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Leo Burnett, Droga5 Take Top D&AD Awards for 'Like a Girl' and 'This Is...
Leo Burnett and Droga5 were among the top North American winners at Thursday's 2015 D&AD Awards ceremony in London—with Burnett winning both a Black Pencil and a White Pencil for its Always "Like...
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Clinic Puts Boring Preroll on Popular Videos Because It Doesn't Want Anything...
Advertisers have been doing clever stuff with preroll ads for a while. We had Geico's unstoppable prerolls. And now, we have a health clinic that made incredibly boring preroll ads—in an effort to...
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How This Interactive Subway Ad Got Everybody Yawning, and Wanting Coffee
This interactive outdoor campaign by Lew'Lara\TBWA is a real yawner—which is exactly what the Brazilian agency intended. The shop set up a digital panel equipped with a motion sensor at São Paulo's...
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Ad of the Day: Everything's Upside Down and Backwards in GE's Delightful New...
GE claims to look at the world askew, turning it on its head in search of new perspectives that hopefully lead to new solutions. So, its latest commercial from BBDO, titled "Time Upon a Once," does...
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Ads About Veteran Suicide Show Heartbreaking Photos of the Homes Where They Died
With Memorial Day on Monday, here's a look at a sad and remarkable ad campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Mission 22, an initiative the agency started to raise awareness of veteran suicide....
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Ad of the Day: No Campfire? No Problem. This Odd Creature Points You to Oreo...
Looking for the delightful taste of s'mores without the dirty and dangerous hassle of making a campfire? Oreo has you covered, with help from a curious furry forest friend. The Mondelez brand just...
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This Employee Won the Prize of a Lifetime at Her Agency Retreat Last Week
If you win a contest at your agency's retreat, you're usually pretty chuffed to get that $50 Amazon gift card. So, you can imagine how Perry Morris felt when she walked away as music-trivia champion...
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Tired of Sharing? Taco Bell Has an Anti-Social Nacho Just for You
Are you a greedy person who doesn't like to share your nachos with your friends? If so, Taco Bell wants you to buy its giant nacho for one. In a new ad from Deutsch LA, a young man with exactly the...
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Brazilians Learn English by Taking Real L.A. Pizza Orders in Sequel to Famous...
FCB Brazil had a big hit last May with its "Speaking Exchange" idea for CNA Language Schools—a campaign that connected young Brazilians wanting to learn English with elderly Americans in retirement...
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This Browser Extension Replaces Boring Old Preroll With the World's Best Ads
Looking for a browser extension that approaches ad blocking a bit more creatively? D&AD and Paris agency BETC have just the thing. The British ad organization, which just handed out its 2015...
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Ad of the Day: Scrabble Tells a Delightful Love Story Entirely in Anagrams
When it comes to telling a brand story through anagrams, Lola Madrid's new Scrabble spot tops them all. Luckily, the wordplay in this charming 80-second film is more clever and compelling than my...
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Nikon Strapped a Camera to This Dog's Heart and Took Photos When He Got Excited
Times are tough for camera companies. Humans are abandoning digital point-and-shoots in droves, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets. And this has apparently forced Nikon to extreme...
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This Household Cleaning Brand Has the World's Most Immaculate Twitter Feed
If you're a cleaning brand, you'd better have your house in order—which means making your social media feeds as spotless as possible. French brand Spontex has done just that on Twitter, with a whole...
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Vine's Amanda Cerny Does a Historically Accurate Striptease for Breathless...
Riding the viral success of numerous other evolution videos, a genre that started with "The Evolution of Dance," Breathless Resorts has scored a hit with "The Evolution of the Bikini"—an obvious crowd...
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Ad of the Day: Aaron Paul Guns It in Mazda's Time-Traveling New Spot
Zoom zoom, bitches! Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul contributes an awesome voiceover to "A Driver's Life," the first spot in Mazda North America's new "Driving Matters" campaign. Created by WPP's The...
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Kyra & Constantin's Hilarious Round Animals Roll Their Way Into British Bread...
The young Swiss-German directing duo of Kyra Buschor and Constantin Paeplow is famous for the hilarious "Rollin' Wild" videos—showing how tough life would be for animals if they were completely round....
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If You Like Cute Pigs and Happy Endings, Vodafone Has an Ad for You
Vodafone New Zealand is out with a heartwarming ad that tells the story of a mailman who finds and befriends a lost pig, then goes on a mission to reunite it with its owner. It's a path fraught with...
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3M Makes Retargeted Banner Ads Less Annoying by Turning Them Into Post-it Notes
Retargeted banner ads are the sledgehammer of the Web, bashing you again and again with the same random product you looked at once, whether you like it or not. But 3M figured it could use the...
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Carl's Jr. Makes the Most Absurdly American Ad for Its Hot-Dog-and-Chips...
Putting a hot dog and potato chips on your cheeseburger is the ultimate expression of American-ness, according to Carl's Jr. So, this 72andSunny ad for that monstrosity—an official menu item called...
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How to Make Your TV Commercials Look Epic, Even on Zero Budget
How can marketers with modest budgets—local home renovators and heating-system installers, for example—create "epic" advertising without going broke? Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO suggests tapping into...
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