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Mitsubishi Identifies Your Most Pretentious Facebook Friends, and Runs Them Over
Here's an app for anyone who's daydreamed about mowing down annoying Facebook friends with large, fast-moving vehicles. "Mitsubishi Unpretentious" analyzes content from your friends' Facebook pages to...
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Virgin's Most Frequent Flier This Year Will Win a Trip to Space
As prizes go, it doesn't get much better than this. Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia are holding a contest in which the person who logs the most miles on those airlines between now...
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Vote for Romney or Suffer 'a Thousand Years of Darkness,' Says Chuck Norris
Man, I hope this Chuck Norris ad puts a stop to all those Republican jokes about Obama's teleprompter, because ads like this are what happens when you don't use one. Chuck's delivery is so bad that I...
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Maru, the Internet's Top Cat, Goes to Work for Uniqlo
Joe Montana won four Super Bowls quarterbacking the San Francisco 49ers. Maru the cat couldn't throw a forward pass to save his life. Unlike some pitch-kitties, he doesn't even have thumbs. Alas, poor...
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Giant Idiot on Speedboat Needs Good Insurance, Better Swimsuit
Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer is known for its amusing TV ads, and its latest, from DDB Amsterdam, more than measures up. It features a doofus in a red Speedo—containing quivering butt...
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Cravendale's Cats With Thumbs Set for Evil, Prehensile Return
The cats with thumbs, stars of last year's hugely popular Cravendale milk commercial in Britain (which placed at No. 8 on Adweek's list of 2011's best spots), are back—and seemingly more evil than...
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Nokia Apologizes for Deceptive Ad Touting Camera's Image Stabilization
When advertisers get caught blurring the line between fact and fiction, the Internet can quickly and mercilessly bring their transgressions into focus. Case in point: Nokia has apologized for a...
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iPhone 5's 'Rubberband' Feature Allows It to Swell Into an iPad
Aatma Studio has a habit of rolling out prediction videos for Apple products, inadvertently making them way cooler than the real thing. Its latest concept clip, for the imminent iPhone 5, just gets...
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Flight Attendant Demonstrates Proper Condom Technique in Durex Spot
Durex is no stranger to salacious advertising. But this faux-guerrilla spot from Poland, in which a flight attendant demonstrates how to use a condom on a chrome dildo, lacks the charm the brand's ads...
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Dodge Travels to the Year 3000 for Advice on High-Tech Cars
Dodge might not actually be able to travel a thousand years into the future to harness the best technology for its cars, as it pretends to do in this new Dart spot from Wieden + Kennedy. But it is...
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Tom Brady Excels at Imaginary Football in Latest UGG Spot
Tom Brady and UGG were always a perfect match, if only because people always muttered the brand name, inadvertently, when they heard he was endorsing it. Still, the pairing doesn't seem as weird as it...
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Katy Perry Brings Popchips Back From the Brink in New Ads
Following a pretty disastrous campaign starring Ashton Kutcher, which was sunk by complaints of racism, Popchips is back with one of the more inoffensive endorsers around: Katy Perry. In four new...
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Taylor Swift and Kanye West Headline MTV's VMA Promos
Taylor Swift and Kanye West, whose fracas at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards remains one of the most pathetic incidents in TV history, are reuniting at the 2012 VMAs, which take place tonight—at least...
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Prestone Saves Your Car from Evil Grim-Reaper Tow Truck
The Grim Reaper is always a solid standby in advertising, and now he gets auto-pomorphized in this new Prestone campaign from The Richards Group in Dallas. In the new spot, the Reaper is an imposing...
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Respected ESPN Analyst Turns Out to Be Scruffy Hooligan in 'This Is...
Regular viewers of ESPN know John Clayton as a brainiac NFL analyst. In fact, he's a disgusting slacker who never left home. It's amazing what you learn from the "This Is SportsCenter" ads. The spot,...
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Carlton Draught Thanks Practically Everyone on Twitter Who Liked Its Ad
It can be difficult for brands to know how—and how often—to respond to people on Twitter. Some limit their interactions to pressing customer-service needs. Others reply enthusiastically (if...
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Billboard for Sunglasses That Are 'Happy to Sit on Your Face' Is Removed
This "Happy to sit on your face" billboard, for Spy sunglasses, was supposed to stay up in its Encinitas, Calif., location for five weeks. But it was taken down after just one week due to complaints....
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Honest NFL Logos Take Every Team Down a Notch
Honest logos are a great running gag. Last year we saw that amusing collection of honest brand logos. And now, Grantland gives us this group of honest NFL logos. I don't get half the jokes here, but...
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Pitchfork, Pandora Execs Among Virgin America's New Ad Stars
Now boarding at Gate 11: geeks and nerds! Adland's recent trend of using Silicon Valley stars instead of Hollywood heavyweights and pro athletes—think Best Buy and J. Crew—continues in an interactive...
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Mike's Hard Lemonade Winners Relentlessly Harassed by Bear
It sounded great. A trip for two to Miami to soak up the sun on South Beach, cruise on a private boat, dine at the finest restaurants, and dance with some of the most limber Brazilians. Yes, Mike's...
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