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How a Food-Delivery Company Found Love by Advertising on Adult Websites
Here's your curious advertising case study of the day. Food-delivery app Eat24 has written a lengthy blog post detailing, from start to finish, why and how it went "where no marketing team has gone...
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Ad for the 9/11 Memorial Encourages You to 'Take a Day to Remember'
Robert De Niro narrates this new spot for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, encouraging viewers to "take a day to remember" that morning 12 years ago, when thousands of men and women...
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Breaking Bad's Incredible Blu-ray Box Set Will Come Packaged in a Money Barrel
The full run of Breaking Bad is coming out on Blu-ray soon after the AMC series wraps up. And if you're enough of a fan to spring for the special-edition box set, it's packaged in a replica money...
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AT&T Apologizes for 9/11 Image Showing Phone Framing the Tribute in Light
After getting bombarded with hate tweets for about an hour this afternoon, AT&T removed an image from Twitter that had been meant as a 9/11 tribute—a photo showing a hand holding a phone up in...
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SportsCenter Ad Discovers Secret to Rafael Nadal's Success With the Ladies
Fresh from his U.S. Open triumph, Rafael Nadal comes on like the candy man in ESPN's latest tongue-in-cheek SportsCenter spot from Wieden + Kennedy in New York. Network personalities John Anderson and...
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BETC and Canal+ Satisfy Your Craving for More Dwarf Clowns in Advertising
BETC and Canal+ together produced one of the most beloved ads of recent years in "The Bear," a hilarious and impeccably produced spot that won the Film Craft Grand Prix at Cannes in 2012. The French...
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Shop at Burlington, and Never Awkwardly Discuss Your Fashion Sense in Public...
After years of the hard sell, some regional and national retailers are actually trying to build brands. Last month, Men's Warehouse jettisoned its bearded chairman from its advertising (after...
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Posh Spokeswoman Narrates Best Ad Ever for a Stink-Eliminating Toilet Spray
Contradiction is the key to this brilliantly graphic online spot for Poo-Pourri, a toilet spray that eliminates odor. They took a beautiful woman with a refined British accent and gave her a complete...
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Buy the Guardian and Observer, or Your Weekend Will Be a Complete Disaster
BBH London expands its "We Own the Weekend" campaign for the Guardian and Observer's Saturday and Sunday newspapers with a pair of dark-humored spots that focus on the "Tech Monthly" and "Cook"...
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Rebel Wilson Sings Queen in the Year's Most Quirky Sitcom Promo
Actress and comedian Rebel Wilson is a quirky rule breaker, so why should she adhere to some old-school network-TV model for promoting a sitcom? She shouldn't, ya hear? Regular 30-second promo spots?...
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McDonald's Remakes Classic Jordan-Bird Ad, This Time on the Football Field
McDonald's and Burrell Communications update a classic Super Bowl spot from 1993, pitting Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens and Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers, the opposing quarterbacks...
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Grey's 'Inspired' Ad for Canon Wins 2013 Emmy for Best Commercial
Grey New York and MJZ director Nicolai Fuglsig's "Inspired" spot for Canon won the 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial on Sunday at the 65th Annual Creative Arts Emmys. The win ended a streak...
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Virgin Mobile Makes Its Pitch in 25 YouTube Videos, Which You Scroll Through...
Virgin Mobile has been retraining your brain for a while. Now, it wants to borrow your eyes. In a fun stunt called BlinkWashing from Mother New York and rehabstudio, the mobile carrier makes its sales...
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New Zealand's 'Don't Get Stoned and Drive' Ads Are Curious, Funny and Charming
Some precocious Maori children in New Zealand argue about whose dad is more irresponsible in this curiously amusing PSA about driving while stoned—the latest in a string of such ads from Clemenger...
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Breaking Bad Thanks Cast and Crew in Simple, Great Ad for the Series Finale
Two shows left, bitches! AMC's Breaking Bad airs its last episode on Sept. 29, and the network whipped up this print ad promoting the series finale to thank the cast and crew for their efforts over...
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Apple Gets Its Color Back in This Oozingly Vibrant Spot for the iPhone 5C
Apple has always been all or nothing when it comes to color. "1984" was all doom and gloom with just a flash of red running shorts. "Think Different" was mostly black and white. The TV work, from...
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Watch the Thai Commercial That Has Half the World Sobbing Uncontrollably
Looking for a tear-jerker today? Thai mobile company TrueMove has got you covered with this story of a noodle seller whose generous act toward a young boy with a sick mother brings unexpected rewards...
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It's Been 101 Years, but It's Still Too Soon for Titanic Jokes in Advertising
Even though more than a century has passed since the Titanic sank, it's still too soon to joke about it in ads. Red Bull got in trouble for this ad hinting that the more than 1,500 people who drowned...
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Fly JetBlue and Stop Being a Sad, Pathetic Loser Like This Pigeon
JetBlue Airways is launching a big new ad campaign from Mullen with the theme "Air on the Side of Humanity." But its big star isn't even human—he's a pigeon. The 60-second launch spot is a...
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Dennis Rodman Goes Boom in Pistachios Ad With Fake Kim Jong-un
Keyboard Cat, Snoop, Psy, the Winklevoss twins and Snooki were all in on the joke. Can the same be said for Dennis Rodman and the Prancercise lady? Oh sure, it's just the Wonderful Pistachios campaign...
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