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This Digital Design Agency Creates User-Friendly Experiences for Big Brands
SpecsWho (L. to r.) Creative director Mark Jarecke, design director Mike Lee and strategy director Elizabeth StaffordWhat Digital design studioWhere New York Brands as diverse as Bobbi Brown, Bon...
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Cristiano Ronaldo Takes an Unreal Number of Selfies With Fans in This...
Here's a weird idea. For ROC Live Life Loud, Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo worked with Shareability, which co-owns the speaker and headphone brand with him, to engage in an odd game, more or...
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Norton Explores Shady Data Havens Like This North Sea Platform in Amazing...
Anti-virus compay Norton has released a fascinating new documentary on the world of bulletproof hosting—providing server space to clients with little or no oversight on the content—and the hazards the...
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Ad of the Day: PlayStation Vue Helps You Escape From the Evil Clutches of Big...
Forget about the Thought Police … here comes the cable company! Big Cable is portrayed as a dystopian, soul-sucking force (not a big stretch there) in "Escape," the first TV spot for Sony's...
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CP+B Promotes Kevin Jones to Chief Creative Officer in Its Los Angeles Office
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has promoted Kevin Jones to the role of chief creative officer in its Los Angeles office, effective immediately. Moving forward, Jones will assume creative leadership on...
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Crisis Experts Say WPP May Have Been Too Hasty in Defending JWT's Accused CEO
When JWT's global spokeswoman filed a discrimination case against her own agency this month, parent company WPP quickly issued a statement saying its internal investigation had found no evidence that...
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Lowe's and BBDO Want to 'Make Your Home Happy' With Help From Talking Animals
Talking animals are a reliable comic advertising staple that Lowe's is embracing, with a twist, in its new campaign from BBDO New York, which introduces a new theme, "Make Your Home Happy," and hopes...
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Grown Men Make the Weirdest Sounds of Panic in This Hilarious Ad for Liver Pâté
Men, as a general rule, aren't exactly thrilled to eat green lunches. Denmark's most popular brand of liver pâté, Stryhns, runs with that stereotype in this amusing ad—in which male workers sit down...
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AdBlock Found Some Ads It Actually Liked, and Ran Them, for Amnesty...
AdBlock users were probably pretty surprised on Saturday to see actual ads appear—instead of the blank spaces they're used to—in the banner slots on webpages. That's because AdBlock found an ad...
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Hennessy Tries to Capture the 7 Flavor Notes of Its X.O Cognac in Visuals and...
DDB Paris debuts its first-ever work with Hennessy, "Odyssey XO," a journey through the different notes of Hennessy X.O Cognac, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, who also made the films Drive and Only...
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Ever Heard of Sébastien Artois? Mother London Tells Fun, Secret History of...
It's funny. Yesterday for Hennesy X.O., executive creative director Alexander Kalchev of DDB Paris critiqued the premium spirits sector for its "clichés of success" and "dusty heritage stories." Now,...
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Huggies Revisits the Baby Whose Ultrasound It 3-D Printed for a Blind Mom
Sequels are tough. Ultimately, they're rarely evaluated on their own terms. The mere existence of a sequel, in most cases, means something noteworthy, and oftentimes excellent, came before. So from...
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JWT CEO Gustavo Martinez Resigns Amid Suit Accusing Him of Racist, Sexist...
One week after JWT global communications chief Erin Johnson filed a discrimination suit against agency chairman and CEO Gustavo Martinez, the embattled executive has resigned. The agency's parent...
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Audi Says 'Intelligence Is the New Rock and Roll' in Latest Ads for the A4
Would Iggy Pop drive an Audi? If the seminal proto-punk rocker got one free for lending his 1973 head-banger "Search and Destroy" to the soundtrack of the automaker's new campaign from Venables Bell...
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Ad of the Day: Cookie Monster Bakes, and Frets, and Pleads With Siri, in...
Apple didn't use celebrities in its early iPhone advertising, preferring product demos that showed what the device could actually do. That's all changed in recent years, of course—as Apple learned to...
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Auschwitz Museum Made an App to Get Journalists to Stop Making One Critical...
The very language used to describe historical Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a touchy subject. A few years back, even President Obama landed himself in...
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The Very First Honda Made for the U.S. Market Is Being Restored by the Guy...
Car mechanic/restorer and Honda specialist Tim Mings has a special place in his heart (and possibly his beard) for the N600, which was Honda's introduction to the U.S. car market back in the 1960s....
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How Agencies Are Fighting Back Against Talent Raids by Tech Firms and Marketers
Never in her wildest dreams did Helen Pak think she would leave the advertising industry to do creative work for a technology company. Then, three years ago, while on set filming a big-budget...
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Jordan Spieth Gets Help With His Mac & Cheese in This Quiet Gem of a...
It's been more than 20 years, but ESPN's "This is SportsCenter" is still going strong. In Wieden + Kennedy New York's latest work for the classic campaign, pro golfer Jordan Spieth brings his caddie,...
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Samsung Just Made a Motorcycle Windshield That Checks Your Texts, Calls and...
Every day, it seems, our modes of transportation become more like high-tech companions, geared to enhance our comfort and safety while providing vital real-time information. The latest example comes...
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