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Newcastle Brown Ale's Super Bowl Ad Teaser Is the Best You'll See This Year
God bless Newcastle Brown Ale. As much as we all enjoy advertising when it's good, so much of it—as Newcastle would say—is bollocks. The British brewer (with help from Droga5) has always excelled at...
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Yellow Gets the Starring Role in M&M's Super Bowl Spot
A year after the Red M&M belted out Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)," it's Yellow's turn to take the spotlight during the Super Bowl. The Mars candy brand just released...
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Critics Say Japanese Airline Ad Is Racist Against Westerners
After being called racist for portraying Westerners as big-nosed blond men who aren't afraid of hugs, Japan's All Nippon Airways has promised to edit the offending scene out of its commercial. In the...
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Parody Trailer Perfectly Skewers the Indie Film Clichés of Sundance
Ever get the feeling that if you've seen one piece of schlocky Sundance festival fodder, you've seen them all? If so, you're going to appreciate the many tired tropes folded into the faux trailer for...
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Sarah McLachlan Pleads for Audi's 'Misunderstood' Doberhuahua
Perhaps known as well these days for her heartbreaking animal PSAs as for her 1990s hit singles, Sarah McLachlan shows in a new Audi Super Bowl ad teaser that she doesn't always take herself too...
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There's Now an Awards Show Honoring the Best Animated GIFs
Proving yet again that there's no creative endeavor too specific to merit its own awards show, CP+B Los Angeles has launched the .GIFYs, honoring animated GIFs "as a medium, social commentary and art...
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When Sarah Silverman and Jesus Chat About Abortion, Who Could Possibly Be...
If there's one thing that can finally bring America together on this whole abortion issue, it's definitely a blasphemous video of Sarah Silverman hanging out with her feminist bestie, Jesus Christ....
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Stephen Colbert Is Excited That You're Excited for His Wonderful Pistachios...
As celebrity Super Bowl endorsers go, Stephen Colbert is somewhat unique because he's actually funny. He's amusing even in the few seconds of the teaser below for his Wonderful Pistachios ad airing on...
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Sweden Is Proud That Living There Is Like Being a Spoiled Rich Man-Child
In America, you'd need to have a rich, overindulgent father to have the lifestyle of your average Swedish worker, says a bizarre new ad from a Swedish trade organization. TCO, an umbrella...
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Redefining Luxury, the 2014 Wienermoble Is Now Available for Lease
My dream of hogging the road in a 27-foot-long, 14,000-pound frankfurter could finally become a reality if I win Oscar Mayer's contest to let someone "lease" a 2014 Wienermobile for a day....
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Little Luxuries Are a Big Freaking Deal in Epic New Ad for Booking.com
Booking.com recognizes that people have various preferences (and borderline fetishes) when it comes to hotel amenities, a fact highlighted in the site's incredibly goofy but totally likable new ad....
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Terrible Timing: Google Reliability Team Launches Reddit Q&A Just as Gmail...
In a truly painful moment of unfortunate coincidence, Google's Site Reliability Engineering Team launched a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") this afternoon, just as Gmail went offline for users around...
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Should Yahoo Really Have Apologized to Google for Mocking Outage?
When Google services go down, apparently no one wins. Case in point: Competitor Yahoo is being called a coward for deleting tweets that mocked today's global Gmail outage."Earlier today, a tweet that...
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SodaStream Super Bowl Ad Rejected Again for Calling out Coke and Pepsi
In what has apparently become an annual tradition of feigned outrage, SodaStream says its proposed ad for this year's Super Bowl has been rejected for mentioning Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The marketing...
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Oikos Super Bowl Ad Likely Won't Satisfy Full House Fans
If Dannon's Super Bowl ad teaser left you hoping for a Full House-themed spot in the big game, you're probably going to be disappointed. The Oikos Greek yogurt ad starring John Stamos is now live on...
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Arby's Slayed the Grammys With This Tweet About Pharrell Williams' Hat
If there was one big winner at last night's Grammy Awards that was even more surprising than Daft Punk getting Album of the Year, it was Arby's scoring the tweet of the night. The sandwich chain's...
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Squarespace Unveils Its Full Super Bowl Spot, and It Sure Is Depressing
The Internet is Times Square pre-Giuliani, says Squarespace's Super Bowl ad—the full version of which went live Monday online, a week and a half after a teaser rolled out. The spot, produced in-house,...
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Agency Recruiting Creatives on Snapchat by Asking for 10-Second Pitches
You are a digital idea ninja, innovating where branding meets emerging technologies. That is to say, you are an aspiring ad creative who likes shooting videos of yourself with your smartphone. That is...
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Cancer-Stricken Fan Thanks the Denver Broncos in Amazing Newspaper Ad
All the pre-game hype and multimillion-dollar TV buys can't put the Super Bowl and sports fandom in perspective as sharply as this newspaper ad from Kara Christian, a 58-year-old Denver Broncos fan...
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Pepsi Gives the Grammys Its Own Halftime Show in Lengthy Song and Dance
Super Bowl halftime sponsor Pepsi decided to get an early start on Sunday night when the gridiron met the Grammys for an NFL-style extravaganza featuring the musical stylings of football stars."You...
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