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The Couple Who Quit Their Ad Jobs to Travel the World Ended Up Poor and...
You remember Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger, the South African couple who quit their agency jobs this year to travel the world and document the experience. It sounded like a dream, and the lovely...
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Ikea Cooks Up a New Kitchen Like It's a Meal in This Adorably Designed Ad
If you've ever wondered what an Ikea kitchen might look like if it were assembled in a frying pan, you're in luck. A super cutesy new ad from BBH Asia Pacific features the furniture chain's "Metod"...
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Children Born on 9/11 Star in This Uplifting Campaign About the Power of...
Transformation is the overriding theme of "Born On 9/11," Grey New York's integrated campaign for the nonprofit 9/11 Day organization—featuring PSAs that ask Americans to do at least one good deed...
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Marshawn Lynch Just Popped Up on a Shopping Channel to Hilariously Sell Skittles
If you happened to be zoning out to the Evine Live home-shopping channel on cable TV at 11:04 a.m. ET this morning, you saw a strange sight. Yes, that was Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch...
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Who Needs McDonald's? Burger King Says It Will Partner With 4 Other Chains on...
Burger King may not have been able to lure its biggest rival into a charity-minded collaboration, but four other chains have stepped in to fill the McWhopper void. Denny's may be the largest and...
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Ad Features a Mysteriously Pregnant Man, but He's Not Carrying a Bundle of Joy
In this peculiar ad by Saatchi & Saatchi in New York, a couple experiences their first pregnancy ... with a twist. That's right, it's the man who's pregnant, not the woman. It would give away the...
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Southern Comfort Uses Taiwanese Animators to Burn the Word 'ShottaSoCo' Into...
Southern Comfort has become known in the past few years for its quirky, faux-epic TV commercials from Wieden + Kennedy. But the agency and brand launched a new campaign Wednesday that goes in a...
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Hyundai Just Hacked Instagram With a Quiz That Leads You to the Right SUV
Here's a neat use of Instagram by Innocean USA for Hyundai—an easy-to-follow quiz that uses 18 separate Instagram accounts and nearly 400 images to help SUV buyers decide whether the Santa Fe, Santa...
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Diet Coke Is Retweeting Its Biggest Fans in Suddenly Extravagant Ways
A retweet is nice and all. But as an expression of affection, it's woefully lame. Diet Coke understand this, and is taking a grand new approach to retweeting love notes from fans. Instead of just...
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Ashley Madison Avenue Makes Hook-Ups Easy for the Creatively Unfulfilled
Is your relationship tired or unfulfilling? Do you feel ignored, taken for granted, misunderstood? Maybe it's time for a creative fling. If you're a creative type looking to stray outside a stale and...
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Ren & Stimpy Co-Creator Is Now Making Talking-Meat Cartoons for a Midwestern...
If you can't find an immediate connection between St. Louis-based cured-meat maker Volpi Foods and Emmy-winning cartoonist Bob Camp, you're not alone. But if a century-old food company wants to make a...
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Want to Buy a Confederate Flag but Not Look Racist? This Seller Has a Solution
Want to purchase a Confederate flag, but worried you'll look like a racist? A.J. Hall will sell you one. And you'll be in the clear. Why? Because he's a "real-life black man." And if you buy your...
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How Ikea Used This Ad Full of Naked People to Sell Tables
Some 79% of important decisions are made around a table. With that small and seemingly innocuous factoid in hand, ad agency Buzzman illustrates how choices made around an Ikea table just might change...
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Beats By Dre Returns Gatorade's Serve With Its Own Flashy Serena Williams Ad
It's fun—though perhaps not for the brands—when a big celebrity appears in two major ad campaigns in the same week. It's now happened this week with Serena Williams, who appeared the excellent...
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Now It's Sherwin-Williams' Turn for a Much-Needed New Logo, Right?
Now that Google and Verizon have sparked global design debates by redesigning their logos, it makes sense to ask who should be next. I mean, other than Yahoo. Looking beyond the tech and telecom...
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A Breakfast Cereal Mascot in Drag Has Stolen the Heart of Newly Single Kermit...
In the Israeli ad below, created by BBR Saatchi & Saatchi, Kermit the Frog sings a swinging love missive to Denis(e), the mascot for Unilever's Branflakes cereal. Branflakes is targeted to women....
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A Tinder for Jobs? This App Helps You Find Work a Lot Like You Find Love
Tired of updating LinkedIn, or spending hours manicuring your résumé? Swedish startup SelfieJobs wants to make getting a new gig as easy as swiping right on Tinder. Slogans for the job search and...
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Have You Ever? This Ad for Big Lots Goes From Oddly Repetitive to Downright...
If you're a woman with an eye for design, Big Lots will apparently have you at a loss for words. But thankfully, there's AutoTune. In the chain's latest ad from agency OKRP, pairs of women—or...
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Here's the Whole Story Behind the Year's Kookiest Car Ad
Would you buy a used car from this man? Meet Chris Murphy, aka Dan Mayson, a voiceover artist and radio announcer from Fredericksburg, Va., whose zany, brutally honest YouTube video, designed to sell...
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Nike's New Ad Discourages Budding Athletes, Who Won't Make It Anyway
Nike Korea's new "Just do it" campaign kicks off with "Play Loud," a 90-second short film by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo. Like past Nike works, it promotes team sports as a way to dodge conformity and...
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