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Harley-Davidson Revs Up the Holidays With 'Silent Night' Spot
Anyone who has lived next door to a motorcycle owner knows that "Harley-Davidson" and "sleep in heavenly peace" rarely go together. But this special holiday video for the brand creates a clever...
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He's an Angry Elf: Agency Pranks Its Own Employees for Holiday Card
What better way to cap off the year in which agencies were obsessed with prankvertising than with an agency pranking its own staff? Baltimore shop Planit created the amusing video below after luring...
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Q&A: Jerry Seinfeld on His Intentionally Bad, New-Old Acura Ads
Jerry Seinfeld has written eight new Acura commercials in collaboration with Boston ad agency Mullen as part of the brand's title sponsorship of his Web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The...
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Intel Cleverly Hides Its Logo Inside the Jerseys of FC Barcelona's Megastars
Process this: The "Intel Inside" logo has made its way inside the jerseys of Spanish soccer team FC Barcelona in a reported five-year, $25 million deal. The emblem is visible only when players pull...
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GE Makes the Most Hypnotically Pulsating Video Ever About Intermodal Freight...
You may not have known that shipping containers can dance. To promote GE Transportation, agency The Barbarian Group teamed up with Reuben Wu of British electronic band Ladytron to create a song and...
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Google Zeitgeist for 2013 Reveals the Year's Public and Private Yearnings and...
Nelson Mandela was Google's No. 1 global search in 2013, followed by the late film actor Paul Walker, Apple's iPhone 5S (suck it, Samsung, how does it feel to be No. 8?), the late TV actor Cory...
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This Delightfully Sarcastic College Recruitment Ad Will Make You Want to...
Looking for a good way to spend the next few minutes? May I recommend … (looks at camera and grins cultishly) … this amazing recruitment video for Monash College? In a coup of ironic low-budget...
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Agency Writes Original Holiday Album, Pleads With David Bowie to Cover a Song
Speaking of Christmas miracles, The VIA Agency would like to make one of its own happen. The Portland, Maine, agency's house band recorded a six-track album of holiday music, and has launched a...
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Lonely 85-Year-Old Man Gets Incredible Response to a Personal Ad Seeking a...
It's easy to get swept up in the consumerism of the holiday season, and just as easy to get swept up in the crushing cynicism and contempt for people that passes for opposition to that consumerism....
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Man Dresses Up Like Local Realtors and Plasters His Face on Their Ads
Sometimes, the combination of creative talent and too much free time can lead to some truly odd projects. Case in point: designer Phil Jones, who has been replacing realtor ads around town with his...
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Streaming Yule Log on Netflix Has Its Own Hilarious Trailer and Director's...
The original Yule Log television broadcast dates back to 1966, when WPIX-TV aired footage of a cozy fireplace to cheer up New Yorkers who lived in apartments without one. But Netflix really gives it a...
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Viral Filmmaker Gets $25,000 to Promote a New Movie and Instead Spends It All...
If you had a modest budget of $25,000 to create a promotional clip for a feature film, how would you spend it? Unless you're viral video director Casey Neistat, it probably wouldn't occur to you to...
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Chuck Norris Does His Own Epic Split in This Festively Insane Holiday Video
How do you one-up Jean-Claude Van Damme doing splits atop two Volvo trucks? With Chuck Norris doing splits on two airplane wings, of course. Hungarian production house Delov Digital created the insane...
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Two Guys Make Arduous Journey to Middle of Nowhere to Give Third Guy a Molson...
The world-traveling Molson Beer Fridge became famous for being exclusive—when it visited European cities earlier this year, only people with a Canadian passport could open it. Now, the fridge is back,...
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Print Ad for Moto X Lets You Change the Phone's Color With the Push of a Button
Whether you think it's a long-awaited ad hybrid or just a high-cost gimmick, this upcoming interactive print ad for Motorola's Moto X is definitely pushing people's buttons. Running in 150,000 New...
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Mullen Makes Ad-Blog Comments More Pleasant With the Hater Translator
Tired of all the nasty anonymous attacks in the comments section of ad blogs? Mullen has a festive solution this holiday: the Hater Translator, a fancy Dr. Who-style machine that rewrites obnoxious...
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Danica Patrick Gets Mega-Buff for GoDaddy's Super Bowl Ad
GoDaddy may say it has "matured" as a Super Bowl advertiser, but for now it appears to be spokeswoman Danica Patrick who has actually grown. Sporting a rather lifelike muscle suit, Patrick was...
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The 10 Most Epic TV Show Promos of 2013
It was a mixed bag for TV generally in 2013, but not a bad year for TV promos—in fact, some of the most inventive ads on the dial (or the Web) were from folks promoting new or returning shows. For the...
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Nelson Mandela Memorial Billboard in India Accidentally Features Morgan Freeman
While you hate to laugh at someone who clearly meant well, it's hard not to chuckle a bit at this memorial sign for Nelson Mandela in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore. A cloth merchant wanted to...
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See Everything That's Beautiful About Advertising in Two Simple Print Ads for...
These are a couple of years old, but new to us—some amazing, beautifully simple print ads for a bookstore in Brazil. Delightful idea, gorgeous execution. It's stuff like this that makes people fall in...
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