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Time Turned the Year's Hottest Tech Into the Year's Dumbest Cover, and Parody...
OculusVR founder Palmer Luckey is one of the tech industry's brightest rising stars—a fact Time tried but ridiculously failed to capture on its newest cover. As you can see above, Luckey is shown in...
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Hot and Hairy Men Unite in This Delightfully Zany Paean to Hanes Cooling...
What do a biker dude, a lumberjack, Santa Claus at the mall, a kindly bespectacled scientist type with a goofy accent, and some doofus in a gorilla suit have in common? They're all hairy, but can keep...
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Could You Climb a Slippery Plane Wing to Complete This Mission Impossible...
If you wish you could be like Mission Impossible's Ethan Hunt, here's a fun bit of stunt marketing for you. To promote Rogue Nation, the fifth movie in the franchise, agency Grandesign set up a...
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Brazilian Neutrogena Ad Lets You Wipe the Lipstick Right Off This Actress’s Face
Here's a nifty way to get the average magazine peruser to put a product sample to good use. Neutrogena and agency DM9DDB worked with Brazilian weekly Caras to create a special cover featuring actress...
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Pornhub Says Its Premium Service Is So Incredible, You'll Talk About It at...
Pornhub is back with some more safe-for-work ads. And this time, it's facetiously trying to insert its brand name into the lexicon, by suggesting the phrase "Pornhub Premium" could become verbal...
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Bad Day on Social Media? Ads for High-Alcohol Beer Suggest Drowning Your Sorrows
No one inspires sympathy quite like a guy who spots his girlfriend on Tinder while shopping around on the the dating app himself. A new campaign from Brazilian agency Candy Shop for Boca Maldita, a...
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Raunchy Old Women Hawk Vintage Handbags in These Cheeky, Campy Ads
If you're lucky enough to live into your golden years, you've earned the right to act as ridiculous as you want. This campaign for Ethel + Frank, a new online store for vintage handbags, charmingly...
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Leinenkugel's Beer Tricks Out Homes in Brooklyn and Austin, and Rents Them on...
As if the hipster havens of Brooklyn and Austin weren't already funky—and beery—enough, Leinenkugel's has transformed vacation properties in each location into Northwoods, Wis.-style "Leinie Lodges,"...
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A Fascinating, Step-by-Step Look at How This Trippy, Drippy Ice Cream Logo...
The process of logo design is pretty intriguing, particularly when a designer takes you step by step through the development of a mark. The video below is a great example, as Kath Tudball of design...
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VW Designed a Baby Stroller With Automatic Braking After Joking About It in...
Volkswagen Netherlands aired a TV spot in April in which VW owners had great expectations for their other possessions—including one mother who couldn't understand why baby strollers don't have...
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A Dream Home Is One Where You Can Get as Freaky as You Want, Says New Trulia...
When it comes to purchasing a home, you want it to be somewhere you'll feel comfortable to be yourself. For its new digital campaign, Trulia takes that to the extreme, showcasing people at home doing...
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Everyone Is an Emoji in This Bizarre and Terrifying French McDonald's Ad
What are we all but a bunch of emoji with arms and legs and a hankering for McDonald's? An insane new French ad for fast-food chain shows a city full of people going about their daily lives—driving...
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Any Idea What These Remarkably Subtle Mercedes-Benz Ads Are Trying to Say?
Subtlety is a valuable thing in advertising, as consumers will always feel better about a brand that lets them connect the dots instead of hammering them over the head. But there is such a thing as...
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Yahoo Is Bringing Back Its San Francisco Billboard, but It Won't Be as Iconic...
Yahoo is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, it's reviving the iconic billboard that welcomed (or repulsed) San Franciscans driving on Interstate 80's eastbound approach to...
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This Guy Just Made the Most Hilariously Insane Political Campaign Ad Ever
If crazy political ads are their own kind of art form, this one is something of a masterpiece. Wyatt Scott is an independent candidate for Canadian parliament. And taking his new spot as evidence, his...
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Wheaties Is Now Making Beer, for Those Who Want a Different Breakfast of...
Wheaties is wheat cereal. Hefeweizen is wheat beer. Now, General Mills has done the inevitable and created a Wheaties-branded Hefeweizen in partnership with Minneapolis craft brewery Fulton."We were...
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This Designer Brilliantly Re-creates Classic Ads as Single 8-Bit Images
Graphic artist Michael Myers (not to be confused with the Wayne's World guy or the killer from Halloween) was hired by Copypop to recreate images from classic ads as retro pixel art, and the finished...
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Bic Apologizes for Women's Day Ad That Mostly Just Made Women Furious
Bic continues to have trouble talking to women. The pen maker, which was the object of ridicule a few years ago for its absurd "Bic for Her" pens, failed spectacularly in South Africa this week,...
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Here's an 8-Bit Video Game That Every Ad Agency Intern Should Be Playing
Ad agency interns love to get real-world experience. Sometimes that means actually working for real clients. Other times it means sitting around playing 8-bit video games. The interns at Ottawa,...
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Man Poses as Target on Facebook, Trolls Haters of Its Gender-Neutral Move...
Brands can't be as honest as they might like in dealing with haters on Facebook. But sometimes other Facebook users can do it for them. That dynamic played out in particularly rogue fashion on...
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