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Here's an Ad That Should Inspire Entrepreneurs Everywhere to Get Their Act...
A business idea is all good and well, but a new ad from freelance marketplace Fiverr—the company's first brand campaign—is putting the emphasis on the actual doing part. The rapid-fire montage,...
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Here Are Fandango's Picks for the Most Anticipated Movies of 2017
A few weeks back, marketing tech firm Amobee helped me put together a list of the most anticipated movies of 2017 by measuring the volume and sentiment of social chatter about the planned titles....
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Here's Proof You Can Get Away With Pretty Much Anything in a Radio Ad
It's no great epiphany that radio can be a more forgiving format than video. But you may not have considered the full range of horrific opportunities that liberation from a camera can afford you. You...
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Can Pizza Hut Outdo Itself With These Sitcom-Style Ads From Viacom?
Maladjusted millennial braggarts choose Pizza Hut. Let's all go there today! Running on Viacom's cable-TV networks, this goofy campaign for the restaurant chain targets young adults, presenting folks...
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The World's Rudest, Most Passive-Aggressive Billboard Coughs at Nearby Smokers
If anything is going to convince a smoker to quit, it's a judgmental, passive-aggressive, coughing billboard. At least, that's the ostensible premise of a new campaign from Swedish pharmacy Apoteket...
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Chevrolet Unveils a Life-Size Lego Batmobile, and a Self-Parody Ad to Match
Chevrolet has long been running a campaign that shows a group of "ordinary" people, a Chevy car and has them react in disbelief to how safe it is, how many awards it's won and generally how awesome it...
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Adidas Knocks Under Armour Again With This Inspirational 'One in a Billion'...
Some in the Western world retain unfortunate stereotypes about China as a society that places little value on individuality, valuing loyalty to the state above all other things. Advertisers, in turn,...
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Does Nike's New Ad With Nick Kyrgios Make Light of Mental Illness?
Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios' temperamental behavior, and frequent perceived lack of effort, are the subject of a new online Nike ad. But not everyone is happy with the message it seems to be...
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This Chocolate Factory Just Celebrated 5 Years in Business With Delicious...
If the medium is the message, then Videri Chocolate Factory's latest advertising has a very palatable message indeed. The Raleigh, N.C., chocolate maker worked with ad agency Baldwin& to create...
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'I'm Alpha Male Adjacent.' Neil Patrick Harris on Why He's Still Doing Ads...
It was back in the summer of 2014 that Neil Patrick Harris did his first ads for Heineken Light, via Wieden + Kennedy New York. From the beginning, the campaign has had a meta humor, wryly commenting...
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This Popular Vlogger Died in a Shocking Car Crash Live on YouTube. Or Did She?
You're watching your favorite beauty vlogger broadcast live as she drives her car around town. She looks away from the road to check her phone and read questions from fans. Suddenly, the picture goes...
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Fantastic Beasts? You'll Find Plenty of Them in This Wild British Ad for...
It's not often that Medusa shows up in advertising, much less accompanied by a chest-thumping minotaur, a metallic mermaid, an arrow-shooting centaur and a galloping Pegasus. So, this new U.K. spot...
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This Video Game Ad Is the First Film in 14 Years From the Director of Die Hard
What happens when a group of heavily tattooed thugs, a precocious snow-white cat and a team of special ops assassins appear in the same ad? Don't fret—the feline emerges unscathed. The drug dealers?...
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This Art Director Got Nowhere With His Agency Job Hunt, So He Pretended to Be...
Agencies don't return emails and phone calls from random young creatives looking for work. They do return emails and phone calls from potential clients. August Laustsen, a young Danish art director...
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Mozilla Open-Sourced Parts of Its New Brand Identity. Here's How That Went
For the last six months, Mozilla has been working on a brand identity upgrade, and it's kept a running log of this process. But it also took it one step further, releasing open-source guidelines for...
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Snoop Dogg Channels Frank Sinatra in JL's Latest Visually Stunning Ad for...
For its new, wildly impressionistic ad, Adidas Originals turned to two odd-couple musical icons who have always done things their way: Frank Sinatra and Snoop Dogg. The larger Adidas brand's most...
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McDonald's Poses the Existential Question: Is a Big Mac With Bacon Still a...
If you're the type of guy who drives your friends nuts by compulsively obsessing over minor details at lunch, then McDonald's has a deep existential dilemma for you. In Canada, the fast-food chain is...
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This Clothing Retailer Has the Perfect Fashions for When a Burning Piano...
Last year, Middle Eastern clothing chain Centrepoint launched what surely ranks as the most existential retail campaign of all time. In "Sabotage," a charmingly fatalistic black-and-white spot from...
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This Colorado Agency Just Made 3 Strains of Marijuana Specifically for Ad People
Need a little mind-altering inspiration in your advertising job? Colorado agency TDA_Boulder has just the thing—three new strains of marijuana designed to get agency creatives, strategists and...
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Expedia Shares a Powerful Message of Global Togetherness Amid a Divisive...
While most brands seem to be quietly disinterested in discussing today's inauguration, travel booking site Expedia seems a bit more willing to wade into the fray. A new ad from the brand and agency...
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