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You Know Gay Ads Have Gone Mainstream When Even Hallmark Is Making Them
The mainstreaming of ads with gay couples, which really accelerated in 2014 thanks to brands like Honey Maid, continues into 2015—and now it's Hallmark's turn to join in. The greeting-card company is...
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CP+B Lets Twitter Choose Its Office Music Through 'Subservient Speaker'
The Subservient Chicken may be long gone, but its spirit of unquestioning obedience lives on at one of the agencies that spawned it. Crispin Porter + Bogusky's staffers in Stockholm, Sweden, are...
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Everlast's Inspiring Ad With This Girl Boxing Packs Quite a Punch
Boxing gear company Everlast lands a blow against sexism in "I'm a Boxer," a minute-long spot directed by Claire Edmondson through Steam Films. Scenes of a young girl shadow boxing and psyching...
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Can This Simple Card Game Tell You Exactly What Kind of Brand You Are?
Having trouble defining the essence of a brand? There might just be a simple tool that could help you brainstorm ideas, narrow down your strategy and filter out all the cluttery jargon. Introducing...
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Snickers' Brady Bunch Ad Is Here, and It's One of the Funniest Super Bowl...
Here's the story, of a man named Danny. Danny Trejo, that is, and he just might win the Super Bowl. Snickers just released its full 30-second Brady Bunch-themed Super Bowl spot from BBDO New York, and...
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Watch This Ad Agency Tell Its Staffers They Have to French Kiss Their Clients
Plenty of agencies describe themselves as full service, but one really wants to take that commitment to the next level. At least, that's the premise of a video Geometry Global Paris made as an...
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This Year's Craziest Super Bowl Ad Is From GrubHub and Stars an Angry Flying...
In the mini Super Bowl of regional ads, GrubHub is introducing a flying burrito that crashes into the heads of anyone foolish enough to order food by phone. The message is anything but subtle: Order...
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Watch This Video and Learn How to Turn Your Child Into the Next Social Media...
If you're a parent trying to make sense of this social-media-soaked world, you might feel a little bit lost and intimidated—not quite clear on how you can turn your child into an Internet phenom....
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Pete Rose Enters a Hall, Just Not THE Hall, in Skechers' Super Bowl Commercial
After a year away, Skechers will return to the Super Bowl on Sunday with a 15-second spot starring Pete Rose, who good-naturedly pokes fun at his continuing exclusion from baseball's Hall of Fame—with...
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Priceline Knows You Can't Keep William Shatner Away From Super Bowl Sunday
These are the voyages of Priceline's Negotiator. His 17-year mission: To seek out the best travel deals, and boldly pitch like no man has pitched before. William Shatner returns Sunday during NBC's...
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McDonald's Unveils Endearing Super Bowl Ad, and Finally Reveals Its Mystery...
With no shortage of new advertising coming from McDonald's (for better or worse), it can't come as much of a surprise that it's joined Super Bowl lineup, too. Following a teaser earlier in the week...
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This Ridiculous and Charming Super Bowl Ad for Avocados Explains a Lot About...
If your country could have recruited its plants and animals like football talent in the Earth's earliest days, what would you have picked? A sleepy sloth? A scrappy lemur? Some ... wheat? That's the...
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Totino's Beat Everyone to This Year's Super Bowl by Live-Tweeting It a Day Early
Brands will gather in their social-media war rooms tonight, still attempting to top Oreo's lightning-in-a-bottle template for real-time Super Bowl marketing. But in a sense, they've already lost....
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SNL Shows Housewives All the Fun They Could Be Having While Not Watching the...
One of the things Saturday Night Live does best is skewer advertising tropes, so it's no surprise that in last night's pre-Super Bowl episode, the show did just that. With a parody Totino's ad, no...
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10 Tweets That Show How Big a Buzzkill Nationwide Was With Its Morbid Super...
Nationwide decided to use one of its two Super Bowl ad slots tonight to highlight the lethal potential of preventable child accidents. The result wasn't exactly festive fare. Here's a pretty accurate...
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Monster Created a Masterpiece of Twitter Trolling With This Brilliant Super...
Faking out your followers on Twitter is quickly becoming a tired tactic for attention, but Monster still deserves a round of applause for its Super Bowl social stunt. BBDO New York worked with the job...
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This Bizarrely Bleak Super Bowl Ad About Heroin Was Even Darker Than...
For most viewers, Nationwide's Super Bowl spot was likely the most depressing of the night, but St. Louis residents were treated to a regional ad that might just have it beat. The 60-second PSA by the...
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Georgia Lawyer Storms the Super Bowl Again With Another Completely Insane...
Savannah, Ga., lawyer Jamie Casino had a big hit last year when he ran this absurdly badass local Super Bowl ad—an epic two-minute tale of crime, death and retribution that got more than 5 million...
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Lots of Super Bowl Ads Had Puppies or Dads. Only Doritos Did One With Puppy Dads
If you watched this year's Super Bowl ads, you noticed two prevailing themes: cute puppies and awesome dads. Capitalizing on this trend, Doritos decided to combine the concepts in an online Super Bowl...
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'First Kiss' Is Almost a Year Old. This Parody Imagines If One Couple Never Left
Meet two characters in search of an exit."First Kiss: One Year Later" is Barely Political's sendup of last year's mega-viral, Cannes gold Lion-winning video from fashion label Wren that brought...
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