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Here Are the Best (and Worst) Personalized Coke Bottle Hacks So Far
When we were kids, we were told that we are all special snowflakes—unique individuals with our own distinct characteristics. Coca-Cola thinks so, too. Sort of. The company has flooded retailers with...
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ESPN Uses Golden Girls Theme Song to Salute the SEC's Animal Mascots
Do you enjoy looking at adorable animals and singing along to "Thank You for Being a Friend," the Andrew Gold song whose cover by Cynthia Fee rightfully belongs to Blanche, Rose, Sophia and Dorothy...
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Bad Idea: Baby Brand Hands Out Candy in Realistic Pill Bottles at BlogHer
Coming up with promotional freebies that will stand out in the sea of swag at BlogHer is always a challenge. But one brand may have taken its creativity a bit too far this year. Bright Starts, a major...
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Dunkin's Shark Week Donut Is Not for Use as a Flotation Device
Dunkin' Donuts has partnered with Discovery Channel's beloved Shark Week of aquatic predator-related programming to bring you the above confection, the Shark Bite donut, a yeast donut iced with a...
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Sink Into the Comforting Folds of the 'Skin Chair,' Which Looks and Smells...
At last, you don't need to be a degenerate military dictator (or Ed Gein) to soak up the luxuries of sitting on piles of human skin. Or at least, creepy facsimiles thereof. London-based designer Gigi...
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David Duchovny Daydreams of Life as a Russian in Beer Ad Exalting the Motherland
Is Special Agent Mulder looking to defect? In a decidedly unexpected career move, David Duchovny appears in this two-and-a-half minute rah-rah-Russia commercial for Siberian Crown beer. The spot's...
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Everyone in This Ad (and Who Worked on This Ad) Was Paid in Meat
Ah, the barter system, humanity's oldest economy. And it's alive and well in the modern marketplace—at least if you're using slow-cooked meat as currency. Canadian restaurant chain Montana's Cookhouse...
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Agency Tries to Make an Ad That's All but Unskippable as YouTube Preroll
The numbers don't lie: When a YouTube preroll ad comes on, users are primed to click the "Skip Ad" button the very millisecond it appears on screen. Research says 94 percent of preroll gets skipped...
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Adman Writes His Own Hilarious Obituary, and It Goes Viral
Leave it to an ad guy to write his own hilariously entertaining obituary, and have it go viral in the days after his death. Kevin J. McGroarty, who died last Tuesday at age 53, had worked in...
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We Asked Agencies to Share Their Oddest Decorations, and They Did Not Disappoint
Not every marketing agency can be an architectural marvel, but they do all tend to have at least one oddly compelling bit of decor that reminds you you're not in a law office. Just for fun, we decided...
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Self-Driving Car Wreaks Havoc, but Not for the Reasons You Think, in...
Some aspects of the techno-utopian fantasy are especially worth skewering, and Dutch insurer Centraal Beheer does a pretty nice number on one of them: the self-driving car. The brand has a knack for...
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Indian Ad With Female Boss Sparks an Uproar: Is It Super Feminist or Super...
There's a lot going on in this new ad from India, and the Internet is fired up about it. The spot, for mobile provider Airtel, opens on two working professionals in a meeting. A woman, who's the boss,...
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Johnson's Baby Is Sorry Not Sorry in Awkward Reply to Customer Concerns
We'll always listen and be here for you. Even when you're wrong. That's the somewhat odd message that Johnson's Baby offers consumers in this video emphasizing the Johnson & Johnson brand's...
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People Terrified by Haunted Apartment in Real Estate Company's Ad Prank
2012 called, and it wants its prankvertising back. Danish real-estate site Lejebolig.dk and production company Mayday Films staged a hidden-camera apartment haunting that was designed to warn the...
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Swarmed by Government Drones? This Ad Suggests Blasting Them With a Silenced...
Sometimes when you watch an ad, you can't quite believe it's real. Then you learn about the backstory, and you watch it again, and you still can't wrap your head around it. Take Johnny Dronehunter,...
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Brands Jump the Sharknado With a Whirlwind of Fishy Pun Tweets
Don't act surprised. You knew it was coming, and the brands knew it was coming. The bad-on-purpose Sharknado 2: The Second One premiered last night on Syfy, and people watched it. Everyone did what...
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Kids on Vine Are Weirdly Obsessed With Spoofing 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up'
If the true measure of an ad's popularity is the afterlife it enjoys through parody and satire, then this 1989 LifeCall ad—featuring Mrs. Fletcher and her infamous line, "I've fallen and I can't get...
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Charmin Proudly Tweets That It Will 'Take Care of Uranus'
Oh, Charmin. Don't ever change. The toilet paper brand, which previously chickened out and deleted its Thor-related joke about being the original "Asgardian," has apparently come around on potty puns....
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Amy Poehler's Newest Job for Old Navy? World's Worst Spelling Bee Moderator
Amy Poehler goes to the top of the class in her latest Old Navy commercial, in which the Parks and Recreation actress moderates a spelling bee. Of course, we've seen her schtick for the retailer...
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WWII Video Game Will Pause for 1 Minute Today to Remember the Warsaw Uprising
A video game set amid the resistance to Adolf Hitler's war machine and played globally 24/7 will pause for 60 seconds today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World War II's Warsaw Uprising. Enemy...
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