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Oily Bohunk Josh Button Makes Landfall in Ad for Diet Dr Pepper
Damn you, hot hunks of advertising! Damn you to hot, hunky hell! Your Grecian glutes mock me as I polish off another nacho platter, and your six-pack abs shame me as I knock back my six-pack of beer!...
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Even Home Intruders Get the Girl in Campaign for Axe's New Hair Products
'Tis the season for male-grooming brand extensions. Old Spice introduced its shaving gel last week. And now, Axe has updated its range of hair products for men. It's advertising them with four new...
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Girl Barfs Up Her Own Dad in Baffling Anti-Drinking Ad From Spain
"Every time you get drunk, you separate yourself from the things that matter most. Like your family." That's the voiceover in this weird anti-drinking ad from Spain, aimed at young adults. The girl in...
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Advertising Student Ships His Pants to Kmart's Agency, Lands Internship
If you can ship your pants skillfully and creatively, you have a good chance of working at Kmart's ad agency, Draftfcb. The agency today announced that it has brought in a new intern in large part...
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Introducing Beardvertising: Tiny Billboards That Clip on to Your Beard
I'm not sure which is more disturbing—the hirsute images that adorn the Beardvertising site from Kentucky ad agency Cornett-IMS, or creative Whit Hiler's use of the work "mancessory" to describe such...
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Jack Link's Will Never Get Tired of Messin' With Sasquatch
Just when you thought you ran out of ways to mess with Sasquatch, someone comes along with lipstick and press-on nails. And as you'd guess, Sasquatch does not care for his glam makeover. In the...
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Diaper-Buying, Sex-Starved, Death-Obsessed Lonely Island Guys Promote New Album
Are the guys from Lonely Island trying to say that marriage and kids are shortcuts to the grave? They sure don't seem too happy to be "grown-ass" men, maybe because they're starving for sex, wiping...
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Nutella Thanks Its Biggest Fan, Founder of World Nutella Day, by Sending Her...
Most brand marketers can only dream of having a superfan who organizes a global holiday dedicated to their product. And then there's Nutella. The chocolate-hazelnut spread's parent company,...
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Warren Buffett Helps Pitch Berkshire Hathaway's Dairy Queen as Barkley Airs...
Warren Buffett is helping to pitch Dairy Queen just as Kansas City, Mo.-based agency Barkley is airing its first TV ad for the chain, five months after it landed the creative account. The godfather of...
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Samsung Presents Advertising's Most Idiotically Primitive Husband Ever
This new ad for Samsung televisions is precipitating foul rumblings across the cyberverse for depicting men as gassy, unkempt, couch-bound louts. Sounds like truth in advertising to me. Especially the...
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Puma's Dance Dictionary Will Leave You at a Loss for Words
The Puma Dance Dictionary, created by Grey London to push the brand's new Sync fragrances (yes, Puma makes fragrances), allows users to select words and phrases which are then translated into dance...
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Geico Makes the Perfect Ad for Hump Day
Here is Geico's latest commercial from The Martin Agency. Uploaded on hump day, it's all about hump day. And it stars a certain mammal that hails from the Middle East and Africa. You can see where...
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Teenage Boys Are Suddenly Pregnant in Chicago's Striking PSA Campaign
Illinois and Wisconsin are currently overrun with pregnant teenage boys, thanks to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Man, that's fun to say. The CDPH's Office of Adolescent and School Health...
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Ads for Playboy Fragrances Have Plenty of Happy Endings, and a Few Weird Ones...
One of the better Playboy ads of recent years was last year's "Elevator" spot from DDB Paris and directors The Perlorian Brothers. Here are two more ads done in the same style. The earlier spot sold...
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Droga5 Gives Qantas Fliers Paperbacks That Last Just as Long as the Flight
Droga5 and publisher Hachette Australia recently bestowed upon Qantas frequent fliers an anachronistic little gift that will come in handy aboard Qantas flights when approved electronic devices must...
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Prepares for the French Open by Practicing Against Twitter
French tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is preparing to play against a robot. Surprisingly, it's not Roger Federer, renowned for his robotically stiff commercial acting and machine-like winning ways...
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Having Shipped Its Pants, Kmart Now Offers You 'Big Gas Savings'
Kmart's "Ship My Pants" ad was a major success, to the tune of 17 million YouTube views and counting. But can Draftfcb turn almost-profanity into a running gag for the retailer? It attempts to do so...
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Y&R Asks You to Define What #AdvertisingIs
Young & Rubicam is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a fun project in New York that, fittingly, brings old and new together. It's a billboard in Times Square that will feature—from 2 to 3:30...
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Chevy Releases Extended Volt Spot, Now With More Robot Dog
This Chevy Volt ad, titled "Silent Anthem," is an extended version of the Volt footage we saw in the "Find New Roads" launch spot in February. Visually, it's interesting, although it's as much an ad...
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Lego Builds Awesome Life-Size Star Wars X-Wing Fighter, Its Largest Model Ever
Lego has unveiled a life-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter jet made entirely of Legos in Times Square. It promotes an upcoming Cartoon Network show called The Yoda Chronicles. You can also see a life-size...
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