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Agencies Give Young Creatives a Place to Work Through the Free Desk Here Project
If your agency has a little extra desk space and would like to give it a higher purpose than storing empty binders, you might be interested in the Free Desk Here project. The international effort,...
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Mountain Dew Makes the Best Ad Ever With a Violent Talking Goat
Piss off, dancing Shetland pony and Mr. Wolfdog. This is the Year of the Goat in advertising. Tyler, The Creator, the leader of hip-hop collective Odd Future, directs and provides the raspy voice of...
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Denver Cabs Outfitted With Mammoth Tusks to Promote Museum Exhibit
The taxicabs in Denver are a bit hornier than usual, and it's all science's fault. Carmichael Lynch put ornamental mammoth tusks on a fleet of cabs to drum up attention for the Denver Museum of Nature...
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Satanic Furby Parody Ad Only Slightly Weirder Than Other Japanese Ads
Sure, Japanese ads are crazy. But they rarely sink (or is that rise?) to the level of satanic-cult-forcing-Furbies-to-cannibalize-themselves crazy. Sadly, the "Creepy Japanese Furby Commercial" below...
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Wife Puts Up Nasty Billboard to Get Revenge on Cheating Husband
Revenge billboards are getting to be a trend. Expensive but emotionally satisfying, they're great for anything from declaring spousal inadequacies to calling out cheaters. This one, in Greensboro,...
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Parody Poster Captures the Special Hell of Summer Music Festivals
Neat Dude Collective's "Yet Another Fucking Music Festival" parody poster is as observant as it is snarky, so clearly they've got some folks who've been to Bonnaroo and Coachella more than a few...
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Adweek's Brand Paternity Test: Who Owns What?
When you buy anything these days, from apple juice to an Audi A6, chances are good that at least some of your money is going to a parent company that might surprise you. It is a rare and inquisitive...
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How Did Amazon End Up Selling T-Shirts With Ridiculously Offensive Slogans?
Amazon has taken some heat for offering T-shirts with extremely offensive, upsetting slogans—"Keep calm and rape a lot," "Keep calm and grope a lot," "Keep calm and knife her"—from a merchant called,...
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George Lois Hates Mad Men, but Loves Madhouse
If George Lois has yet to prevail upon you how much he hates Mad Men—and he's done so a number of times in the past few years, even though Don Draper was supposedly modeled on him—allow the...
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Reggie Watts Really Wants You to Stop Paying for Carbon Pollution
You're sitting down, doing your taxes, just trying not to hate the universe, when a pocket-picking smoke monster reaches into your jacket and steals all your cash. This is "The Price of Carbon," the...
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Heidi Klum Is Mrs. Robinson in Carl's Jr.'s Weird Spoof of The Graduate
Heidi Klum is the latest person who doesn't eat Hardee's/Carl's Jr. to film an ad for the fast-food chain. The spot, from 72andSunny, which spoofs The Graduate for whatever reason, has Klum chowing...
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Driving School: Director Peter Atencio on Pepsi's Wildly Popular Jeff Gordon...
Pepsi stormed YouTube last week with one of the year's most popular videos: a clip featuring Jeff Gordon, in disguise, taking a car salesman on the most frightening test drive of his life. The video...
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Google Glass Reaches New Level of Cool as Pauly D Puts Knockoff Version in...
This is surely what Google was going for with Google Glass—a product so irresistibly fashionable that Pauly D, the Jersey Shore alum, DJ and general arbiter of taste, is trying to borrow its cool by...
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Three's Company in Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's New Prada Short Film
From flatulence to fancy perfume, I've had a fragrant week at AdFreak. Prada has commissioned a short film by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola to tout its Candy L'Eau scent. Two guys star with Lea...
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Justin Timberlake Surprises Biggest Fans on Set in New Target Commercial
Advertising has been obsessed lately with scaring the crap out of people. So here, for your Friday enjoyment, is a more benign prank. Target, which is the exclusive retail partner for the release of...
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Agency Sends Briefs Back to Clients as Elaborate Paper Sculptures
When it comes to paperwork, the designers at TBWA\South Africa in Johannesburg are a cut above. As an exercise in self-promotion, the design group transformed some of the agency's creative...
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British Restaurant Bakes Customer Stories Directly on Its Dinner Plates
In our age of virtual sharing gone berserk, here's a refreshingly tactile effort by a British ad agency. For new restaurant Dishoom, OgilvyOne U.K. is collecting customer stories through the Internet...
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Ford Apologizes for Tying Women Up in Indian Ads
If you've been under a rock, violence against women in India has been all over the news since last December following the horrific gang rape of a young woman who had the audacity to take a bus. She...
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Google Chrome Turns Any Website Into a 3-D Marble Maze Game
Google's latest innovation in time-wasting fun—this time out of Japan—is the Chrome World Wide Maze, a browser experiment that turns any web page of your choosing into a 3-D marble maze. You need a...
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Robot Copters Hovering Over London Form Starfleet Logo to Promote Next Star...
Considering how much you hear about drones these days, it's surprising we haven't seen more marketing stunts using remote-controlled hoverbots. But Paramount Pictures pulled off an interesting trick...
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