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VW's Vibrating Ad Doesn't Leave Anyone Feeling Too Excited
Talk about an unfortunate ad insertion. Volkswagen of India's recent newspaper buy, including the Times of India, featured a small vibrating device and asked readers if they could "Feel the shiver of...
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After 17 Years, eBay Tones Down Its Crazy Logo
Everyone's been refreshing their logos lately. First Twitter, then Microsoft—and now it's eBay's turn to roll out a new mark, the first logo refresh since the online marketplace's founding 17 years...
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Ad Agency Updates Its Facebook Cover Photo Every 15 Seconds
Here's a clever way to make an agency Facebook page a bit more lively. Zaraguza, a digital shop in Bratislava, Slovakia, has created "the world's first real-time Facebook cover" for its page, with a...
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Brut Tries to Get Guys to Quit Facebook With 'Mantervention' App
Since I'm always game for letting the Internet reinforce gender stereotypes for me, I sat through Brut's Mantervention, a Facebook app in which some guy with George Michael stubble lectures you about...
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'Boardwalk Empire' Offers NYC Taxi Rides in 1920s Vehicles
If tooling around Manhattan in advertisements for the third-season premiere of HBO's Boardwalk Empire is your idea of a good time, the Uber car service can make that dream a reality. Just download the...
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Horrifying PSA Asks: Are You a Monster When You're Drunk?
Well, here's a lovely bit of emotional carnage for your Friday—a creepy-as-hell PSA from Finnish agency Euro RSCG Helsinki for a charity called Fragile Childhood that shows kids wandering around a...
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Advertising GIF of the Week: The Bouncing Carl's Jr. Burger!
From Carl's Jr.'s Hamblor commercial.
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Jewel Turns One of Her Children's Songs Into an Ode to Walmart
Jewel's life came full circle with the release of her second children's album, The Merry Goes 'Round, when she sang one of the songs during a promotional appearance at Walmart—and changed the lyrics...
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Chairlift Is the Real Trip in Odd Ads for Copper Mountain Ski Resort
Wexley School for Girls, the Seattle agency whose name, we've already established, is pretty quirky, has come up with a quirky new campaign to match—for Copper Mountain Ski Resort in Colorado. While...
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Bank Ad Frowns Upon Mother-Son Incest, Amateur Rocketship Building
We all fantasize about marrying our moms. Don't we? DnB NOR, Norway's largest bank, posits that incestuous scenario in this memorably uncomfortable spot from ad agency Try/Apt in Oslo—a follow-up to...
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Black Men Chase White Woman in Ad That Only South Africans Will Get
For those of us outside South Africa, the new Nando's restaurant spot below, celebrating one of the "25 reasons we love South Africa," is super awkward on first viewing. A white woman who's loading...
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Coke Zero Chases James Bond Tie-In, Humming All the Way
Publicis Conseil in Paris put together this Coke Zero spot promoting the brand's involvement with the upcoming James Bond movie Skyfall, which I mistook for an airline shopping experience when I first...
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Guinness Unveils 12-Foot-Tall Wood Carving of a Giant Pint
Centuries from now, when the aliens land and excavate the planet seeking clues to our demise, they're going to stumble upon this 12-foot-tall, two-ton wood carving of a giant pint of Guinness, and...
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After Kissing Campaign, Benetton Makes Up by Inspiring Unemployed Youth
United Colors of Benetton's "Unhate" campaign with the world leaders kissing got plenty of flack, but lots of attention too—along with a Grand Prix in the Press Lions contest at Cannes. Now, the...
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Abe Lincoln Look-Alike Sweats Skittles in Latest Oddball Spot
Skittles's fascination with poorly functioning anatomy continues in this latest commercial from DDB Chicago, in which a man—who looks quite a bit like Abraham Lincoln—sweats Skittles as he runs on a...
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Acceptance Speech Tips for Emmy Winners, by Parker Posey
If only the Emmy winners this Sunday night would take a cue from Parker Posey, who plays a ridiculously affected and over-the-top acting coach in this parody video about how to accept an award. Man,...
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Baxter the Robot Will Make Your Life Easier, Until You Have No Life
Just in time for the Nostradamus Apocalypse, Rethink Robotics will ship a twin-clawed, $22,000 workaholic hunk of steel and circuitry called Baxter, which the Boston-based company says signals a...
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Cosmetics Company Tries Insulting Customers With Acerbic Makeup Cop
Benefit Cosmetics, a California beauty brand, is trying to market makeup through humor. In its new spot by Portal A, Sarah Colonna, a comedian from Chelsea Lately, bops about on a Segway in a police...
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Secret Service in the Line of Fire in New Pistachios Spot
A hooker sex scandal involving the Secret Service? Delicious! An ad for pistachios poking fun at the situation? Fairly amusing, especially when you let your mind wander to all the potential bad puns...
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Webcomic Xkcd Draws a 46-Foot-Wide Interactive Masterpiece
Sometimes, something comes along that’s so brilliant and creative, you don’t even feel guilty letting it suck away an hour (or more) of your workday. Today, that prize goes to the popular webcomic...
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