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Agencies on Canal Street Are Waging a Post-it-Note War, and It's Awesome
It started out, reportedly, with a single word: "HI." That was early last week. By the weekend, a full-blown Post-it note art war had erupted on Canal Street in New York City, with a number of...
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Champion Swimmer Ian Thorpe Pitches Thorpedo Pool Cleaning Service to...
Ad agencies will eventually tire of fake documentary videos, we promise—but not before Optus has a chance to reveal that, yes, Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe's Thorpedo Pool Cleaning ad was a joke.read more
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Agency Post-it Wars Are Spreading, as Other Shops (and Even 3M) Join the Fun
There was a time when a big company like 3M might have sent a nasty letter to the agencies waging a Post-it war on Canal Street—telling them to quit sullying its brand name in social posts. These...
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Nike Is Giving Away Kyrie Irving's New Sneaker Boxed Up Like Krispy Kremes
Kyrie Irving has an arsenal of secret tricks that make him great at basketball, but his latest reveal may be his most surprising edge yet—his own personal donut. read more
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Here's the Best Reason Yet to Put Cats on Every Ad Space in This London Tube...
Hundreds of years from now, a new bionic race of human beings will look back on this moment—among other vestiges of our time—and conclude we all shared a god after all. (It's happened before.)...
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Introducing the Handys, the Award Show for Advertising's Biggest Wankers
Advertising awards have reached peak honesty with the Handys, a new (fake) show that isn't a show at all—it's an app where you get a prize just for shaking your phone up and down like a real wanker....
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This French Insurance Ad Warmly Spotlights Society's Invisible Heroes Who...
This is for the tree-climbers. France's GMF is the leading insurer of public sector workers. But, typical of the modest sector it serves, it's spent the past 80 years of its existence running ads that...
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This Disney Agency Took Us Inside Its Live 'Mad Hatter' Poster With Johnny Depp
Last week we showed you a pretty cool livestreamed movie poster at Disneyland, featuring Johnny Depp interacting with fans in real time as the Mad Hatter from the upcoming Disney film Through the...
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This Brooklyn Agency Made Its Logo and Brand Identity Out of the Partners' DNA
Agencies talk a lot about brand DNA. Well, this Brooklyn agency's brand is its DNA. Travis Weihermuller and Dominic Santalucia want their shop, lifeblood, to explore "what makes us human." So, they...
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Craft Brewers Teamed Up to Make a Single Beer, With 4,490 Brewery Names on...
This week is American Craft Beer Week. To celebrate, craft brewers have teamed up to create a single beer, which is being made using the same recipe by more than 100 craft brewers—and in an act of...
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TBWA Made a Provocative Floating Tribute to Syrian Refugees Who Died at Sea
Last month, more than 200 gravestones appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, about 200 meters off the Aegean coast of Turkey. Made of waterproof styrofoam that resembled marble, and anchored with weights,...
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Sainsbury's Asked Artists for Free Work, So Artists Asked Sainsbury's for...
A Sainsbury's supermarket in England recently put out an ad seeing an "ambitious artist to voluntarily refurbish our canteen." But what they really need is a scotobiologist, since all they got in...
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Airbnb's Cool Retro Ads for the Brooklyn Half Marathon Ask You to (Gasp) Call...
Airbnb is going old school in its newest local campaign—promoting New York businesses with a phone tree. To support its sponsorship of the upcoming Airbnb Brooklyn Half Marathon, the hospitality tech...
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Ray-Ban Is Latest Brand to Have People Stare at Each Other for 4 Minutes and...
In yet another recreation of a 1997 experiment to try to get people to fall in love, Ray-Ban got a bunch of carefully chosen strangers to answer questions and look into each other's eyes for four...
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Stella Artois' Special Cans for the Cannes Film Festival Are a Story in...
For this year's Cannes Film Festival, BBDO created four limited-edition beer-can designs for Stella Artois. But instead of promoting the brand's values in a traditional way—flashier takes on the logo...
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This Agency Made Edible Six-Pack Beer Rings to Feed Marine Life Instead of...
Remember all those classic PSA posters showing fish, birds and other wildlife caught in the deadly clutches of bags, bottles and the deadly plastic rings that hold your beer and soda cans together?...
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Royal Danish Theatre Just Put Out a Truly Crazy Paean to the Creative Process
The ballerinas at the Royal Danish Theatre are not messing around. Tutu-clad dancers wield AK-47s in a new ad for the theater, celebrating the many hands and hard work that go into putting on a...
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Aeromexico Takes Aim at Trump With a Gritty, Defiant Ad About Walls and Borders
"Borders. Has anything good ever come of them?" asks a voiceover in the spot below, as gray-scale images of walls, fences and "No Trespassing" signs speed past."Separation? Limits? I've seen as many as...
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50 Cent Takes You 'In Da Hostel' for MTV Cribs-Style Tour in Amusing Ad for...
Hostels are a great option for young travelers on a budget. But who really wants to share a room with a sketchy girl who sleepwalks and a guy who smells like he bathes in aftershave that smells like...
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This Agency Built an Online Library of Orgasms to Teach Us What Pleasure...
Here's a weird secret: I'm pretty sure the orgasm sounds I make with partners have been influenced by porn. Now you know more about me than my doctor does. Why I'm feeding you creepy personal facts:...
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