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Dove Moves Away From Social Experiments in Its Latest Ad About Loving Your Hair
Women buck hair conventions in Dove's latest campaign, from Havas Helia, which tells women they should wear their hair however they like—despite societal pressures to fit into narrow standards of what...
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Google Translate Totally Fails Foreign Couples Trying to Say Their Wedding...
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to join these couples in holy matrimony. And to compare ElaN Languages with Google Translate when it comes to translating international couple's wedding vows,...
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Here Are the Year's 4 Best Out-of-Home Campaigns, as Judged by the OBIE Awards
The Outdoor Advertising Association of America gave out its 2016 OBIE Awards for the year's best out-of-home advertising in Boca Raton, Fla., this week. Four agencies walked off with Best of Show...
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Canadian Banking Ad Asks, What If Dogs Had Their Own Debit Cards?
That dog won't hunt, but it will rack up debt via chew-toy impulse buys. Canada's Zulu Alpha Kilo is well known for elaborate self-promotions, like its recently revamped agency website poking fun at...
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Brands Post Tributes to Prince, but Struggle to Make Them Heartfelt and Not...
It's a tragic day, as one of the most gifted musicians of the modern era has passed. Despite his moniker, Prince, who died Thursday at 57, was a king among men and will live on only through memory and...
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Celebrate Earth Day With Earth Porn, Featuring the Sexiest Stock Nature...
It's time to love Mother Earth a little harder. Stock film company Framepool, with help from ad agency McKinney, has produced the sexiest of natural landscape videos for Earth Day today—featuring hard...
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Ikea Just Made One of Its Loveliest Ads Yet About the Beauty of Everyday Life
Ikea drives home the notion that little things mean a lot—and ultimately aren't so little—in "Wonderful Life," an evocative 90-second ad from Mother London.read more
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These Inmates Learn Social Media by Sending and Receiving Tweets Sewn on...
A new campaign titled "Tweet from Prison," created by Dubai-based agency Tonic International, blends rehabilitation, recycling and social media into an unusual message. Italian fashion line Made in...
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Chevy's 'Little Red Corvette' Tribute to Prince Is So Good, It's Running in...
Brand tributes to Prince following his death Thursday at age 57 have been hit or miss. But Chevrolet's Corvette tribute was among the best—a lovely minimalist message from a brand that the singer...
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The House From Psycho Is Suddenly Sitting on Top of the Metropolitan Museum...
Art museums are getting good at presenting fascinating works of PR—sorry, art. Earlier this year, the Art Institute of Chicago built an amazing livable model of Van Gogh's "Bedroom" to promote an...
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Need Some New Digs? Coldwell Banker Has Put the X-Men's X-Mansion Up for Sale
In advance of the X-Men: Apocalypse release next month, and in partnership with 20th Century Fox, Coldwell Banker has created a fun, fictional listing for the X-Men's X-Mansion. Retailing for a mere...
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Artist Furnishes Manholes Like Little Apartments to Draw Attention to...
Not to be outdone by recent, socially-conscious publicity stunts, Italian artist Biancoshock made one of his own in Milan, decorating a series of manholes like rooms in an apartment.read more
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Testicles Give Amusing 'Testi-Monials' in This Straight-Talking Anti-Cancer...
We started the week with testicle-themed advertising, and now we come full circle. Men don't really like to talk about testicular cancer. But the testicles themselves certainly do, judging by this...
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39 Great Ad Copywriters Just Got Book Jackets for Novels They Haven't Written
Some of the biggest creative names in advertising just received snail-mailed prototypes of book jacket designs ... for novels they haven't yet written. It's all part of an ambitious call for entries...
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Honda Says If You Can't Do This While Texting, You Shouldn't Drive While...
Since April is apparently Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Honda is running a series of short videos called #PhoneDownEyesUp that urge us to respect our own limits when it comes to multi-tasking....
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's Fridge Is a Love Nest in Samsung's Adorable...
Painfully cute real-life celebrity couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard add another painfully cute Samsung spot to their résumés today, as the electronics retailer has recruited the pair to introduce...
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This Dishwashing Liquid Says One Drop Does the Job, So It Made Single-Drop...
A little dab'll do ya. Of Pril dishwashing liquid, that is, which has claimed for years that it can get any job done, no matter how greasy, with a single drop. And these are no empty claims: In 2008,...
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Alabama Governor's Sex Scandal Just Inspired a Beer With the Grabbiest Label...
Alabama may be in a sour spotlight after its governor admitted making sexually charged remarks to a onetime senior adviser. But one brewery in the state is sweetening the situation by putting the...
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These Agency Creatives Really, Really Want You to #UnfollowTrump on Twitter
Many people working in advertising prefer not to broadcast their personal political beliefs for fear of upsetting the often delicate client/agency balance—and giving their PR teams something else to...
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The Toronto Silent Film Festival Just Built an Escape Room Entirely on Instagram
We don't know how it happened—a human compulsion for puzzle-solving, coupled with a fun flirtation with claustrophobia?—but escape rooms are huge. Every third agency we know takes a client to one...
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