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It's 2013, and People Are Still Getting Worked Up About Interracial Couples...
It's another one of those things that shouldn't be a story but is—an ad from a major U.S. brand featuring an interracial couple and their daughter. You'd think this new Cheerios ad might go largely...
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Coca-Cola's New Can Splits in Half So You Can Really Share the Happiness
Ogilvy France and Ogilvy Asia-Pacific joined forces to make a can that splits in half for Coca-Cola, the most literal extension of the brand's global "Share Happiness" concept. The split-can design is...
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Burger King Debuts the Hands-Free Whopper, and Life Will Never Be the Same
Burger King in Puerto Rico celebrated its 50th anniversary by giving away "Hands-Free Whopper" holders to 50 lucky customers. DLC/Ogilvy & Mather helped develop the gag gift, which is still the...
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Chemotherapy Rebranded as 'Superformula' in JWT's Brilliant Campaign for...
JWT joined with Warner Bros. and the A.C. Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil, to craft a super-powerful campaign designed to help children with cancer better understand their treatment and be...
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Holland Is Incredibly Cool, and Its New Tourism Ad Isn't Too Shabby Either
Holland's new tourism campaign proposes that the country everyone knows for canals and wooden shoes is actually the coolest place on earth. In fact, the video below claims that Holland is the Original...
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Why Does Mobile Advertising Stink? Let Harrison Greenbaum Show You
Mobile advertising stinks? Whoa, hold the phone, that never occurred to me before! Solve Media picks an easy though apt target to skewer in this video starring comedian Harrison Greenbaum, who riffs...
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How Red Bull Quietly Took Over NYC for Its Red Bull Music Academy Event
There's nothing subtle about Red Bull the drink—it gives you wings, after all—but Red Bull the marketer decided to keep its messaging low-key around a recent New York entertainment/pop-culture event....
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Will the Fantasy Genre Ever Grow Up and Ditch the Chainmail Bikini?
It's taken the fantasy genre decades to grow out of its image as a juvenile boys' club obsessed with cleavage and crossbows. And just as Game of Thrones seemed to be lifting fantasy into the modern...
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Carl's Jr. Pounces With a Print and Video Attack as McDonald's Drops Angus...
"If you're wondering where the beef is, we have it, and we'd never deprive you of it." Thanks for the tip, Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's! Your straight-faced and earnest delivery of that...
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Bunnies Snuggle on a Hotel Bed in the Year's Most Shamelessly Adorable...
Cats get most of the Internet love, but bunnies can put on quite a show of devastating cuteness as well—as displayed in this new spot from BETC London for Ibis Hotels. The ad was filmed over two days...
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World's Most Intelligent Street Sign Can Point You to Almost Anything
Ever stood slack-jawed on a street corner with a friend trying to figure out where to go to throw back a beer? Or debated whether it'd be better to hop on that approaching bus or descend into the...
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Swiffer Feels the Heat After Putting Rosie the Riveter Back in the Kitchen
Now that women are the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of American households, it's a great time for Swiffer to co-opt the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter—who urged women to roll up their sleeves...
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Riding the Roller Coaster With Your Mouth Open Isn't a Great Look, Theme-Park...
It's a shame what powerful G-forces will do to one's face. The latest reminder of this comes in new ads for amusement park Cedar Fair by Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago. The flappy, wind-crushed faces will...
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Coca-Cola Making Bottles Entirely Out of Ice Just in Time for Summer
First, Coca-Cola tried to thaw relations between India and Pakistan. Now, the brand has created bottles that are guaranteed to melt in your hands. Foodbeast gives a chilly reception to Coke's bottles...
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Who's the Fastest Person on the Internet? The 100-Meter Scroll Aims to Find Out
Not since I used to play Summer Games on the Commodore 64 have I bludgeoned computer hardware in an effort to complete a simulation of a track-and-field event. But now, thanks to two creatives at Grey...
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Most Brutal Prankvertising Stunt Yet Might Kill You Before It Can Save You
We've written here and there about prankvertising and the joy marketers seem to derive from scaring the crap out of people in public places. This video eclipses them all, though, for the sheer...
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Grumpy Cat Is Not OK With You Drinking at Prom
The curmudgeonly mug of Tardar Sauce, the Internet sensation known informally as Grumpy Cat, has been spotted on an outdoor board promoting a dry prom in Elizabeth, Pa. A picture of the board greatly...
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Comedy Troupe Prepares to Improvise Three-Minute Ad on Live TV
Forgetting that a lot of improv comedy stinks, ad agency 18 Feet & Rising is partnering with British improv troupe Mischief Theatre to produce a live ad that will air on U.K. Comedy Central on the...
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Big Mac Beguiles in Eight Crazy, Wonderful Short Ads From Translation
A McDonald's campaign that's so playful and pleasing that you want to watch it again and again? This is not happening! This is not happening! I figured I'd be snug in my grave, providing a happy meal...
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IBM's Outdoor Ads Actually Try to Be Useful and Make Cities Better
IBM's technology is helping cities get smarter in innumerable ways. Now, its outdoor advertising is doing the same—by making simple little improvements to the landscape. A triad of outdoor ads from...
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