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Stella Artois Sends Holiday Carolers to Your Doorstep With Google Street View
If you're too cheap to buy holiday gifts for friends and family, send virtual carolers to their virtual doors via Stella Artois's Facebook app, which uses Google Street View and other tools to direct...
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Energy Company Brightens Bus Shelters to Fight Seasonal Depression
Swedish bus-stop therapy. It's nowhere near as kinky as it sounds. Power company Umeå Energi recently outfitted 30 transit shelters in its namesake city in northern Sweden with lights designed to help...
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Kate Moss Airbrushed Within Inches of Her Life in New Fashion Ads
At 38, Kate Moss has aged better than most hard-partying it-girls could hope to. But apparently that's not good enough for Chilean fashion line Basement. Having already forced her into breeding with a...
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DeLorean Taxi Would Really Take You for a Ride
Designer Mike Lubrano crafted the missing link between Doc Brown and Jim Ignatowski with his DeLorean taxicab. This thing would give Boardwalk Empire's 1920s taxis a run for their money in NYC....
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Lego Shocks 11-Year-Old Boy by Sending Him Discontinued Train Set He'd Always...
A heartwarming story of a little boy who scrimped and saved to buy Legos has gone viral just in time for Christmas. James Groccia, an 11-year-old from Massachusetts with Asperger syndrome, saved all...
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Crate & Barrel Apologizes for Selling 'Beggar Wallet' Inspired by NYC Homeless
Crate & Barrel wins this week's honors for most offensive marketer after being forced to stop selling a "Lucky Beggar Wallet" for $15.95, mocking those who can't even afford to put a roof over...
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Old Mentos Ad With Horse-Men Playing Basketball Is Weirdest Ever
Whoa, that's one wacky game of horse! Some naysayers are doubting SB Nation's contention that the clip below of dudes playing basketball in equine masks is really a "found" Mentos ad from 1992 that...
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Looks Could Kill in Christmas Ad for Harvey Nichols
A holiday party becomes a Star Wars-like showdown for two women who show up in the same red dress in this amusing new Christmas spot from Adam & Eve DDB for British fashion retailer Harvey...
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Eau de Pizza Hut, the Chain's New Perfume, Smells Like Freshly Baked Dough
If you want to smell like hot grease and you can't afford Madonna's perfume, you're in luck! Pizza Hut has a fragrance now. Well, Pizza Hut Canada does, anyway. Its signature scent, called Eau de...
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Diesel Relaunches 1993 Shoe With 'Pre-Internet' Campaign
The pre-Internet world—just before the boom, circa 1993—hella sucked. I am, of course, too young to remember that dark and disturbing era, since I'm only 9 years old. But if I could recall those grim...
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Tim Tebow Will Not Win Any Acting Awards for This TiVo Ad
It looks like New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is finally getting a starring role. Unfortunately for him, it won't be on the field against the Jaguars this Sunday. It's in this new ad for TiVo. The...
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Ellen's Elves Ad for JCPenney Gets Added Bonus of a Protest
Ellen DeGeneres lets all sorts of groan-inducing, size-based bon mots innocently fly as she exhorts Santa's elves to make more toys for a seasonal giveaway contest in this JCPenney spot. But the...
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Hot Wheels Packages Real Cars Like Toys in Parking Lots
Hot Wheels came up with this idea for a great public stunt—assembling giant Hot Wheels boxes around people's cars in parking lots and letting them take pictures of them when they came out of the...
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Newcastle's 'Subtexter' Puts Honest Captions on Your Crappy Photos
On the heels of College Humor's viral Instagram parody set to Nickleback, Newcastle Brown Ale is offering an app called The Subtexter—part of its ongoing "No bollocks" campaign from Droga5—that lets...
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'F This Job,' Writes Agency Social-Media Manager … on Client's Facebook Wall
Bozeman, Mont: Great place to visit. Even better place to leave? The Montana Office of Tourism has been in damage-control mode since Friday, when it posted this status update to its official Facebook...
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Times Writer Overshares His Lazy, Nasty Side in Column About Oversharing
Accusing social-media addicts of oversharing is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Yet New York Times columnist Roger Cohen managed to botch the job last week. In his Thursday piece,...
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Holiday Cheers vs. Jeers as Pennsylvania Lottery Remakes 20-Year-Old...
Nothing says happy holidays like killing off a much-loved old commercial and replacing it with something almost identical yet totally different. The Pennsylvania Lottery has updated its "12 Days of...
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Game Maker Kills App That Lets You Mock-Assassinate Your Facebook Friends
Japanese video-game maker Square Enix tried to advertise its game Hitman: Absolution by allowing you to pretend to put a hit on your Facebook friends for a variety of appalling reasons. The...
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Merrill Edge Ages You Digitally to Scare You Into Retirement Planning
I knew dealing with brokers could take years off your life, but this is ridiculous. Merrill Edge, the online brokerage platform by Bank of America, puts a new wrinkle in financial planning with Face...
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Preteen Rapper and Dance Crew Recruited for Kids' Tablet Spot
Precocious kiddie talent is always a reliably entertaining route in youth marketing. Our favorite example is probably the crazy Weetabix spot with then-9-year-old British street-dance phenom Arizona...
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