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Honda Sends Real-Time Vines to Fans, and Rebecca Black Is Along for the Ride
It looks like Rebecca Black finally decided which seat to take—a seat in a Honda. The "Friday" singer just popped up in a Vine video from the automaker—part of a campaign by RPA that sends...
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Kmart Ad Turns Schoolyard Taunts of 'Yo Mama' Into Compliments
Draftfcb stages a spirited, brand-centric schoolyard game of "Yo Mama" to tout Kmart's free back-to-school layaway plan in this new commercial. "Yo mama get that hoodie at Kmart?" "Yeah, dawg." "Well,...
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Ads for Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum Wish You a Very Uncomfortable Summer
Up for a hot-dog bun full of worms? A pair of firecracker Speedos? How about a skewer through the nipple? You can get them all at Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum—in its summer 2013 ad campaign from MARC...
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Fiat Body-Paints a Bunch of Naked Women Into the Shape of a Car
This isn't the first time hot naked women have been painted like objects in advertising. It isn't even the first time hot naked women have been painted like cars. But this ad for the Fiat 500 Abarth...
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Talia Castellano, the World's Most Inspiring CoverGirl, Dies of Cancer at 13
Talia Castellano, the 13-year-old honorary CoverGirl who inspired and entertained hundreds of thousands with her fighting spirit and her YouTube makeup tutorials, died Tuesday at age 13. "It is with a...
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Kids Watch Cheerios Ad With Interracial Parents, Don't Understand the Fuss
Kids have the oddest perspective on things. For example: They're not even very racist! This truism is brought home once again in this video by the Fine Brothers, in which children between the ages of...
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Smokey Bear Reboot Takes Warm and Fuzzy to a Whole New Level
The new man-in-a-furry-suit-and-big-ass-jeans incarnation of Smokey Bear is all about huggin' and lovin' strangers he meets in the woods. These days, who isn't? (Well, OK, Purity Bear for one.)...
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NYC's PBS Station Dreams Up More Horrible, Fake Reality Shows You'd Probably...
Thirteen, a PBS station in New York City, continues to insist that its programming is better than the dreck you find elsewhere on cable—by inventing more bogus ads for reality shows that don't exist....
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Giant Dragon Skull That Washed Up on British Beach Is an Ad for Game of Thrones
The only thing scarier than a 12-foot-tall Colin Firth in a British lake is a 40-foot-long dragon skull washed up on a British beach. Beachgoers in Dorset were surprised to come across the latter on...
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Hidden Message in New Wendy's Logo Is So Subtle, Not Even Wendy's Noticed It
StockLogos recently suggested that Wendy's sneakily put the word "mom" in the Wendy character's collar in the chain's new logo—to subliminally associate the brand with motherly cooking and the "safe...
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Here Are Your 2013 Emmy Nominees for Best Commercial
Grey, BBH, Wieden + Kennedy and Crispin Porter + Bogusky will battle it out for Best Commercial at the Emmy Awards in September, it was announced Thursday—nominated for Canon, Google Chrome, Nike and...
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Here Are the Crazy Ones Who Dropped Everything and Flew Off to Oblivion With...
Last week we wrote about Heineken's JFK airport stunt, in which the brand dared travelers to drop their existing plans and go somewhere new and exotic with the push of a button—without knowing where....
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Indian Motorcycle Punks Harley-Davidson in Fun, Sneaky Ad
Iconic motorcycle brand Harley-Davidson is taken down a notch in this fun, simple new spot for Indian Motorcycle, which takes a hard left three-quarters of the way through. Great use of Willie Nelson...
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Bottles and Cans Plead to Be Recycled in New Ads for Keep America Beautiful
Pereira & O'Dell tells stories from the point of view of trash in its new "I Want to Be Recycled" pro-bono campaign for the Ad Council and Keep America Beautiful. (No Honey Boo Boo jokes, please.)...
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Mosquito Patch: Wear It and Never Get Bitten Again?
The Kite Patch promises to do for today's world what quinine and imperialism did for our great-grandparents: decrease the chance of contracting gross or fatal diseases from mosquitoes. The patch,...
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Coca-Cola's 'Smile Back' Video: Cute or Kind of Creepy?
Coca-Cola's new "Smile Back" out-of-home stunt (scroll down to see it) is cute and nicely done, and everyone everywhere will love it. But let's overthink it for a moment. Coke is famously skilled at...
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Unilever Shampoo Gives You Hair So Strong, You Can Make Violin Bows Out of It
When you hear the words human hair orchestra, don't you just imagine Hannibal Lecter conducting? Not so for this Unilever-sponsored stunt in the Philippines from JWT Singapore and JWT Manila. To show...
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TrueCar.com Ad Rescues Clueless Women Who Could Never Buy a Car Without a Man...
Remember back when advertisers would blatantly mock women for being helpless without men? I mean, you're probably not old enou … wait, never mind, still happening. A recent ad for used-car pricing...
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The Most Intense Ad Ever Made for a City Council's Cable-Access Broadcasts
Pulse-pounding thriller music and dramatic editing capture all the "excitement" of cable-access city-council broadcasts in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, in this tongue-in-cheek (but 100 percent real)...
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Marty Weiss Wants to Be Friends With Everyone in Ads for His New Agency
Whether you're a stranger, peer or client, Marty Weiss wants to be your friend. With that spirit in mind, Weiss has shot some short videos on the streets of New York City that feel less like a plug...
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