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Check Out 2016's Best Halloween Ads and Stunts From Brands and Agencies
Happy Halloween! Agencies and brands are always fond of scare tactics at this time of year. We've been tracking some of 2016's better Halloween pranks—check them out below. We'll be updating this post...
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An Art Director Carved the Coolest 'Stranger Things' Pumpkin You'll See This...
Quite a few amateur costume designers have already appeared in Halloween listicles this year for costumes inspired by the supernatural Netflix smash Stranger Things. But who thought anyone could bring...
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Twitter Puts Visual Hashtags on a Sweeping Series of Issue-Themed Outdoor Ads...
A week out from Election Day, Twitter is launching a big out-of-home ad campaign that uses visual hashtags—i.e., the hashtag symbol paired with images—to position the site as the place where...
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Cats Totally Destroy a Holiday Wonderland in This Raucous Ad for Temptations...
Cats on Christmas Day, capering beneath an impeccably trimmed tree among the presents, sparkly lights and festive food. Sounds cute and cuddly, right? Nah, the aww's turn to argh's as those Santa...
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How This Poster in a Women's Restroom at a Bar Cleverly Combats Sexual Assault
A county council in England has come up with a clever and discreet way of combatting sexual violence and abuse. A photo posted to Twitter (and retweeted almost 30,000 times) shows a poster in the...
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Krispy Kreme Hid Cameras in Its Donut Boxes to Film People's Unscripted...
A Krispy Kreme box has quite the Pavlovian effect on the donut-crazed populace. This is demonstrated in novel fashion by North Carolina agency Baldwin& in its latest effort for the brand, in which...
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Hollywood Not Vine: Why Movie Studios Never Really Embraced the 6-Second Video
Pour out a 40 and loop the video repeatedly until you scroll away for Vine. Twitter announced last week that it's discontinuing the mobile app, which allowed people to shoot and instantly share short...
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The Green Starbucks Cup, Designed to Bring People Together, Is Just Another...
Heading into the holiday season, Starbucks wants Americans to feel united again after a brutal election season. But Americans clearly just aren't ready for that. They want to fight—over the color of a...
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Burberry Tells Its Founder's Story in a Beautifully Made Holiday Ad That's...
If Thomas Burberry, the founder of the eponymous fashion label, were to star in an early 19th century biopic, it would be a dazzling tale of love, adventure, war and ambition. It would all revolve...
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How Do You Promote an Indestructible Lawn Mower? With a Press Release Made of...
We've seen a lot of intentionallysillypress releases over the years. But this one, sent out by Colle+McVoy for client Cub Cadet, is not kidding around. The Minneapolis agency recently helped the...
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A NYC Folk Hero and a German Car-Rental Brand Teamed Up for This Bizarre...
Did you think you'd heard the last of Jimmy McMillan, hirsute founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High party? Just because he "retired" late last year, calling New York voters "brainwashed," doesn't mean...
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A California State Senate Candidate Made the Year's Most Star-Studded,...
Down-ballot races have been contentious this political season, as none of the contenders really know how the bitterly contested presidential race will affect them. So candidates are getting creative....
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Apple Brings the iPhone 7 to Game 7, Springing for a Slot on the World Series...
We don't know whether the Chicago Cubs or the Cleveland Indians will emerge victorious in tonight's historic World Series Game 7. But we can predict one winner in advance—the bronzed bloke from...
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Here's the Lovely Salute to the Cubs That Nike Aired After the Final Out of...
Timing is everything. It was true early Thursday morning for the Chicago Cubs, who are World Series champions after 108 years of futility. And it was true for Nike, which used the first ad slot after...
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Budweiser Ran This Classic '80s Ad With Harry Caray Right After the World...
Nike wasn't the only brand that was prepared for a Chicago Cubs victory in the World Series last night—with a special commercial ready to go right after the final out. Budweiser also rose to the...
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ESPN Honored the Cubs' Win With One of the Better 'This Is SportsCenter' Ads...
It seems Wieden + Kennedy was pretty busy in the lead-up to the World Series. The agency's Portland, Ore., office created this lovely Cubs tribute on behalf of Nike that aired on Fox right after the...
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Motorola Brings Back 'Hello Moto,' Takes Shots at the iPhone in First TV Ad...
Apple's latest iPhone rollout wasn't a game changer. Samsung's was a disaster. That leaves room for another phone maker to swoop in and claim its device is the future of mobile. And that's exactly...
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Benjamin Moore Is Giving Out 20,000 Stencils So Cub Fans Can #PaintTheW...
Chicago Cubs sponsors are celebrating the team's first World Series win in 108 years with various spots and stunts. For its part, Benjamin Moore is encouraging a little sanctioned graffiti—painting...
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Can Spice Maker McCormick Recreate a Lost Family Recipe? R/GA Finds Out This...
For some folks, it's just not Christmas without Julekake. But, what if Grandma's special recipe for this sweet and savory seasonal bread from Norway has gotten lost in the mists of time, and your...
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Pedigree Shows You How to Survive a Clinton or Trump Rally Even If You...
The U.S. may be embroiled in one of the—if not the—most miserably vitriolic presidential battles in its history. But Pedigree wants to remind Americans that we can all agree on one thing. Golden...
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