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Droga5's 'Recalling 1993' Project Turns NYC Pay Phones Into Geo-Located Time...
Do you remember what life was like in Manhattan in 1993? The rats, the graffiti, the parties, the drugs, the … pay phones. Fear not. The East Village-based ad agency Droga5 and the New Museum have...
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Silent Film Festival's Trailers Use Instagram Scrolling to Simulate Look of...
I'm sure some folks will enjoy Cossette's Instagram campaign promoting the Toronto Silent Film Festival, but I think it works better in theory than in practice. The flipbook-style fusion of old and...
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Use Dove's Shampoo for Men, and Don't Have the Lustrous Flowing Hair of a Woman
This Brazilian ad by Ogilvy & Mather for Dove's Men + Care shampoo line puts the tropes of women's shampoo commercials in a new, and weird, context. Apparently, using women's shampoo makes your...
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Writers at L.A. Agency Are Ridiculously Good at Shooting Mini Basketballs in...
On its website, creative agency mOcean in Los Angeles lists advertising, marketing, branding and production as its four areas of expertise. But I think you will agree: The single thing at which the...
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Autistic Actor Stars in SunTrust Ad About Parents Planning Retirement for Three
SunTrust has released an interesting new ad from Agency D7 about parents who are planning retirement for three, including their live-at-home autistic son. It's notable because the actor playing the...
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Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer Deliver a Kung-Fu Ass Kicking in EA's New Golf Ad
Tiger Woods is a golf nerd, right? Right. But in fantasy video-game land, he destroys you and all your hoodlum friends, fake kung-fu style, because you're trying to steal his trophies. His charming...
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Smirnoff and Absolut Show Their Support for Gay Marriage on Facebook
As thousands of consumers changed their Facebook profile pictures to equals signs Tuesday in support of marriage equality—a topic the Supreme Court is considering this week—two vodka brands led the...
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Nike's New Tiger Woods Ad Says More About Us Than Him
Now that Tiger Woods has regained the top ranking on the pro golf tour, Nike is celebrating its star endorser's comeback with an online ad emblazoned with one of Woods's favorite soundbites, "Winning...
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16 Humiliating Twitter Brand Fails in One Painfully Hilarious Chart
Twitter is a brilliant place for brands to connect with consumers. It's also a brilliant place—unparalleled, perhaps—for brands to absolutely humiliate themselves with idiotic posts. The infographic...
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How Chili's Got Nearly a Million Likes by Fixing a 'Broken' Burger for a Girl...
We've mentioned before—notably in last summer's Panera case—how random acts of kindness in customer service can snowball into massively positive PR when the customer involved relates the story...
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Maker of the Best Craigslist Ad Ever Reveals How the Collage-Sausage Was Made
If you haven't seen it, see it. It's the jaw-dropping homemade ad—one of the craziest and funniest you'll ever see—that Nate Walsh posted to Craigslist in an attempt to sell his 1999 Toyota Camry....
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The Most Stunning Ad Ever Made for a Used Car With 128,000 Miles That's Been...
"You're going to need an abacus to keep track of all the ass you'll be getting in this thing!" That's one of dozens of stellar lines in the homemade ad below—a truly astonishing collage posted to...
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MLB 'Fan Cave' Nerds Out Like Never Before With Fancy New High-Tech Toys
Here's a fun toy for obsessive baseball geeks: the new "Mission Control" installation at MLB's "Fan Cave" space in downtown NYC. There, each year, a selection of the sport's most diehard fans are paid...
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Orbit Gum Helps You Vanquish Giant Annoying Talking Meat and Potatoes
I've had way worse airline seatmates than the annoying, anthropomorphized, Jinx-playing serving of meat and mashed potatoes depicted in Energy BBDO's new commercial for Orbit gum. Beats getting stuck...
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Renault Surprises Test Drivers With Baguettes, Roses and Half-Dressed Hotties
Automobile test drives have been getting a bit more interesting lately. On the heels of the hugely popular Jeff Gordon video for Pepsi MAX comes this new campaign from Britain for the Renault Clio, in...
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Lance Armstrong and Oscar Pistorius Get (Fake) Tiger Woods-Style Nike...
Does winning take care of everything? Perhaps for Tiger Woods. Probably not for other some other athletes who've been on Nike's payroll. Here are some nicely done spoofs of the much-discussed new...
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Black Mirror Has the Best and Strangest Promos of Any TV Show Around
So, there's this British just-barely-science-fiction series called Black Mirror, created by a mad genius named Charlie Brooker (good interview with him here; he's also ripped into advertising fairly...
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Traumatized Man Speaks Only in Advertising Slogans in New Indie Movie
How many times have you busted out a well-known advertising slogan because it seemed to be the wittiest thing to say in a conversation? Never? Fine, wordsmith, but the rest of us are guilty of falling...
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A More Honest Trailer for Les Misérables
After a bevy of requests from fans, Screen Junkies has finally released an Honest Trailer for Les Misérables, and it … sucks. Well, it doesn't quite suck, but it definitely runs afoul of imitation...
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Depression Hurts. Tacos Loaded With Beef and Cheese Can Help
The medicinal benefits of tacos are explained in this parody of antidepressant medication ads, which is a pretty clever piece of work (although trust me, beef sweats are no laughing matter). I can't...
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