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JetBlue Told New Yorkers to Steal Its Bus-Shelter Ads, and Rewarded Them for It
Steal this ad. No really, it's fine. No one will yell, "Stop, thief!" And even if they do, you're in the clear. More than 100 New Yorkers recently took jetBlue up on its offer of free flights and...
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This Very Scientific Ad for a Water-Filtering Faucet Vows to Remove Little...
Ads for water-filtering technology always get so serious with their scientific demos, putting the viewer to sleep in the process. But here's one for Pfister's Clarify faucet, with Xtract Filter Mode...
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Here's Another Hilarious Ad That Tries to Get People in Denmark to Have More Sex
Danish travel agency Spies Travel is once again trying to convince the country's citizens to have more sex—by taking more trips. (Traveling, you see, makes couples more intimate, according to...
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David Beckham Stars in a Sweeping, Surrealist, Fellini-Inspired Short Film...
Brit clothing brand Belstaff partnered with LEGS director Geremy Jasper to bring us "Outlaws," a lush 15-minute epic-for-the-web featuring David Beckham, Katherine Waterston, Cathy Moriarty and Harvey...
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Wes Anderson Meets the Addams Family in This Beautifully Crazy Ad for an...
You've never seen an optician ad that's anywhere near as wild as this one. Washington, D.C., agency Design Army created the spot for Georgetown Optician, and it's just a crazy mix of wry humor,...
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Are Jonathan Glazer's New U.K. TV Promos Hypnotizing or Just Plain Bizarre?
The U.K's Channel 4 is rebranding, and the results are bizarre but stunning. A series of new idents—short video signatures to air on the network—feature natural but surrealistic scenes. In one, rocks...
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Aardman Animates Interviews With the Elderly in Funny, Charming PSA About...
Nick Park's animated stop-motion short Creature Comforts was one of Aardman Animations' greatest triumphs, winning an Oscar in 1990 for its hilarious clay animals talking about being in a zoo—using...
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Ads for Stereo Equipment Sure Got Weirdly Sexist and NSFW Back in the '70s
Companies got away with some pretty racy advertising in the '70s—the cocaine paraphernalia ads uncovered earlier this month certainly showed that—and, as it turns out, selling stereo equipment could...
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A NICU Nurse Meets the Babies She Saved in This Viral Tearjerker From Kleenex
In "Tiny Miracles," an emotional video timed to Neonatal Nurses Day, Kleenex reunited a NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) nurse with the children whose lives she saved at birth. With lots of tiny...
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Will Earth in 2045 Be Heaven or Hell? See Both Sides in the Year's Most...
What will our planet look like in the year 2045? Will we enjoy an abundance of clean water, fresh produce and renewable energy? Or will we be unable to drink from our own taps, and see our kids have...
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Watch Zappos Cleverly Punk Google by Ambushing Its Cupcake Truck
Google recently promoted its new photo app by setting up a food truck in Austin that gave away free cupcakes. That was cool. Then a giant cardboard Zappos box set up shop across the street. And things...
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Check Out Melissa Etheridge's Cover of Janis Joplin's 'Mercedes Benz' at the...
In addition to the usual pomp and circumstance, the 2015 Clio Awards on Wednesday were peppered with some fun little nuggets celebrating the ad industry and culture. One such moment occured as music...
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5 Brilliantly Faked Viral Ads That People Still Keep Thinking Are Real
Sometimes even the smartest people you know can share something fake in social media, and correcting them is one of the few joys of being an ad geek. We've compiled some viral ads that have proven...
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Carl's Jr. Says This Provocative 'Border Ball' Ad Is About Sexy Women, Not...
Carl's Jr. likes being provocative, but not in the realm of politics. That's the message from parent company CKE Restaurants, which has gone on the record to deny claims that its latest ad with...
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2 Horrible Cable Companies Merge in DirecTV's Sequel to a Campaign From Years...
Grey New York goes back to the future for DirecTV, revisiting a concept the satellite broadcaster introduced seven years ago in commercials from Deutsch. Those original spots, directed by Christopher...
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Why Coca-Cola Hired This Man to Laugh Really, Really Hard on a Crowded Subway...
It's usually not a good sign when someone starts laughing maniacally on the subway. But riders in Belgium seem to take it pretty well in this new Coca-Cola ad. The agency, Gonzales in Brussels—working...
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This Craigslist 'Missed Connections' Ad, 43 Years in the Making, Is Simply...
Sometimes you read something that's so beautiful, you don't care if it's true. This Boston man's "Missed Connections" posting on Craigslist, looking for a woman who saved his life back in 1972, is one...
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BMWs Are Great for Breakups, Golf Rage and More in These Fun, Irreverent Ads
The handling on the BMW X1 SUV is so good, you can use it to dump all your ex's stuff right at his feet, then take off again—without ever having to get out of the car. So says a new ad from the...
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Whiskas Takes You to Kitten Kollege in This Adorable Online Campaign
London agency AMV BBDO has partnered with Google, Mediacom and College Humor on "Kitten Kollege," a digital campaign for Whiskas U.K. that references college promotional videos and, to a degree, the...
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John Hancock's New TV Ads Send Viewers Online to Pick From Three Different...
John Hancock's latest ads will leave you hanging. For a while, at any rate. In this new iteration of the "Life Comes Next" campaign from Hill Holliday, three 30-second teasers running on traditional...
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