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U.K. Food Truck Goes Full Phallic With Its Logo
If U.K. food truck Dirty Bird was hoping for shock value, mission accomplished. The eatery's logo is a rooster, and it's shaped like a penis."It's based on lowercase 'db' linked to form the rooster,"...
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The Bacardi Story Is Now a Graphic Novel, Created by Two of the Industry's...
What goes great with rum, besides Coke? A graphic novel, maybe? Bacardi tapped famed comic writer Warren Ellis and artist Mike Allred to create a graphic novel celebrating the history of the Bacardi...
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Kevin Hart Will Destroy Your Car and Haunt Your Dreams Until You Play Him at...
It's Madden Season, which apparently is a good time not to be friends with Kevin Hart. In EA's new three-and-a-half-minute promo for Madden NFL 15, we witness the extreme lengths to which Hart is...
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This Little-Known Robin Williams Ad Will Break Your Heart All Over Again
Earlier this week, we recapped some of the best moments from Robin Williams' contributions to advertising, but a reader pointed out that we omitted one of his last—and most touching—commercials. In...
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Apple Beats Bud, Nike and GE to Win the 2014 Emmy for Best Commercial
Apple has had its ups and downs in advertising lately. But one recent unqualified creative success—last year's much-loved "Misunderstood" holiday spot—waltzed off with the 2014 Emmy Award for best...
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Inventor of the Pop-Up Ad Apologizes for Helping to Ruin the Internet
If you were looking for someone to blame every time a pop-up ad mars your web-browsing experience, here's a guy who'd like to nominate himself—and offer his apologies. Ethan Zuckerman, internet...
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Thai Life Insurance, Master of the Tearjerker Ad, Sets Its Latest Love Story...
Life in Thailand is pretty meaningful, judging by the heartrending commercials the country produces. Companies like TrueMove and Thai Life Insurance have been rolling out masterful long-form spots...
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Why Tim Hortons Totally Blacked Out This Location in a Small Quebec Town
Who turned out the lights? Tim Hortons and JWT Toronto plunged customers at one of the coffee and donut chain's Quebec locations into inky darkness for a prank introducing a new dark roast coffee...
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Did a Missouri Shopping Mall Just Make the Worst Local Commercial Ever?
Advertising is easy. You can sell anything you want nowadays if you just pick up a camera, press record and then upload the results to the internet. Music? No problem! Just get your friend to beatbox...
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Miller Lite Got 180,000 Summer Photos From Fans, and Picked 7 for This...
Earlier this year, Coca-Cola rolled out its first TV spot made completely with user-generated content. Now, it's Miller Lite's turn to shine the spotlight on its fans. Back in May, the beer brand...
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Are Highway Billboards Becoming the New Home of High Art?
Advertisers may dominate the lion's share of America's billboards, but roadside signs seem to be an increasingly popular medium for artists as well. A number of billboard installations have been...
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Newcastle Asks for Fan Photos, Which It Promises to Photoshop Poorly Into...
On Monday, we posted Miller Lite's new national TV spot, featuring a handful of fan photos selected from some 180,000 gathered through the immensely successful #ItsMillerTime hashtag campaign. Now,...
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Meet the Hero Designer Who Publicly Shamed Showtime for Asking Him to Work...
When Showtime invited Dan Cassaro to join a design "contest" he felt amounted to milking professionals for free work, he let the network—and the world—know how he felt about it. The offer, made to a...
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Creator of That Godawful Viral Shopping Mall Ad Isn't Surprised You Love It So
A laughably bad commercial for the East Hills Mall in St. Jospeh, Mo.—which we wrote about yesterday—has gained a rather large following this week. A piece of ironic Internet treasure, it's already...
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Lovely Ad for Pinterest Shows How It Can Inspire Collaborative Brilliance (or...
Pinterest touts its newly unveiled messaging feature in this handsomely shot two-and-a-half minute video from production house Strike Anywhere. The clip is Apple-esque, as are so many personal-tech...
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W+K Develops a Series of Underwater Apps for Sony's Waterproof Phone
If you ever hoped to pretend your phone were a fish or an aquatic plant, Sony would like to present its Xperia Z1S. The brand, along with Wieden + Kennedy and development partners Motim and...
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Reggie Watts Has Created Truly Odd Greenpeace Ads Aimed at the Tech Industry
Reggie Watts yodels, raps, hangs with woodland fauna, floats on a giant leaf and generally goofs around in a quartet of new videos from Greenpeace. The environmental group is sending a message to...
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Nike and AKQA Create an LED Basketball Court to Help Kids Learn Kobe's Moves
Global design firm AKQA and ubiquitous shoe manufacturer Nike have collaborated on a full-size LED basketball court for Nike Rise, a program designed to train Chinese youth based on the techniques and...
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Anthropologie Learns a Lesson in How Not to Treat Breastfeeding Moms
It's World Breastfeeding Month, but Anthropologie doesn't want to see your boobs. Ingrid Wiese Hesson claims she was unceremoniously escorted off an Anthropologie sales floor and into a stock-room...
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Kia's Hamsters Are Back, and Getting Lucky With Sexy Lady-Hamster Girlfriends
Kia's oddly endearing and enduring hamsters have returned, this time dabbling in experiments that make Weird Science look scientifically responsible by comparison. The new ad from David&Goliath...
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