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Ikea's Family Tree Ads Show the Beds on Which Each New Generation Was Conceived
Ikea would like to remind you that the odds are pretty good your parents produced you by having sex on its furniture. New print ads from the brand in Germany offer a twist on the family-tree motif,...
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Real People Thank Those Closest to Them, While They Still Can, in Emotional...
Get out your Kleenex, because Ogilvy Amsterdam and funeral insurance company Dela have brought back their Cannes-conquering "Why wait until it's too late?" campaign—urging people to "say something...
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Coca-Cola Builds Adorable Mini Kiosks to Sell Mini Cokes
"It's the little things in life that makes us happy." That's the message in this print and outdoor Coca-Cola campaign from Ogilvy Berlin, and it's true in advertising generally. Unusually little things...
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Shutterfly Congratulates Thousands of Women for Babies They Didn't Have
This morning, Shutterfly, a photo/card printing website, sent out a mass email congratulating tons of people on their newborn babies. Which would be incredibly thoughtful, had many of the recipients...
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Trained Dancers Are Completely Appalled by This Ballet Ad for Free People...
Imagine a Gatorade ad where a kicker misses every field goal, or a Nike spot where a runner trips over hurdles. It would be a little bizarre. Something similar, though perhaps not as obvious to the...
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24-Hour Chain Pays Local Merchants to Advertise Overnight on Their Security...
Delis, grocery stores, liquor marts and bakeries in Bogota, Colombia—most which close at 8 p.m.—agreed to advertise for one of their competitors, Carulla, by turning their late-night security shutters...
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Crotches Are King in Betabrand's Test of 30 Different Ad Photos
Advertising lore would have us believe that attractive women are the key to getting either gender to linger longer on your ad. But in digital, could it be that the male crotch is actually the key to...
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French Dad Hates His Family but Loves Football in Citröen's New Ad
When you wake up looking like Jim Morrison and Brian Wilson's weird soccer hooligan man-baby, you've slept too long. You might want to get up, dust off the cobwebs and maybe get a friggin' haircut, ya...
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Eating Alone? Chipotle Cups Now Come With Original Writings From Literary Giants
Apparently Jonathan Safran Foer is just like us. He eats at Chipotle and he curses the heavens when he neglects to bring something to entertain him while he crams rice, beans and guacamole (he's a...
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How'd They Do That? Remarkable British Ad Goes in Utero to 'Film' an Unborn Baby
If you happened to catch this PSA on television in Britain this month, you might be left wondering if it is—could it somehow possibly be?—real footage. And that's the point. The spot, from Grey...
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Airbnb Entices Travelers to See the World Through a New Kind of Window
In its latest ad from Pereira & O'Dell, Airbnb offers you something you can't get at the average hotel: someone else's view of the world. "I want you to feel at home here," says the narrator of...
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Quirky Re/Max Ads Suggest Your Dream Home Isn't What You Think
Re/Max's first ads since it went public are here, and they're Zooey Deschanel-grade quirky. Four new spots by Leo Burnett in Chicago, which the 40-year-old company tapped in August, feature eager...
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X-Men Meet Mad Men in Quizno's Newest Pop Culture Sandwich
Quizno's Toasty.tv, a branded content hub that got an early boost from a popular Game of Thrones-House of Cards mashup, is once again pounding together two pop culture icons. The results of Mad X-Men:...
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Ogilvy Apologizes for Shooting Malala Yousafzai in Mattress Ad
Someone at Ogilvy India thought it would be a good idea to depict Malala Yousafzai being shot by the Taliban to sell Kurl-On mattresses. Clearly it wasn't. Ogilvy has now officially apologized for the...
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The First Brand on the Moon Could Be a Japanese Energy Drink
If someone told you the first brand on the moon would take the form of an aluminum can filled with energy-drink powder and the dreams of little children, you'd probably believe them—because it's the...
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Man Puts Up Billboards All Over L.A. Telling Celebrities to Stop Getting...
Upset about his daughter's divorce, and convinced she was influenced by the stellar example our celebrities are setting in that regard, J. Robert Butler bought some billboards. The founder and...
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Pop-Up Restaurant Lets You Pay With an Instagram
This week, a pop-up restaurant in London made paying a snap, literally, by allowing customers to settle their bills with Instagram shots of their meals. Of course it was part of an ad campaign, for...
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Ads for Hawaii's Kona Beer Remind Us Mainlanders That We're Doing It Wrong
Hawaii-based Kona Brewing Co. has released a new ad campaign from Duncan/Channon reminding stressed-out mainlanders to enjoy life. One of two new spots, "Sad Hour," suggests that we set aside one hour...
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2 Years and 50,000 Shingles Later, This Man Has Created a Lovely Wooden Beetle
All those nerds who hot-glue gears onto stuff and call it steampunk have been outdone by a retiree in Bosnia. Momir Bojic has put his free time to good use by detailing his Volkswagen Beetle in tiny...
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Arby's Is About to Run a 13-Hour TV Ad Showing a Brisket Cooked in Real Time
Up for grabbing some Arby's? No? Would a 13-hour TV commercial change your mind? The fast-food chain is cooking up a record-breaking TV buy promoting its Smokehouse Brisket Sandwich, which viewers...
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