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College Recruitment Ad Hides a Real Graduate in a 'Digital' Kiosk
Soliciting testimonials from alumni isn't a new way to advertise a university, but this example definitely takes it to a new and charming extreme. Canada’s Royal Roads University decided to let alumni...
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Zappos Hilariously Takes Down Kanye West, but CEO Insists: 'I Admire Him'
Kanye West takes no prisoners, as displayed during his rant against Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on novelist Bret Easton Ellis's podcast on Monday."I got into this giant argument with the head of Zappos that...
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Watch the Year's Most Beautiful Ad About Booze, Rain and Death
A dreary rainstorm and a friend's apparent death might not seem like promising raw materials for an uplifting ad. But this one takes place in Ireland, so it all makes sense. The two-and-a-half minute...
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Air New Zealand Once Again Says Its Flights Are Full of Hobbits and Dwarves
There is one good reason to visit New Zealand (not counting you already happened to be in Australia so why not swing by). It's because you wish you lived in The Lord of the Rings instead of in the...
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Sean Bean Stars in (and Survives!) a Charming Make-A-Wish Ad
Considering that Sean Bean can barely make a walk-on cameo without his character being butchered, it's pretty impressive how much he can survive in his newest U.K. ad appearance. Dinosaurs firing...
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Duck Dynasty Stars Teach You How Not to Blow Up Your House With a Turkey
Thinking of frying a turkey this holiday season? Hang on a minute, and listen to what Si and Jase have to say. State Farm has partnered with the popular stars from Duck Dynasty to caution turkey...
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Kids Point to British Airways Flights as They Pass Overhead on Magical U.K....
Last fall, Norwegian airline Wideroe used a child's glee at his grandfather's airplane-conjuring trick to create one of 2012's best ads. Now, British Airways is showcasing a digital version of a...
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Potty With Built-In iPad Joins Advocacy Group's List of Year's Most...
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has chosen this year's five nominees for its annual TOADY Award (dis)honoring "Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young Children." There's a Monopoly game...
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Dogs Sing for a Cure in Canadian Campaign Against Animal Cancer
Dogs "sing" a "We Are the World"-esque power ballad in this ad for Pet Trust, a Canadian organization that's trying to end animal cancer as we know it. Thankfully, they're not joined by Sarah...
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Pretty Much Everyone Hates the New Target.com Redesign
This holiday season, there's one thing everyone's sure to be getting on Target.com: a headache. The recently relaunched Target site is sparking quite a bit of backlash from the design community,...
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Beastie Boys, GoldieBlox Fight Over 'Girls.' Is It Copyright Infringement or...
UPDATE 2: The Beastie Boys released this statement Monday: Like many of the millions of people who have seen your toy commercial "GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg & the Beastie Boys," we were very...
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Kevin Garnett's New Beats by Dre Ad Is Tough, Brave and Relentless
"Hear what you want" is the theme of this intense, nearly three-minute Beats by Dre spot starring Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Garnett, who's shown using the brand's wireless studio headphones to cancel...
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Depressed About Having to Shave That Movember 'Stache? Watch This and Feel...
Dec. 1 will be a tough day for a lot of guys, including Dan. That Movember mustache, the object of so much spousal derision for weeks now, must come off. Shaving brand Harry's tries to lessen the blow...
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Bacon-Scented Deodorant Made Especially for People Who Sweat Like Pigs
It wouldn't be the holidays if some cheeky company didn't release a men's personal-care product that smells like meat. In the grand tradition of Burger King's Flame fragrance (with "a hint of meat"),...
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Verizon Hangs Rivals' 4G Coverage Maps in a Gallery Because They Look Like...
Remember the "map wars" of 2009, when AT&T and Verizon spent a combined $4 billion on ads (and went to court) to claim coverage-area supremacy? Well, it looks like Verizon is firing another round...
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'Tryptophan Slow Jam' Video Is Easily the Strangest Thing Century 21 Has Ever...
Century 21 and its agency, Mullen, have been doing some offbeat stuff together lately—pretending to sell Walter White's house on Craigslist; urging Twitter's mascot to upgrade to a bigger birdhouse...
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Google Tells Another Inspiring Story, but Is It Taking Too Much Credit for...
Google isn't just a technology company. It's a facilitator of dreams. That is, at least, according to much of the search giant's advertising, stretching back to spots like "Parisian Love" and "Dear...
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David Eckstein's Fake Ad for a Fake Law Firm Really Is Inside Baseball
Behold this strange ad-like object, which is half internal joke and half attempt to prove baseball is still down with the hip kids. It's a fictional ad for a fictional law firm created by Michael...
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The AT&T Kids Have a Very Odd Plan for Thanksgiving Dinner
Kids still say the darndest things. AT&T and BBDO New York keep up their rich tradition of child-centric, ad-lib style spots (they are lightly scripted but most quickly become improvised) with...
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Ad Blogger Copyranter Goes Out With a Bang After Getting Fired From BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, the curator of all things viral on the www, fired Mark "Copyranter" Duffy last month after employing him for a year and a half. And he did not go quietly. In a new article on Gawker titled...
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