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Kit Kat Just Created Its Own Unofficial Lego Set, and It's Awesome
Break me off a piece of this awesome homage to Lego from the marketing folks at Kit Kat. Chances are, whenever you eat a Kit Kat, you think to yourself, "Now if only I could deconstruct this candy bar...
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Ford Trashes Cadillac With Great Parody of 'Poolside' Ad Everyone Hated
It took a while, but someone has finally lampooned Cadillac's much-derided "Poolside" commercial starring Neal McDonough. And not just any old someone—Ford Motor Co. Ford's agency, Team Detroit, shot...
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This Childhood Obesity Ad Is So Good, the French Thought It Was Real
In the U.S., ads about weight usually come in the form of relatively thin women eating light yogurt. Awareness of obesity, especially in children, hasn't really taken off. But in France, this ad has...
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Burger King Has People 'Cheat on Beef' With Chicken Burgers at an Actual Motel
Burger King is like Ashley Madison for meat patties. In New Zealand, the fast-food chain is encouraging consumers to "cheat on beef" with its new chicken burgers as part of a #MotelBK campaign. BK has...
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Quiznos Cooks Up a Winner With 'House of Thrones,' but Will Funny Videos Be...
The buzz is heating up for Quiznos, who has scored a hit with its House of Cards/Game of Thrones mashup called House of Thrones. Machiavellian Congressman Frank Underwood is transported to the Seven...
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Dress Hunting Cuts to the Chase in Gilt.com's Colorful New Ads
Berlin Cameron United's new work for Gilt.com is colorful, musical and stylish, but also grounded in a sales pitch. The ads for the online hub for clothes, shoes and accessories unfold with a...
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Ads From Deep YouTube: Undead Celebs, Guys Who Snort Their Own Facial Hair...
Rugby-playing flight attendents. Celebrities you thought were dead. Money-conscious fake Muppets. Men who snort the hair off their face. Eating ice cream off shoes. All totally normal, right? Welp, if...
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Ad Says Pigs Are Friends, Not Food ... and They're Also Good at Video Games
Some tactics to get you to go vegan can be cloying or altogether horrifying. Farm Sanctuary's new 30-second ad is neither. The stop-motion animation video, developed by One/x agency, is actually kind...
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McDonald's Has a Pretty Good Comeback to Taco Bell's Hijacking of Ronald
Taco Bell's foray into breakfast food has ushered in a new war—the war of morning fast food. It started this week as the 'Bell introduced a new menu targeted at people that have a hankering for waffle...
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Here's a Perfect Illustration of How Fast 'Private' Photos Get Around
Here's a simple and clever way to show why it might be a bad idea to share that supposedly private photo. Brazilian agency Propeg recently submitted this to Ads of the World, though it's hard to be...
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Jack in the Box Punked McDonald's With a Real Ronald Long Before Taco Bell Did
Taco Bell earned quite a few chuckles this week for using real people named Ronald McDonald in the first ads for its new breakfast menu—prompting McDonald's to respond that "imitation is the sincerest...
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'Do It for Denmark' Ad Urges Danes to Have More Sex While on Vacation
A Danish travel agency wants the country's people to do the patriotic thing by getting out of town and getting busy. A wry new campaign from Spies puts an unusually clever twist on using sex to sell,...
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How to Make 'Ban Bossy' Less Polarizing: Actually Ask Young Girls What They...
Sheryl Sandberg's Ban Bossy campaign has sparked some interesting and often heated debate in recent weeks, practically swamping my Twitter feed with hashtags ranging from #bossy and #banbossy to...
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Wu-Tang Clan Will Sell Only One, Hand-Crafted Copy of Its New Album
For the past few years, the Wu-Tang Clan has been recording an album in secret. Now, in a first for modern music, they plan to sell only one copy of The Wu—Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. It will be sold...
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Hilarious Fake Campaign Ads Remind Toronto That Anyone's Better Than Rob Ford
Not since Alice Cooper ran for governor of Arizona under the slogan "A troubled man for troubled times" have we seen such refreshingly honest political advertising. Actually, these new campaign ads,...
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Advertising Eats Itself With First Industry Award Show Honoring Awards
There are plenty of award shows in advertising, but none devoted to the craft of making the award statuettes themselves. Until now. Check out the Awardees. From the website:Some of society's most...
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Andrew McCutchen Loves His Lox in SportsCenter Ad for Opening Day
Are you ready for some baseball? ESPN has Major League Baseball's Opening Day covered today with a new "This Is SportsCenter" spot starring the reigning National League MVP, Andrew McCutchen of the...
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Your First Look at How Much Fun Oculus Rift Won't Be With Facebook
When you heard the news of Facebook's acquisition of virtual reality startup Oculus Rift, you were kind of excited. Or you weren't, especially if you were one of the original Kickstarter backers of...
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Facebook Exec Snarkily Confirms Brands' Big Fear: Their Content Isn't Important
With their organic reach plummeting, many brands worry that Facebook is becoming indifferent to their wants and needs. Well, that fear seems justified, based on a catty comment from Facebook's PR...
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OkCupid Blocks Firefox, Saying Mozilla CEO Opposes Gay Marriage
Newly appointed Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has his share of detractors, but few are more high-profile than massive dating site OkCupid. The site, which gets 10 million unique visitors a month, is...
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