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Ad for 5,000-Case Limited-Edition Beer Will Disappear After 5,000 Views
Here's a clever little gimmick. Australia's Cascade Brewery recently made a limited-edition batch of beer with special "experimental" hops from a secret garden in Tasmania's Derwent Valley. There was...
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Nikola Tesla Takes Down Silicon Valley VCs, but Will It Get Him a Statue?
Some days it seems almost anybody can make an enjoyable video promoting a Kickstarter project, but these guys get bonus points for simultaneously giving the venture-capital system a big poke in the...
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Jell-O Hijacks Twitter's Profane #FML Hashtag, Changes It to Mean 'Fun My Life'
The ubiquitous Twitter hashtag #FML (there have been 37,000 #FML-tagged tweets in the past seven days alone) is generally understood to be short for an obscene phrase uttered when things are at their...
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Atlanta's Most Infamous Stripper Pimps Charity Advertising Contest
The Creative Circus, Atlanta's advertising school, has hired the most famous, perhaps infamous, stripper in town to pimp its do-goody-goody advertising contest known as A+, where all the winners...
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Justin Bieber Is Sad About a Lot of Things, but Probably Not the Teen...
Today in weird, leechy Justin Bieber news, we have this new billboard that just went up in Los Angeles speculating on the cause of the young pop star's dramatic descent into sadness, as seen in pretty...
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Microsoft Humiliates Siri in Biting Parody of Apple's iPad Ads
Microsoft says a mouthful in this ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky. And—surprise!—those words are spoken by Siri, Apple's voice assistant, from an iPad sitting next to a Windows 8 tablet. As the...
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Flickr Recruits Coders With Ads Hidden in Its Website's Source Code
Lots of companies advertise their job openings to the ends of the earth, which we can't really fault in this economy. But rather than let HR weed out applicants arbitrarily, Flickr decided to hide a...
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Streaking Baby Flaunts Pixelated Privates for Seventh Generation Diapers
Seventh Generation tips a hat to its hippy heritage with this new streaking-themed spot for its chemical-free diapers. Lest you get uppity about naked babies, don't worry. The trick of the spot, by ad...
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The 10 Most-Viral Ads of 2013 (So Far)
A forensic artist drawing a picture of a baby Clydesdale shipping its pants? Now that would be a viral commercial supernova. Dove, Budweiser and Kmart all rank near the top of Unruly Media's...
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Real Criminals Star in Excellent Commercial for Van Nuys Bail Bondsman
Better call Saul? Actually, try Harry Kassabian first. The proprietor of People's Bail Bonds in Van Nuys, Calif., co-stars with some real-life criminals in this great commercial produced by local-ad...
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Google's New Chrome Games Are a Dream Come True. Is That a Good Thing?
Visiting the video arcade at my neighborhood mall in the '80s was both exhilarating and a bit scary. On the one hand, I feared that bigger kids would try to take all my change. (And I mean a physical...
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Unable to Catch a Break, JCPenney Puts Up Billboard Showing Tea Kettle That...
Poor JCPenney. The retailer, which lost gobs of money last year and could very well die this year, simply cannot catch a break. This time it put up a seemingly harmless billboard in California. But...
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Cruzan Rum's Great New Campaign Takes Its Time and Gets You Buzzed
Cruzan Rum welcomes you to "The Don't Hurry," an island paradise where no one is busy, people enjoy zero-kilometer runs and sleep yoga, and every minute lasts 64 seconds. (The brand hails from the...
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Facebook's Like Button Fights Evil Dressed Up as Different Superheroes
Graphic designer/illustrator Jaime Calderón's "Super Likes" series dresses up the Facebook "Like" button in a variety of superhero costumes, including Spider-Man, Batman, The Thing, Wolverine and The...
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Deutsch Produces Radio Ads for a Dollar to Promote Taco Bell's Dollar...
Taco Bell's Dollar Cravings Menu is a low-budget option, so naturally it needs low-budget advertising. Enter Deutsch/LA, which claims to have produced radio ads for a dollar promoting the menu. The...
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After 16 Years of Agency Life, Copywriter's First Solo Ad Is an Instant Hit
When longtime Richards Group copywriter Matt Bull finished his first highly visible solo gig in Dallas this week, it felt like a pretty big deal to him. And apparently Redditors agreed, giving his...
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Stars Past and Present Light Up Ads for the NBA Finals
As the NBA pivots from the conference semifinals to the league championship series, its ads naturally have shifted from memorable moments in the playoffs ("Big is now") to images from past NBA Finals...
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Solar Panel Inside Nivea Print Ad Generates Power to Charge Your Cell Phone
A print ad that uses solar power to charge cell phones? At long last, mankind's prayers have been answered! Giovanni + Draftfcb in São Paulo, Brazil, developed the ad, which includes a wafer-think...
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Bradley Cooper Is Hot, but Not Quite Cool Enough, in Team One's...
That hunky Bradley Cooper can do anything he wants, you understand, including strolling into an elegant cocktail party eating ice cream straight out of the container. Lapses in etiquette be...
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Ads for PBS Station Invent Ludicrous, Fake Reality Shows You'd Still Probably...
Excited about the reality show Knitting Wars? If sew, too bad—it's fake. It's one of five bogus lowbrow programs dreamed up by CHI & Partners in New York for a poster campaign advertising New York...
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