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Game Maker Fills Pool With 55,000 Gallons of Blood and Guts, Invites You to...
There's a bunch of genetic meddling going on in the new video game Resident Evil Revelations. It may stand to reason, then, that marketer Capcom would stage a wholly unnatural promotion for its...
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Bakers Burn Their Brand to a Crisp in Epic Facebook Meltdown
Social media allows consumers to talk to brands, and brands to yell back loudly at consumers with massive meltdowns that will forever be preserved thanks to the glory of the print-screen button. Amy's...
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Hyundai Remixes Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds' for New Ad
Hyundai is getting a lot of coverage for putting Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" in an ad for its Assurance Connected Care in-car customer-service program, largely because the late reggae icon's...
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California Winery's Ads Pair the Product With Sex, Drugs and More Sex
Intemperance comes in many flavors, and SLO Down Wines has pairings for all of them. The California winemaker has rolled out three irreverent ads (from Harvest Films director Baker Smith and Arcade...
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Man Strikes Back at Abercrombie & Fitch by Giving Its Clothes to the Homeless
It's fairly well established that Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't want the wrong sort of people wearing its clothes. A couple of years back, it even offered (as part of a goofy PR stunt) to pay Jersey...
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Lucky Charms Does Giant Bong Hit, Unleashes Auto-Tune Leprechaun
What could be better than an Auto-Tune leprechaun singing about his magically delicious cereal? Nothing! This 15-second Lucky Charms ad, which mixes current commercial footage, vintage images and...
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How Your Depraved Facebook Posts Would Get You Tortured in Other Countries
How often would your Facebook activity get you beaten, tortured or beheaded in the world's most repressive countries? A lot more often than you'd think. Amnesty International of New Zealand and agency...
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Michael Ian Black's Twitter Ad for Dos Equis Does Gangbusters Thanks to All...
Michael Ian Black is not the most interesting man in the world, but he might be the most interesting beer endorser. Last Friday, the comedian, who has 2 million Twitter followers, posted a tweet to a...
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Dollar Shave Club CEO Michael Dubin Pops Up in an American Express Ad
The only really surprisingly thing about Dollar Shave Club CEO Michael Dubin's appearance in an American Express ad is that it didn't happen sooner. It's been more than a year since Dubin charmed...
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Creak, Crack, Crunch. Local Chiropractor's Goofy Ad Is Painful to Watch
Just a few weeks after making the most awkward transmission-repair ad ever, Rhett & Link are back with another goofy local commercial—this one for the Ryan Lee Chiropractic Center in Los Angeles....
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Here's the Real (and Real Silly) Dunder Mifflin Ad Airing Tonight on the...
Looking forward to the series finale of The Office tonight? Here's something else to look forward to. The real Dunder Mifflin ad below—for the defictionalized paper brand whose products you can...
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Microsoft Hammers Google in Leaked Parody of a Chrome Ad
Microsoft takes a break from perfecting its blue screen of death to ape Google's ad style—abundant white space, bouncing Chrome ball, Beethoven's Fifth on the soundtrack—in this anti-Google video that...
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YouTube Star Tobuscus Forced Into Making Insane Musical Ad for Hot Pockets
Stand-up comedian, actor, songwriter and noted YouTube personality Toby "Tobuscus" Turner made this fourth-wall-shattering musical ad for Hot Pockets in which he is bullied by an unseen voiceover into...
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He Shoots, He Scores: David Beckham's 10 Most-Viral Commercials
David Beckham is retiring from professional soccer, but he'll never stop making commercials. One of the world's most prolific pitchmen, the former England captain has sold everything to underwear and...
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Dumb Ways to Die Is Now a Video Game for the iPhone and iPad
There are now even more "Dumb Ways to Die"—and smart ways to live—as McCann Australia has made a video game out of its beloved, superviral train-safety ad from last year. "Starring all the characters...
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British Advertising Hits New Low With Commercial Starring Talking Butt Crack
What a week it's been. As Friday draws to a close, I see your defecating man in the exercise video and your threesome-inducing Sexual Chocolate wine, and I raise you one talking butt crack in this...
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Better Eyewear Means Fewer Dead Cats, Says Amusing Specsavers Ad
The best performance by a cat in a TV commercial this week goes to the fluffy mess in this new British spot for eyewear maker Specsavers. Not that the veterinarian here would know—he's not clear on...
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Goodby, Silverstein Brings the Funny for YouTube's First-Ever Comedy Week
To hype its inaugural Comedy Week, which begins Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET, YouTube turned to an ad agency known for generating its share of laughs: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. The San...
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Charmin Welcomes Fans to Nascar Race With Billboard Potty Humor
I love it when brands finally catch on to jokes the rest of us were making in fourth grade. This time it's Charmin, which treated fans at the Charlotte Motor Speedway's Sprint All-Star Race to an...
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Meet San Diego's Worst Rapper, Real Estate Agent Rafael A. Perez
Today, everyone does everything. You have actor-writer-rappers (Donald Glover, Jamie Foxx), dancers turned actors (Jennifer Lopez, Channing Tatum), pro athletes attempting to rap (Shaq, Allen...
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