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Ad of the Day: Old Spice Walks on the Wild Side in an Outdoorsy New Campaign
Anything can happen when you're out and about in the wilderness. And these new Old Spice ads prove it. The latest kooky campaign from Old Spice, courtesy of Wieden + Kennedy, has everything you never...
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Common Follows Up His Super Bowl Voice Work for Microsoft With This NBA Ad
Common is a busy man these days, winning a Golden Globe (for the song "Glory" from Selma), getting nominated for two Grammys and an Oscar (also for "Glory"), and providing the voiceover for two...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Feb. 1-6
We already picked our five favorite Super Bowl commercials, so for this week's list of best spots, we'll focus on everything that didn't run on the Big Game. Check out our picks below, and vote for...
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Truth's Tinder-Themed Anti-Smoking Music Video Baffles, Delights and Terrifies
Truth is out with a new anti-smoking ad, and it's a long way from stacking body bags outside the offices of tobacco companies."Left Swipe Dat," created by 72andSunny, features a parade of young pop...
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Ad of the Day: Android Celebrates Unlikely Animal Buddies in Maybe the Cutest...
Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria! The latest ad for Google's Android is hysterical, and adorable, as it features various pairings of different animal species playing and frolicking with...
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An Egg McMuffin Rises With the Sun on This Tasty McDonald's Billboard
You probably remember McDonald's famous, Grand Clio-winning sundial billboard, created by Leo Burnett almost a decade ago, which used the sun's shadows to suggest what you should be eating and...
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Merrell Thrills and Frightens People With a Crazy Oculus Rift Mountainside Hike
You know you've designed a good Oculus Rift virtual reality experience when people emerge from it squealing in delight and with their knees trembling. Hiking boot brand Merrell did one such activation...
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U.S. Media Agency of the Year: MediaCom's Team-First Approach Landed a Ton of...
Last August, during final presentations for Anheuser-Busch InBev's $575 million domestic planning and buying assignment, Sasha Savic took his vow to raise the creative bar at MediaCom to a whole new...
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Carl's Jr. Has Some Voluptuous Data on the Charlotte McKinney Ad, Its Biggest...
Its agency is one of the more sophisticated out there. And ads about female empowerment are on the rise. So why does Carl's Jr. remain stubbornly Neanderthal, continuing its now decade-long obsession...
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Snickers Took Over the Back of SI's Swimsuit Issue With a Ssssplendid 'You're...
Snickers and BBDO New York have followed up their brilliant "Brady Bunch" Super Bowl ad with an inspired print piece—taking over the back cover of Sports Illustrated's new Swimsuit Issue with this...
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Here's Why Agencies Are Hiring Top Execs at Such a Blistering Pace
Even in an industry increasingly defined by change, advertising agencies this year are making high-level moves at a blistering pace. In the first six weeks of 2015, some 14 shops have made 19 new...
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SI's Swimsuit Models Look a Bit Less Lovely If They Have Cable Instead of...
To date, Rob Lowe has been the only celebrity to suffer physical indignities in Grey's DirecTV campaign making fun of cable customers. But now he can add three famous supermodels to the mix—Hannah...
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Ad of the Day: Goth Guy Pines for Popular Girl in Sweet Spot From Interflora
Advertising is officially into goths. Danish flower-delivery service Interflora is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with the ad below from Brandhouse. (This is the same agency-client pairing, and...
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ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad Reveals the True Identity of Katy Perry's Sharks
Right Shark and Left Shark had great time at the Super Bowl in Arizona. (Well, one of them had a better time than the other.) But now it's back to the grind. And that means returning to the ESPN...
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This New Agency Uses Old-Fashioned Spectacle With a Futuristic Twist
SpecsWho (From left) Jessica Reznick, managing director; Glenn Marck, partner, design; Brian Schultz, partner, production; Rick Rathe, partner, operations; Gary Johnson, director of strategyWhat...
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Infographic: The Crazy Personalities of 5 Archetypal Agency People
Here's an oldie, but new to us: The Anatomy of an Agency infographic from Grip Limited, offering pretty spot-on portraits of agency people (art director, copywriter, account person, developer, finance...
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Red Velvet Oreos Are a Delightfully Awkward Aphrodisiac in Quirky Valentine...
If regular Oreos don't already put you in the mood for love, maybe try the cookie's new Red Velvet flavor. The limited-edition Valentine's Day product stars in a new animated campaign from 360i, and...
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Ad of the Day: Sex Is Everywhere You Look in Lusty British Travel Spot
Adam&eveDDB goes the unsubtle stock-footage route in this Valentine's Day ad for travel site LastMinute.com, cramming scads of naughty visual metaphors into one fast-moving montage dubbed "Sexy...
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Ikea Uses Poorly Assembled Billboards to Admit Its Furniture Is Hard to Put...
Everyone else makes fun of how painful it is to assemble Ikea furniture, so why can't Ikea? And the company does in these fun billboards, from German agency thjnk, that are themselves poorly...
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Ad of the Day: MetLife's Doting Dad Is Also a Liar in This Ad With a...
The tearjerking Asian insurance commercial has become something of a cliché after so many years of emotional Thai Life spots. But MetLife Hong Kong breathes new life into the form with this spot—a...
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