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If You Like Cute Pigs and Happy Endings, Vodafone Has an Ad for You
Vodafone New Zealand is out with a heartwarming ad that tells the story of a mailman who finds and befriends a lost pig, then goes on a mission to reunite it with its owner. It's a path fraught with...
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3M Makes Retargeted Banner Ads Less Annoying by Turning Them Into Post-it Notes
Retargeted banner ads are the sledgehammer of the web, bashing you again and again with the same random product you looked at once, whether you like it or not. But 3M figured it could use the...
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The 13 Strangest Vodka Flavors (and the Drinks You Could Actually Make With...
Vodka has long been well known and well loved for being flavorless. For the last few years, producers have worked to expand the market by introducing exotic flavors that get stranger with every...
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Infographic: Everything You Need to Know About YouTube's First 10 Years
YouTube continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style. After picking the 20 most iconic ads on YouTube since 2005, the site has now gotten in an alphabetical mood—with an "A to Z of YouTube"...
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Carl's Jr. Makes the Most Absurdly American Ad for Its Hot-Dog-and-Chips...
Putting a hot dog and potato chips on your cheeseburger is the ultimate expression of American-ness, according to Carl's Jr. So, this 72andSunny ad for that monstrosity—an official menu item called...
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How to Make Your TV Commercials Look Epic, Even on Zero Budget
How can marketers with modest budgets—local home renovators and heating-system installers, for example—create "epic" advertising without going broke? Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO suggests tapping into...
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Hendrick's Gin Is Flying a Giant Cucumber-Shaped Dirigible Around the Country
In response to the mundane ease of modern travel, Hendrick's Gin has developed the world's only flying cucumber—a 130-foot dirigible that clips along at the civilized speed of 35 mph, just slow enough...
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RPA's ECD Is Releasing His New Book on Instagram, a Page a Day for 160 Days
Jason Sperling's new book, Look At Me When I'm Talking To You, gives brands new rules for fostering loyalty with consumers in an attention-scarce world. And the RPA executive creative director leads...
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Burger King Unveils Its First TV Commercial With the King in More Than 4 Years
You can't keep a good King down. Burger King's creepy, plastic-faced King character, who was sidelined from TV ads four years ago, will return Monday night in prime time in a 15-second commercial for...
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A Costa Rican Brewer Just Inadvertently Made the Most Obscene Billboard Ever
Costa Rican drivers are getting an eyeful when they pass this billboard for Republica Parrillera Pilsner beer. Looking at the front of the billboard, nothing seems amiss. But when viewed from behind …...
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Protein World, Expert Brand Troll, Brings Fat-Shaming 'Beach Body' Ads to NYC
Protein World continues to kick sand in the face of its critics. After generating controversy and much attention for its brand in Britain this spring with its "Beach Body" campaign, the nutritional...
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Ogilvy Gets Potholes to Tweet, Asking to Be Fixed, Every Time They're Run Over
People aren't the only ones complaining about potholes in Panama City. The potholes are complaining! With so many streets in Panama City damaged, local agency P4 Ogilvy & Mather placed special...
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Google and The Mill Take Mobile Filmmaking to the Next Level With 360-Degree...
Visual effects studio The Mill and Hollywood director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious 3-6) have collaborated on the latest film in Google's Spotlight Stories—a series of immersive movies made...
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Christopher Guest Returns With More Hilarious Best in Show Spoofs for PetSmart
During the Oscars, PetSmart and Christopher Guest launched a pretty excellent campaign themed around Best in Show. Now, they're back with more. The new material from GSD&M is particularly...
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Put Your Finger on the Screen, and This Music Video Becomes Delightfully Fun
If you want to see all the clever things your fingertip can do, check out this cool new interactive music video from Japanese pop star Namie Amuro. The video offers a pop-art cornucopia of wit and...
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Hotels.com Created a Facebook Autoplay Ad That's Infinitely Better Without Sound
For brands and content creators, Facebook's autoplay videos have become a mystical chalice bearing bountiful views—as long as you don't mind your clips airing in silence. Instead of expecting users to...
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Tiny Dolls Act Out Hilarious Soap Operas Over Single Pieces of French Toast...
Consumers bowled over by the recent return of French Toast Crunch after a nine-year hiatus should enjoy "The Tiny & The Tasty," a strange and silly soap-opera parody that casts dolls as actors to...
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Watch 12 Famous Logos Evolve Before Your Eyes in These Mesmerizing GIFs
Unless you're hiking the Appalachian Trail, or staring at your walls all day, or living under a rock, or running ad-blocking software for your eyeballs, you're bombarded with brand logos all day long....
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Samsung Filled Its Frantic New Ad With GIF-Style Hiccups and Loops
Do you often find yourself compulsively stuck in GIF-style sequences where you're repeating the same everyday action in a continuous loop just for fun? If so, Samsung would like you to consider its...
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FedEx Can Help Your Micro-Business, No Matter How Patently Ridiculous It Is
No matter how absurd your small business has become, FedEx wants to help streamline it. BBDO New York is out with a handful of amusing new ads pitching the ways its shipping services can save you...
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