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Infographic: 8 Types of 'Working Dead' Zombies Plaguing Your Productivity
Next time you hear someone complain they can't do good marketing for a product because it's "too boring," show them this infographic for enterprise work management software AtTask. Collaboration...
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Leica Intentionally Makes the Most Boring Commercial Ever. Can You Sit...
Leica brings its obsessive German craftsmanship into focus with this tongue-in-cheek video that shows one of its technicians hand-polishing a block of aluminum used as the base of its new T System...
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Burger King Brings Back Subservient Chicken on His 10th Birthday, and...
The only thing Subservient Chicken got on his 5th birthday in 2009 was a blog post about how the agencies involved in his creation bickered over who really deserved credit. For his 10th birthday,...
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Creative Ideas Die Messy Deaths in Ad School's 'Dumb Ways' Parody
It's a bit surprising that no one's done this until now, but here it is—a parody of the megaviral "Dumb Ways to Die" train-safey video showing various ways in which creative ideas die ignoble deaths...
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Rodent Control Company d-CON Puts Missing Posters for Mice Around NYC
Rats and mice are not endangered species in New York City. (There are thought to be at least as many rats as people in the Big Apple, and there could be five times as many.) But d-CON, the rodent...
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Woman Actually Enjoys a Vacation Without a Man Around in Booking.com Ad
A woman's love for her boyfriend is compared to her love for resort amenities while vacationing without him in Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam's latest ad for Booking.com. The man doesn't fare so well in...
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Radio Station Runs Newspaper Obituaries for Beethoven in Bid to Keep...
Beethoven died 187 years ago next month. So, why were apparently new obituaries for the composer only recently published? TBWA\Guate counted on that clever bit of shock value as part of its bid to...
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Poise Gets Awkwardly Erotic With Bladder Control Ad
Poise, the adult diaper brand, is poised to attack the lady bladder control market with a double-entendre-laced spot about pee spotting. Though the product is supposed to be super discreet, the spot...
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Twitter Fans Make DirecTV's New 'Get Rid of Cable' Ad One of the Bleakest Yet
When you leave people to their own devices, they tend to get nihilistic. When they get nihilistic, they make darkly comic scripts for DirecTV. Case in point: the satellite-TV company's Twitter-sourced...
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Jose Cuervo's Larger-Than-Life Story Retold in Miniature
Jose Cuervo literally bottles up its history in this campaign from McCann New York. The effort, which includes a TV spot and smartphone app, centers on intricate dioramas from animation studio Laika...
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The Lazy Half of the Internet Is Now Obsessed With Nissan's 'Self-Cleaning Car'
Nissan has created the world’s first self-cleaning car prototype and introduced it with an eye-popping NeverWet-like viral spot. The car's coating isn't actually the well known hydrophobic spray owned...
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GE's New Videos of Stuff Getting Smashed at Its Testing Facility Are Totally...
I don't care how cool you think your job is, because you will never be as awesome as the person at GE who gets to push the button that smashes the crap out of things with 100,000 pounds of pressure....
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Lego Ad's Little Darth Vader Is Less Charming and Cute and More Completely Evil
I never thought Lego would officially recognize how sharp its products are, but this ad for the Star Wars playset series does exactly that—with help from the dark side of the Force. Little Vaders, of...
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NatGeo Kids Creates Cover So Small, 2,000 Could Fit on a Grain of Salt
I know it can seem like the magazine business is shrinking, but this is ridiculous. According to the folks at Guinness World Records, National Geographic Kids just created the world's smallest...
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Syfy Is Making a Third Sharknado, and We've Already Written 5 Pitches for It
Syfy tells Adweek exclusively that it has green-lit a third movie in its increasingly silly Sharknado franchise before even airing the second one (official title: The Second One). The first flick cost...
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Pornhub Marks Arbor Day by Planting a Tree for Every 100 Big-Wood Videos Watched
This Arbor Day season, Pornhub has found a new way to celebrate its commitment to giving America wood. The adult site says it will plant a tree for every 100 videos watched in the site's "Big Dick"...
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Celebrities Join White House PSA Against Sexual Assault
The White House has issued a new PSA empowering people to stand up against sexual assault as part of its "1 is 2 Many" campaign. Seeing President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and some of...
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Coke's Recyling-Themed Arcade Game Accepts Empty Bottles Instead of Money
Would more people recycle if the process were actually fun? Coca-Cola and agency Grey Dhaka tried to answer that question by placing six "Happiness Arcade" machines around Dhaka, Bangladesh. But these...
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UTEC Follows Up Billboard That Created Drinking Water With One That Cleans...
Peru is in the middle of a construction boom that generates a lot of unhealthy pollution. Peruvian engineering university UTEC and its ad agency, FCB Mayo, decided to create an air-purifying billboard...
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Can't Figure Out What to Watch? Take a Spin With Netflix Roulette
Once you're done binging on Orange Is the New Black and Scandal, browsing Netflix can start to feel like rummaging through the discount DVD bin at Target. But now there's an easier way to cut through...
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