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Friskies Forms Internet Celebrity Cat Supergroup for Charity
As if the yuletide media landscape weren't already littered with enough novelty fare, five famous Internet kitties—Grumpy Cat, Colonel Meow, Nala Cat, Oskar the Blind Cat and Hamilton the Hipster—join...
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Cancer Patients Given Outlandish Makeovers to Help Take Their Mind Off the...
My father's girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. Doctors have the treatment covered, but medical care isn't the only thing she needs. Above all, she's been looking for something, anything,...
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Will Instagram's Direct Inbox Become the New Playground for Spam and Perverts?
For Instagram users like myself, today is a day of mixed blessings. Thanks to new features announced this morning, we can finally have private conversations in the app, but Instagram is also adding...
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2 Ad Agencies Produce This Holiday Season's Most Anti-Consumerist Toy
Leave it to a couple of ad agencies to upend the holiday season with the year's most radical toy. Independent shops Barton F. Graf 9000 in New York and TDA_Boulder in Boulder, Colo., partnered on a...
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Santa's Brand Book Might Be One of the Agency World's Best Inside Jokes
In an era of "personal brands," there's one man who clearly needs his own style guide and appropriate-use policies: Santa Claus. Stepping in to fill the gap is British agency Quietroom, which has...
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No One in Sioux Falls or Anywhere Else Knows What the Lawyer in This Ad Is...
Scott Hoy is mad, and he wants you to stop. Will you please stop? The whole thing with the accidents, and the video games, and the backseats? It's not fair. And do not say they deserved it. He does...
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Anonymous Donor Buys Thank-You Billboard for Batkid
Just in case you thought the San Francisco Batkid story couldn't get any cuter, a mysterious billboard near the Bay Bridge is thanking the miniature hero, better known as 5-year-old leukemia patient...
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Here's What Happens When 5 Digital Natives Must Endure a Week Without Internet
No Internet for a week. This is not happening. This is not happening! But it actually did happen for five digital natives who volunteered to give up their phones, laptops, tablets and other connected...
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Electrifying Video Salutes the Incredible, Otherworldly Genius of Ad People
Marketing professionals, here's your Friday-morning pep talk—a video anthem honoring your astounding, preternatural, game-changing genius. You've made people follow, share, pin, tweet, re-tweet and...
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Kmart Does a Hilariously Dickensian Christmas Version of 'Ship My Pants'
You have to hand it to Kmart and Draftfcb. They've shown this whole year that they know how to whip up a good viral commercial. We had "Ship My Pants" in April and then "Show Your Joe" (aka, "Jingle...
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These Beer Ads Aren't Afraid to Celebrate the Stupid Fun Fueled by Beer
When guys get together and have a few drinks, things tend to get a little stupid. That's a fact most alcohol marketers would prefer not to highlight, lest advocating stupid fun might come off sounding...
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Company's Amazing Reply to a Raging Customer Has Fans and Orders Pouring In
Every once in a while, giving a foul-tempered customer a public skewering can be good for business. At least that seems to be the lesson of Liberty Bottleworks, whose polite but eviscerating reply to...
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James Franco Steals His Gay Lover's Thunder in Delightfully Odd Book Promo
Cinematic trailers for upcoming book releases are rarely all that enjoyable, but then again, they rarely feature the amorous insights of a gay James Franco. In a surprisingly star-studded and...
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New Britney Spears Video, 'Perfume,' Sure Seems Like One Big Ad for Her Perfume
"Perfume," the newest single off Britney Spears' latest album, Britney Jean, is ostensibly about a weird love triangle. But what it really seems to be about is selling the singer's fragrance line....
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Brilliant Coke Ad Celebrates the Agony and the Ecstasy of Early Parenthood
In a span of 60 seconds, Coke Argentina tells a true-to-life story of the highs and lows of early parenthood in this new spot by Santo Buenos Aires for Coke Life. We see a couple go through all the...
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The 7 Most Inspiring Ad Campaigns for Women in 2013
It's been a great year for women-empowering ads. Brands tackled everything from gender stereotypes (Pantene) to sexism (UN Women) to cultural repression (Tanishq), encouraged women to be kinder to...
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Mock Commercial for Beans Is Better Than Almost Any Real Commercial for Anything
Visual effects studio Cinesite produced this crazy-good mock commercial as a way to show off its creature animation skills. And one hell of a creature it is—a marauding beast who takes umbrage at...
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Model From Famous Photoshop Video Gets More Drastic Makeover for the Holidays
It's agency holiday-card season, and we're going to start posting some of the more interesting and amusing examples—beginning with this one from Victors & Spoils. It's a parody of Tim Piper's...
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Jesus, Gandhi and Mother Teresa Stump for UNICEF in Extremely Virtuous...
Forget about those famous Internet felines in Friskies' Christmas spot. The real holiday supergroup is in this campaign from Forsman & Bodenfors for UNICEF Sweden. I'm talking about Jesus, Gandhi...
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The 10 Most Sexist Ads of 2013
In a lot of ways, 2013 was an amazing year for the portrayal of women in advertising. Ogilvy's "Real Beauty Sketches" for Dove sparked a massive discussion of self-image and the definition of beauty....
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