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GoPro Ad With Toddlers Sledding Is the Most Adorable 30 Seconds You'll Watch...
Being a little kid is the best. Everything is new and different, the world is your oyster, and you don't even know it. And your first snow day ... wow, words can barely express the magical bliss for a...
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Agency Gives You Free Beer for Filling Out Your Timesheets, Because Nothing...
The industry is rapidly changing, but one thing remains the same: Literally the only thing that gets agency people to fill out their timesheets consistently is free beer. The latest example comes from...
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Infographic: The Ideal Length of Everything Online, From Tweets to YouTube...
Brands generally understand the most engaging lengths for billboard headlines, print copy and TV spots. But what about tweets, Facebook posts and online videos? The infographic below crunches some...
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Air New Zealand Gets More Epic Than Ever With Its Newest Middle Earth Safety...
The wizards at Air New Zealand have conjured up their third J.R.R. Tolkien-themed video in as many years, ahead of the final installment of Peter Jackson's second Middle Earth trilogy, "The Hobbit:...
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Flowchart: When You Should (and When You Shouldn't) Work for Free
As we learned again recently, professional creatives tend to get prickly when asked to do work for no compensation. But is it always a bad idea to work for free? Jessica Hische's handy flowchart...
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Everything You Hate About Advertising Comes to Video With the Onion-Like...
The advertising trade parody site Adweak.com made quite a slash when it debuted way back in 2001, even meriting mention in an Adweek column. The site itself hasn't been updated since 2005, but Adweak...
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Sony Advertises Its 'Most Beautiful' TV Picture With One of Its Most...
adam&eveDDB and directors Leila and Damien de Blinkk headed to Canada to film this remarkable new spot for Sony's 4K Ultra HD TV. And indeed, not since Jean-Claude Van Damme and Coors Light have...
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Here's The Avengers 2 Trailer, Recut as a Super Ominous Ad for Pinocchio
Late at night, when Wes Craven and David Cronenberg sit around trying to scare each other at the Horror Movie Directors' Spooky Mansion of Fear (look it up, it's a thing), I'm pretty sure the most...
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British Coast Guard Ad About Changing Weather Is Chilling Even Under Sunny Skies
This PSA by AMV BBDO for the British Coast Guard, titled "Every Second Counts," pairs Hallmarky imagery of children playing on the beach with audio from a frantic 999 emergency call in which three...
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Jim Carrey Mercilessly Spoofs Matthew McConaughey's Lincoln Ads on SNL
If you're the type of person who thinks Saturday Night Live's best years are behind it, you can stop reading now because nothing I can write will convince you otherwise. Yeah, I know, you grew up...
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This Shampoo Ad Is Lovely and All, but Can It Really Stop Couples From...
If you're looking for a "no more tears" kind of shampoo commercial, I'd skip this nearly five-minute Chinese ad for Procter & Gamble's Rejoice from Leo Burnett Hong Kong. It's all about making...
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The Latest Crazy Vending Machine Has a Piano on the Side, and Gives You Free...
There's a grand tradition of marketers building fancy vending machines, but it's not every day you see one that doubles as a piano. For the Alfa Jazz Fest in L'viv, Ukraine, this past June, mineral...
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Smartphones Troll Their Owners in Clever Ads About Learning and Attention Issues
Parents grow increasingly frustrated as Siri-type phone assistants misunderstand their requests in a pair of 60-second Advertising Council PSAs from Publicis Kaplan Thaler. The goal is to build...
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SkyMall Parody 'SkyMaul' Has It All, From a Nazi Grandpa Locator to a Forever...
In the market for a Steampunk Buttscope, a Bananaganizer or some Medical Test Results Fortune Cookies? You can find these wondrous creations and more over at SkyMaul. Sometimes a form of advertising...
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OK Go Guys Ride Tiny Little Honda Unicycles in Their Fantastic New Video
Does OK Go release albums? Like, full-blown records with multiple songs on them? I don't know. I don't care. Their videos are enough for all of us. Japanese creative agency Mori Inc. is behind this...
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Whoa, Walmart.com. Why Do You Have a Section Called 'Fat Girl Costumes'?
Either someone at Walmart has made a terrible mistake, or else the retailer's SEO trolling is top notch. Jezebel points out this morning that Walmart's collection of Halloween costumes includes a "Fat...
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Diet Coke Prints 2 Million Unique Labels in Latest Stroke of Packaging Genius
You thought Coca-Cola was getting personal when it rolled out 250 bottle labels featuring people's first names. Well, Diet Coke just went and individualized 2 million bottle designs. Coca-Coca Israel...
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Tech Brand's First Ad Shows How Romantic You Can Get With Some Outlets and a...
Can something as dry as smartphone-controlled appliances ever come across as romantic? Gadget brand WeMo and Crispin Porter + Bogusky think so, and they've created a rather elaborate video to prove...
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Trulia Terrifies Home Buyers With a Haunted Open House for Halloween
Real-estate companies love haunted-house pranks. We saw it earlier this year with this gotcha video from Denmark. And now, digital real-estate brand Trulia is embracing scare tactics with its own...
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McDonald's Gets Even More Supersized With a Pop-Up Store Shaped Like a Giant...
Adorned with awesome characters, packed with a homemade lunch and a note from your mom or dad—there aren't too many things that spark nostalgia quite like a lunchbox. It reminds you of when life was...
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