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Ad of the Day: Coca-Cola Puts Names to Familiar Faces in Latest Charming Stunt
Who's someone you see every day, and often thank, but don't know by name? Coca-Cola thinks you should make up for being maybe a little rude to that person by buying him or her one of the brand's...
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Watch GoDaddy's New Ads, and Tell Us What on Earth You Think You Just Saw
GoDaddy has tried various things to break out of its reputation for sleaze. First, it kept the attractive women but added some geeky guys. Then it had an attractive woman make out with a geeky guy....
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Ad of the Day: Pampers Gives Moms a Sweet Surprise on Their Baby's First...
Sit back and take four minutes to watch this lovely ad by Pampers Japan. Titled "Mom's First Birthday," it celebrates a big milestone in a new mom's life—her baby's one-year checkup. The brand...
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Why This BBDO Creative Director Is Lying on the Ground and Licking a Screen...
You can be proud of your ads. But reenacting them in real life? That can get awkward. Carlos Moreno, though, takes one for the team in the video below—a promo for the Bessies, which is a big ad awards...
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How Jack Daniel's Searched All Over the Country for the Best Bar Stories
IDEA: People in bars like to talk, especially when whiskey, preferably in copious amounts, has been consumed. Often, the stories are even about whiskey, insofar as it precipitated some memorable...
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Costumed Man Sexes Up a Giant Ear in Very Strange Ads for Headphones
After an inexplicable quite period, we have a resurgence of giant ears in advertising, thanks to this incredibly silly McKinney campaign for Sennheiser's Urbanite headphones. A scraggly-bearded guy...
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Martin Sorrell Says China's Move to Stop Graft Creates Opportunities for WPP
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell told CNBC that China's anti-graft campaign is benefiting WPP. "[In terms of] public relations and public affairs, every time there's a crisis, to be honest, there's an...
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Awesome Beer Cans Show the Pantone Color of the Brew That's Inside
If you always suspected that a pale ale would rate a shimmering, golden 604C on the Pantone color system, have a pint on me. Spanish agency Txaber matches brew types with their Pantone hues in this...
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How to Win a Clio Award
I was recently asked to be jury member of the Clio Awards. The Clios? An advertising award that my mother has actually heard of! But wait, it gets better. The judging was going to take place in...
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Old Spice's Man-Robot Sits Down with Drew Brees, and It's Awkwardly Amusing
If watching Drew Brees talk to a hyper-awkward robot for six minutes is your kind of thing, then Old Spice has an ad for you. The New Orleans Saints quarterback keeps his cool during "4th and...
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Ad of the Day: Gatorade's Epic Farewell to Derek Jeter Will Be Tough to Beat
Gatorade hits it out of the park with this epic 90-second salute to New York Yankees superstar Derek Jeter, breaking today. If the retiring Jeter is looking for a new career, he can get a job on...
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Travel Ad Features Singing Fart Bubbles, and That Might Be Its Least Crazy Part
OK, you world-wise travel people. Ever been to Wotifia? Never heard of it? It's right next to Freedonia, that fake country invented by the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup. Wotifia is actually the...
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Guinness Takes You Inside Its Storied Dublin Brewery in Almost Mystical New Ad
By celebrating its Irish roots, Guinness subtly sails into the mystic with "In Pursuit of More," a campaign that bows with this 90-second spot from Philadelphia agency Quaker City Mercantile. St....
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Cheerios Tugs at the Heartstrings Again With a Dad Working the Third Shift
Oh man, grumpy dad who's working weird hours in this new Cheerios ad from Saatchi & Saatchi. Don't get mad at your kid. Take a lesson from Peanut Butter Cheerios dad, and be cool. Hang out for a...
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Ad of the Day: Mary Todd Joins MiniAbe in Officer and a Gentleman Spoof for...
MiniAbe Lincoln has been screaming and whoa-ing his way around Illinois for over a year in ads for the state's tourism office. But he settles down in the latest spot from JWT Chicago—thanks to the...
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This Agency Gets 90% of Its Business Through Referrals
SpecsWho (from left) Izzy the dog, employee relations; Michael Dub, partner; Sandy Rubinstein, CEO; Benjamin Hordell, partnerWhat AgencyWhere Edgewater, N.J. Indie shop DXagency happily reports that 90...
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MLB Rolls Out Its Derek Jeter Tribute Ad, and It's Amazing in Its Own Way
This ad from Major League Baseball honoring Derek Jeter is perhaps the simplest, least epic tribute we've seen to the Yankees captain, who, barring an unlikely postseason appearance by the team, will...
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Gravity Award Winner: Nivea Sun Solar Ad Charger
Acouple of years ago, Max Geraldo and his team at FCB Brazil in São Paulo needed a fresh way to make Nivea Sun’s line of lotions and moisturizers shine. They wanted to create a fun and unexpected...
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Who Will Succeed Maurice Lévy at Publicis Groupe?
Publicis Groupe’s reorganization last week included the promotion of non-Parisian executives to help “lead the way for a new generation at the helm.” Most important of those roles, of course, is a...
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Ad of the Day: Budweiser Makes the Cutest 'Don't Drink and Drive' PSA Yet
Outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko. In the 1920s, the dog would greet his owner at the station at the end of every day. One day, the owner died suddenly and...
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