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Stoli Is Running Topless Print Ads in Playboy's First Nudity-Free Issue
The first non-nudity issue of Playboy is here, and it actually does include some topless models—the vodka bottles in Stolichnaya's topical print ads by The Martin Agency. See the work below. And check...
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Jeep Is Making Limited-Edition Mud Masks for Adventure-Deprived City Jeeps
Jeep's 75th anniversary is going swimmingly, at least in terms of the marketing. The Fiat Chrysler brand ran those two great commercials on Super Bowl 50. And now comes a fun stunt from Jeep in...
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This Auto-Loan Brand's Colognes Can Help Anyone Smell Like a Dirty Pickup Truck
Old Spice gave us "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like." But what if you'd rather reek like a dusty old pickup rather than an average guy armed with a brand-name deodorant? At last month's North...
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This Pro Skier's Wild 'Centriphone' Experiment Is Better Than Most iPhone Ads
Nicolas Vuignier, a professional skier from Switzerland, went skiing down a mountain while swinging an iPhone 6 above his head like a snow cowboy. Now he has over 3 million views on a video he...
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Snickers Just Put the Most Epic Photoshop Fail on the Back of SI's Swimsuit...
The front cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue is trying to be a bit more progressive this year, with one of the three covers produced featuring plus-size model Ashley Graham. The back cover,...
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If You Love Cat Videos, You Need to Stop Smoking Now, Says Latest 'Truth' PSA
The venerable anti-smoking initiative Truth has tried just about everything to get people to stop smoking: edgy teens, cowboys with electronic voiceboxes, even earnest appeals to our health and...
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Extra Gum Follows Up 'Sarah & Juan' With a Real-Life Couple's Sad-Sweet Story
It's the third time around for Extra Gum, and things are suddenly getting real. The Wrigley's brand and Energy BBDO returned over Valentine's Day weekend with another tearjerker film, "A Second...
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Gym Creates 'Fit Nesting Dolls' to Show How You'll Shrink as You Exercise More
Lots of people join a gym at the beginning of the year, then quit within a few months. To keep customers coming back, CrossFit chain Brick and agency BBDO New York created a series of custom nesting...
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This McDonald's Billboard Near Whistler Gives Snow Reports via Espresso Drink...
Cossette in Vancouver has made another tasty McDonald's billboard that skiers and snowboarders heading to Whistler will think is pretty gnar. The ad uses real-time snowfall data to synchronize the...
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Aubrey Plaza Quietly Fails to Save the Free World in This New iPhone Commercial
Apple released a couple of new iPhone 6 commercials on Wednesday, and mostly they're feature focused, though Aubrey Plaza does have a cameo in "Less Time"—a spot about the 3D Touch feature that saves...
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If You've Ever Looked for a NYC Apartment, You'll Love These Brutally Wry Ads
Apartment hunting in New York City is a series of endless, gut-wrenching compromises. If you want this, you won't get that. If you must have that, you'll never get this. It's a math problem as much as...
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If You're Sick and Tired of Hipstery 'Maker' Culture, Watch This Hilarious...
Creatives everywhere fetishize maker culture and the glory of handmade creation. But the line between DIY authenticity and insufferable hipsterism is a thin one, and Internet videos celebrating maker...
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Honda Turns Kids' Cute Stories Into Ads Styled Like Little School Plays
Honda is the latest marketer to let kids help write its commercials. And the strategy is, as usual, a solid one. A pair of minute-long videos from RPA introduce "Storytime with Accord," a campaign...
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A Man Posted an R-Rated Personals Ad Seeking a Date at Red Lobster, and It's...
Do you love Red Lobster? Would you accompany a stranger to one of the seafood chain's locations in the greater New York area? You might just be the woman this Brooklyn man is seeking. In a (likely...
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Chloë Sevigny, Alec Baldwin Turn Back Into Kids in Kiehl's Anti-Aging...
Imagine an anti-aging cream so good it turns grown-ups back into children. Last week, Kiehl's and Paramount teamed up to promote Zoolander 2 ahead of its Feb. 12 launch with a real-life "Derek...
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Why These Museum Ads With Will Ferrell Make Me Really, Really Mad
The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum commissioned a campaign from creative agency Imaginary Forces to celebrate its renovation. They somehow got Will Ferrell to help them out, and from there, it's pretty...
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Spike Lee and His Agency Just Made This Film About Brooklyn the Brand
Maybe it was the 2014 Wall Street Journal article about how Parisians refer to everything from men's hats to Big Macs as "très Brooklyn." It could have been the subsequent New York Times trend piece...
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Asics Gets Down and Dirty, and Very Sweaty, in 180's 'Want It More' Campaign
Hey, athletes and gym rats, do you WANT IT MORE? If so, Asics has the perfect ad campaign for you. In this new global push from 180 Amsterdam and Smuggler director Henry Alex Rubin, the brand gets...
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BBDO Art Director Tells Us All About Snickers' Absurdly Photoshopped Swimsuit...
BBDO New York has a big hit with its Snickers print ad—placed on the back cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue—that shows a swimsuit model comically and disastrously Photoshopped by an...
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Facebook Made an Amazing Deck of Playing Cards With Marketing Insights for...
Facebook combined a playful concept with great design in this recent initiative to send its 2015 marketing insights to agencies—via a beautiful deck of 52 illustrated playing cards. The deck was made...
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