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Toys 'R' Us Makes a Poignant Christmas Ad About a Gift That's Better Than Any...
Toys "R" Us is making a heartwarming addition to the Christmas ad file. The new commercial, from BBDO Atlanta, opens with sweet footage of a father and his young son preparing for the holidays—making...
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Stephen Curry and Shaq Have Cameos in Guitar Hero Live's Crowdsourced...
Pop music's newest supergroup features hoop icons Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry, sports broadcaster Erin Andrews, Vine star King Bach … and you. To showcase Guitar Hero Live's GHTV feature,...
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Pizza Hut Surprises Families With Truly Crazy Holiday Deliveries of Its...
Order a pizza, get a flash mob. And a brass band, drum solo and pyrotechnics display. Pizza Hut, on a relentless tear to promote its limited-time holiday-themed Triple Treat Box, busted out the good...
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Ad of the Day: An Unloved Sprout Finds a Family in BBC One's Cute Christmas Ad
Are you a tiny sentient sprout-person who is hated by everyone, even at Christmas, when people are supposed to be nicer to other people (and vegetables)? Never fear. The stars of British TV shows have...
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This Excellent Climate Campaign Makes Saving the World the Easiest Decision Ever
Some decisions aren't hard to make. Saving the world is one of them. The Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore, partnered with Mustache Agency to produce the World's Easiest Decision, a website...
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Bleacher Report Serves Up a Riotous Remake of Blackalicious''Alphabet Aerobics'
"A" is for advertising. "V" is for … viral video? Blackalicious' frenetic 1999 tongue-twister "Alphabet Aerobics" gets a sporty update in this animated music video from Bleacher Report. The two-minute...
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Ad of the Day: A 4-Year-Old Pilots a Volvo Truck in Rollicking Follow-Up to...
It's one thing to say your truck is tough, but it's another to hand the wheel over to a 4-year-old and let her crash it through buildings and ravines. That's how Volvo Trucks and agency Forsman &...
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Eleanor Friedberger Plays 'Auld Lang Syne' on 1,000 Flute Glasses for...
Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one-half of The Fiery Furnaces (with brother Matthew Friedberger), has made her first commercial—and it's quite a harmonious production in which she plays the...
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KitKat's Christmas Commercial Is 30 Seconds of Blankness, the Ultimate Ad Break
It takes a lot to stand out among the glut of Christmas ads in Britain, where brands jockey like nowhere else to have a hit commercial. KitKat and J. Walter Thompson's strategy this season is to cut...
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Ad of the Day: Why Zappos Delivered 1,900 Boxes to Hanover, N.H., That No One...
Zappos has always taken its "Delivering happiness" mantra seriously, at least where customers are concerned. To express it this holiday, and alongside agency Mullen Lowe, it pulled a stunt that's...
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A Dirty Old Man Gets the Perfect Gift in Pornhub's Weird, Uncomfortable...
Pornhub is the latest advertiser to feature a sad old man in its Christmas commercial—an oddly common theme this year. But instead of getting a telescope or faking his own death, what bring a smile to...
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Colonel Sanders Channels Santa, Badly, in W+K's Silly Holiday Spots for KFC
You might call him the Southern Santa. In four new holiday videos from KFC, Colonel Sanders spends most of his screen time stuck in a home's chimney ... while trying to deliver presents. The Wieden...
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The World Surf League's First-Ever Ad Likens the Volatile Sport of Surfing to...
To distill the unpredictability and drama of competitive surfing, the World Surf League has launched its first global campaign, "You Can't Script This," anchored by "Chaos Theory," a 90-second spot...
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How This Agency Used Ad Blockers to Recruit the Kind of Creatives It Wanted...
Generally speaking, a challenge that disrupts your business model is a chance to invent whole new ones. The Internet—and all the disruption-enabling goodies it's brought with it, like ad blocking—has...
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Krispy Kreme Rigs a Glazing Machine to Create a Scannable Barcode for Free...
Here's an oven-fresh, charmingly simple sales promotion from Krispy Kreme. For its #dayofthedozens program, the doughnut chain and agency Baldwin& rigged a glazing machine to diffuse streams of...
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Santa's Computer Catches the Bah-Humbug Virus in These Witty Ads From Norton
So far, Santa is having an exasperating holiday season. A few weeks back, he got physically assaulted in a Coach commercial. Now Kringle's computer has been hacked, and his "Naughty Or Nice" list held...
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Allstate Vows to Protect Your Firsts in This Lovely Ad About a Gay Couple's...
A gay couple and their daughter are the centerpiece of this family-focused ad for Allstate. After the pair explain their year of firsts—including their marriage, and the adoption that...
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This Touching Costa Rican Ad Reminds Us Great Gifts Don't Have to Cost a Fortune
For Gollo, the biggest retail chain in Costa Rica, McCann gives us "Frozen," a charming little spot that depicts how a small gift can last a lifetime ... or even two. The ad follows a young boy,...
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Ad of the Day: McDonald's Seeks Great Recipes in Top-Secret Contest for...
McDonald's seems like way too big of a company to have interesting, playful contests for employees. But the fast-food chain's Canadian operation has always had surprisingly relevant ideas (like its...
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Roadkill Raps in This Insane Road-Safety PSA That's Selling Something Else, Too
What do wiper blades have to do with the safety of your state's wild animals? Why does the Humane Society care about windshields in the first place? And how does a throwback music video powered by...
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