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New Yorkers Try to Quiet Union Square From a U.S. Open Umpire's Chair in...
Chair umpires in tennis have a thankless job. Sure, they have real work to do, but they spend much of their time babysitting the crowd—and sometimes even babysitting the players. As part of its...
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This 99-Pack of Beer Is Real, It's Glorious, and It Will Get You Very Drunk
When you're preparing to party, naturally you need to make sure there's enough beer. And what's worse than grabbing a bunch of different six-packs and trying to accommodate everyone's annoying snobby...
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How Do You Advertise to an Ad Agency? Put Up a Billboard Right Across the Street
Here's one way to pitch your design shop directly to an ad agency: Buy a billboard right across the street from them. Intridea, a D.C.-based product design and development consultancy, did just that...
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DJ Samples Thousands of Sounds From GE Machines for a Track Called 'Drop...
GE doesn't just do whatever it is that GE does. It makes beats, too. Last year, GE brought you an electronica song featuring the sounds of shipping containers, as interpreted by Reuben Wu of Ladytron....
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Belize Thanks Journey's Keyboardist for Visiting by Recording 'Don't Stop...
You can't make this stuff up. Jonathan Cain, the keyboard player for Journey and writer of perhaps the band's biggest hit, "Don't Stop Believing," vacationed in Belize recently—and tweeted about what...
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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman Are Telenovela Foes in This Insane Ad for Fox Sports
What would happen if football didn't exist? Well, for one thing, Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman would have very different jobs. The two hombres star in this perfectly executed spot...
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See the Painfully Funny Science Museum Ad That Was Too Violent for Canadian TV
The guy in this sublimely sophomoric spot for a Vancouver science museum should be in a world of hurt. Yet he smiles and shrugs off a nail through his shoe, a bitey dog, a neighborhood kid's expertly...
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Life Alert's New Ad is Terrifying, and People Are Not Happy About It
Life Alert now takes its marketing very seriously. Maybe too seriously. Rather than just have its old commercials be the laughing stock of anyone who's ever seen them, the company is doing its best to...
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You'll Be Uncomfortably Surprised by This Honda Spec Ad That Just Got Leaked
There are lots of things to like about the Honda Fit. But one feature in particular might present some issues while you're out there cruising for hours on the open road, Whitesnake blasting and the...
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Nocturnal Beer Drinkers Just Hang Around in This Batty Ad From Brazil
When you get to a certain point, usually around your mid-20s, you realize there's not much more to life than drinking delicious beer. Imagine a world where you only wake up when it's time to imbibe a...
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Tweet This Hashtag in NYC, and Reebok Could Run a Pair of Sneakers Over to You
Starting today, New Yorkers who tweet their shoe size and address with the hashtag #ReebokHDS could get a visit from the brand's Human Dispatch Service. The team of runners will personally rush pairs...
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Instagram Users Are Obsessed With Recreating Its Logo, and the Results Are...
You don't hear a lot of users gushing about their social networks these days, but Instagram seems to be a noticeable exception—as illustrated by the recent trend of photographers creating artistic...
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Master and Apprentice Are Back, and Ridiculous as Ever, for Steak 'n Shake
The latest ads in Carmichael Lynch's master and apprentice campaign for Steak 'n Shake continue to use sound effects and choice props to comic effect. This time, the main featured sound effect is the...
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Is This the World's First Unstealable Bike?
For decades, urban cyclists have been seeking the ultimate bike lock, only to find each one's vulnerabilities eventually demonstrated on YouTube. But what if the answer were in the bike...
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60% of U.S. Families Have No Disaster Plan, but This Ad Hopes to Change That
In the case of a true disaster, how prepared will your family be? A bleak new PSA raises the question in ways that emergency managers hope will get Americans thinking. Preparedness is the watchword in...
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9 Charity Stunts That Want to Be the Next Ice Bucket Challenge
Eventually, every celebrity and politician (though hopefully not every brand) will have taken the Ice Bucket Challenge. So, what next? The moment the ALS campaign went crazy, we braced for the...
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Eight O'Clock Coffee Is Bringing to Life the Central Perk Coffee Shop From...
Rejoice, Friends enthusiasts! Your dream of sipping coffee at the iconic Central Perk will soon become a reality. It's been 20 years since Ross, Phoebe, Monica, Joey, Chandler and Rachel first graced...
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LG Asked for 'Mom Confessions,' and Moms Delivered
LG launched its #MomConfessions campaign earlier this year with a series of cynically amusing TV spots, and since then, real moms have started to get in on the confessional action. While the appliance...
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Here Are the Two New Clash of Clans Ads, Which Will Get a Gazillion Views
There are fewer explosions and more dialogue in Barton F. Graf 9000's new ads for the Clash of Clans mobile game. In the process, we see a softer, less violent side of featured character the Wizard....
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A U.S. Open Billboard Is Being Updated Daily to Include the Most Memorable...
If you like good tennis and cool murals, then the U.S. Open has an advertising campaign for you. The tournament's organizers are paying an artist to climb up to a billboard each day of the competition...
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