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Starbucks Tries to Make You Hate Mondays a Little Less
Starbucks is rebounding from recent image problems in the U.K. (something about tax payments, I think) with this ad for its Monday coffee special. The spot, from AMV BBDO, suggests Monday is actually...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Panders to Children of the '90s
Children of the '90s, do you remember all the awesome things from your youth? Was Internet Explorer one of them? No? That's OK. It was there amid the slap bracelets and the hippos that were so hungry...
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TNT Ambushes Holland With Another Crazy 'Dramatic Surprise' Stunt
TNT had a gargantuan success with its "Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square" video, posted to YouTube last April. The clip—which showed a Belgian village square erupting in intricately choreographed...
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Two Shetland Ponies in Cardigan Sweaters Are Scotland's New Ad Stars
After a rough couple of millennia, Scotland has figured out how to make itself look good to the rest of the world: Just put a couple of Shetland ponies in lovely cardigan sweaters. The folks at...
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Kraken Rum Billboards Will Kidnap You and Squeeze You to Death
The Kraken Black Spiced Rum is going with death by giant tentacle as the theme of a pair of 3-D billboards that went up recently in Chicago. On each ad, the brand's namesake mythical beast appears to...
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Clothing Store Uses Actual Burglary Footage in Ad, Making Fashions Look Most...
Someone call the fashion police! Brazilian menswear brand Reserva used actual security-camera footage of a real December robbery at one of its São Paulo stores in the ad below, for a subsequent...
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Sarcastic Amazon Reviews Take a Darker Turn on Toy Drone's Product Page
Critics of the U.S.'s use of unmanned missile-firing robot aircraft overseas have found a novel forum for airing their grievances: the Amazon.com product page for a toy version of the American...
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ManHands Soaps Make Men Smell Like Bacon, Beer, Soil or Urinal Cake
Every few years, someone puts out gimmicky "man-friendly" versions of equally gimmicky girly products, and they always smell like farts or baseball gloves or something. A few years ago it was...
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Volkswagen Is a Dog's Best Friend in Tribal DDB Spot
See Spot run. And bark, growl, yelp and whine. This Volkswagen Golf commercial by Tribal DDB Amsterdam stars a perky pooch that makes all kinds of car sounds while out for a walk with its owner. At...
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Why Cries of Racism Won't Sink Volkswagen's Super Bowl Ad
For Volkswagen, one of the most celebrated Super Bowl advertisers of recent years, it's been a tough 24 hours. After the company released its 2013 Super Bowl spot (posted below) on Monday...
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Diet Coke Finds Its New Stud, 19 Years After the Old One
He's the real thing. Meet Andrew Cooper, a British model whose shirtless turn as a soda stud in this Diet Coke 30th-anniversary commercial via BETC London is going viral and splashing Cooper's name,...
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Baby Perfects Gangnam Style Moves in Ad for Electronic Cigarettes
Here is the inevitable ad starring a baby doing Gangnam Style. The product, perhaps less predictable, is E-Lites, an electronic cigarette. It's a pretty macabre conceit. Don't miss your kid's first...
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Canadian Wheat Board Somehow Manages to Make an Ad That's Too Sexy
The Canadian Wheat Board is in trouble for a print ad that uses a 1969 Gil Elvgren pinup painting to draw attention to a "winter pool" grain sale offer. In other news, there's a Canadian Wheat Board....
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Dean Winters Causes Historic Mayhem in Grand New Allstate Ad
In the beginning, there was Mayhem. Actually, Leo Burnett's latest spot for Allstate, starring Dean Winters as the iconic agent of chaos, will air at the end of the Super Bowl—between the game's final...
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Old Spice Dances With Wolves in Super Bowl Ad Airing Only in Juneau, Alaska
Grrrrr! Caw! Caw! Caw! Snarling wolves crash a fancy formal party (riding the shoulders of a dapper dude in a tux) and screeching hawks invade a high-stakes poker game (a player loses his cool when one...
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AshleyMadison Crashes the Super Bowl Again With Sleazy Print Ad
AshleyMadison.com, the dating site for married people, always tries to leech a little attention at Super Bowl time. This year it did so by sliding a sleazy print ad into the Super Bowl insert of the...
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Make That Idiotic Talking Animal Pay With Super Bowl Commercial Bingo Cards
That guy who doubles over in pain after getting hit in the junk by a flying object in that Super Bowl commercial—what has he done for you lately? Sure, he makes you laugh. But wouldn't it be better if...
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Pepsi Punks Coke With Fake Look Inside 'Coke Chase' Spot
As Chris Heine mentions over here, Pepsi is having a busy Super Bowl Sunday already. And part of it involves a humorous dig at Coca-Cola, as Pepsi has posted a video purporting to show...
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Join Us for Real-Time Coverage of the Super Bowl's Top Ad Moments
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Join Us for Real-Time Coverage of the Super Bowl's Top Ad Moments
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