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Smart Cars Will Fit Anywhere, Even in the Slim Space Between Other Ads
In a world of crowded ad spaces and precious few parking spaces, Mercedes and Madrid agency Contrapunto BBDO are hoping to make the most of both shortcomings with these cleverly placed Smart car ads....
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Author Brilliantly Recreates Famous Meals From Literature
We're not normally coffee-table book people, but this? This is awesome. Designer Dinah Fried has just published a collection of fascinating images called Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's...
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Bud Light Does Its Own Version of 'World's Toughest Job' … for Dads
Every giant viral ad needs a parody (or a few dozen), and so Bud Light is here with a spoof of the American Greetings "World's Toughest Job" video—celebrating dads instead of moms. The joke writing is...
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Ikea's Whirling New Kitchen Ad Will Leave Your Head Spinning
Here's a kitchen ad that might leave you a little nauseated, but for once that has nothing to do with food. In Ikea's new spot from Mother London, promoting the retailer's first new kitchen furnishing...
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Construction Machines Play Jenga With 600-Pound Blocks
In this two-minute clip from Ogilvy & Mather New York, five Caterpillar machines play a giant game of Jenga using 600-pound wooden blocks, as I'm sure they often do at real construction sites all...
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K-Pop Group Twerks to the (Really) Oldies in First-Ever Classical Music Video
Belgium'sB-Classic music festival, whose mission is to "give classical music the same recognition as pop and rock music," brings us a rather insteresting sensory collision in the form of the music...
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Jeweler's Clever Business Card Rolls Into a Ring Sizer
I have a pile of business cards on a tray in my office, and I'd be hard pressed to remember where I met the people whose names are on those cards if it weren't for some hastily scratched notes in the...
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Hair in a Can? This Insane Product Demo Might Actually Be Real
Is it just me or did hair-loss products evolve a million years since the days of spray-on hair? Bald dudes everywhere rejoice! Check out this demo for a product that appears to be real (although we've...
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OK, This Parody of 'World's Toughest Job' Is Actually Pretty Funny
Bud Light's spoof of the super-viral American Greetings "World's Toughest Job" video was a bit underwhelming. But now Funny or Die has delivered a more amusing one—even if the "punch line" isn't really...
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Darwin to Shakespeare: If Historical Figures Had Business Cards and Letterhead
I've often wondered what the business cards and personal stationery of William Shakespeare, Henry VIII and other historical figures would look like. I mean, who hasn't? Well, wrack your brains no...
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The Women in This Tequila Commercial Only Have Time for One Kind of Bro
This new ad for Mezcal El Silencio tequila by agency Pablo Escargot starts off the same way many beer/liquor ads do—i.e., like from a clip of Ocean's Eleven, with bunch of guys in suits walking in...
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Amy Poehler Goes From Lawyer to Fast-Food Worker in Old Navy Campaign
Amy Poehler is back to grilling strangers about their Old Navy outfits. Last month, she played a high-powered lawyer questioning a job applicant about her checkered pants. Here, she plays a server at...
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Bank Ad Takes Wearable Tech Mocking to New Heights With Family of Glassholes
Lots of advertisers are anti-tech. But with more and more dorks strapping computers to their faces, anti-wearable-tech has become its own bona fide marketing subgenre. In this well-timed ad for...
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El Al's New Airline Joins the Parade of Funky In-Flight Safety Videos
Even the discount airlines need a rockin' safety video now. Get down with the latest in-flight jam, titled "Up," created for a new budget airline also called UP, owned by Israel's El Al. The jaunty...
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Cartoon Characters Go Bald to Sweetly Show Kids With Cancer They're Not Alone
There's a reason children's shows always seem to have more diversity than anything else on television. It's because kids look to TV as a window that helps make sense of the world, and when they don't...
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Has This Creepy Guy From Mother New York Been Stalking Your LinkedIn Profile?
Have you noticed a man named Donald Buscando looking at your LinkedIn profile? You'd remember him. He's wearing a beige turtleneck that somehow accentuates his eerily white teeth and his hair, which...
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How Real Women Would Actually Respond to a Dove 'Experiment'
Every time Dove launches a new effort to remind women they're beautiful, the brand seems to pause first to also remind women how much they hate themselves. A new parody video from comedy troupe Above...
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Fashion Ads Become Freakish and Haunting After Artist's Acid Wash
As if the Photoshop-perfect faces on outdoor ads weren't nightmarish enough, German street artist Vermibus ratchets up the horror by using chemicals to transform such posters into grotesque visions...
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National Zoo and DDB Help an Endangered Tiger by Releasing an Endangered Song
DDB is hoping the Sumatran tiger doesn't go the way of the vinyl record—particularly the quickly degradable one. For Earth Day, DDB New York and the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park and...
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Pizza Cake? Pizza Mints? Chain's Kickstarter-esque Campaign Brings Fan Picks...
America might be the global king of excessive consumption, but Canada's Boston Pizza is putting up a good fight with its Pizza Game Changers. Basically, it's a crowdsourced voting campaign that...
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