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Clorox Tries to Bleach the Sin Out of Las Vegas With Outdoor Ads
Las Vegas is a cesspool. Clorox is bleach. It's a match made in heaven. Last week during CES, DDB West began touting the brand's efficacy at cleaning up bodily fluids in a series of clever if fratty...
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Pentagram Redesigns NYC's Parking Signs Into Twitter-Size Bites
New York City hired design firm Pentagram to create new parking signs. That seems appropriate, as the pentagram is the sign of the devil, and parking in Manhattan can be sheer hell. The 6,300 new...
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Are Samsung Washing Machines Any Good? Does a Bear Launder His Pelt in the...
After pulling an ad that likened laptop neglect to animal abuse (and made cruel sport of them both), Samsung Home Appliances is trying to atone with this Viral Factory spot for EcoBubble washing...
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Southern Comfort's Comfortable Speedo Guy Is Now Your Personal Weatherman
Southern Comfort's Speedo-wearing, Southern Comfort-drinking beach bum, who we had always assumed was underemployed, actually has quite the important and extensive job—giving weather reports to people...
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Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods Trade Shots for Nike Golf
Rory McIlroy made headlines this week by signing an endorsement deal with Nike worth a gazillion bucks (or at least $20 million a year for five years, possibly more). The 23-year-old Northern Irish...
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The Best Movie Posters of 2012: Which Was Your Favorite?
Adrian Curry's choices for 2012's best movie posters are interesting, in that the honorable mentions are generally better than most of the top 10. Not that this was an easy list to compile—as you'll...
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Warby Parker's Latest Annual-Report Infographic Is a Sight for Sore Eyes
For most companies, annual reports are a throwaway bit of year-end drudgery. But online eyewear retailer Warby Parker continues to make it an art form. We loved the site's 2011 annual report, and the...
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Buy a Watch From Us Before You Shrivel Up and Die, Says Diesel
"Hey, potential customer, you're gonna DIE! Wanna buy a wristwatch?" That's basically the message of this "Days to Live" campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky promoting Diesel's Timeframes line....
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British Agency Not Sure How Else to Advertise Energy Drink Called Pussy
"The drink's pure. It's your mind that's the problem." That's the tagline employed by British energy drink Pussy in new ads from Beattie McGuinness Bungay. The product is also described as "Cunningly...
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DDB Tribute Ad Honors Visionary McDonald's CEO Fred L. Turner
McDonald's agency DDB Chicago ran this newspaper ad in TheWall Street Journal last week honoring Fred L. Turner, who died Jan. 7 at age 80. Turner joined McDonald's in 1956 and was its CEO from 1974...
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Be a More Colorful Drunk With These Pantone Swatches for Beer
Finally, a gag gift for that insufferable beer snob you know: Pantone swatches for beer. Designed by Alexander Michelbach and Daniel Eugster, each "Beertone" card gives the exact color value of a beer...
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NHL Uses Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Apologize to Fans for Lockout
Sorry is as sorry does. Case in point: The National Hockey League is placing full-page apology ads in major U.S. and Canadian newspapers in the run-up to resumption of play this weekend following a...
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Hand Sanitizer Ad Warns You're Just a Few Shakes Away from a Sex Toy
Hand sanitizer is flying off the shelves in the U.S. because of the flu outbreak. In Chile, they're worried about more subversive germs. Print ad for Dettol by Havas Worldwide in Santiago. Via...
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Disney Builds Entire 8-Bit Street in London for 'Wreck-It Ralph'
Disney tricked out an entire London street with cool 8-bit props to promote Wreck-It Ralph, its feature-film-length chunk of nerdbait whose retro visual style was reflected by the sculptures in...
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Ugly Models Agency Finds Only the Most Peculiar-Looking Talent
When modeling agencies say they use "unconventional models," that's usually code for "pretty but not famous yet." Not at the Ugly Models Agency, though. They've gone full John Waters, by which I mean...
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Sentient Clock Is Able to Bend Time in Latest Grand Guinness Spot
Time out, Guinness. While I come down on the side of liking the brewer's new cinematic, Peter Thwaites-directed "Clock" spot, I'm fearful that the brand's countdown to self-parody has begun. The...
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Dodge Dart's Gift Registry Lets Friends and Family Help You Buy a Car
Quick-witted, energetic and amusingly excessive, Wieden + Kennedy's TV campaign for the Dodge Dart has quietly become one of the most entertaining on the air. Now, agency and client are bringing some...
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Was Your Agency's Horrible Website Written by a Wanker?
What could be more creatively and intellectually invigorating than the self-promotional copy produced by ad agencies large and small? Wags might say a lobotomy. And sadly, you might feel like you've...
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Netflix Hiding Easter Eggs on Its Site for Season 4 of Arrested Development
Netflix is subtly seeding some sly marketing on its website to promote the 14 new episodes of Arrested Development it produced. For example, if you search for "blue" on Netflix, you'll see subtle blue...
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Visa Predicted the Super Bowl Teams Before the Season Barely Began
The Harbaugh brothers may not have seen it coming, but Visa did. Back in the fall, the company broke two ads from TBWA\Chiat\Day advertising its Visa NFL Fan Offers program. The focus of those ads?...
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