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Stephen Fry Offers a Hilarious Guide to British Etiquette for Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport has gotten Stephen Fry, a well-known British person, to take the piss out of British manners. The video below functions as both a guide to etiquette and a guide to British humor, as...
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Netflix's Content Chief Just Perfectly Summarized How the TV Industry's Been...
Netflix execs had a lot to say at the streaming giant's CES keynote today, but amid all the flashy trailers and big global news, one compelling tidbit was largely overlooked. CEO Reed Hastings was...
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Old Spice Has a New Spokesman, and He's Legendary in an Utterly Foolish Kind...
Sweat. It's the reason men have never quite reached their full potential ... until now, Old Spice's latest campaign proclaims. Its new line of body wash and antiperspirant comes with a new spokesman,...
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Are You Out There, Gary? Classified Ad Seeks This Girl's Father, Last Seen in...
Here's your classified ad of the day. A freewheeling 1960s fling between a nurse and a pharmaceutical salesman led to the birth of a baby girl in 1970 who never met her father. The father likely has...
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It's Dolph Lundgren's Turn to Make a Comedic Comeback in an Ad
Probably after seeing his Rocky IV nemesis Sylvester Stallone in all those Warburtons ads, Dolph Lundgren (or, if you prefer, Ivan Drago) has signed up for a commercial project of his own—the promo...
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Barbasol, Jake From State Farm, Applebee's and Totinos Won Twitter Today With...
Brands can be very responsive to people on Twitter, particularly if you are a person named Kim KardashMolon. A few hours ago, this user messaged Totinos, Applebee's, Jake From State Farm, Barbasol,...
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What This Ad Creative Learned From Emailing All 1,109 of His LinkedIn Contacts
Do you find professional value in LinkedIn beyond the occasional glance at someone else's work history? Or is mostly a wasteland of connections made, then forgotten. A year ago, San Francisco-based...
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Belgium's Top Ad Execs Are Donating Sperm and Eggs to Ensure the Nation's...
People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level. The country is extremely proud of its creative reputation. In four years, it has won 78 Cannes Lions, which...
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This Anti-Bullying Ad Tells the Story of a Girl Whose Brave Facebook Photo...
Here's a touching illustration of how social media can combat the effects of bullying. More than a year ago, a little girl reached out to advocacy group The Bully Project after catching flak at...
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Chevrolet Took All the Branding Off This Malibu to See What People Really...
The Chevrolet Malibu is the Folgers Crystals of automobiles—people think it's amazing partly because they don't know what it is—in this latest "Real People, Not Actors" spot from Commonwealth/McCann....
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Thai Brand Apologizes for Blackface Ad That Said 'You Just Need to Be White...
A Thai company has apologized for producing an ad for a skin-whitening product that featured a woman in blackface and suggested people with dark skin are losers. The company, Seoul Secret, pulled the...
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Alligator, Space Invader: The Many Faces of David Bowie in Advertising
In losing David Bowie, we lost an avatar. But you knew that already. Here's a retrospective of Bowie's many appearances in advertising, which are as diverse as the man himself. His close relationship...
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This Jeweler Just Recast the Traditional Proposal Ad With a Rockin' Young...
The combined disposable income of LGBTQ Americans is $884 billion annually. And BVW Jewelers of Reno, Nev., wants a taste. Its most recent ad shows two women kissing on the Crystal Peak Toll Bridge...
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Pepsi Has a Huge Hit in China With This Fascinating Ad About the 'Monkey...
In China, this PepsiCo video about an actor who portrays a "Monkey King" is an absolute beast, racking up, by some accounts, more than 20 million views in two weeks across various versions and...
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Boom Beach Started Its New Campaign on TV and Will End It in the Game This...
If you like absurd cartoon supervillains, here's a campaign for you. Mobile game maker Supercell and New York agency Barton F. Graf 9000 are hyping strategy game Boom Beach with a series of ads...
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For $1, You Can Get Your Name in the Credits of a Campaign Being Entered in...
If you thought ad awards were all about the money—well, it seems you were right. In a cheeky stunt, Canadian agency Rethink is crowdfunding a campaign whose credit list is for sale. For just $1, you...
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Allstate's Mayhem Re-enacts a Homeowner's Real-Life DIY Disaster for the...
Dean Winters is into year seven of his gig as Allstate's "Mayhem" character, but this time—for the first time—he's playing a real-life person whose dangerous ineptitude could have ended really, really...
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This Insane Ad About Australian Grilled Lamb Is Sparking Controversy Down Under
An apparently lighthearted ad celebrating Australia Day is drawing fire in that country for being culturally insensitive. In the commercial for farming group Meat and Livestock Australia, the country...
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Celebrity Cruises Plays a Giant Psychic Game of Marco Polo in This Ambitious...
If you hear voices beckoning you to take a luxury cruise—or you feel an indescribable urge to whisper "Polo" into your coffee cup—Celebrity Cruises might be calling to you. Venables Bell &...
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'Be an Engineer,' Exxon Mobil Tells Apathetic Young People in Equally...
Let's imagine a world without engineers. What does that look and feel like? It's upon this thought experiment that BBDO New York embarks in "Be an Engineer," an effort by Exxon Mobil to motivate young...
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