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Unwrapped Condoms Spell Out the Headlines on These STD Awareness Ads
Back in September, Get Checked Omaha created a zombie-themed TV ad in response to news that the city has exceptionally high STD rates. In Douglas County, infection rates are 30 to 50 percent higher...
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What Kills Creativity? This Video Explains the Biggest Mistake a Brand Can Make
DBD International, the strategic design and branding agency led by David Brier, has just released its own philosophy on what ROI represents: Return on ingenuity. It isn't the first time we've seen a...
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Striking Campaign About the ABCs of Illiteracy Shows How It Fuels Extremism...
Despite rapid advances in technology and medicine, nearly 17 percent of the world's adult population (totaling 775 million people) remains completely illiterate. In certain parts of the world, as many...
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In Clever Extension of 'Got Milk?' Boy Scouts Sell the Perfect Complement for...
Eating cookies without milk is like enjoying a spoonful of peanut butter without a heavy dose of chocolate. It doesn't make sense and leaves you feeling completely empty inside. And yet the Girl...
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Arby's Will Offer a Meatless Menu on Leap Day, but It's Basically Just...
Arby's has found yet another way to talk about its meat—this time by getting rid of it. On Leap Day, Feb. 29, the protein-proud fast-food chain will offer "vegetarian" menu options, which basically...
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McDonald's Is Now Making Happy Meal Boxes That Turn Into Virtual Reality...
McDonald's Sweden is launching a promotion that invites kids to turn Happy Meal boxes into virtual-reality viewers. Dubbed Happy Goggles, some 3,500 of them will be made available at 14 restaurants...
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94-Year-Old Iris Apfel Is Cooler Than You'll Ever Be, as the New Face of Two...
Iris Apfel is the unlikely but unquestionably perfect new face of not one but two brands right now: Australian fashion label Blue Illusion and the new DS 3 car in the U.K. and France. Why is a...
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Kohl's Had an Oscar Night to Remember With Its Funny Lip-Dub Acceptance...
A few days ago, Anomaly and Huge debuted the first spot in their Kohl's Oscars campaign, which took a snippet of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s 1997 acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor ... and put it in...
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Total Beauty Offers $10,000 to Charity After Mixing Up Black Stars on...
There's never a good time for a beauty site to publicly mix up two of Hollywood's top black celebrities, but last night's Oscars was an especially poor moment. Amid an evening largely defined by...
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Geico Fast-Forwards Through Its Latest Clever Prerolls, but You Might Want to...
Geico and The Martin Agency had a huge hit with their "Unskippable" preroll campaign on YouTube last year, which Adweek named the best campaign of 2015. This year's follow-up campaign, though, needed...
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Burger King Had a Pretty Good Comeback to That Big, Insulting McDonald's...
Last week, we wrote about that obnoxious and ludicrous (and OK, pretty entertaining) McDonald's billboard in France that displayed absurdly lengthy driving directions to the nearest Burger King...
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Samsung's First Galaxy S7 Ads Are Dorky, Endearing and Packed With Perfect...
Today's best celebrity ad appearances include a healthy dose of self-mockery, and Samsung might have just set the bar with its new Galaxy S7 spots from Wieden + Kennedy. Hard to miss during Sunday...
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M&M's Unveils 75th Anniversary Spot Featuring Zedd and Aloe Blacc's 'Candyman'
M&M's turn 75 years old this Thursday, and the Mars brand is beginning a year-long birthday celebration with a musical collaboration between Zedd and Aloe Blacc, who have reinterpreted Sammy Davis...
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This Video Game's End-of-the-World Simulator Is Scary, and It's All Your Fault
In partnership with Ubisoft—and for the launch of role-playing game The Division, based on a Tom Clancy novel—Paris agency BETC created "Collapse." This choose-your-own-adventure style online...
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If You Run Fast Enough Past This Reebok Ad, It Unlocks a Free Pair of Sneakers
Sneaker brands are fond of running challenges, and they can make for some cool ad stunts. Asics has done this for years, running outdoor ads that challenged people to race against a digital image of...
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Travelocity Has a New Agency but the Same Old Gnome in 'Wander Wisely' Campaign
Travelocity may have parted ways with the agency that created its famous Roaming Gnome character, but the pint-sized spokesman is still a fixture in the online travel agency's advertising—and now he's...
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Diabolical House of Cards Ads in D.C. Metro Reference a Crime Committed There...
New ads for House of Cards reference a now-infamous scene early in Season 2 where—spoiler alert—Frank Underwood pushes a certain aquaintance in front of a D.C. Metro train. Meant to look like...
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Striking Ad for Earth Hour Begins With an Old Woman in 2090 and Backtracks to...
Iris Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund put together some weapons-grade wishful thinking with this new spot for the WWF's Earth Hour event. With help from a little girl's narration, the ad...
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The 2016 Election Just Got Even Weirder With a Racy Debate Between Trojan...
Happy Super Tuesday! This year's election got strange long ago, so surely you won't mind this latest oddity—a mock debate between various Trojan condom products spouting endless sexual innuendo. Even...
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How an R/GA Designer Dreamed Up a Way for Anyone to Take the Most Creative...
Does your idea of the perfect vacation involve doing absolutely nothing, with your feet in the sand and your paws on a piña colada? Please move along. There's nothing to see here. If you are, instead,...
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