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Taco Bell Cleverly Crashed These 5 Local Super Bowl Ads With Its Quesalupa
Taco Bell and Deutsch made some fun regional media buys during the Super Bowl, recruiting local advertisers in five markets to create normal-looking ads for their own businesses—that suddenly became a...
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Benetton Used Facial Recognition to Find a Single 'Face of the City' for 6...
To promote Benetton's Carnival Capsule Collection, dubbed "a celebration of color in all its shades," 180 Amsterdam came up with an idea that gives the company's cause-facing manifesto a modern twist....
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Russell Westbrook Gets the Best Hype Man Ever in Bravado-Packed Jordan Ad
The new Air Jordan XXX sneakers on Russell Westbrook's feet might actually be spaceships, a new commercial suggests—so everyone should probably get out of his way. The Oklahoma City Thunder point...
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Doritos Ketchup Roses: The Tart, Crunchy Way to Say 'I Love You' This...
Forget candy and flowers. Canadian Doritos fans have a much quirkier way to show their love—with a bouquet of ketchup-flavored Doritos roses. The bouquets, the brainchild of BBDO Toronto, are geared...
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This Poignant Anti-Bullying Film Was Created by a 13-Year-Old Boy From Ireland
Online bullying leaves real scars, argues a compelling short video from one young victim. Luke Culhane, a 13-year-old from Ireland, produced, edited and stars in the two-and-a-half minute film. In it,...
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These Valentine's Day Sweetheart Candies Have Sexy Messages Just for Ad People
The folks at Calgary, Alberta, ad agency Evans Hunt really love their clients. In fact, they might be in love with them. That's judging by their Valentine's Day campaign to send custom sweethearts...
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This Agency Creative Director Compiles the World's Weirdest Pinterest Boards
There are two persistent clichés about Pinterest—that its users are mostly women, and that it's a less fruitful social platform for creativity than networks like Twitter and Facebook. "I definitely...
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Netflix and Chill? Here's How the Streaming Site Really Influences Dating
To the public, "Netflix and chill" is just a euphemism for casual sex—or any unspoken intentions thereof—conceived in residual Puritanical shame. For Netflix, though, it's the best kind of product...
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Can a Biotech Group Change the Conversation With an Emotional Ad About Time?
The human body is a time machine. Treatments and products developed by the biotech industry keep its parts in good order, extending our stays on the planet and allowing us to lead richer lives. That's...
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A Bank Set Up This 10-Foot-Tall ATM to Celebrate the Arrival of NBA All-Stars
It's not often you find yourself admiring a super inconvenient banking feature, but this time is a worthwhile exception. BMO Financial, also known as Bank of Montreal, sparked some digital buzz this...
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A Ventriloquist Betrays His Dummy in One of the Strangest Haircut Commercials...
Whether you're cleaning up your current look, trying something new or betraying your ventriloquist dummy, a Great Clips haircut is a step in the right direction. That third point is the subject of the...
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Didier Drogba and YouTuber Fun for Louis Star in KitKat's New Global Ads...
Nestlé is touting Kit Kat's commitment to sustainable cocoa farming with a new series of ads set in the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire)—starring Didier Drogba. The international soccer celebrity, who...
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If Your Calendar Is Screaming FML, It's Time for a Vacation, Say These Clever...
Nobody has time to go away. We're booked to the hilt and stumble from weekend to weekend, at which time we come up for air and realize that six months have passed. If you're still crawling back into...
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This Agency Made a Gift Registry Asking for Absurdly Lavish Presents for Its...
Doner is coming out, and it wants the world to know. The agency has chosen an amusing way to announce its move into a new office in Los Angeles via a not-so-humble request for lots of very, very...
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Leo Burnett Built a Livable Model of Van Gogh's 'Bedroom' That You Can Rent...
From igloos to Netflix and Chill, Airbnb fans have an awesomely quirky variety of accommodation options to choose from these days. And starting Sunday, art geeks can live out their Van Gogh fantasies...
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Nike Athletes Dropped Some Insane Product on Fans in San Francisco Last Weekend
While many advertisers were shelling out millions of dollars for TV slots on the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday, Nike was on the ground in San Francisco getting much more up close and personal with...
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This Interactive Split-Screen Film From Converse Is a Valentine's Ad You Can...
Converse is out with a three-minute bit of artistic voyeurism ... and it's great. Titled "Lovesick: Converse Couples," the commercial puts split-screen to exceptional use, telling the stories of...
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NASA's Gorgeous New Space Tourism Posters Are Retro-Futuristic and Fantastic
Between Interstellar and The Martian, NASA's enjoying a banner pop culture revival. To tap into that growing awareness of what lies before us, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab commissioned...
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British Ad Creative Covers Copenhagen With Fliers Looking for Love on...
David Felton appears to be a fan of direct marketing. The British advertising creative, who recently moved from New York City to Copenhagen, has been having trouble finding dates in Denmark. So, for...
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University of Phoenix Tries to Hush Haters With a Wry Rendition of 'If I Only...
After a brutal few years, the University of Phoenix is ready to rise from the ashes. The largely online, for-profit school is trying to turn its struggling business around—while fighting negative...
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