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Don't Get 'Nugged' for Your Nuggets, Warns Jack in the Box
With "nugging," Jack in the Box may think it's invented a cute new slang term for the act of stealing someone's chicken nuggets. But apparently nugging is already a thing. Actually, it's three things,...
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Dating Site Urges You to Listen to Your Vile, Lecherous Heart
Dating site Zoosk, aka "The romantic social network," has already gotten some good press for its wacky ads. This latest one—in which a single woman's heart, personified as a fanciful puppet, makes out...
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Allstate Features Home Ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in Ad, but Fights Owners on...
Allstate finds itself weathering a storm of bad publicity owing to a recent commercial that showed its "agents of good" rushing in to provide assistance in the wake of the devastation caused by...
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Toothless Girl Just Wants You to Smile in New Ad for 'The Sun'
Grey London has followed up last summer's great commercial for The Sun with this ad in which a little girl with a mouth like an old hockey player (her missing teeth, I mean, not her language) sings...
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Grey Uses the New Facebook Poke to Create Self-Destructing Ads for Lingerie
Facebook has redesigned its Poke feature to allow people to send their friends video clips that self-destruct 10 seconds after opening. "Hey, that would be great for safe sexting!" you probably...
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The Week on AdFreak: Dec. 28, 2012-Jan. 4, 2013
Here are the five most-read AdFreak posts from the past week: 5. Allstate Features Home Ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in Ad, but Fights Owners on Claim 4. Fiat Raps About Motherhood and Faking Orgasms 3....
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App Tells You Which Facebook Friend Will Give You the Flu
App-choo! Boutique OTC pharma company Help Remedies and production house Tool of North America present a tongue-in-cheek Facebook app called "Help, I have the flu" that lets users figure out which of...
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With Help From His Friends, Warren Ellis Gets Spiffy Trailer for New Novel
In case you haven't been paying attention, books now need video trailers. And they're getting to be extensive affairs, like this excellent one for Warren Ellis's new novel, Gun Machine. Ellis made his...
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Cable Is Disgustingly Awful and Satellite Is Monstrously Great, Says DirecTV
DirecTV and ad agency Grey in New York put out some of the funniest ads of 2012. They kick off 2013 in amusing fashion, too, with this spot for the satellite company's Genie whole-home DVR. Tom Kuntz...
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Taco Bell Agrees to Send Facebook Fan a Custom 'Think Outside the Buns' Speedo
Taco Bell's Twitter feed is notoriously lively. Whoever's manning its Facebook page is a bit of a wiseacre, too, but not in a bad way. When a high-school swimmer from Illinois—a self-described devoted...
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New York Lottery Multiplies the Insanity in Latest Spot
DDB New York and MJZ directors The Perlorian Brothers have teamed up for another wacky New York Lottery spot, this time pushing the client's January Multiplier Scratch-Off Games. The new ad asks you...
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Pros and Cons of 5 Doritos 'Crash the Super Bowl' Finalists
Two dogs, one bear, one blind man, two kids, five men in women's clothing, one blow to the crotch, one screaming goat. Those are the key figures for this year's Crash the Super Bowl, presented by...
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McDonald's 60-Second Meals in Japan Aren't Going So Well
In Japan, McDonald's apparently has a reputation for consistent quality and efficiency. But those traits are clearly in jeopardy, thanks to the burger chain's new pledge there to serve your meal in...
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KFC Apologizes for Serving Chicken Brain and/or Kidney to U.K. Student
KFC food is often described as nasty, but no one will want to double down on this particular menu item. The fast-food chain has apologized to a U.K. student who found what looked like a chicken brain...
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Street Newspaper Lets You Book Nights Where Homeless Sleep
Ten locations around Gothenburg, Sweden, where the city's homeless might sleep are presented as "hotel rooms" in this campaign by ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors. Folks can "book" the sites, which...
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Queen Places Help-Wanted Ad Seeking Royal Dishwasher
I never thought the Queen of England would have to suffer the indignity of placing a help-wanted ad, but apparently the chance to make £14,200 a year washing her dishes won't sell itself. The vacancy...
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Trade Your Homosexuality for a Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich!
Here's a decent deal if you're gay, but you still somehow love Chick-fil-A: Renounce your homosexuality, and get a free chicken sandwich! The prank promotion, playing off Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's...
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Mother of Tucson Shooting Victim Stars in Bloomberg's New Gun-Control Ad
Mike Bloomberg continues to push his national gun law initiative with this new ad featuring Roxanna Green, whose 9-year-old daughter was killed in the same Tucson, Ariz., shooting that almost took the...
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Humans Celebrate Arrival of McDonald's Chicken Asteroid From Outer Space
Whatever propaganda McDonald's Canada is spewing about the origins of the chain's food, McDonald's U.K. knows the real truth—it's cooked up on another planet and hurled Earthward, where humans embrace...
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MAC Puts Female Bodybuilder in a Cosmetics Ad
Ninety-nine percent of female fashion and body-related advertising hews to the same basic Western expression of ideal feminine beauty—i.e., slim to the point of waifish. Not this MAC cosmetics ad. It...
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