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Georgia Man's Colorful Obituary Is Hilarious, Heartwarming and Surely Not All...
He was a lover of women—women like "Crazy Pam" and "Big Tittie Wanda." He "hated vegetables and hypocrites." He was "great at growing fruit trees, grilling chicken and ribs, popping wheelies on his...
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Speeding Truck Drives Over Engineer's Head in Latest Scary Stunt for Volvo...
Starring in this risky spot for Volvo Trucks might give Roland Svensson a big head. Luckily, the engineer's head measured only 10 inches high when he was buried up to his neck in the sand and let a...
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The World's Kookiest, Catchiest Anti-Asthma PSAs May Leave You Breathless
Remember the "Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway" song from way back in 2010? How about the theme song from Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the 1990s? Parry Gripp was the songwriter behind the simian parody,...
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The iPhone Is Nice, but Could This Blocky, Utopian Rival Be the Best Phone in...
Smartphones are lovely, but they're also wasteful—not worth repairing when they break, quickly obsolete in a hyper-competitive market. But what if there were a different model, one where a phone's...
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Second Lovely Ad for the iPhone 5C Suggests You Might Want to Play With It...
Say what you will about the iPhone 5C—the ads for it are gorgeous and bubbly. Apple this afternoon released the second 5C spot in the space of three days, this one a 55-second jaunt through another...
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Terrie Hall, Star of the CDC's Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign, Dies at 53
Terrie Hall, who starred in Arnold's brutal national anti-smoking campaign for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died this week in North Carolina. The image of Hall hiding the ravages of...
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Adobe Shows You the Colorful, Weird, Scary, Brilliant Faces of 'The New...
Adobe just passed the 1 million subscriber mark for its Adobe Creative Cloud and is celebrating with this eye-catching spot from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners—a salute to "the new creatives" in...
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See the New York City Ballet's Remarkable Film That Quietly and Beautifully...
Most of the brand talk around 9/11 this year was about marketers doing it wrong. But DDB New York and the New York City Ballet quietly did it right with a wonderful tribute called "New Beginnings,"...
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World of Pure Manipulation: An Honest Version of Chipotle's 'Scarecrow' Ad
You know you have an advertising hit when the parodies start rolling in. Here is Funny or Die's take on the grand new Chipotle "Scarecrow" ad. The parody is just a joke, but it's not the first time...
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Come Work at This Ad Agency in Cleveland, Even Though It's in Cleveland
Are you a fan of jorts? No matter. You will be wearing them daily after you move to Cleveland and start working at Brokaw. Two weeks ago, the 54-person agency rolled out geo-targeted banner ads on...
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Coca-Cola Apologizes for Vitaminwater Bottle Cap That Read 'YOU RETARD'
The idea? Play off Canada's bilingualism by jumbling English and French words on bottle caps of Vitaminwater. The result? The phrase "You Retard" appeared on the lid of a young woman's drink. Even...
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Voice Actor Gives Himself a Shout-Out in Little Caesars Radio Ad
OK, Alan Varner, you probably think it's real cute that you broke through the "fourth wall" in this Little Caesars radio ad from Barton F. Graf 9000, inviting listeners who visit the restaurant to...
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KitKat's Amazing Website Confirms It's the Most High-Tech Candy Bar Around
We've written about Google's upcoming Android KitKat operating system. But check out the KitKat website, itself upgraded to tie into the tech theme—it's a scrolling compendium of factoids proving...
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L.A. Agency Shines a Light on Former Gang Members Trying to Make Peace
Spend a broiling hot summer on the streets of South Central L.A., a time grimly known to locals as "the killing season," to document some former gang bangers who now try to make peace? That's the idea...
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Fans Waiting in Digital Line for Samsung Galaxy S4 Move Up by Tweeting
Here's a pretty clever new chapter in Samsung's long-running mockery of Apple line-waiters. For the launch of the Galaxy S4, New Zealand agency Colenso BBDO created a "Smart Phone Line"—a digital...
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Campbell's Wisest Kid Mascot Isn't the Soup Company's Wisest Idea Ever
Oh, a wise guy, eh? Just in time for Advertising Week, BBDO and Campbell Soup introduce a new brand mascot, "The Wisest Kid in the Whole World"—basically a little boy with a really long beard who sits...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Covers 'What Does the Fox Say?' in Mind-Blowing Parody
Dog goes woof. Cat goes meow. But what do the shirtless Abercrombie & Fitch models say? They're so good looking, who cares?! Behold A&F's hunks, stripped to the waist and pleasingly pumped,...
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Kindly Disregard the Ad for iOS 7 That Says It Makes Your iPhone Waterproof
Apple's iOS 7 was announced with so much feature-glorifying fanfare that the pranksters at 4chan decided to sneak in an "upgrade" of their own and see if iPhone users would fall for it."Update to iOS...
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Hellmann's Builds the World's Longest Picnic Table in NYC, Because Why Not?
Nothing gets people riled up quite like a Guinness World Record involving mayonnaise, and so Hellmann's on Tuesday celebrated its 100th birthday by building the world's longest picnic table in New...
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Brewer Secretly Rigs Plumbing in Man's House to Make Beer Flow From Every Tap
Those jokers at Saatchi & Saatchi and Tui Brewery have a viral hit on their hands, notching more than 5 million views in about a week for various versions of a video that shows some New Zealand...
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