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Depressed About Having to Shave That Movember 'Stache? Watch This and Feel...
Dec. 1 will be a tough day for a lot of guys, including Dan. That Movember mustache, the object of so much spousal derision for weeks now, must come off. Shaving brand Harry's tries to lessen the blow...
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Ad of the Day: Melissa McCarthy Is Game for Old Navy's Black Friday Campaign
Old Navy parted ways with longtime agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky over the summer, but it looks like its holiday advertising will remain as quirky as ever. Last year at this time, the clothing...
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Verizon Hangs Rivals' 4G Coverage Maps in a Gallery Because They Look Like...
Remember the "map wars" of 2009, when AT&T and Verizon spent a combined $4 billion on ads (and went to court) to claim coverage-area supremacy? Well, it looks like Verizon is firing another round...
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'Tryptophan Slow Jam' Video Is Easily the Strangest Thing Century 21 Has Ever...
Century 21 and its agency, Mullen, have been doing some offbeat stuff together lately—pretending to sell Walter White's house on Craigslist; urging Twitter's mascot to upgrade to a bigger birdhouse...
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The AT&T Kids Have a Very Odd Plan for Thanksgiving Dinner
Kids still say the darndest things. AT&T and BBDO New York keep up their rich tradition of child-centric, ad-lib style spots (they are lightly scripted but most quickly become improvised) with...
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How Nationwide, and Then the Nation, Fell in Love With the World's Biggest Baby
IDEA: Attack of the 50-foot baby! Sorry, false alarm: It's a Nationwide Insurance commercial. Ad agency McKinney came up with the eye-catching spot, one of Nationwide's cutest and most popular to date,...
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Disembodied Mouth Gets Good Beer After Having to Do 'Bad Things' in Weird...
And the award for best disembodied mouth in a commercial goes to … Australian beer Tooheys Extra Dry for this memorably unnerving 45-second spot from BMF Sydney and director Hamish Rothwell. Popping...
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Chris Paul's Jordan Sneakers Now Available in Twin Brother Cliff's Favorite...
A year ago, State Farm released a wonderful commercial from agency Translation suggesting NBA star Chris Paul had a twin brother, Cliff, who happened to be a State Farm agent—because he was "born to...
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The Year's Best Candy Commercial Is Somehow Both Vulgar and Incredibly Sweet
Here's a wonderful little candy commercial from LoweFriends in Denmark that pulls off a rare trick. It's both edgy and traditional—with several F-bombs in the voiceover balanced out by an actually...
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Gavin McInnes Shows You How to Fight a Baby
Gavin McInnes has come a long way since his days at Vice. He rebranded himself as an adman (creative director at Rooster), and now he's even comfortable rolling around with his baby for the cameras....
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Dan Wieden and Others Reveal the Work They Wish They'd Done in D&AD Ads
Envy makes advertising go round—when creatives aren't busying copying ideas, they're coveting them. D&AD celebrates that dynamic with a series of new spots, created by Wieden + Kennedy in London,...
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Crayola Expands Its Palette With Major Push Into Toys This Holiday
After years of cornering the market on all things magenta and turquoise, Crayola makes a big, public shift into the toy category with its new "This Holiday, Get Creative" campaign. The oh-so-WASP-y...
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Activewear Maker Lucy Urges Women to Drop Into a Yoga Pose at the First Sign...
How do you deal with holiday stress? Activewear maker Lucy is humorously urging women to try something unconventional this year. Try dropping to the floor and adopting the "child's pose" from...
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Ad of the Day: KFC Makes the Holidays a Little Less Horrible With a Musical...
For all the earnest and sappy Christmas ads out there, there's a countervailing trend toward presenting a more realistic view of the holiday season—i.e., that it's actually a very stressful time of...
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Ad Agency Tries Letting Clients 'Pay What You Want'
Interactive design and branding company 8k in Poland is getting some visibility from its "Pay What You Want" pricing system ($1 minimum) that covers services including logos, slogans, letterheads,...
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Burger King Creates Pre-Roll Ads That Share Your Hatred of Pre-Roll Ads
Everyone who's ever tried to watch a video on the Internet knows that pre-roll ads are generally annoying. The Burger King marketing team also knows this. But marketers always want to have their cake...
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Ad of the Day: Kobe and Messi Trade Epic Selfies for Turkish Airlines
More Messi, more Kobe—this time, Turkish Airlines (which, you will remember, has pitted the two athletes against each other before) has the epic-est epic selfie contest of all time. There is much...
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Manchester City Stars Take Manhattan in Fun Ad for Sister Club New York City...
IDEA: New York City Football Club, the 20th franchise in Major League Soccer, won't field a team until 2015 and doesn't even have any players yet. Thankfully, it has a high-powered sister club in...
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Tree-Top Ornament Who's Seen It All Finally Gets to See Netflix Streaming...
Tesco had its family-through-the-years holiday spot. Now, it's Netflix's turn. In its first work for the brand, Deutsch/LA tells the story of the McDermott family—from the point of view of a porcelain...
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What Every House Needs: A Century 21 Branded Landing Pad for Amazon Drones
Behold the C21 Delivery Landing Pad, designed to accommodate package deliveries by airborne drones. According to the product's maker, real-estate giant Century 21, "no home of the 21st century will be...
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