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Conan O'Brien Makes a More Honest iPad Commercial
Conan O'Brien's fake iPad commercial, meant as a parody of the latest Apple spots, including the one on the Oscars, isn't exactly groundbreaking (porn? on computers? why, I never!). But the delivery...
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Henri the Existential Cat Sells His Bleak and Blackened Soul to Friskies
Henri, Le Chat Noir was already feeling damned—trapped in an existential hell from which there is no escape. And that was before he was doing Friskies ads. The celebrated feline—winner of the Golden...
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Toy Scientists Are Much Better at Separating an Oreo Than Ad Guys
Oreo just released the second video in its Oreo Separators series from Wieden + Kennedy, dedicated to finding absurdly mechanical ways of separating the cookie part from the creme part. The first...
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Make an Ad About Truth in Advertising, and You Could Win $5,000
Truth in advertising? Bwaa ha ha ha ha! Actually, that's the title of a new first novel by former Ogilvy & Mather creative exec John Kenney. The book is about a copywriter who faces a life crisis...
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Has Budweiser Been Watered Down? No Way, A-B Says in Defiant Newspaper Ads
Anheuser-Busch is tired of allegations that Budweiser might as well be sex in a canoe, and it placed ads this weekend in the Houston Chronicle and The New York Times in response to lawsuits claiming...
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This Dancing Shetland Pony Is Britain's New Advertising Superstar
Shetland ponies have never been quite as celebrated as they are these days—thanks to several British ad campaigns. First, of course, we had Fivla and Vitamin, the adorable sweater-weating ponies from...
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Here's AMC's First Promo for the Upcoming Sixth Season of Mad Men
Mad Men returns to AMC on April 7 for Season 6—with a special two-hour premiere written by showrunner Matthew Weiner and directed by executive producer Scott Hornbacher. Check out the first on-air...
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Tattoo Studio's Brilliant Help-Wanted Ad Makes Applicants Carefully Fill In a...
Once in a blue moon, an ad using a QR code somehow manages not to suck. We had the Guinness QR cup. There was also the shadow-activated QR code from Korea. And now we have this awesome ad from Turkey...
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Zombies Swarm Around Infected Hashtag in Clever Campaign for Walking Dead
Whenever I write about zombies, I tend to bury the lead. That's a grave mistake. Anyway, here's a case study about how the Darewin Agency used social media to make The Walking Dead a hit on France's...
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Woman Gives Birth to Album of Classical Music in Strange German Ad
The minute-long ad for German composer Sven Helbig's new album, Pocket Symphonies, is a pretty straightforward representation of Helbig's goal to create something new from something old and weathered...
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Invest in Eastern Poland or Your Child Will Hate You Forever, Ads Warn
Our favorite economic-development ads this week come from Eastern Poland—a region in which you simply must invest, lest you ruin your child's life forever. Somewhat more cryptically, the campaign also...
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Domino's Thanks 8 Million Facebook Fans by Toppling 50,000 Dominos
Domino's doesn't make much use of its namesake domino logo—until now. The pizza chain topples more than 50,000 dominos in the video below from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, as a thank-you to fans after...
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Conceptual Artists Get Their Chance to (Poorly) Separate Oreo Cookies
"Maybe you should just use a knife." That's one of the less charitable reactions to this latest Oreo Separators video from Wieden + Kennedy—part of a series in which inventors and technologists...
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Every Horrible, Pandering Corporate Website in One Handy Homepage
The average corporate website, it's true, is almost offensively awful. Now, its multitude of shortcomings are amusingly (and profanely) outlined on a new parody page, EveryFuckingWebsite.com. The page...
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Campbell Mithun Asks Intern Applicants to Plan the Future of the Twinkie
Life is sweet and golden on the outside with a creamy middle, baby! Would-be summer interns at Campbell Mithun might want to ponder such points, because the Minneapolis agency is asking hopefuls to...
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Shocking Attempted Murder Turns Out to Be Just Another Marketing Stunt
So, you're feeling kind of blah and waiting for the elevator and sipping your latte, and the door opens and some guy is choking some other guy on the floor, and you're just like, Whatever, it's...
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Safe-Sex Campaign Stars Pair of Frustrated Musical Testicles
Here's an unconventional approach to promoting safe sex. Instead of warning viewers about pregnancy or STDs, this campaign focuses on a different affliction personified by two testicles named Rusty...
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When They Find What You Left on One of Their Planes, Southwest Will Send You...
Did you leave something on a Southwest Airlines flight? Don't worry. If they find it, they will send it back to you—along with the added gift of an unbearable poem about how the airline "luvs" you....
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Doritos Builds Tweet-Powered SXSW Stage That's More Awesome Than the Acts on It
Doritos has built a 62-foot-tall, tweet-powered concert stage designed to look like a giant vending machine that turns your tweets with the hashtag #BoldStage into a real-time concert-control...
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Y&R Sets Up Shoppable Pinterest Boards for Families Who Lost Everything in...
Y&R Midwest is trying to steer Pinterest users toward charitable shores, possibly because they're sick of them posting only about food and lingerie. Y&R's idea, called Helpin.It, is a set of...
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