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This Documentary About Rick Ross Is Actually a Pretty Impressive Ad for Checkers
It's not often you get to realize a childhood dream. And rapper Rick Ross just bought his—a Checkers franchise in his hometown, Carol City, Florida. Curiouser still, the purchase has led to the...
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Colonialism Is a Massive Beach Party in Australia's Latest Epic, Provocative...
In its ongoing quest to remind us that nothing says Australia Day more than lamb barbecue, Meat & Livestock Australia gives us "Celebrate Australia with a Lamb BBQ."Â That title is probably the...
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Hyundai Takes Unboxing to a Whole New Level in This British Commercial
See you in hell, soul-sucking car-dealership experience! Last week, Hyundai launched an Amazon-style "Click to Buy" website in the U.K. that lets you purchase various Tucson and Santa Fe models at...
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Wunderman Is Stepping Out of WPP's Shadow in 2017 With New Hires and Clients
In the traditional holding company hierarchy, creative shops bask in Cannes glory and media agencies handle the big budgets while the utility players labor away, largely unnoticed by both the public...
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Here's Proof You Can Get Away With Pretty Much Anything in a Radio Ad
It's no great epiphany that radio can be a more forgiving format than video. But you may not have considered the full range of horrific opportunities that liberation from a camera can afford you. You...
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Can Pizza Hut Outdo Itself With These Sitcom-Style Ads From Viacom?
Maladjusted millennial braggarts choose Pizza Hut. Let's all go there today! Running on Viacom's cable-TV networks, this goofy campaign for the restaurant chain targets young adults, presenting folks...
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BBDO New York Builds Its Strategy Team With a New Chief Marketing Officer
Today BBDO hired Tara DeVeaux as chief marketing officer in its New York headquarters. Director of business development Crystal Rix has also been promoted to chief strategy officer, a newly created...
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The World's Rudest, Most Passive-Aggressive Billboard Coughs at Nearby Smokers
If anything is going to convince a smoker to quit, it's a judgmental, passive-aggressive, coughing billboard. At least, that's the ostensible premise of a new campaign from Swedish pharmacy Apoteket...
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Ad of the Day: Lil Buck Defies Gravity in Apple's First Big TV Spot for Its...
Without pesky headphone wires, you'll be freed up to move in any way the laws of physics allow—and even, perhaps, some they don't. Apple this weekend launched "Stroll," the latest 60-second spot in...
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Chevrolet Unveils a Life-Size Lego Batmobile, and a Self-Parody Ad to Match
Chevrolet has long been running a campaign that shows a group of "ordinary" people, a Chevy car and has them react in disbelief to how safe it is, how many awards it's won and generally how awesome it...
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Joan Hires Its First Senior Creatives as It Eyes Being More Than a...
Joan scored one of the 2016's most prominent boutique-agency launches last May, when former Wieden + Kennedy creative director Jaime Robinson, and Ogilvy and Refinery29 veteran Lisa Clunie joined...
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This Chocolate Factory Just Celebrated 5 Years in Business With Delicious...
If the medium is the message, then Videri Chocolate Factory's latest advertising has a very palatable message indeed. The Raleigh, N.C., chocolate maker worked with ad agency Baldwin& to create...
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'I'm Alpha Male Adjacent.' Neil Patrick Harris on Why He's Still Doing Ads...
It was back in the summer of 2014 that Neil Patrick Harris did his first ads for Heineken Light, via Wieden + Kennedy New York. From the beginning, the campaign has had a meta humor, wryly commenting...
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This Popular Vlogger Died in a Shocking Car Crash Live on YouTube. Or Did She?
You're watching your favorite beauty vlogger broadcast live as she drives her car around town. She looks away from the road to check her phone and read questions from fans. Suddenly, the picture goes...
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Ad of the Day: Reebok Gets 'More Human' Than Ever in Evolving Aspirational...
Are you striving hard toward personal growth, using exercise, physical fitness and intense competition to build your character and shape your life in positive ways? Well, Reebok wants to give you a...
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VML Names 2 Co-Chief Creative Directors, Strengthening U.S. Team
VML has promoted two creative leads for its North American network and hired a new director of creative recruiting to serve the same area. The WPP network's global CCO Debbi Vandeven announced today...
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Doner Promotes New Chief Creative Officer in L.A. After Global Chairman...
Doner has named Jason Gaboriau as chief creative officer in its Los Angeles office, a newly created position. Gaboriau and former RAPP chief marketing officer Zihla Salinas came aboard to lead the...
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Melissa McCarthy Will Star in Kia's 60-Second Super Bowl Ad for the Niro Hybrid
After putting Christopher Walken in a Super Bowl commercial for the Optima sedan last year, Kia is turning to another celebrity, Melissa McCarthy, to hype its Niro hybrid crossover on this year's...
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Fantastic Beasts? You'll Find Plenty of Them in This Wild British Ad for...
It's not often that Medusa shows up in advertising, much less accompanied by a chest-thumping minotaur, a metallic mermaid, an arrow-shooting centaur and a galloping Pegasus. So, this new U.K. spot...
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VSA Partners Promotes William Rosen to Chief Executive Officer
Chicago-based VSA Partners named partner and former marketing practice lead William Rosen as its new chief executive officer. The independent agency, which opened more than three decades ago, has...
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