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Man Develops Sweet, Hilarious Friendship With Applebee's Facebook Page
The Applebee's in Barrie, Ontario, has a Facebook strategy that's familiar for chain restaurants. It posts a lot of images of food and asks the blandest questions imaginable of its 2,000-odd fans. Who...
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Archer Runs Revealing Banner Ads in Reddit's Nude-Photo Forum
How do you market an animated comedy about a horndog spy? Duh—post ads on a NSFW Reddit forum, where tons of young horndogs in your target demographic are hanging out all the time anyway. FX series...
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Ikea App Makes Shopping Suggestions Based on Your Chinese Zodiac Sign
IKEA continues its pairing of austere design and New Age pseudo-friendliness with a campaign that uses customers' Chinese zodiac signs to help them shop. BBH Asia Pacific has dedicated the IKEA...
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In Frozen Chicago, Giant Sunbathing Woman Lifts Spirits and Crushes Cars
Temperatures dropped dramatically in Chicago this week, and so did a pair of 16-foot-long, 400-pound flip-flops. They were kicked off, or at least looked to have been, by a bikini-clad vacationer...
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ESPN Celebrates Brazil's Legacy and Love of Soccer in First World Cup Promo
It's 2014, which means the World Cup is back—and back in Brazil for the first time since 1950. To get fans excited (as if they needed help), ESPN has released a nearly two-minute anthem for the FIFA...
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Gym Ad Skips the Beautiful Bodies, Goes With a Weathered Biker in His Underwear
Fitness chain Virgin Active brings a free-spirited, born-to-be-wild attitude to this minute-long spot, showing a determined guy in underpants riding a motorbike at high speed across a dusty South...
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Fashion Model Moonlights as App Developer, Despite Industry's Advice to 'Be...
Here's a new spin on geek chic: Lyndsey Scott is a Victoria's Secret model who moonlights as an app developer. With a double degree from Amherst in computer science and theater—along with modeling...
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Colon Cancer Group Raises 314% of Goal With a Public Letter to Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt recently turned 50, so a Belgian nonprofit called Stop Darmkanker, dedicated to ending colon cancer, sent the star a public letter highlighting his greater risk for the disease. Not only was...
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How Do You Test a Truly Canadian Battery? In a Truck Made of Ice
This is the coolest promotion we've seen in a while. Ice cold, in fact. To prove that Canadian Tire's MotoMaster Eliminator Battery would start under any conditions, the company and agency Taxi...
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Jaguar's Super Bowl Teaser Reveals Its First British Bad Guy, Ben Kingsley
Lunging out of the gate a bit earlier than its rival automakers, first-time Super Bowl advertiser Jaguar has launched a teaser clip for its game-day ad and a related microsite called...
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World-Traveling Copywriter Will Work for Free in Exchange for Room and Board
Need some copywriting help with an international flair? Does your hiring budget consist solely of expired Cliff Bars and six coupons for Vitaminwater? If so, I've got good news: You can still hire...
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Cheerios Takes Home Dubious Honor of Most Hated Ad During the Golden Globes
Twitter is a tough crowd during any high-profile live TV programming, when snark levels always spike. Cheerios learned that the hard way during the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday when it aired a...
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'Christians Make Better Lovers,' Claims Ad Campaign
Christian singles in the U.K. seeking like-minded partners to share romantic dinners of fishes, loaves and vino on Saturday nights might want to check out these cheeky posters launching today in...
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If You're Into Stuffed Animals Licking Your Nipples, You've Come to the Right Ad
Oddvertising is catching on in Hong Kong with this absurd spot for Rio Mints featuring what Shanghaiist calls "just the right amount of nipple licking." The scene opens with a young couple on an...
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Ringo Starr Wishes He Was a Powerpuff Girl. No, Really, He Does
The Powerpuff Girls have been rebooted for a onetime special with a new animation style, and the first look anybody has gotten of the new design is this short where Ringo Starr dons a dress and sings,...
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Working Out at Equinox Will Make You Tough, Naked and a Little Dumb
Getting ripped at a luxury gym will make you want to get more naked everywhere, says luxury gym Equinox. OK, if your prerequisite for being comfortable getting more naked everywhere is having the body...
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Deaf NFL Player Derrick Coleman Tells His Story in Terrific Duracell Ad
As huge of an advertising juggernaut as the NFL is, commercials starring NFL players often feel interchangeable. Here, though, is a great piece of work from Duracell starring Derrick Coleman, the...
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M&M's Spoof Action Movies in Cinema Plea to Silence Your Cellphone
The iconic M&M's candies call for filmgoers to turn off their cellphones and respect their fellow theater patrons in this mock blockbuster action-movie trailer from BBDO that marks the first time...
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It's Finally Real: An iPhone Case That Doubles as a Stun Gun
If you can dream it, someone can steal it. That could be the moral of the story of Stun Fone, a fictitious attachment that turned your smartphone into a stun gun, devised a few years back by Los...
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Here's a Colorful, Cryptic Alternative to 'Your Ad Here' Signs on Unsold...
Van Wagner, the outdoor advertising company, has created billboards to advertise advertising on billboards. Catch that? It's kind of meta. When a billboard doesn't get sold, its owner can keep the old...
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