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This Agency Rewards Its Employees in the Most Amusingly Sadistic Way Possible
Canadian agencies sure are good at doing videos excoriating the ad business. Just in the past week we've seen:• John St.'s hilarious takedown of real-time marketing with Reactvertising• Zulu Alpha...
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This Crazy Beer Ad Was Filmed Entirely Underwater. Here's How They Did It
IDEA: Shooting a commercial is hard enough. But shooting one entirely underwater? Are you crazy? Brazilian agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi decided it was doable, and would be a great way to...
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Remarkable Ads Protest the Absurdity of the Open-Carry Gun Policy at Kroger
Agencies have taken manyapproaches to creating memorable gun-control ads. Grey Toronto's latest work for Moms Demand Action, opposing an open-carry gun policy in Kroger supermarkets, is...
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Ad of the Day: John Lewis May Have Already Won Christmas With Its Adorable...
There's enormous pressure on John Lewis and adam&eveDDB to deliver an incredible Christmas ad every year—Christmas, after all, being Britain's version of the Super Bowl when it comes to...
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Why Every Marketing Person in Canada Is Cursing the Name of This One Agency...
Today in amusing Canadian agency videos, we have this one from Cossette—in which marketing people all over the country ask the same bewildered question: "What the fuck is going on at Cossette?" It's a...
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Viewers Are the Calm Inside the Storm in Vizio's Great New Ads
IDEA: It's hard for TV manufacturers to advertise picture quality in commercials. Viewers, after all, will be watching the ad on their own TV sets, not yours. Many marketers settle for telling you how...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Nov. 1-7
John Wall and Romeo Beckham. A hilarous ad agency video. One of the most delightful airline spots we've seen in a while. And a brilliant beginning to the Christmas ad season in the U.K. Check out our...
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Won't You Get in Alan Thicke's Bed for a Good Cause?
Perfectly coiffed former Growing Pains patriarch Alan Thicke rolling around on a luxurious kingÂ-size bed: dream or nightmare? It's for a good cause, so be a sport and play along. Thicke certainly...
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U.K. Pharmacy Boots Celebrates Family in Its Quietly Lovely Christmas Ad
John Lewis may have won Christmas with its penguin ad, but Mother London's holiday spot for British pharmacy chain Boots is an impressive stocking stuffer in its own right. Director Noam Murro's...
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Inside Blake Griffin and Chris Paul's Hilariously Odd Comedy Sketches for...
Are you up for some BGCP3TV in HD? Los Angeles Clippers stars Blake Griffin and Chris Paul have each shown, separately, that they can anchor comedy. In State Farm's Chris and Cliff campaign, Paul...
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How a Fledgling Florida Agency Defied Recessionary Headwinds
SpecsWho Peter Gary, founder, CEO What Full-service ad agencyWhere Boca Raton, Fla.Pinnacle has bucked the headwinds of Florida's recent economic downturn, with the 3-year-old Boca Raton agency...
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Here's How the New Breed of Agency Leaders Will Stay on Top
We are living in what I call the Agility Era--a time when multitudes of people are discussing the importance of being lean and agile. And yes, this makes sense, but for any number of reasons, the...
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U.K. Drunk-Driving Ad Makes Cruelly Ironic Use of Kool & the Gang's...
The 50th anniversary of England's first drunk-driving PSA inspires a sobering celebration in this Department for Transport campaign. Kool & the Gang's 1980 hit "Celebration" anchors the new spot...
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How This Agency Cleverly Stopped People From Googling Their Medical Symptoms
If you're like me, you type your symptoms into Google every time you get the sniffles or feel the slightest bit under the weather. Well, that plan is ill-advised. It can yield reams of misinformation...
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This Bank Bought Every Ad Slot on Norway's Biggest TV Station for 24 Hours
How do you market round-the-clock customer service? If you're Norwegian bank DNB, you buy all of the ad space on one channel in a 24-hour window, and fill it with advice from your country's citizens....
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This Agency Pulled Off the Vending Machine Stunt to End All Vending Machine...
Tricked-out vending machines have become the vehicle of choice for brands to push all sorts of zany promotions or social media stunts. We're almost to the point where if you see one outside of its...
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Why Traditional Media Isn't Dying, and 4 Other Myths of the Digital Era...
"We are no longer creative people. We are inventors!" The cyber jury president at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity proclaimed this four years ago, but today I argue it couldn't be...
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DDB Employees Read Mean Tweets About Their Ads
DDB Canada takes a page from Jimmy Kimmel's playbook in this amusing video, in which employees read mean tweets about their work. The staffers seem both entertained and mildly horrified as they rattle...
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Ad of the Day: Winged Fairies Spread Magic and Joy in Marks & Spencer's...
John Lewis went the heartwarming, emotional route for Christmas, while Boots and Waitrose took more down-to-earth approaches. Now, Marks & Spencer eschews its celebrity focus of the recent past to...
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Landor Finds a North American Leader at TBWA
Landor Associates has hired Stuart Sproule as president of North America, a new position, and managing director of its New York office. Sproule will start Monday and will report to CEO Lois Jacobs....
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