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Amazon's Gay Kindle Spot: A Nice Surprise, or a Little Forced?
Amazon's gay-marriage-friendly "Husbands" ad for its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader with built-in light is generating lots of conversation, most of it positive, though there is some criticism in the mix....
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Teenage Parents Have Only Miserable and Vindictive Babies, Say NYC Ads
Teenage pregnancy is on the rise. Wait, no it's not! Teen birth rates were at an all-time low in the U.S. in 2011, according to CBS News. And according to New York City's Department of Health and...
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Alec Baldwin and Charles Barkley Strike Up March Madness Bromance for Capital...
Capital One pitchman Alec Baldwin gets an assist from Charles Barkley in new ads from DDB Chicago timed to the NCAA's March Madness tournament, of which the financial firm is a prominent sponsor. In...
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If You Don't Use a Paper Toilet-Seat Cover, You're Basically Sitting on...
It's Friday, so here's an ad from Indonesia graphically illustrating the perils of not using a Hygienex disposable paper toilet-seat cover. "Save yourself from bad ass," says the copy. I don't know....
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OMD! Disney Creates Blog for BuzzFeed-Like Lists Starring Disney Characters
OMG, it's OMD! Oh My Disney is Disney's new blog, and it aims to capitalize on all the Disney legacy it can. You know how every few months some Disney-related quiz floats by, like "Which Disney...
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HERB the Robot Separates Oreo Cookie Before Turning on His Creators
For the fourth and final Oreo Separators video, Wieden + Kennedy got a nonhuman to separate the Oreo cookie from its creme. Say hello to HERB (short for "home exploring robotic butler"), a robot built...
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Heineken Man Really Only Feels Comfortable Stealing American Girls
You're just the average Heineken drinker. A 35-year-old hedge-fund manager who hit it big betting against the market in 2007. You're doing your jet-setting around the world thing, party hopping the...
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Paper Is Dead, Except When It's the Most Important Thing in the House
Paper? Pa-per? What the hell is that? Leo Burnett's ad for French toilet-paper brand Trefle celebrates parchment in its various forms, presenting a woman who reads printed books, puts sticky notes on...
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Old Spice's New Marketing Chief Is Not Human, but Will Eat Humans
"Sometimes you gotta eat people, America. That's how business works." Old Spice has a charmingly roguish new executive director of marketing, who brings a uniquely authentic vision for selling Old...
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Use Cool Whip Frosting, and Stop One More Cake From Being Abused
A poorly frosted cake is a tragedy in The Martin Agency's new ad for Cool Whip. "Mistreated Cakes," which breaks today and pushes Cool Whip Frosting, plays out like a PSA on behalf of the "millions of...
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Cartier None Too Pleased by Vulgar Parody of Its Brand Logo
Surprise! Cartier doesn't like hats that spoof the brand's scripted logo by repurposing it as an insult derived from a slang word for female genitalia. According to the Daily Beast, a Parsons grad...
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Great Online Ad Fail: Lawyer's Mugshot Appears Next to His Law-Office Ad
Here's a new one for the file on pitfalls of keyword-based ad targeting: A Florida criminal defense lawyer's ad appears on the same Web page as his mugshot for driving under the influence. Thomas...
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Don Draper Is Seeing Double in Poster for Mad Men Season 6
Don Draper is a man with at least two identities, so it shouldn't be surprising that he's seeing double on the Mad Men Season 6 poster, which AMC unveiled today. The New York Times has the story...
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If Superheroes Had Brand Sponsors
Hey, being a superhero is expensive. Costume constantly getting scorched by alien eye-lasers, secret arctic sanctum's coffee maker always on the fritz … it adds up. So, what if superheroes had brand...
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VW's Smileage App Gauges Exactly How Much Fun You're Having on Every Car Trip
Happy drivers wanted. Volkswagen's free Smileage app for Android, developed with Deutsch L.A. and Grow Interactive as part of Google's Art, Copy & Code initiative, is set for an early-summer...
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Lessons in Copywriting From the Signs of Homeless People
Someone with a roof over their head and a computer came up with pithy advice for writing good ad copy based on pictures of homeless people and their clever signs—thereby proving they don't remember...
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Trailer for Sims 3 University Life Reenacts Popular Photo Memes
There's nothing new about marketers trying their hand at popular Internet memes. But Electronic Arts takes a pretty clever stab at it in the new trailer for The Sims 3 University Life expansion pack....
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Scott Oelkers and Hatsune Miku, Together at Last in Crazy Video From Domino's...
Have you heard of Hatsune Miku? Perhaps not, but Domino's sure has. Here's a hint: She's one of Japan's biggest stars. More precisely, she is a holographic avatar created for a "singing synthesizer...
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Gatorade Looks Back at Its Impressive History Once Again in New Ad
If Gatorade's latest commercial from TBWA\Chiat\Day seems vaguely familiar, that's because it treads some of the same ground as Element 79's mid-'00s work for the brand, recounting the drink's 1965...
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PETA Urges Better Treatment of Arthropodal Killing Machines in Video Game
PETA is planning to hand out anti-abuse pamphlets at the launch of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, urging gamers to respect the game's pixelated extraterrestrials known as The Zerg. The pamphlet,...
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