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This Designer Makes Herself Up to Look Like Models From Defaced Subway Ads
God knows what inspired her to do this, but designer Lydia Cambron has been recreating vandalized subway ads on her own face with makeup and props. And the results are pretty great. Not only are her...
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Moms Explain What Their Kids Do in Advertising in This Agency's Mother's Day...
Creative and technology agency MRY celebrated Mother's Day by having its staffers video chat with their moms. And along the way, the moms were asked what they think their kids actually do for a living...
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Thailand Does It Again With This Brutal and Beautiful Ad About Kindness
Thai mobile company TrueMove, which you'll remember from the world-famous "Giving" spot in 2013, is back with another gem—a stirring, cinematic spot in which the daughter of a charity worker visits a...
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Absolut Lights Up the Night With a New Short Film and a Special Illuminated...
Absolut rolls out new advertising today from Sid Lee including a new short film and TV commercial, a never-before-heard song from Empire of the Sun, and a limited-edition illuminated bottle that...
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Coca-Cola Is Now Printing Cans and Bottles in Braille for Blind People
Two new campaigns from Coca-Cola feature cans and bottles printed in braille, so blind people can read them. In Mexico, ad agency Anónimo realized the hugely popular "Shake a Coke" names-on-cans...
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Australia's Brutal New Anti-Meth Ads Will Make Your Skin Crawl
In Australia, "ice" is anything but cool. Ice addiction—that is, a taste for crystal meth—has become a terrifying scourge Down Under, prompting the federal government to launch a six-week, $9 million...
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4 Famous Faces Get 20 Years Older in Getty Images' 20th Anniversary Ads
AlmapBBDO celebrates Getty Images' 20th birthday with this fun campaign that looks at how four famous people—Scarlett Johansson, Prince William, Serena Williams and Bill Clinton—have changed in...
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Man Hunts for a Cherished Lost Possession in Hornbach's Latest Absurdly Epic Ad
German DIY home-improvement brand Hornbach adds to its long list of advertising successes with this fun twist spot from Heimat Berlin. A man storms out of his house in a fit of rage. He's so...
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This Fake Erotic Video Uploaded to Pornhub Is Actually a PSA (but It's Still...
DDB has uploaded what it claims is the first fake erotic video on Pornhub. The video starts off porny and then morphs into a (still NSFW) PSA for the Alcázar Gynecology Institute, showing men how to...
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Move Over, Tooth Fairy. HelloFlo Tells the Story of the Period Fairy in...
In the pantheon of mythical creatures, one character has been curiously lost to history, though not to herstory—the Period Fairy, who visits girls when they get their first period. HelloFlo tells the...
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These 'Cancer Sutra' Posters Show How to Check Your Partner During Sex
Ad agency The Bull-White House's "Cancer Sutra" campaign was a provocative idea in search of a sponsor—until Stupid Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young adults with cancer, signed on....
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Max Greenfield Helps the Hipster Hamburglar Push McDonald's Sirloin Burgers
The Hamburglar got the Internet's attention last week—the jury is still out on whether he's hot or creepy—but he won't be pitching the Sirloin Burger on TV, at least not this month. That job has been...
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Fox Sports Had Quite a Surprise for the U.S. Women's Soccer Team on Mother's Day
Mother's Day surprises were aplenty this weekend, including a big one for the U.S. women's World Cup soccer team. Due to their demanding schedules, it's been years since many of the players have seen...
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Outdoor Ad Company Gets CMOs' Attention by Putting Their Faces on Mysterious...
Here's an odd little case study from outdoor ad company JCDecaux and BBDO Belgium. Frustrated that client marketing directors weren't showing up to its business presentations, JCDecaux got personal...
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Miami Ad School Shows You Just How Gloriously Stupid an Advertising Career...
If you work on the creative side of advertising, you'll earn a paycheck for, among other things, crafting ads where sloths and hairdos sing and piano players caress keys with 30 fingers on a...
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After All That, the Hamburglar's First Video Is One Big Joke About His...
Are we sure we want the Hamburglar back? The cartoon character, who was reincarnated after a 13-year hiatus as a real live human man—whom the Internet simultaneously reviled and love—took over...
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WWF Now Lets You Donate by Tweeting the Emojis of Endangered Animals
Among the gajillion emoji campaigns out there right now, here's a clever one. Wieden + Kennedy London creatives Jason Scott and Joris Philippart recently had an idea for how to use emojis to help...
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These Creepy Ads for Synthetic Humans Have Britain All Freaked Out
People in Britain who had settled in for a nice viewing of Prometheus this weekend were distressed, to say the least, when a realistic 30-second spot aired—completely unexplained—that advertised...
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Watch Out, New Hamburglar, Old Hamburglar Is Out of Jail and on the Road Again
If you're underwhelmed by the new Hamburglar's antics so far—and are pining for the original criminal himself—you're in luck, thanks to a spec campaign from production company Whiskey Tongue. The...
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Cold Drinks Give the Women on These Bar Coasters Sudden Cuts and Bruises
A new Japanese campaign aims to combat domestic violence in the country with inventive coasters that hope to tame excessive drinking, which can contribute to the problem. Yaocho, a bar chain, and...
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