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This Christmas Ad From Australia Takes Perhaps the Dimmest View Ever of...
Last year over the holidays, Australian grocer Aldi released a brutally honest ad about the stress people endure to make around-the-table magic happen. This year, it's focusing on a very different...
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This Ad's Love Story Between a Mermaid and a Sailor Ends With Quite a Lovely...
Remember those sailor stories about mermaids who drag drowning men to their doom? In this creepy—yet charming!—little piece of work, the National Maritime Rescue Organization tells just that tale ......
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Ad of the Day: Enchanting Bird Puppets Populate This Mall Owner's Magical...
British mall owner Intu pulls some serious strings to deliver seasonal cheer in one of the most striking and delightful holiday ads of the year so far. Created by London-based agency Now, a 45-second...
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This Magazine's Simple, Poignant Cover Remembers the Paris Attacks of a Year Ago
Nov. 13 will mark one year since the attacks in and around the Bataclan concert venue in Paris. To commemorate this somber anniversary and its victims, Germany's Zeit Magazin—a supplement to the...
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The John Lewis Christmas Ad Is Here. Does It Ease the Pain of 2016, or Add to...
It's not easy making a lighthearted commercial to cap off 2016. Not with Brexit and President-elect Trump leaving a path of scorched earth behind them—or more to the point, ahead of them—and putting...
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Squatty Potty's Pooping Unicorn Is Back With a Hilarious, Malodorous Sequel...
So, a unicorn farted golden rainbows into a bottle, and the resulting, um, product is for sale. And it's guaranteed to give you "the best-smelling poop of your life" or your money back. This is not a...
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Ad of the Day: A Boy Impatient for Christmas Builds a Time Machine in...
In this fanciful holiday ad for Mondelēz's Milka chocolate, an enterprising alpine lad just can't wait a whole month for Christmas to arrive. So, he constructs a cool steampunk-style time machine in a...
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Ben & Jerry's Has an Achingly Sweet Message for Those Discouraged by the...
Many are looking for some sweetness today. Ben & Jerry's is pretty good at that. Following the surprising—and for many, worrying—results of the U.S. presidential election, have a look at the...
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How This Agency Got a Deceased Author to Sign Books at a Book Fair
Literary fans love a good book signing. But absent the actual author, the next best thing might be an autograph from a mechanical arm in his or her own style. That, at least, seems to be the premise...
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NYC Kids Enjoy a Perfect Day, Thanks to Samsung, in This Relaxed W+K Ad
If nothing else, Wieden + Kennedy Portland's new slice-of-life spot for Samsung is an upbeat expression of the mobile-device panopticon we live in. The spot follows a handful of photogenic New York...
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Whistleblower Says JWT Has Turned Her Into a 'Pariah' and Is Pressuring Her...
What's it like to return to work eight months after you filed an explosive lawsuit that led to the ouster of your agency's global CEO? For Erin Johnson, worldwide PR chief for J. Walter Thompson, the...
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Starbucks' Red Christmas Cups for 2016 Probably Won't Offend Anybody (Probably)
Starbucks wants consumers to know it's heard their deep concerns about its Christmas cups, and has worked hard to rectify the situation. Last year, the coffee chain sparked the world's most absurd...
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Ad of the Day: Xfinity Turns a Real Grandma's House Into a Digital Paradise...
Entering the gates of hell, where there's no wifi and no shows—aka, Grandma's. For Comcast's Xfinity brand, 72andSunny tore a page out of Jimmy Kimmel's mean tweets playbook. "Hooking Up Grandma's...
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This Agency Made a Virtual Claw Machine for Recruits to Play and Win a Job...
B-Reel is hiring! And it would like you to claw your way, quite literally, to the top. Remember those deeply irritating claw-machine games that no one can win? B-Reel created a digital version,...
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Get Hairy for the Holidays With This Brand's Loopy, Multicolored Skating Yetis
A group of ice skaters (including one Olympian) and hockey players are dressed up as colorful yetis for British retailer Argos' new holiday campaign. Promoting Argos' Fast Track Delivery and Fast...
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This Brooklyn Agency Is Selling Simple Blue Rings as a Way to Fight Trump
As people around the U.S.—and the world—struggle to process the result of last Tuesday's presidential election, many are wondering what they can do to combat the negative impact that Donald Trump's...
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JetBlue Pretends It's the 1960s With a Retro Logo, Pop-Up Store and Airplane
Few airline routes evoke the golden age of flying quite like New York City to Palm Springs. And to celebrate new seasonal service along that route, JetBlue jumped back to the 1960s this weekend—with a...
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A Robin Makes an Epic Journey Home for Christmas in Waitrose's Holiday Ad
British grocer Waitrose on Sunday launched #HomeforChristmas, a holiday ad that follows a robin—apparently the U.K.'s favorite bird—trying to make it home to those he loves. The voyage is based on...
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Former AgencySpy Editor Launches PR Firm Catering to Ad Agencies
Most mid-sized to large ad agencies don't just have their own in-house PR—they also retain third-party firms to help raise awareness via earned media placements. These communications professionals...
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Ad of the Day: Organic Valley, in Deadpan Style, Celebrates the End of the...
Sugar is the new heroin, and sitting is the new smoking. But one formerly vilified habit—eating butter—is apparently off the naughty list. Gingerbread cookies and basted turkeys for everyone! In a new...
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