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Craftsman's Pre-Roll Ad on YouTube Steals the NBA's Holiday Thunder
The NBA's new "BIG: Color" commercial is a pretty big hit. Created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, the spot shows Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Russell Westbrook and Joe Johnson...
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How to Make Food Ads Look Delicious in Super Slow Motion
Feast your eyes on this self-promo clip from German commercial production house The Marmalade. It's a tasty behind-scenes look at how the company achieves mouth-watering slow-motion visual effects...
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Burger King's Ugoff Is Reborn as Tidy Cats' Hans Hansenburg
Ever wonder what happened to Ugoff, the flamboyant (and fictional) fashion designer featured in Burger King's 2004 ads for fire-grilled salads? Apparently he's now going by Hans Hansenberg and working...
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Cat Cleans His Butt With Impunity in Insulation Ads
There seems to be no limit to the types of products and services you can advertise with cat marketing. Here, Mammoth Modern Insulation in New Zealand makes its pitch with the help of a haughty feline...
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Anna Nicole Smith's 6-Year-Old Daughter Models for Guess Kids
Anna Nicole Smith's 6-year-old daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, is modeling for the Guess Kids spring ad campaign, alongside R&B singer Babyface's daughter, Peyton Edmunds. The ads will start...
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Buy a Great NYC Poster and Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy
If you're looking for an easy way to help Hurricane Sandy victims in New York City while also picking up some nice artwork, check out Print Aid NYC. Local artists have created a series of prints for...
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Dikembe Mutombo Defends Earth Against Mayan Prophesy of Annihilation in Old...
The world can't end fast enough for me, because I'm sick to death of hearing about the Mayan prediction that Dec. 21 will be the last day ever. Can't the red-hot destruction arrive this weekend so we...
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Vaginal Lubricant Uses Slippery Marketing Tactic of Female Empowerment
Excuse me for once again having a chat with you about vaginas. Damiva, a new brand of products for ladybits whose name is a portmanteau of dame and diva, is releasing an ad campaign by Toronto...
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Wired Hides a Sneaky Message on the Spines of Its 2012 Issues
Wired celebrated its 20th anniversary year in 2012 with a hidden and quite old-school little print puzzle. If you stack the January through December issues with the covers facing up, it reveals a...
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Toys R Us Freaks Out as 4 Out of 5 Kids Don't Know Its Old Jingle
It was once an inescapable earworm that squirmed into almost every Saturday-morning commercial break. But the Toys R Us jingle has apparently lost its hold on America's youth. In a video promoting a...
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Grabbing a Red Stripe Causes Store's Other Products to Break Into Music
Here's a pretty awesome stunt from London by Red Stripe. Ad agency KesselsKramer (along with Stinkdigital director Greg Brunkalla and creative technology consultancy Hirsch&Mann) rigged up scores...
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Robots of the World Gather to Gaze Upon...Something
Warning! Warning! The robot casts of Forbidden Planet, Lost in Space, Knight Rider and more have finally assembled in the same spot for "Robots on the Move," part of GE's "Brilliant Machines" campaign...
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Karateka Trailer Is Hawk-Punching Hilarity for Retro Gaming Geeks
If you’re an old-school video gamer, you’ve got to love the trailer for Karateka, a modern spin on the 1980s classic. Created by geek culture guru Adam Lisagor’s Sandwich Video, the trailer features...
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Is This Zombie Ad Too Violent for Prime-Time TV?
Norwegian sporting goods retailer XXL has agreed to stop running its new zombie-themed ad during family-oriented TV programs, a decision reached after a flurry of viewer complaints that the spot was...
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Parody Charity Urges Africans to Help Norway Survive the Winter
As we speak, millions of Norwegians are struggling to endure in a place so nipple-torturingly cold, each day's survival is considered a blessing. Luckily, well-meaning do-gooders across Africa are...
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Swedish Toys R Us Catalog Tries to Blur Gender Roles
Roll your mind back to 2008, when we wrote about Sweden’s kerfluffle over allegedly sexist Lego advertising that showed a little girl in a pink room outfitted with ponies and a little boy in a blue...
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Social Media's Walking Billboard Now Selling His Name
The name "Jason JLabAudio" has a certain ring to it—and some potentially serious bling to it. The currently named Jason Sadler stands to make $34,500 by changing his name to that of a headphone...
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The Holidays Are a Scream for StubHub's Talking Tree
If a tree falls in the forest, and it's StubHub's talking ticket tree, I hope I'm not there to hear it, because the unholy wailing sound it makes will shatter your nerves but good! I've had a...
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Oops! WGN Anchor Refers to Chicago's Christkindlmarket as 'Kristallnacht'
It's good to know that people still say really dumb things out loud and not just on Twitter. On Sunday night, WGN-TV anchor Robert Jordan apparently made a spectacular flub when he referred to...
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Yoko Ono Designs Menswear Line Based on John Lennon's Sexy Bod
Yoko Ono is collaborating with Opening Ceremony to add fashion to the list of things she has no business doing. Ono's new menswear line is based on how hunky she thought John Lennon was, and the...
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