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Harrowing Ad About Kids in War Puts a Girl at the Center of a First-Person...
Anyone who's ever played a war-themed video game like Call of Duty has effectively imagined what it might be like to be a soldier. But it's far less common for people to imagine themselves as children...
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TD Bank Gets Absurdly Cinematic to Show Off Its Drama-Free Banking
You expect big-budget, slam-bang drama from Hollywood action movies. But doing simple banking chores like depositing checks shouldn't make you feel like you're trapped in an out-of-control Michael Bay...
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Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Closes Its New York Office
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has closed its New York office after just over two and a half years in operation, agency founder Jeff Goodby told Adweek today. Earlier this year, Goodby sent out a...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Re-creates Terminator 2's Bar Fight Scene for Video...
"I need your clothes. Your boots. And your motorcycle." Arnold Schwarzenegger really needs some new material. A quarter century after walking naked into a seedy bar and uttering that famous line in...
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These Might Be the First Condom Ads That Try to Make You Less Excited
Most condom ads are all about sensual pleasure, but what if the product is just too good at delivering that? That's the theme of three 15-second spots for Okamoto condoms from Cleveland agency Marcus...
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Google Paints Stunning Portraits of Disability Rights Heroes on Washington,...
In 1990, a group of disabled people pulled themselves up the steps at the U.S. Capitol building to advocate for the Americans With Disabilites Act, protesting delays in an event that became known as...
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Actor Enacts a Whale Killing, With Himself as the Whale, in Shocking PSA
The killing of majestic animals is big news this week. And now, the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd has unveiled a brutal PSA protesting the slaughter of whales by demonstrating how they die at...
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Ad of the Day: Droga5's Clever Energy Ad Lets People Choose Their Fuel Source
If you had the option to use sunshine, wind or fossil fuels to charge your cellphone, which would you choose? Droga5's first work for its newest client, energy company NRG, shows air travelers getting...
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Why These 3 Agency Guys Are Walking 125 Miles to a Company's Office for a Pitch
It's good to walk a mile in your client's shoes. But is it even better to walk 125 miles?Le Balene will soon find out. The Italian agency is wooing an unnamed mobile accessories client with a unique...
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As the Tech Industry Grows and Diversifies, Digital Agency Dress Codes Now...
When Andrea Bredau, managing director of talent at Huge, brings in job candidates, she tells them not to wear suits. Take note, newly minted college grads winding down your summer vacations and...
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Old Spice Creates a Loony Sci-Fi 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Game on Instagram
Wieden + Kennedy has hacked the tagging function on Instagram to create an amusingly absurd "Choose your own adventure" social game for Old Spice, filled with robots, retro monsters and meta jokes....
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Ad of the Day: Check Out Geico's First Spots in a While Not Made by The...
Geico is out with its first commercials that aren't from The Martin Agency in a good long while, but they do continue the brand's tradition of absurd, offbeat humor. Four 15-second spots, created by...
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Converse Blows Up Chuck II to Show Off the New Sneaker's Snazzy Insides
Converse's Chuck Taylor II All-Stars debut with a bang, literally, in the Nike brand's "Ready for More" campaign touting its highly anticipated line extension. Ad agency Anomaly and visual-effects...
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Ogilvy & Mather Inks a Data Deal to Help It 'Create More Tailored Messaging'
Ogilvy & Mather North America has forged a partnership with analytics company Hundredx that will give the ad agency new real-time data for campaigns, mobile apps and websites. New York-based...
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Ad of the Day: Rob Gronkowski Ushers in New NFL Season With a Nod to Youth...
Grey New York juxtaposes the pre-game rituals of New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski with those of a Hispanic neighborhood schoolboy in this understated 60-second launch spot for the NFL's...
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New Cheil Worldwide North America CEO Will Get 'Aggressive' on New Business
Cheil Worldwide, the Korea-based marketing company owned by Samsung Group, today named Brad Brinegar of McKinney as its first North American CEO in more than 18 months. Brinegar is an industry veteran...
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VW Designed a Baby Stroller With Automatic Braking After Joking About It in...
Volkswagen Netherlands aired a TV spot in April in which VW owners had great expectations for their other possessions—including one mother who couldn't understand why baby strollers don't have...
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Everyone Is an Emoji in This Bizarre and Terrifying French McDonald's Ad
What are we all but a bunch of emoji with arms and legs and a hankering for McDonald's? An insane new French ad for fast-food chain shows a city full of people going about their daily lives—driving...
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Any Idea What These Remarkably Subtle Mercedes-Benz Ads Are Trying to Say?
Subtlety is a valuable thing in advertising, as consumers will always feel better about a brand that lets them connect the dots instead of hammering them over the head. But there is such a thing as...
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Ad of the Day: Sea Monster Terrorizes Golf Course in Geico's New 'It's What...
If you're Geico, you whip up another comically goofy commercial and make sure everyone sees it by taking over the YouTube masthead before rolling it out to TV. It's what you do. While it recently...
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