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Ad of the Day: Virgin America's 6-Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian and...
People have a hard time sitting through five seconds of pre-roll on YouTube. How will they react to almost six hours of it—much of which is intentionally, preposterously, stultifyingly boring? Virgin...
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Brand of the Day: If You Like Bush on Pandora, You Could Get a Free...
For a few lucky listeners, using Pandora can get you a personal concert with one of your favorite artists. The Internet streaming music service today breaks the new ad below from twofifteenmccann. It...
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KitKat's Half-Finished Billboard Cleverly Pays Off Its Iconic Tagline
It was 1958 when J. Walter Thompson's Donald Gilles came up with the line, "Have a break. Have a KitKat." Fifty-six years later, JWT London has found a fun new way to illustrate the line—with a...
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Fiat Accidentally Took Viagra and Grew a Bigger Car, Says New Ad That's Total...
There are ads where you can't quite believe the premise, and this is one of them. How did the Fiat 500X SUV come to be? Well, it seems a little Fiat accidentally swallowed a little blue pill—and...
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Sprite's 'Bill the Billboard' Keeps Drivers Entertained by Cracking Endless...
If it's more comedy you want from your billboard, Sprite is happy to oblige. Ogilvy Kenya recently put up "Bill the Billboard" at a busy intersection in Nairobi, and programmed him to endlessly crack...
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These Ads for Glass Bottles Are About as Hilarious as Ads for Glass Bottles...
A world without glass would be pretty soulless. That's the main takeaway from these new TV ads that Doremus and sister shop DDB produced for O-I, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging...
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Ad of the Day: Every Time Taylor Swift Takes a Sip of Diet Coke, Kittens...
Just when you thought Taylor Swift couldn't get any more respect from millennials, here she is proving again that she lives in a reality only believable in a Disney movie. Swifties around the world...
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Squarespace's Radical Update Is Like a Blank Canvas. So Its New Ads Are, Too
IDEA: Even for a company known for great design, Squarespace 7 was a revelation. The elegant upgrade to the website maker's interface, called a "UX dream" by Wired, completely does away with the...
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Adweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 10-17
A lavish celebrity fragrance spot. A six-hour preroll ad. A great pop-up store stunt. An ad remake with some crazy stunt driving. And a hilarious spot about the most nondescript product imaginable....
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Ad of the Day: DirecTV Enlists Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe, Its Most Pitiful...
Rob Lowe keeps sinking in DirecTV's campaign. Having already been introduced to Creepy Rob Lowe and Less Attractive Rob Lowe, now we get to meet Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe. Like his fellow lesser Rob...
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Ad of the Day: Beats by Dre Thrillingly Welcomes LeBron James Home to Ohio
If you're LeBron James, hell yes you can go home again. The playbook calls for high drama as the King returns to the Cleveland Cavaliers after four years and a pair of championships in Miami. And this...
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Infographic: How to Tell Client Tricks From Treats This Halloween
Every day is a bit spooky when you're dealing with clients. But this Halloween, ad agency Mistress has made a little chart you might find useful—how to tell whether your client's double-speak is a...
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Ad of the Day: KFC Turns to Two Boys for a Lovely Take on Sports Fandom
In recent years, BBH London has focused on family relationships and offbeat stories in its KFC ads, with the product almost as a side dish and strong storytelling as the main course. That trend...
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This Agency Is Giving $1,500 to Each Employee to Go on an Exotic Vacation....
In our latest installment of places where you wish you worked, a California creative agency named thinkParallax recently gave each one of its employees $1,500 and an extra paid day off to travel...
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Fred Savage, Hired to Do Honda Voiceovers, Wants to Practice by Narrating...
Fred Savage will soon be the new voice of Honda. But he's not exactly a voiceover specialist (that's Daniel Stern you're thinking of, Wonder Years fans). So, Honda agency RPA came up with a fun way to...
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Snickers Gives You an Early Halloween Treat With This Truly Twisted Ad
Halloween is like Christmas for candy brands, and Snickers usually swoops in, batlike, with some fun and spooky advertising (most notably, perhaps, BBDO's truly odd "Grocery Store Lady" spot from...
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Ikea's Parody of The Shining Is Devilishly Good
Heeeeeere's … Ikea's parody of The Shining! BBH Singapore reimagines the creepy hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic in this spot-on 90-second Halloween ad. Instead of a haunted...
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Craigslist Is the Setting for This Interactive Music Video About Humanity, or...
Craigslist might be best for making a couple bucks off that one-wheeled leopard-print bicycle your ex left behind, and it's just that kind of random human curio that makes the classified site the...
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Barton F. Graf Has a Clever Idea for Getting More Men to Become Mentors
Esquire recently asked three ad agencies to help with its male mentoring initiative. Today, Barton F. Graf 9000 unveiled its campaign: a political initiative to establish mentorship of children as a...
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Eric Mower + Associates Gets a Presence in New York
Eric Mower + Associates is coming to the Big Apple. The Syracuse, N.Y.-based agency is merging with public relations specialist Middleton & Gendron in New York, giving Eric Mower a presence in...
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