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Skoda Is a Giant Crowd-Pleaser in Delightful, Larger-Than-Life Ad From Fallon
Car ads have disappointed me lately, so I was pleasantly surprised by this Fallon London spot for Skoda, which ranks as one of the more entertaining and memorable commercials in the category so far...
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Hot Wheels Truck Drives Through Amber Waves of Carpet in Great Ogilvy Ad
Hot Wheels has done a lot of cool advertising lately, but you have to love the wonderful simplicity and craft of this new poster from Ogilvy & Mather in Mumbai for the toy car maker's Safari...
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McDonald's Figures It Needs Only the Product, Not the Branding, in Striking...
All new from McDonald's: the McCloseUp. The chain is taking fast-food porn to new heights with a series of print ads from TBWA Paris that consist entirely of intimately photographed classic menu items...
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The Daily Meal Rolls Out Sponsored Verticals
The Daily Meal, Spanfeller Media Group’s food-focused site, is going native.The Daily Meal has rolled out sponsored verticals around topics like grilling and entertaining. When a brand sponsors a...
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Which CEO Will Dominate in the Publicis-Omnicom Merger?
After unveiling plans to create the ad industry’s largest player, Publicis Groupe and Omnicom execs have reiterated that theirs is a “merger of equals,” and the deal’s financial structure is a...
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How Blue Moon Found a Heavenly Way to Shine in a Crowded Category
IDEA: Blue Moon's beers are works of art, so its ads must be, too. That was the accord struck by the MillerCoors brand and The Integer Group in 2009 when the Lakewood, Colo., agency began an artful...
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Razorfish Swallows Up More HSN Digital Work
Razorfish has handled HSN's display and paid social advertising since last year and is now taking on the client's search work. While the brand's SEM budget wasn't disclosed, such accounts typically...
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Expedia Joins Heineken in Sending People to Random Places on Short Notice
Expedia's "Find Yours" campaign from 180LA, which has produced some pretty forward-thinking and powerful spots in the recent past, is now encouraging you to "Find Your Spontaneity" by entering to win...
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Saving on Insurance in England Will Make You Want to Run With the Cats
Call out the cat herders! A bunch of kitties stampede down the streets of Croydon, England, in Mother's new spot for MoneySuperMarket. "Bill here just saved £304 on his car insurance at...
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Men's Wearhouse Begins New Era by Taking Pride in Its Past
Here it is, the first official Men's Wearhouse brand ad since the departure of iconic founder George Zimmer and the hiring of Phenomenon in Los Angeles as the retailer's new agency of record. (Last...
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Abducted by Clowns, Thrown From Airplane. Thanks, Heineken!
If you ever run across a marketer offering you an impromptu adventure overseas, you might first want to clarify whether it will entail you being kidnapped by clowns and dropped from an airplane. That...
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Um, What Exactly Is Brian the Robot Interrupting Here?
Recently, British insurance comparison service Confused.com and Publicis in London launched ads featuring a new mascot, Brian the Robot, who seems to have a knack for creating uncomfortable...
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San Pellegrino App Lets You Control a Real-Time Robot on the Streets of Sicily
So, San Pellegrino will let folks remotely control robots on the ground and in the air over Italy … but NOT for the purpose of Dalek-like mass destruction? Where's the fun in that? To help bring the...
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This May Be the Funniest, Most Depressing Jell-O Ad of All Time
Well this escalated quickly. In Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s new ad for Jell-O pudding, a pleasant moment between a dad and his son abruptly turns into an emotionally traumatizing lecture on the...
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Toshiba Gets Sophomoric in Ads Aimed at College Crowd
Toshiba targets the college-guy demo with sophomoric humor in a trio of Canadian spots from Capital C. All of the action takes place in dorm rooms, and the ads seek to show how the client's computers...
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Mr. Peanut, Motivational Speaker, Wants You to Respect the Nuts
Planters has reinvented Mr. Peanut yet again, this time as a motivational speaker—voiced by Bill Hader, no less—who seems strangely obsessed with the magical power of his nuts. Each video spot in the...
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Fiber One Helps Bring 'Total Eclipse' Back With a Vengeance
Who can argue that bombastic 1980s power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" isn't the single greatest piece of music in human history? That's right: no one. Its appearance in a MasterCard spot a...
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Kraft's Zesty Guy Returns to Sell More Dressing by Undressing
Kraft is bringing back the Zesty Guy for a new series of print ads, despite (or more likely because of) the backlash the brand received last time around from conservative protest group One Million...
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Coke Wants You to Live Like Grandpa, You Self-Destructive Slob
Your grandpa was a svelte boss. You, by comparison, are a junk-gobbling slob, according to a slick new split-screen ad for Coca-Cola from agency David in Buenos Aires. The spot, part of a larger...
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Creative Agencies Are Experiencing Super-High CEO Turnover
Creative agency execs are dizzy from the churn of CEOs over the past 12 months with the appointment of eight new chiefs for New York and North America—and more changes on the way. Beyond ongoing...
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