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Remarkable Ads Protest the Absurdity of the Open-Carry Gun Policy at Kroger
Agencies have taken manyapproaches to creating memorable gun-control ads. Grey Toronto's latest work for Moms Demand Action, opposing an open-carry gun policy in Kroger supermarkets, is...
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How JWT Is Turning Campaign Signs Into Furniture After Elections Are Over
Now that the elections are over, just think about all the fun craft projects you can do with irrelevant campaign signs—at least, if you live in Brazil. Civic nonprofit Mobilidade Urbana Sustenável and...
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Gap Made a Bunch of Short Art Films, and They're Weird but Very Good
If there ever were a case for injecting fine-art theory into advertising, and vice versa, it's these latest short spots from Gap. The 10 mini-spots, from Wieden + Kennedy New York, promoting the...
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GoldieBlox Hammers Barbie-Style Dolls in This Creepy-Cool Homage to Apple's...
GoldieBlox is back with a charged ad aimed once again at tackling sexism in children's toys. The spot, which is structured much like Apple's famed "1984" commercial, features young girls decked out in...
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These Subtly Animated Posters for Disney's Into the Woods Are Creepily...
Animated posters for movies? Sounds annoying. Wait, subtly animated posters? Now you have my attention. Disney's cinema adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods is being teased with a series...
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All the Best Fake Commercials From Movies in One Amazing Supercut
In building a reality that suspends disbelief, moviemakers must pay attention to the smallest details—to make sure the world they've created is consistently styled. This means not only creating an...
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Why Every Marketing Person in Canada Is Cursing the Name of This One Agency...
Today in amusing Canadian agency videos, we have this one from Cossette—in which marketing people all over the country ask the same bewildered question: "What the fuck is going on at Cossette?" It's a...
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Puddles the Golden-Voiced Clown Wants You to Ditch the Corporate Drudgery
If you've ever been a corporate clown, you can relate to this spot aimed at small business owners who fled the office circus to live their dreams. Puddles, the Sad Clown with the Golden Voice, sings...
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There's Already a Parody of the John Lewis Penguin Ad, and It's Painfully...
This year's John Lewis Christmas ad was released today, and it's super good—it'll be hard for anyone to top. And in one of the quickest turnarounds ever, Redshirt Films has made a pretty funny spoof...
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Waitrose Skips the Whimsical but Still Warms Hearts in Its Christmas Ad
Christmas storytelling is an annual rite of advertising one-upsmanship in Britain. But how can you weave a heart-warming tale while still keeping your product front and center? U.K. grocery chain...
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Has Science Finally Created a Veggie Burger You'd Mistake for the Real Thing?
If it looks like a burger, tastes like a burger and bleeds like a burger, it has to be a burger, right? Not really. Enter the Impossible Burger, a veggie substitute for the real thing invented by...
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Won't You Get in Alan Thicke's Bed for a Good Cause?
Perfectly coiffed former Growing Pains patriarch Alan Thicke rolling around on a luxurious kingÂ-size bed: dream or nightmare? It's for a good cause, so be a sport and play along. Thicke certainly...
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U.K. Pharmacy Boots Celebrates Family in Its Quietly Lovely Christmas Ad
John Lewis may have won Christmas with its penguin ad, but Mother London's holiday spot for British pharmacy chain Boots is an impressive stocking stuffer in its own right. Director Noam Murro's...
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Inside Blake Griffin and Chris Paul's Hilariously Odd Comedy Sketches for...
Are you up for some BGCP3TV in HD? Los Angeles Clippers stars Blake Griffin and Chris Paul have each shown, separately, that they can anchor comedy. In State Farm's Chris and Cliff campaign, Paul...
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U.K. Drunk-Driving Ad Makes Cruelly Ironic Use of Kool & the Gang's...
The 50th anniversary of England's first drunk-driving PSA inspires a sobering celebration in this Department for Transport campaign. Kool & the Gang's 1980 hit "Celebration" anchors the new spot...
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How This Agency Cleverly Stopped People From Googling Their Medical Symptoms
If you're like me, you type your symptoms into Google every time you get the sniffles or feel the slightest bit under the weather. Well, that plan is ill-advised. It can yield reams of misinformation...
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This Bank Bought Every Ad Slot on Norway's Biggest TV Station for 24 Hours
How do you market round-the-clock customer service? If you're Norwegian bank DNB, you buy all of the ad space on one channel in a 24-hour window, and fill it with advice from your country's citizens....
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This Agency Pulled Off the Vending Machine Stunt to End All Vending Machine...
Tricked-out vending machines have become the vehicle of choice for brands to push all sorts of zany promotions or social media stunts. We're almost to the point where if you see one outside of its...
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DDB Employees Read Mean Tweets About Their Ads
DDB Canada takes a page from Jimmy Kimmel's playbook in this amusing video, in which employees read mean tweets about their work. The staffers seem both entertained and mildly horrified as they rattle...
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Cam Newton Gets Primal for Beats By Dre, With Help From Kendrick Lamar
Beats by Dre is back to motivate you, and this time it's enlisted Cam Newton. The Carolina Panthers quarterback sweats it out in a new ad for the headphone maker's wireless offering from R/GA,...
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