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How BBDO and Doug Liman Got Inside One of the World's Biggest Waves for Visa
IDEA: It might not be the smartest idea to order pizza via smartphone while surfing an enormous wave off Tahiti. But it's good to know you could. In advertising's latest crazy product demo, pro surfer...
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Ad of the Day: Diet Coke Can Even Make Air Travel Pleasant (in Your Dreams)
Why do people drink Diet Coke? Is it the caffeine? The lack of calories? The sheer convenience? Or do they actually enjoy the taste? Coca-Cola is banking on the latter on with its new "Get a Taste"...
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Rob Lowe Is Ugly, Creepy and Hilarious as a Cable Customer in DirecTV Ads
DirecTV has gotten lots of actors to poke some fun at themselves over the years—notably Charlie Sheen in the Platoon spot. Now, it's Rob Lowe's turn to look hilariously foolish. A pair of new ads from...
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Tim Hortons Surprised This Calgary Street by Taking Over a Residential Home...
Usually when you wake up and something weird has happened at a neighbor's house, you call the police and get the kids in the basement. But not Tuesday morning on a street in Calgary. People there got...
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Ad of the Day: Starbucks Cleverly Advocates for Meeting Up Instead of Texting
Starbucks wants to help you with your communication problems. Just spend more time sitting in one of its shops talking to a real live person instead of text messaging. In a series of new ads from...
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This Agency's Office Literally Disappears After Hours So You Can't Work Late
Employees at Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen won't be putting in much overtime. Not in the office, at any rate. That's because every day at 6 p.m., their desks, tables and other work surfaces,...
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Zipcar's New Ads Want You to 'Tap That' Wherever You Go
A quick and easy way to reserve a car? You'd tap that. The characters in Zipcar's new, innuendo-filled ad campaign certainly do a lot of tapping. In fact, they tap anything that moves—as long as it's...
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Zumba Fanatics Jerk and Twerk at Work in Brand's First TV Spot
Sometimes you just gotta werk it out, even though you're at work. So says Zumba's first TV spot ever, created by 180LA, showing Zumba enthusiasts jerking and twerking almost against their will as the...
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Ad of the Day: Shatner Croons 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in Spellbinding British...
When William Shatner released his first album, The Transformed Man, in 1968, he practically invented the genre of overly dramatic lyrical recitations to music. Of course, it wasn't well received, and...
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Is This the Coolest Agency Office in N.Y.?
With creative agencies continuously dishing out new, crazy ideas, it's hard not to wonder: "What do their offices look like?" After all, we've recently seen an Amsterdam design studio that amazingly...
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Geometry Names a Global Creative Chief
Geometry has named a global creative chief, a year after WPP Group combined G2, OgilvyAction and JWTAction to create the global retail marketing shop. Jon Hamm, a top executive at Momentum, has...
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Arnold Starts Hispanic Marketing Practice
Arnold is adding Hispanic marketing capabilities with the hiring of three executives from Bravo, the Hispanic marketing unit of WPP Group's Young & Rubicam Brands. Leading the new cross-cultural...
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This Agency Is Trying to Raise Millennials' Blood Pressure
SpecsWho Principals Shannon Slusher (l.), CEO, and Darryl Cilli, CCOWhat Agency focused on sports, lifestyle and higher-education projectsWhere Philadelphia When 160over90’s founders opened their shop...
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Dole Printed Some Very Special Bananas for 200 Runners of the Tokyo Marathon
Kudos to Dole and Denstu Y&R for making what might be the coolest bananas in the world. At this year's Tokyo Marathon, 200 runners received personalized Dole bananas with information like finish...
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Marriott Launches Global Creative and Content Marketing Studio
Following the trend of marketers becoming publishers, Marriott International is launching a global creative and content marketing studio to handle internal work for its portfolio of 18 travel-related...
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Ad of the Day: Starbucks Tells Your Story, Not Its Own, in First Global Brand...
Need a place where you can audition someone for your band? Where you can haul your giant computer equipment for a geeky meeting? Where you can fuel up with your fellow bikers? Where you can celebrate...
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AOL, Publicis Group Expand Partnership Into Programmatic Video
AOL and Publicis Groupe said on Monday that they are expanding their six-year partnership into programmatic video and linear TV. The move will give VivaKi and all agencies under the Publicis umbrella...
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Volvo Really Takes the Plunge in Powerful Ad That Leaves the Car on Shore
In its first global campaign for Volvo, Grey London strives for a "quietly epic" tone to position the Swedish nameplate more firmly in the premium auto space. Director Marcus Söderlund, working...
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Logos Are Ingeniously Redesigned for Breast...
Ask anyone you know how they feel about boobs, and I'm pretty sure it will be positive. Indeed, you'd have a hard time finding anyone hesitant to sing their praises. Below is a fun series of ads from...
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Jeff Goldblum Is Out of His Mind in Tim & Eric's Loony Ad for GE Lighting
GE has been doing a lot of poignant ads through BBDO New York lately—the dreamy fantasy world of "Childlike Imagination" (an Emmy nominee this year); the haunting dystopia of "Ideas Are Scary"; the...
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