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Design Firm Gets Real With Orange Is the New Black's Great Opening Credits
Dozens of women are featured in the captivating, Regina Spektor-driven opening credits for Netflix's Orange Is the New Black—but none of them are in the show itself. As Fast Company's Co.Design blog...
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Windows Tablet Passes, iPads Fail in Microsoft's Back-to-School Ad
Microsoft's new back-to-school ad for Windows 8 tablets—here, the Lenovo Yoga in particular—is being touted, at least by CNET, as another huge diss against the iPad. It is, of course, but it's not as...
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'WTF' Are You Looking At, Asks Campaign for Toronto's Museums and Historic Sites
The city of Toronto is offering prizes as part of its "What the Fact?" campaign promoting local museums and historic sites to young people. Unfortunately, those prizes are passes to the museums and...
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Jersey Shore Star Shows Off His Package (of Mascara) in Cosmetics Spot
Vinny Guadagnino of Jersey Shore stars as a well-endowed yoga hunk in this decidedly unique Benefit Cosmetics spot for They're Real! mascara. The ad opens to hunky dude ogling, which is oh so trendy...
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Belize Tourism Makes Most of Country's Unflattering Mention on Breaking Bad
Taking "a trip to Belize" doesn't sound fun, at least the way the phrase was used on Breaking Bad last Sunday. But the small Central American country took the reference in stride and is out to prove...
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Apple and Samsung Users Remain Violent Half-wits in Latest Ad for Windows Phone
There isn't a public event that Apple and Samsung users can't spoil by fighting with each other, according to Crispin Porter + Bogusky's hyperbolic but still amusing campaign for the Windows...
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So Bad, It's Bad: Samsung Video Is the Cringeworthiest Thing You'll See Today
Reddit has declared that the Samsung promotional video below features "possibly the world's worst actors," a description that might not be literally true but is close enough. In the ad, for Samsung's...
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Art Replaces Ads on 22,000 Billboards and Other Out-of-Home Sites in the U.K.
There's art everywhere! It's loose in the streets! The onslaught of art will kill us all! possibly brighten our dreary, workaday lives! The Art Everywhere project in England fuses art and commerce on...
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Argentine Soccer Star Deletes His 92,000 Twitter Followers for Nike Campaign
Here's a nice little Twitter activation from Nike and BBDO Argentina. The marketer had Burrito "The Mule" Martinez, star forward for the Boca Juniors soccer team, wipe out all of his 92,000 Twitter...
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Alex Bogusky Shows You His Foolproof Way of Bringing Back 1 Million U.S. Jobs
Been wondering what Alex Bogusky is up to? He's just put out this little video in his latest push for social good: the Million Jobs Project. Bogusky stars in and narrates the infographic short (with...
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Incredible Tweet-Inspired Illustrated Billboard Gets 60-Second Spot to Match
Mexican stationery company Scribe won a Bronze Lion in Cannes for its "Scribe Billboard" campaign, in which artist Cecilia Beaven lived inside a blank billboard like a shoemaker's elf for 10 days and...
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Adolf Hitler Killed as a Boy by Speeding Mercedes in Film Students' Crazy...
If you were a car, and you could travel back in time and kill Hitler when he was a boy, would you do it? Well, if you were a Volkswagen, the answer would probably be no, since you'd be murdering your...
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Devin Graham Hooks Up With Mountain Dew for New Stunt: a Death-Defying Human...
Devin Graham has always seemed right up Mountain Dew's alley. The director, aka Devin Supertramp, who specializes in building giant outdoor contraptions that fling attractive young people into the...
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Environmental Campaign Suggests Naming Vicious Storms After Climate-Change...
New York ad agency Barton F. Graf 9000 has turned its roguish attention to the issue of climate change, and helped activist group 350 Action with the amusing video below. According to the YouTube...
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Makers of the Squatty Potty on Your Bathroom Habits: You're Doing It Wrong
This "educational video" about the Squatty Potty, which is basically a step stool (ha!) that corrects your toilet posture (tagline: "Healthy colon. Happy life"), feels more like an expertly done...
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Healthy Kids Feast on Unhealthy Foods in Vintage Back-to-School Ads
In the spirit of back to school, let's fatten up our kids and send them into anaphylactic shock! Seems that wasn't much of an issue in the '50s, when fall advertising aimed at lunch-packing moms...
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Haunted Connecticut Ad Agency Has In-House Ghost Writing Its Twitter Posts
Plenty of ad agencies have skeletons in their closet, but Keiler apparently has a ghost haunting the attic of its early-18th-century Connecticut farmhouse offices. Naturally, they're put the snarky...
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Jeff Goodby Sings About Agency's New App, Which Lets You Reach Out and Touch...
The techies at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' GSP BETA Group have whipped up a new app which the agency is now promoting in decidedly offbeat fashion. The app is called Touch Room, and it's...
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Twerking the Hand That Feeds You: Beats Tees Off on Miley Cyrus
"Will somebody please feed Miley Cyrus?" That's the request from one anthropomorphized Beats Pill speaker to another in the commercial below, which aired Sunday on MTV after the pop singer's...
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Dermablend App Gives You the Skinny on Super-Tattooed 'Zombie Boy'
Zombie Boy rises again! L'Oréal's Dermablend cosmetics brand got 13 million YouTube views for its 2011 "Go Beyond the Cover" video starring the über-tattooed Rick Genest. So, it's no surprise they've...
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