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Burt's Bees Puts a Fresh Face on Billboards and Coupons
To promote its new Intense Hydration line, Burt's Bees placed a clever "interactive" billboard on a busy street in Minneapolis. The sign showed a woman whose dry skin was made up of thousands of...
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Insurance Ad Promises Coverage for Cars Sliced in Half by Lightsabers
Lots of insurance policies promise protection from unexpected mayhem. Only DBS in Singapore claims to cover cars sliced in half by lightsabers. And to advertise that promise, Tribal DDB put together...
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Joss Whedon: A Vote for Romney Is a Vote for the Zombie Apocalypse
Avengers director and geek-culture god Joss Whedon has an interesting take on why to vote (or not) for Mitt Romney: He's the candidate most likely to bring about the zombie apocalypse. In the oddly...
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FPSRussia Leads All-Star Cast in Guy Ritchie's Killer 'Black Ops 2' Spot
Robert Downey Jr. makes his North American TV commercial debut in this new 72andSunny spot for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, directed by none other than Guy Ritchie. But the guy getting most of the love...
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Best Craigslist Post Ever, for a Used Samsung Galaxy Note, Actually Isn't
Oh, hey, it's another crazy long-form classified ad. There was that sweet ode to a used snowblower, and the funny used-wetsuit auction, and the amusingly absurdist listing for a used Pontiac Grand Am...
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Wieden + Kennedy Seeks Help on Old Spice in Crazy, Epic Job Listing
Wieden + Kennedy's Old Spice campaign is a hallmark for epic weirdness in advertising. So, it stands to reason that you'd have to complete some kind of weird, epic quest to join the agency's Old...
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8 of the Most Extreme Extreme-Weather Ads
Friends: The megastorm is upon us. Hopefully you've all got your flashlights, water, and ammunition at the ready as Sandy bears down on our fair shores. With all the preparations in order, we couldn't...
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American Apparel, Gap Blasted for Hurricane Sandy Ad Fails
Clothing brands appear to have committed the biggest brand fails of Hurricane Sandy, with both American Apparel and Gap forgetting that death and loss make a poor springboard for promotional...
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Megan Fox, Biology Wiz, Speaks to Dolphins in Latest Acer Ad
Megan Fox … one of the greatest scientific minds of our time? Seems unlikely, which is the whole joke of the actress's new commercial for Acer laptops. In the spot, by Mother in London, Acer's Aspire...
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Famous Brand Logos Redesigned for the Zombie Apocalypse
When the zombies take over, naturally they're going to have a lot of brand-identity work to do—swapping out healthy-looking corporate logos and replacing them with stinking, rotten, corpse-infested...
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If 10-Year-Olds Ran an Ad Agency
Are you better at advertising than a 5th grader? Probably not, judging by this entertaining video from Grip Limited, a Toronto ad agency that celebrated its 10th birthday recently by putting a bunch...
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AT&T Ghostbombs Its Own TV Commercial for Halloween
Leading up to Halloween, AT&T and BBDO New York have been running a campaign called "Ghostbombing," in which ghosts, goblins and ghouls engage in a little freaky photobombing to promote the HTC...
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Air New Zealand Travels to Middle-earth With In-Flight Safety Video
Yes, yes, my precious! Air New Zealand and WETA Workshop soar with this Hobbit tie-in—a real in-flight safety video. Characters from J.R.R. Tolkien demonstrate what to do in the case of an emergency...
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Gum Election 2012: Stick It to the Candidate You Hate the Most
In the event that your polling place was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, you can still vote for president early by smearing gum on the candidate you hate the most. Gum Election 2012—a street-art project...
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Honda Fit for Women Is Pink, Dotted With Hearts, and Even Prevents Wrinkles
Women, if you have a Bic for Her pen handy, you'll want to jot this down. Over in Japan, Honda is making an adorable little version of its Fit compact car that's specially designed for women! How so?...
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Darth Vader Goes (Back) to Disneyland After Lucasfilm Deal
In a bit of corporate efficiency that would make the Empire proud, Disney has taken this 2011 commercial for its Star Wars-themed Star Tours ride at Disneyland and recut it to celebrate he company's...
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Switzerland Kills All the Clocks in Timeless Tourism Ad
Switzerland's appeal as a vacation destination is timeless. As proof, the nation's tourism authority springs "Clocks" on the masses. Spillman/Felser/Leo Burnett's film finds Sebi and Paul, a pair of...
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Wii U Commercial Is a Spectacular Dubstep Disaster
Some readers felt we were being premature when we announced the death of dubstep at the hands of advertising earlier this year. But now you're going to wish we'd been right. Nintendo has released this...
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Mr. Burns Endorses Mitt Romney
With only a few days left, Charles Montgomery Burns has declared his presidential endorsement for none other than Mitt Romney. Sitting next to a few binders full of women, the fictional plutocrat of...
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In Sandy's Wake, Power Bar's NYC Marathon Ads Are Weirdly Gripping
"I think I'll put the pain aside." That's one of several evocative lines in Power Bar's new ads in support of the 2012 ING New York City Marathon—a race, still scheduled for this Sunday, that's become...
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