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Billboard Spits Out Men's Dress Shirts at the Drop of a Tweet
Finally, a billboard that isn't someone's random personals ad. Ogilvy India covered a billboard for clothing brand Allen Solly with shirts, then wired the shirts into a computer that randomly dropped...
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L.L. Bean Has a Laugh About Tumblr Saluting Its Hunky Models
All anyone here in Maine can talk about this week is Your LL Bean Boyfriend, a Tumblr started by Liz Pride, a native Mainer, dedicated to the hunky, outdoorsy dudes featured in the retailer's catalogs...
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Bad Gifts Make Good Comedy in Georgia Lottery's Holiday Ads
You know how, when someone gives you a horrible gift, you lie and say it's the perfect thing? Don't you wish could just exclaim, "Are you seriously trying to insult me with this?" Or, "You know what...
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Axe Pillow Ensures You'll Never Have to Snuggle With a Woman Again
We're all familiar with Axe's low-humming sexism, but DDB Latina Puerto Rico has gone through the looking glass with this idea. The Morning After Pillow might be the most egregious cure for a fake...
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Game of Thrones Takes Over HBO's Manhattan Storefront
Christmakwanzakah comes once a year, but dire wolf bookends are forever. And if you're a Game of Thrones fanatic, that piece of swag may be a must-have. HBO, like most entertainment companies, hopes...
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Ad Agency Person Looks Just Like Morning Television Person
What a resemblance! Nicole Kuhnlein, a senior producer at North Carolina ad agency McKinney, was on the Today show this morning because she looks exactly like Savannah Guthrie. Kuhnlein, 33, says her...
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Happy Horrible Holidays From the Biggest Trolls on the Ad Blogs
Hey, ad industry, stuff this in your holiday stocking!"Warm Wishes From Ad Land" presents some choice anonymous comments left on ad blogs AgencySpy, Ads of the World and Campaign Brief. (None are from...
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Jason Sadler Becomes Jason HeadsetsDotCom as Name Auction Ends
What's in a name? $45,500, that's what. Jason Sadler will receive that amount for legally becoming "Jason HeadsetsDotCom" and promoting the name change through social media and other means next year....
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Paintball Gets Kid Friendly With the JT SplatMaster
Behold this new kid's product—with national TV ads breaking this holiday—and try hard not to conjure the familiar refrain, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" It's called the JT SplatMaster, if that...
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Woman Sings the Stanley Steemer Jingle in Bunch of Different Styles
New York artist Mia Gentile put together this three-minute video of herself singing the Stanley Steemer jingle in a variety of styles (and outfits). She also made it clear that she isn't contributing...
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Massive Yellow Rubber Duck Drifts Down River Thames in Ad Stunt
Not so long ago, England had an empire on which the sun never set. These days, it's got a 50-foot-tall rubber duck sailing down the Thames. Nice going, Brits! Games site Jackpotjoy orchestrated the...
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Santa Claus Never Met a Product He Didn't Want to Endorse
Jolly old fat dude Santa Claus is a pop-culture icon, but he's technically not a licensed entertainment character. He's in the public domain, which means he's always been up for grabs as a brand...
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Ad Agency Tests Snack Food's Allure on Mindless Human Lab Rats
Australian mall rats dress up in mouse costumes and run on a giant wheel inside a cage in this latest installment of Clemenger BBDO's borderline sadistic "How far will you go for Fantastic Delites?"...
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University of Chicago Confused by Crazy, Wonderful Indiana Jones Package
"If you're an applicant and sent this to us: Why? How? Did you make it? Why so awesome?" These and many more questions are being asked this week by the University of Chicago admissions department,...
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4-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Stars in Marks & Spencer's Christmas Campaign
Marks & Spencer's use of 4-year-old Seb White (at bottom right), a little boy with Down syndrome, in its Christmas ad and catalog this year is being hailed as a bold, and long overdue, step...
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Oreo Completes World Domination With 5,000-Cookie Delivery to Antarctica
Amundsen and Scott could have used a delivery like this. Oreo has dramatically improved the tastiness of food in Antarctica by surprising scientists at the remote Palmer Station with 5,000 Oreo...
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The 30 Freakiest Ads of 2012
Ninety-eight percent of advertising is predictably, often painfully safe. Is the opposite any better? Not always. But it gets points, at least, for not being formulaic—for trying to surprise viewers,...
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A Cappella Singing Is Harder in Backseat of a Speeding BMW
Ho ho ... hum. Guess how "Jingle Bells" sounds when sung by an a cappella choir riding in the backseat of a wildly speeding and skidding BMW driven by a professional race-car driver. If you said...
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Brazilian Fast-Food Chain Puts Burgers in Edible Wrappers
Brazilian fast-food chain Bob's has come up with edible packaging for its burgers, just to make the point that people love its food so much that they can't even wait to unwrap it before digging in....
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What People Will Really Pay for a Game When They Can Pay What They Want
Ever wish you could buy 1,000 liters of boar sperm? How about a condom for every resident of El Paso, Texas? If so, you might want to create the next popular card game. Each of those purchases would...
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