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See Everything That's Beautiful About Advertising in Two Simple Print Ads for...
These are a couple of years old, but new to us—some amazing, beautifully simple print ads for a bookstore in Brazil. Delightful idea, gorgeous execution. It's stuff like this that makes people fall in...
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Wait, There's Still Time for One More Christmas Ad You're Going to Love
It's getting down to the wire, but we're still finding little gems of Christmas cheer in holiday ads on YouTube. This one's for Meijer, the superstore chain, and it should bring a smile to even the...
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GroupM Inks 20-Year Lease for 3 World Trade Center
GroupM has signed a 20-year office lease in 3 World Trade Center that will entail 516,000 square feet in the tower, scheduled to open in 2017. The WPP-owned media agency group, which includes...
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Agency's Christmas Present to Friends and Fans: Custom Slogans in Two Hours...
This holiday, McCann Helsinki is seeking to make copywriters and creatives everywhere hate them with the fire of a thousand slightly burnt gingerbread men. They're offering free, tailor-made slogans...
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Mercedes M-Class Survives a Demolition Derby Without a Scratch in Fiery New Spot
Mercedes-Benz USA puts the "demo" in demolition derby for this fun 60-second spot by Merkley + Partners touting the latest high-tech safety features of the automaker's M-Class vehicles. All hell...
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Hire 3 Women to Disrupt White-Male Hegemony
Last month, Business Insider published an article headlined “Why Advertising’s Most Powerful Creative Thinks So Few Women Are Able to Break Through,” quoting Susan Hoffman, ecd of Wieden+Kennedy, as...
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Ad of the Day: Old Spice Sprays Boys Into Men, and Moms Lose Their Minds
Old Spice appears to be gunning directly for Axe with a new line of refresh body sprays, two new spray scents—with the explosively awesome names of Bearglove and Lionpride—and some of its first spots...
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Time Freezes, and Doomed Drivers Talk, in Amazing and Heartbreaking...
This eerie safe-driving PSA from New Zealand employs an Outer Limits-style time freeze to impressive, heartbreaking effect as we watch two drivers, poised to collide in a matter of seconds, emerge...
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Netflix Revels in the Clichés in DDB's Amusing 'Pep Talk' Ad
You guys remember that blog post about that ad that did a familiar thing in a fresh way? When a creative team took a clichéd trope and offered a meta commentary illustrating how hackneyed it was, but...
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Ad of the Day: P&G Has a Winner With Latest Big Tearjerker Spot for Moms
While most of the ad industry is busy buzzing about Super Bowl XLVIII, let's not forget that other massive sporting event (i.e., branding opportunity) on the horizon: the 2014 Winter Olympics. Procter...
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Heinz Ketchup Returns to the Super Bowl After 16 Years With an Ad About Happy...
America's favorite sporting event is about to get reacquainted with America's Favorite Ketchup. Heinz Ketchup will return to the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 with a 30-second commercial from Cramer-Krasselt...
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Life and Taxes: TurboTax Celebrates Your Milestones in Super Bowl-Bound Campaign
Don't think of your tax return as an annual blood sacrifice to our merciless bureaucratic overlords. Think of it more as a delightful recap of your exciting and eventful life! That's the upbeat...
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Nissan Delivers a Versa Note to One Lucky Buyer in an Enormous Amazon Box
When Nissan offered to sell its Versa Note on Amazon last fall, it promised to ship the cars to three lucky buyers in actual Amazon boxes. Well, this weekend it was delivery day! A Reddit user on...
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Sonic Drive-In Gives Your Taste Buds a Workout in Faux Fitness Video
IDEA: T.J. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz have been comically patronizing the same Sonic Drive-In restaurant in the same minivan for more than a decade as spokesmen for the fast-food chain. Now, Jagodowski...
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Ad of the Day: Life Gets Even Worse for Cable Customers in DirecTV's New...
It's been two years since DirecTV and Grey New York launched their "Cable Effects" ad campaign, detailing the strange and terrible fates that can befall cable customers. In that time, the formula has...
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This Agency Helps Builds Brands at Warp Speed
SpecsWho (From left) Brian Pettigrew, president; Lady Liberty; Dimitry Ioffe, founder and CEOWhat Digital marketing agencyWhere Los Angeles office Dimitry Ioffe got a taste for entertainment at a...
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Ad of the Day: The Guardian's New Lifestyle Magazine Is Dangerously Great
It was exactly a year ago that the Guardian and BBH London unveiled the "Own the Weekend" campaign, envisioning a world in which the newspaper literally owned the weekend—or as it would be known...
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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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What Exactly Is Going On at iCrossing?
These are boom times for digital agencies—particularly those that have stayed in stride with the latest hot trend. Where search was the discipline clients craved five years ago—thanks, Google—social...
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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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