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Sean Astin Is Back (Again) as Rudy in ESPN's Excellent College Playoff Promo
A college championship that's both national and rational has long been the dream of American football fans. In fact, Rudy dreamed up the solution 40 years ago, according to this fun bit of alternate...
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Bosch Breaks Into People's Homes in What We're Supposed to Believe Is a Real...
Recent years have seen a slew of hidden camera prank ads, and many of them are of dubious authenticity. But this new effort from Bosch in Belgium might take the prize for most laughably fake stunt...
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Toshiba Creates Futurama-esque Ad Mocking Its Own Industry
Toshiba skewers a certain hype-driven West Coast tech-topia in the brand's new animated spot, "Sillycon Valley." Packed with fun visual gags, the spot from goodness Mfg. takes us to a highly...
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Walter White Boldly Goes Where No Meth Dealer's Gone Before
When you have zero coding skills, how do you keep busy at your company's hackathon? For the non-engineers at i.TV, the answer was to send a meth dealer into space."The hackathon leaves those of us...
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Nike Boosts Brazil's Morale After World Cup by Looking Ahead to the Olympics
Nike doesn't want Brazil to linger on its loss in the World Cup. Instead, the brand's new ad aimed is aimed at pumping up the passionate nation of sports fans for their next global event: the 2016...
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The Other Bieber, Letterman and Zellweger Star in Ads for the Other Amazon
Sharing a name with a celebrity has got to be a blessing and a curse. But it can also make you mildy famous. Lynda Pearson and Millie Olson co-founded Amazon Advertising, an agency based in San...
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Devin SuperTramp Creates a 260-Foot Water Slide Down a San Francisco Street
YouTube influencer Devin SuperTramp is a man who knows how to get what he wants. And in this case, he wants to ride a 260-foot water slide down the streets of San Francisco. The video for Bear Naked...
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Fellas, Bill Kurtis Wants You to Go on a Mancation to Illinois With Him
Legendary anchorman Bill Kurtis is a man's man. Just ask Ron Burgundy ... or the Illinois Office of Tourism. A new campaign from JWT Chicago features Kurtis, a veteran Chicago journalist best known...
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Social Ranking Site Creates a New Battleground for Agency Egos
Does Ogilvy & Mather have the best online presence of any advertising agency in the world? Yes, according to a new site that ranks shops based on the size of their social audiences. Created and...
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Honda Targets Hispanic Millennials by Mocking the Way Brands Target Hispanic...
Young Latino consumers: They're hip! They're mobile! They lead active, on-the-go lifestyles! They're also, you know, pretty much like anybody else—though that's something marketers rarely want to hear...
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Carlton Draught Is Re-Airing This Awesomely Cheesy '80s Ad to Go With Its...
Oh, the 1980s. Such quaint times. The tank tops. The big hair. The now-unsettling sense of enthusiasm. Even though the '80s revival was so 2000s, Carlton Draught is still dusting off a real ad from...
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Adman Is Selling More Than His Crappy Old Car in This Ridiculous Faux-Epic Ad
Entertainingly overblown homemade ads for used cars are now part of a burgeoning tradition. But an Australian adman, backed by his agency, is throwing his hat into the ring to good effect. The spot...
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Kimpton Hotels Fawn on Guests With a Half-Goat Who Keeps You Satyr-sfied
Join Kimpton Hotels' Karma rewards program and they'll fawn all over you. No, seriously, they’ll send a half-man, half-goat to surprise you in unexpected ways. Not that the goat is actually going to...
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'Emoji Among Us' Short Film Is Cute, Whimsical and an Advertisement in Disguise
"Since they first appeared on our shores early in this decade, these charming, versatile and intelligent figures have captured our hearts," an eloquent David Attenborough-esque voice narrates as Emoji...
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Lars Ulrich Has the Best Line in the Outtakes From Metallica's SportsCenter Ad
Wieden + Kennedy's latest SportsCenter spot, featuring Metallica, has gotten lots of attention, and almost 800,000 YouTube views, since its debut a week ago. The veteran band visits ESPN HQ and jokes...
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Lawyer Quits to Become an Illustrator With Brilliant Cartoon Telling the...
There's something particularly satisfying about a resignation letter that tells an old, boring career path to piss off in the very format of a new, fun one. A former corporate lawyer named Catherine...
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World's Greatest Dad Shows You How It's Done in Ad for Peanut Butter Cheerios
Fathers have been making a comeback in ads lately—they're no longer just sniveling idiots with no parenting skills whatsoever. Now, General Mills helps dads in their revival with this Canadian...
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Don't Play League of Legends? You'll Still Enjoy This Epic 6-Minute Trailer
I'm not one of the 27 million people playing League of Legends each day, but this amazingly action-packed video kind of makes me wish I were. "A New Dawn" is the free-to-play game's newest cinematic...
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Rosetta Stone Says Learning a Language Is Good for You, and Great for the World
With millennials eager to travel abroad and a wealth of language-learning options available, Rosetta Stone doesn't want to get lost in translation. So the company teamed with Energy BBDO and content...
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Jaws in Lake Ontario? Nah, It Was Just a Shark Week Video Prank
If you thought there was something fishy about that YouTube video of a shark swimming off Lake Ontario's Wolfe Island, you were absolutely right. The clip—uploaded on July 10, with nearly 650,000...
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