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Will Ferrell Smooches His Way Through Another Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Ad
Go Daddy's Super Bowl ad with Bar Refaeli and Jesse Heiman wasn't the only one to feature lots of disturbingly unlikely necking. Check out this Old Milwaukee ad with Will Ferrell, which we're told...
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The 5 Worst Ads of Super Bowl XLVII
Everyone loves a good high-wire disaster, and the Super Bowl commercials always have a few. Most of the talk this year has been about the Bar Refaeli spot for Go Daddy. It finished dead last on the...
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Land Rover Imagines an Earth Made Entirely of Land Rovers
Here's something you don't see every day: A print ad that imagines what the world map would look like if every land mass and topographical feature were shaped like the Land Rover Defender. The answer...
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Jell-O Rubs Pudding in the Wound for 49ers Fans
Hey, San Francisco, are you ready for some PUDDING?!No, really, are you? Because Kraft's Jell-O Pudding plans to send thousands of free cups of the stuff your way today as a consolation prize in the...
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Giant Rotting Fingers Count Down to Walking Dead's Return
Toronto's Union Station has been graced by this cool "zombie hands" installation for The Walking Dead that loses a finger every day until this Sunday, when Season 3 returns to the air. I wonder who's...
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Winning the New York Lottery Makes You Exactly as Funny as Andy Richter
Two fairly amusing New York Lottery commercials from DDB New York illustrate just what it means to be "that kind of rich." In one spot, a lottery millionaire spends big bucks on elaborate effects to...
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Vote for Your Favorite Super Bowl Spot in YouTube's Ad Blitz Contest
RAM Trucks or Jeep? Taco Bell or Mercedes-Benz? Samsung or Oreo? There were plenty of hits and misses among the Super Bowl commercials, but only one spot can be crowned the winner of YouTube's Ad...
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NPR Station Urges Listeners to Have Sex and Make More Listeners
Chicago's NPR station, WBEZ, is making a more intimate appeal than usual during its current membership drive. Rather than simply asking you for a few bucks, the station is asking you to "Go make...
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Clean, Wood-Seeking Beaver Would Like You to Try These 'Intimate Wipes'
Playtex has a new product called "Fresh + Sexy" intimate wipes, designed for men and women to freshen up before and after sex. New ads for the product, from Grey in New York, have a hard time...
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David Beckham Sprints Around in His Undies for Guy Ritchie and H&M
H&M, which used to pimp clothes from Madonna, has now hired her ex, Guy Ritchie, to film this spot for the David Beckham Bodywear collection. Of course, it stars Beckham, who, though a series of...
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Go Ahead and Play With Your Food, as Long as Your Food Is Bugles
"It's Bugles! It's Bugles! The game that you can eat!" After watching these retro-minimalist commercials for General Mills's Bugles from Cossette in Toronto (and Untitled Films director Curtis...
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Nina Agdal Makes Love to a Cod Fish Sandwich in Carl's Jr. Ad
One of these days, Carl's Jr. may go back to selling food rather than women. But until then, there are plenty more glistening, jiggling body parts to show in extreme close-up, and more off-puttingly...
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This Sports Drink Doesn't Suck, but Does Its Commercial?
This DIY commercial for Skratch Labs, a self-described "active nourishment company" that makes all-natural sports drinks, is definitely going for an off-the-cuff, Dollar Shave Club vibe. Not sure it...
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Lizzy Caplan Is Awesomely Pretentious in Great Spoof of Fashion Ads
Thank you Viva Vena, clothing label of which we've never before heard, for this brilliantly disjointed parody as ad. Actress Lizzy Caplan (of Mean Girls fame) does a wonderful rendition of every artsy...
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Geico's Gecko Writes a Book About the Human Condition
He's renowned for his 30-second bites of wisdom. Now, Geico's gecko is getting ready to expand upon his reptilian thoughts about the human condition in a new book, You're Only Human, co-written by The...
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Man Mocks Up His Résumé to Look Like an Amazon Product Page
Web product manager Philippe Dubost took his résumé to strange new places by turning it into a fake Amazon.com product page. The online résumé presents him as a shoppable item ("Only 1 left in stock")...
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Dogs Can't Get Enough of Their Subarus in Brand's Latest Ads
Subaru of America is launching a new installment of its "Dog tested. Dog approved" campaign via Carmichael Lynch, so let's get one thing out of the way straight off. Awww, they're so cuuuuute!...
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Etch A Sketch Honors Its Late Inventor With Lovely, Sad Tribute Ad
André Cassagnes, inventor of the Etch A Sketch, died Jan. 16 at the age of 86. Now, the brand's ad agency, Team Detroit, has crafted this tribute to the man. Showing the toy upside down allows the...
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Taco Bell Gives Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Big Poppa' the Spanish Treatment, Too
By its own admission, Taco Bell agency Deutsch in Los Angeles used Google Translate to put together Spanish lyrics for the version of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" in this ad—much as it did with...
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Lay's Crowdsourced Potato-Chip Finalists: Cheesy Garlic Bread, Chicken &...
Lay's "Do Us a Flavor" Facebook contest has come to an end, and the potato-chip brand is now market-testing three finalists: Cheesy Garlic Bread, Chicken & Waffles, and Sriracha hot sauce. They...
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