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2 Ad Agencies Produce This Holiday Season's Most Anti-Consumerist Toy
Leave it to a couple of ad agencies to upend the holiday season with the year's most radical toy. Independent shops Barton F. Graf 9000 in New York and TDA_Boulder in Boulder, Colo., partnered on a...
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Ad of the Day: Heineken Gets Holiday Revelers to Sing Karaoke for 30,000...
Depending on your views (or ability to carry a tune), karaoke can be a fun way to let loose among friends or a guaranteed path to total embarrassment. This year, in the name of holiday cheer, Heineken...
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Electrifying Video Salutes the Incredible, Otherworldly Genius of Ad People
Marketing professionals, here's your Friday-morning pep talk—a video anthem honoring your astounding, preternatural, game-changing genius. You've made people follow, share, pin, tweet, re-tweet and...
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Kmart Does a Hilariously Dickensian Christmas Version of 'Ship My Pants'
You have to hand it to Kmart and Draftfcb. They've shown this whole year that they know how to whip up a good viral commercial. We had "Ship My Pants" in April and then "Show Your Joe" (aka, "Jingle...
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Mike Hughes of The Martin Agency Dies at 65
Cancer has claimed another one of advertising's good guys. Mike Hughes, the patriarch, president and ultimate creative leader of The Martin Agency, died Sunday of lung cancer, some 15 years after he...
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Brilliant Coke Ad Celebrates the Agony and the Ecstasy of Early Parenthood
In a span of 60 seconds, Coke Argentina tells a true-to-life story of the highs and lows of early parenthood in this new spot by Santo Buenos Aires for Coke Life. We see a couple go through all the...
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Mock Commercial for Beans Is Better Than Almost Any Real Commercial for Anything
Visual effects studio Cinesite produced this crazy-good mock commercial as a way to show off its creature animation skills. And one hell of a creature it is—a marauding beast who takes umbrage at...
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Ad of the Day: Airbnb Builds Birdhouse Versions of 50 of Its Most Intriguing...
It's the allure of Airbnb, but also its biggest stumbling block—its rental listings are not impersonal hotel rooms but actual people's homes. Some travelers embrace this, knowing they'll experience a...
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Model From Famous Photoshop Video Gets More Drastic Makeover for the Holidays
It's agency holiday-card season, and we're going to start posting some of the more interesting and amusing examples—beginning with this one from Victors & Spoils. It's a parody of Tim Piper's...
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Jesus, Gandhi and Mother Teresa Stump for UNICEF in Extremely Virtuous...
Forget about those famous Internet felines in Friskies' Christmas spot. The real holiday supergroup is in this campaign from Forsman & Bodenfors for UNICEF Sweden. I'm talking about Jesus, Gandhi...
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Inside James Earl Jones and Malcolm McDowell's Dramatic Readings for Sprint
IDEA: It might be one of the toughest jobs they've ever had. Sure, James Earl Jones and Malcolm McDowell are legendary actors, known for titanic roles like Darth Vader and Alex DeLarge. But Sprint's...
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Harley-Davidson Revs Up the Holidays With 'Silent Night' Spot
Anyone who has lived next door to a motorcycle owner knows that "Harley-Davidson" and "sleep in heavenly peace" rarely go together. But this special holiday video for the brand creates a clever...
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He's an Angry Elf! Agency Pranks Its Own Employees for Holiday Card
What better way to cap off the year in which agencies were obsessed with prankvertising than with an agency pranking its own staff? Baltimore shop Planit created the amusing video below after luring...
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Q&A: Jerry Seinfeld on His Intentionally Bad, New-Old Acura Ads
Jerry Seinfeld has written eight new Acura commercials in collaboration with Boston ad agency Mullen as part of the brand's title sponsorship of his Web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The...
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GE Makes the Most Hypnotically Pulsating Video Ever About Intermodal Freight...
You may not have known that shipping containers can dance. To promote GE Transportation, agency The Barbarian Group teamed up with Reuben Wu of British electronic band Ladytron to create a song and...
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Agency Writes Original Holiday Album, Pleads With David Bowie to Cover a Song
Speaking of Christmas miracles, The VIA Agency would like to make one of its own happen. The Portland, Maine, agency's house band recorded a six-track album of holiday music, and has launched a...
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Streaming Yule Log on Netflix Has Its Own Hilarious Trailer and Director's...
The original Yule Log television broadcast dates back to 1966, when WPIX-TV aired footage of a cozy fireplace to cheer up New Yorkers who lived in apartments without one. But Netflix really gives it a...
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Moet’s Challenge of Making Champagne More Accessible to the Average American
In just a matter of days, Americans will partake of that always festive, sometimes sloppy tradition of popping open a bottle of champagne. Nobody knows how many of us will have a sip of bubbly this...
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This San Francisco Agency Celebrates Offbeat Projects for an Eclectic Client...
SpecsWho John Matejczyk (l.), ecd, and Matt Hofherr, president, director of strategyWhat Advertising and production companyWhere San Francisco offices Among the latest generation of Bay Area startups...
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Two Guys Make Arduous Journey to Middle of Nowhere to Give Third Guy a Molson...
The world-traveling Molson Beer Fridge became famous for being exclusive—when it visited European cities earlier this year, only people with a Canadian passport could open it. Now, the fridge is back,...
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