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Diversity PSA Misses the Mark by Saying Two-Man Luge Is 'a Little Gay'
Prepping for a two-man luge race looks like two dudes humping, says a new PSA from a Canadian equal rights group protesting Russia's anti-gay laws ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The spot,...
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Here's That Coke Ad, Now in Klingon, Dothraki and Pig Latin
If there's one good thing to come out of the recent lunatic-fringe freakout over Coca-Cola's multilingual Super Bowl ad, it's definitely this parody featuring languages that didn't quite make the...
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The Walking Dead Pranks NYC With a Grate Full of Grabby Walkers
You're walking along the streets of New York City, earbuds firmly in place, texting furiously and doing your best to ignore the press of humanity as it swarms around you … when the monster-movie...
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Socially Stressed? Ask Your Doctor About 'Not Having Kids'
Since everyone I know is getting married and having children (and making sure Facebook stays informed about every step of those processes), this ad for a fake drug called Not Having Kids is rather...
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For Better or Worse, Here's How McNuggets Are Made
Remember pink slime? McDonald's Canada continues its crusade for McFood transparency with a new video aimed at proving Chicken McNuggets are not made from the pastel meat goop seen in a frequently...
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Clay Aiken's Campaign Ad Is Personal, Political and Nearly Perfect
It's hard to say what we were expecting from reality TV star Clay Aiken's first campaign ad in his congressional campaign, but this certainly isn't it. Instead of leveraging his fame or playing to the...
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Young Bilingual Singers in Coke's 'It's Beautiful' Ad Aren't So Conflicted...
Using children in politically tinged advertising is often problematic. Some would say it's tantamount to propaganda. Still, the kids who sang "America the Beautiful" in other languages for Coca-Cola's...
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Progressive's Flo Makes a Facebook 'Look Back' Video, and It's Filled With...
Progressive spokeswoman Flo sat out the Super Bowl—"We're not trying to make the noise even noisier," the company's CMO, Jeff Charney, said late last week—but she's all over the whole Facebook Look...
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Motel 6 Apparently Aired the Greatest Radio Ad of the 2014 Super Bowl
All this talk about the TV commercials on the Super Bowl, but who could forget about the radio commercials? Well, almost everyone. But not WestWoodOne, which aired the game on Sunday and just released...
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Esurance Hands Out That $1.5 Million, Releases Mind-Boggling Stats From...
Despite not actually airing a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Esurance had an extraordinarily successful night, thanks to its #EsuranceSave30 sweepstakes on Twitter. The company snagged...
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Flowers Say It Better in FTD Ads That Could Have Said It Better
Judging from FTD's Valentine's Day ads, maybe love does mean having to say you're sorry after all. Four 60-second spots by Epsilon Chicago, designed to illustrate that "FTD says it best" for next...
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Lay's Asks for Potato-Chip Flavors Again, Gets Some Super Revolting Ideas
Once again, a snack-food brand learns why it should carefully stage-manage any attempts to crowdsource flavor ideas on the Internet. The latest round of Lay's "Do Us a Flavor" campaign, which launched...
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If Instagram Had Been Around in the '80s, Your Bad Photos Would Have Looked...
If Instagram had been invented in the 1980s, your digital photos would have already been pixelated messes stored on cassettes or floppy disks. To see them, you would have had to snail-mail your camera...
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Bear From Chobani's Super Bowl Ad Is Now Ambushing People in NYC
Marketers are officially obsessed with trying to frighten the world-weary populace of New York City. Following the recent devil baby and zombie stunts, here's footage of the Chobani bear—an...
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Entire Ad Break Is Made of Lego in Delightful Stunt for Toy Company's Movie
Here's a fantastic ad stunt orchestrated by media agency PHD on Britain's ITV. On Sunday night, the TV broadcaster devoted a whole commercial break during an episode of Dancing on Ice to airing remade...
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McDonald's Sweden Taunts Norway With Big Mac Billboard at the Border
Here's a fun neighbor-shaming McDonald's billboard from DDB Stockholm. Sitting right at the border between Sweden and Norway, the billboard displays comparative pricing for Big Macs in the two...
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How to Make Paris Even More Beautiful? Replace the Ads With Classical Paintings
Classical paintings replace advertisements on Paris billboards in "OMG, Who Stole My Ads?"—a series of provocative photographs by French artist Etienne Lavie. The project recalls last summer's "Art...
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Here's an Audi Ad That Should (but Won't) Be Running During the Sochi Olympics
From the peanut gallery at Reddit comes this amusing, fake Audi ad that plays off the four-rings snafu during the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. An Audi rep confirms to...
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You'll Dig These Scratch-Off Bus Shelter Ads for a Museum's Archaeology...
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has employed scratch-off advertising on bus shelters around the city to hype its newest exhibition, The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology. The ads were...
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Getty Images, Sheryl Sandberg Team Up to Make Stock Photos of Women More...
I just did a search for "working woman" on a popular stock photography site, and got photos of women in pantsuits wielding brick-sized cellphones, photos of women pouting sexily while adjusting their...
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