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Here's the Real Story Behind This Simply Perfect Anti-Donald Trump Billboard
Today we were scrolling around our socnets when we saw something odd: Titled "Prize-winning piece of advertising from The Economist," the article weaving its way through our feed reflected a billboard...
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A Cereal Brand Took Real YouTube Fails and Made Ads Imagining What Led Up to...
British cereal brand Alpen sends up sunny start-your-day-right clichés in two fun 30-second ads by BBH London—because a good breakfast cereal can't guarantee you'll have a good day ... but at least...
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Q&A: Grey Global President Michael Houston on the Agency's 'Brand Experience...
Since 2015, when Grey was named Adweek's Global Agency of the Year, the WPP organization has been in expansion mode. North American CEO Michael Houston took on the role of global president in...
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This Darkly Clever Billboard for a Funeral Home Leaves Toronto Motorists Aghast
This billboard, which went up this week next to the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, is provocative in the extreme—blatantly urging drivers to text and drive as a way of drumming up business for the...
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Social Media Stars and Seniors Teach Each Other a Little Something in Fun...
Millennials will be young forever, so they don't have to think about stuff like retirement or pension plans. Just in case that logic proves wrong, the government of Ontario, Canada, teamed up with ad...
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Ad of the Day: Smart Car Gives Lie Detector Tests to Drivers in Front of...
The Smart Fortwo Cabriolet is the only convertible in its class that has a roof that truly opens completely. And so, its drivers should be "open," too—at least according to this fun, awkward brand...
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Ad of the Day: Grey Goose Boards a Dirigible in One of the Year's Most...
Movie night with friends reaches epic heights in Grey Goose's latest chapter of the "Fly Beyond" campaign from BBDO. In a bit of an odd premise, the vodka brand's "La Pursuit" spot features a pack of...
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This Sushi Place's Instagram Ads Redefine #FoodPorn With Hilarious Bits of...
People throw around the term "food porn" a lot on Instagram, but a chain of sushi restaurants in Colorado is posting real food porn shots—sushi dishes delivering clichéd lines right out of porn...
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An Oklahoma Carpet Store Channels Classic Seinfeld on This #TBT Billboard
Is he sponge worthy? Bart Brewer, the COO and pitchman for Oklahoma City's Floor Trader stores, riffs on Seinfeld's "timeless art of seduction" bit in a throwback Thursday billboard from Insight...
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Johnny Depp Delights Disneyland Goers as the Mad Hatter on This Magical Live...
Livestreaming is all the rage for brands, and Disney has unleashed one of the best live stunts yet, getting Johnny Depp to interact with fans as the Mad Hatter on a livestreamed billboard at...
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PETA Opened a High-End Leather Store, but Inside the Goods Was Something...
Today in Horrible Things that Defy Imagining, Ogilvy & Mather Bangkok teamed up with PETA to give leather shoppers the fright of their lives. In "Behind the Leather," we're introduced to a pop-up...
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How Samsung Saved the Day (Well, Night) for This Little Girl Who's Afraid of...
From smart motorcycle windshields to surfboards that keep you connected, Samsung's gotten damn good at applying abstract technical features to the real world."Sister," though, is lower-key and closer...
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Ad of the Day: Captain Obvious Stars in the Ultimate Skippable Ad for Hotels.com
Hotels.com's amusing jackass of an ad character, Captain Obvious, is leaping across the pond, as the brand is introducing him to the U.K. market for the first time. And to mark the occasion, he's come...
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Tom Brady Pays for the Ultimate Luxury in This Ad for Simmons' Beautyrest...
When New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady needs a break from bickering with the NFL, he goes to the gaudiest hotel on planet Earth to sleep on a specialty mattress that will never deflate. At...
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Burt's Bees Tells Two Young Women's Remarkable Stories of Unique Beauty
Burt's Bees keeps it real—very real—in a pair of web videos by ad shop Baldwin&. The campaign, "Love Your Nature," touts a new line of all-natural by moisturizing lipsticks, focusing on two...
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Venables Bell Wins Best of Show at The One Show for REI's #OptOutside Campaign
Venables Bell & Partners took home the coveted Best of Show award at The One Show in New York on Friday night for REI's #OptOutside, a cross-platform campaign in which the outdoor retailer closed...
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JetBlue's Times Square Billboard Calculates Your Exact Travel Time to a Dream...
To push its JetBlue Card—and hopefully drive some impulse trip planning—JetBlue created a digital billboard that tells people standing in Times Square how quickly they can get to nicer climes, right...
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Ad of the Day: Butter and Cheese Are a Force for Good in Heart-Melting Land...
American cheese isn't just about getting your own. It's about helping someone else get theirs, too. That, at least, is the upshot of a sentimental new ad from iconic dairy company Land O'Lakes,...
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Orbit Gum Gets Surprisingly Earnest in Aspirational 'Time to Shine' Ads by BBDO
Here's a gum for people who feel they've bitten off more than they can chew. Wrigley's Orbit is rolling out a new campaign tagged "Time to Shine," a shift from the brand's familiar "Just brushed clean...
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Agencies on Canal Street Are Waging a Post-it-Note War, and It's Awesome
It started out, reportedly, with a single word: "HI." That was early last week. By the weekend, a full-blown Post-it note art war had erupted on Canal Street in New York City, with a number of...
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