.
Cards Against Humanity's promotions are as bitingly sarcastic as the game itself—whether they're charging more for the game on Black Friday, experimenting with a "Pay what you want" model (which...
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Caribou Coffee Builds Five-Story-Tall Pinterest Board at the Mall of America
Caribou Coffee, whose previous out-of-home ad stunts have included heated bus shelters in Minneapolis, is back with another special campaign—a giant, five-story-tall Pinterest board built (with help...
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Ad of the Day: Love Is in the Details in the Year's Most Romantic Commercial
What's more difficult than making a commercial that's funny or sad? Making one that's earnestly romantic. As we're reminded each year in the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, marketers are...
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Organic Food Makers Hilariously Take Down Bogus 'All Natural' Labels on...
Hey, professional truth-benders. Here's a sweet mockumentary-style PSA about professional truth-bending. Extra bonus if you also happen to be a tree hugger. In addition to fairly broad swipes at snake...
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Diddy, Snoop Dogg Pop Up in Even More Ads You Never Thought They'd Do
It's flashback week for fans of 1990s hip-hop, with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and Snoop Dogg making advertising cameos that would have seemed inconceivable 15 years ago. Combs, known these days as...
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The Year's Most Provocative Valentine's Day Ad Is Also One of Its Most Touching
There's a lot going on in this 60-second Valentine's Day commercial, but it would probably spoil things to reveal either the product or the plot. Suffice it to say there are several surprises here,...
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This Production Firm Stays True to Its Storytelling Roots
SpecsWho Founding partners (from left) Jen Lucero, managing director, and executive creative directors Brien Holman and Jayson WhitmoreWhat Design and production studioWhere Los Angeles office With one...
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'Dumb Ways to Die' Returns With Adorably Gruesome Ad for Valentine's Day
Fifteen months and 71 million YouTube views after its storied premiere, McCann Melbourne's "Dumb Ways to Die" train-safety campaign is back with this cute, grotesque little spot for Valentine's Day....
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