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Infographic: What Millennials Want From Native Ad Content
With more marketers putting their eggs in the native advertising basket, it's always good to hear that the tactic might actually be working. According to the infographic below, based on interviews of...
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Matthew McConaughey and Jimmy Kimmel Made 3 Local TV Ads for an Austin Video...
Matthew McConaughey and Jimmy Kimmel have taken it upon themselves to get some attention for an old-school video store in Austin, Texas, and they've created three hilarious local TV ads to accomplish...
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Problems in the Bedroom? Ikea Shows You Exactly What to Do With Your Junk
Ikea does a ton of marketing worldwide, but its looniest ads come from one agency—BBH Asia Pacific. Just in the past year, it made the hilarious "Bookbook" ad, imaging the Ikea catalog as a futuristic...
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The Internet Is United in Despising Starbucks' 'Race Together' Cup Campaign
Starbucks is encouraging its baristas to write the words "Race Together" on cups to get customers talking about racial issue. The idea started internally when about 2,000 Starbuckians attended a forum...
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A Boy Discovers the World's Greatest Superpower in This Remarkable French Ad
Here is a really beautifully filmed commercial from France featuring a boy named George who has remarkable powers. It would spoil the ending a bit to tell you the advertiser, so just watch as George...
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This Pabst Blue Ribbon Fan Art Will Appear on 6 Million Cans
Pabst Blue Ribbon is generally known for its no-frills approach to classic can design and, you know, beer in general. But soon its tall boys will be sporting a pretty cool new look.Dallas artist Jerod...
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This Man's Insane, Towering Cheese Sculpture Is a Giant Monument to Chutney
This commercial takes the concept of artisanal cheese to a whole new level—and it's not even trying to sell cheese. In an amusing 30-second spot for Branston Chutney, Mcgarrybowen channels a classic...
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How Samsung VR Saved A Dad From Missing His Son's Birth—Sort Of
Would you let Samsung turn the birth of your child into an ad, if it meant the company would also set up a live-streaming virtual reality rig, so your partner could witness the moment—despite being...
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No, Will Ferrell Isn't Little Debbie's New Spokesman, but the Brand...
Last night Will Ferrell boasted a new job—Little Debbie's spokesperson—during a weird yet charming segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. As it turns out, the brand was just as surprised as...
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This Agency Intern Recruitment Video Is a Glorious, Grotesque Celebration of...
Advertising creatives love to harp on a good pun, but rarely do they push it so far into bat-shit territory that it turns into a form of genius. A new summer intern recruitment music video from Mother...
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Take a Gorgeous Deep Sea Dive in Microsoft's New Breathless Fantasy for the...
Microsoft is back with the latest installment in its "Productivity Future Vision" series—and this time, it's drifting through the story of a marine biologist, Kat, and a corporate executive, Lola, who...
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Grolsch Literally Puts 400 Bottles of Beer on a Wall to Mark the Brand's...
How does Grolsch beer celebrate its own 400th birthday? By hiring street-art collective Graffiti Lite to create an outdoor 3D installation from 400 swing-top Grolsch bottles. Don't worry, there's more...
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UPS Is About Way More Than Just Shipping Boxes in Its Heady New Global Push
UPS knows you've got problems, and it wants to help. The shipping service is repositioning itself as a business-to-business solution for companies with logistical considerations trickier than just...
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Liv Tyler and Chloe Sevigny Get Poetic, '90s Style, in a High Fashion Ad That...
The back-to-the-'90s trend collides with today's hip fashion scene in "Legs Are Not Doors," a short film by Harley Weir touting Proenza Schouler's spring 2015 collection. Liv Tyler, Chloe Sevigny and...
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Two Guys Praise a Giant Pile of Dirt in These Brilliantly Simple Ads for Soil
If you liked Napoleon Dynamite, you'll probably love these ads for dirt. A new campaign for Nature's Care Organic Soil, from Barton F. Graf 9000, features two salt-of-the-earth guys standing in awe of...
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Air France's New Safety Video Is Stylish to the Point of Being Downright Silly
Ladies, if you're looking for a seat belt that "will elegantly highlight your waistline," Air France has the on-board safety video for you. The airline's new instructional video is certainly stylish...
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Kia Wrecks the Alphabet in This Gripping, Surprisingly Visceral Anti-Texting PSA
Don't be a crash text dummy. Kia Motors takes an unexpected turn in the war on texting and driving with a new ad that dramatically destroys letters of the alphabet, all to show that the moment you...
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A Bespectacled Teddy Bear Escapes to Outer Space in This Cheeky Ad for Cheap...
An airborne teddy bear really rises to the occasion in this space-grazing British spot for Specsavers. The commercial, aptly titled "Stratosphere," is about all of the fantastical, flighty ways that...
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Spanish Soccer Magazine's Ludicrous Loop Ads Put Dancing in Terms Men Can...
Good news, soccer-obssesed dudes—it turns out if you can kick the ball, you can dance too, at least, as long as you also have a little help from a film editor. A set of ads from Spanish soccer...
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Can an Ad Campaign Get Egyptian Men to Speak the Names of Their Mothers?
Stripping away someone's name goes a long way toward dehumanizing that person. UN Women and Impact BBDO Dubai poignantly drive home that point in a two-minute film that was timed for Mother's Day in...
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