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Ad of the Day: Capital One Makes 150 Ads for Small Businesses Starring Their...
Capital One delivers a big campaign for small business with its "Spark Plug" initiative, shining a spotlight on 125 entrepreneurial companies in a whopping 150 advertisements created by Mullen Lowe....
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Factory Farming Playset Encourages Kids to Be the Worst Farmers Ever in...
Lots of kids play with barnyard toys, but the reality of factory farms isn't as rosy. A new anti-factory-farming campaign takes that probably obvious truth to the extreme, with a series of online...
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Ad of the Day: Agency Invents GPS That Switches to a Child's Voice Around...
Forsman & Bodenfors has found a clever way to insert a safety feature into GPS satellite navigation: Have the app switch to a child's voice near schools, day-care centers and other areas where...
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Amazon Gets Shamelessly, Ridiculously Cute in Prime Ad Starring a Dog With a...
My heartstrings are getting awfully sore, Amazon U.K.! Last month, it was the "Nursery" ad with that bespectacled, mop-topped kid struggling to fit in on his first day of school. I wept for a week....
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Ad of the Day: Wieden + Kennedy Shoots for the Stars in Grand 'Ignition' Film...
We have "Ignition." That's the title of Wieden + Kennedy London's new pan-European campaign for Honda, which uses spaceflight as a visual metaphor for bold innovation. Actually, the metaphors are...
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Kevin Durant Goes Nuts for a Street Baller's Dunk in Ad for Nike and Foot Locker
Kevin Durant may be a basketball star, but he knows how to cheer for the little people, too. In this new co-branded ad for Nike and Foot Locker, the Oklahoma City Thunder player gets so excited while...
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Baby Brand Tommee Tippee Made Baby Wipes From Reams of Actual Parenting Advice
New parents eventually get so sick of advice, they'll want to wipe their baby's butt with it. And now, infant feeding brand Tommee Tippee has made that possible—with a limited run of baby wipes made...
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Ad of the Day: Norm Macdonald Is Colonel Sanders, as KFC Campaign Quickly...
Darrell Hammond out, Norm Macdonald in. Wieden + Kennedy shook up the musty image of Col. Harland Sanders in its first work for KFC back in May, with Hammond being memorably off-kilter—both reverent...
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Clothing Crackles With the Meaning of Life in These Excellent European Fabric...
Kudos to Procter & Gamble brand Lenor (known in the U.S. as Downy) for managing to eroticize fabric softener in surprisingly poetic fashion. Each of these four long-form ads from Grey Dusseldorf...
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TBWA Designs a Bike-Lock Poster From Pieces of Competitors' Broken Locks
To introduce AXA's Victory bicycle lock, TBWA\Neboko scoured the streets of Amsterdam looking for other companies' broken bike locks, and used pieces of them in this memorable poster and billboard...
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Ad of the Day: Gaming Spot Makes Horrifying Use of Robert Frost's 'The Road...
Robert Frost has been frightening lit majors for years. For the rest of us, however, the American poet's thoughtful 1916 masterpiece "The Road Not Taken," with its quiet lines about paths diverging in...
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3M Builds a Rube Goldberg Machine From Its Esoteric Products, but Is It the...
3M, which makes lots of different kinds of random, practical objects like sandpaper and stethoscopes, has now combined a bunch of them into one highly impractical but somewhat entertaining object—a...
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Edmonton Defends Epic Bus Ad, Which Looks Like a Carbon Copy of Famous 2012 Spot
The Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, has created an epic commercial about how cool it is to ride the bus. But it's like flashing back to a trip you've taken before. Everything seems eerily...
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Bob Dylan Went Electric. And You Should Too, With a Plug-In Hybrid, Says Audi
A new hybrid-electric Audi is just like that time Bob Dylan shocked audiences by playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, says Audi. This new video from the automaker, a sponsor of the...
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When Will P&G Finally Air This Tide Commercial With a Gay Couple in the U.S.?
After two decades of supporting its gay employees internally, Procter & Gamble publicly came out in support of gay marriage late last year. The packaged goods giant reiterated that position with a...
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The Barbarian Group Expects Its New Leadership Team's Work to Be More Ambitious
The Barbarian Group—which recently became creative agency of record for Kind Snacks, won digital/social media marketing duties for United Arab Emirates' Etihad Airways and turned heads with its "brick...
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Sean Lyons Returns to R/GA as U.S. President
R/GA has hired agency veteran Sean Lyons to serve as president of its U.S. operations less than two months after parting ways with former president Seth Solomons. Lyons, who currently serves as global...
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Peyton and Eli Manning Punk College Kids With a Very Demanding Gatorade...
Peyton Manning is back to shame more lazy people into earning their Gatorade with sweat, and this time he's brought his brother with him. In a new reality-style ad series from TBWA\Chiat\Day, Peyton,...
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72andSunny's 72U Just Turned a Vacant Lot in Venice Into a Great Community...
What's inspiring about a dusty patch of ground in Venice, Calif., populated with a few scraggly weeds and hemmed in by a chain link fence? Plenty, according to the team at 72andSunny's in-house...
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Ad of the Day: A Star Is Born in This Adorable 'Tiny Dancer' Spot From John...
Advertising has a new pint-size star this morning, as London agency adam&eveDDB has rolled out an excellent new commercial for John Lewis' home insurance unit featuring an amusingly passionate...
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