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Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan Lead Gap's Love-Themed Holiday Ads
Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan represent "true love" in a holiday print ad for Gap, part of the retailer's "Love Comes in Every Shade" campaign via Peterson Milla Hooks in Minneapolis. Musician Rufus...
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Snoop's Druggy Pistachios Ad Drives the Networks Nuts
Having your latest commercial in a long-running campaign dubbed "too hot for network TV" can only be a good thing. So, congrats to Paramount Farms' Wonderful Pistachios for its cheeky collaboration...
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Insult Your Co-workers This Holiday With the Perfect Gift From HBO
Box sets of HBO programs are probably a little pricey as gifts for co-workers. But if you've got the extra cash, they can make the perfect passive-aggressive presents. That's according to BBDO's new...
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Corcoran Will Find You the Perfect Luxury Home, If You're a Dog
Corcoran is the real-estate broker for dogs. Not just any dogs, mind you. Dogs with taste. Upper East Side dogs like Marcel who have summer places in the Hamptons. Marcel likes a good shiatsu. Also a...
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'70s Ad Hinted That Twinkies Were Not of This World
Hostess, which is going out of business after a crippling strike, had a proud history of weird ads, particularly back in the 1970s. This one for Twinkies is a classic. Note the ongoing fascination...
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Dying Is Dumb and Hilarious in Adorable Australian PSA
Not since The Gashlycrumb Tinies has there been so much exquisitely hilarious death on display as in this animated PSA from McCann Australia for the Melbourne Metro train system. Described aptly by...
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Nicki Minaj Becomes the Bride of C-3PO in New Fragrance Ad
Perfume ads are often total nonsense, especially when they're for celebrity fragrances. So, it's no surprise that Nicki Minaj has tweeted out a baffling new commercial for her first signature scent,...
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Travel Posters for Loch Ness and Other Homes of Mythical Beasts
Fernando Reza, a graphic artist and designer based in Los Angeles, made a bunch of really cool retro travel posters for a bunch of locations based on the mythical beasts or cryptids who reside there,...
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Hyundai's Veloster SR Turbo Handles Brilliantly, at Least in Video Games
Hyundai's three-door Veloster SR Turbo looks darn attractive. Not so much in real life, actually, but it's certainly a cutie when reimagined as a toy car tearing around an amazingly detailed urban...
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The Martin Agency Celebrates 'Lincoln' Extras in Civil War Style Portraits
Richmond, Va., was a funny place to be when Steven Spielberg was in town shooting Lincoln. Extras from the movie could be seen walking around town in their regular modern-day clothing, but with...
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Ben & Jerry's Scoops Up Euphoria on Instagram
iScreen, uScreen. Ben & Jerry's is rallying its 127,000 Instagram followers and inviting them to upload images representing "euphoria"—because that's the feeling you get from Ben & Jerry's ice...
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Gravy Is Great. So Why Does Every Ad Make It Look Gross?
In 1947, Campbell Soup Co. finally introduced a savory splatter of meatness to post-war America at the speed of modern life: canned gravy. Such a revolutionary advancement in science obviously...
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New York Lottery Lights Up NYC Bus Shelters for the Holidays
DDB is bringing some remarkably intricate holiday cheer to that most moribund of public spaces—the lonely New York City bus shelter—as part of a new seasonal campaign for the New York Lottery. Five...
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Apple Is Thankful for the iPhone 5 in New Turkey Ad
Apple has a long tradition of holiday ads—notable past spots have included "Gift Exchange" for the Macintosh and of course last year's Santa spot with Siri for the iPhone 4S. On Tuesday night, Apple...
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Mini Vinnie Will Save Your Life With CPR, Then Kick Your Ass
The British Heart Foundation and Grey London have spoofed their own famous Vinnie Jones CPR ad, with kids performing the roles of the infamous retired soccer star and his henchmen. Of course, the...
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ElfYourself Refuses to Die, as OfficeMax Introduces ElfYourself Live
There may be a few remote humans left in isolated areas of the Amazon who have not yet "elfed" themselves. Everyone else has. Yet OfficeMax's ElfYourself holiday app, introduced in 2006, refuses to go...
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Father Time Takes a Lickin' and Stops Tickin' for Sky TV
Father Time gets wound up and ticked off as his awesome powers run out in this cinematic spot by DDB New Zealand for Sky TV. "The sun, the moon, the tides, all were under my control ... But after...
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Man Uses Scantily Clad Daughter to Sell 1977 Datsun on eBay
Meet Daddy's little girl. Lexxa Ridley, 20, is the model seen posing provocatively in a series of photos posted by her father, Kim, in an eBay for-sale listing for his 1977 Datsun 280Z. You'll get a...
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Billboard Helps Canadian Man Find His Lost Dog
If Edmonton, Alberta, resident Bob Lindsay were a normal person, he would have tacked up fliers around the neighborhood when his Labrador retriever went missing. But since people rent billboards for...
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72-Year-Old Man Models Teen Clothes for His Granddaughter's Label
The right look for your models can make or break your fashion label, which is why it's surprising that Chinese teen-girl fashion clothier Yuekou is using a 72-year-old man as the face of the brand....
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