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Ad of the Day: Oreo's Holiday Song About Balls Is a Real Treat at Just the...
Let's get something out of the way first: Oreo cookie balls are not an actual Oreo product. They are, according to the Internet, a homemade delicacy involving crushed Oreos that are mixed with cream...
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Big Account Wins Make Grey the 2013 Global Agency of the Year
Even a confident Jim Heekin admits that waiting for the Gillette decision from Procter & Gamble was a nail-biter. As the Grey Group CEO sat in his fourth-floor office overlooking New York’s...
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Kevin Bacon Hams It Up in Plea for You to Shop Locally This Holiday
Kevin Bacon wants you to "Shift Your Shopping" for good by buying local with select retailers who agree to donate a portion of sales from your purchase to charity. The spot hinges on the pretense that...
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Amazing Pantene Ad Defiantly Tackles How Women in the Workplace Are Labeled
Pantene Philippines has launched a powerful campaign pointing out how identical behavior often earns men and women different labels in the workplace. In this spot by BBDO Guerrero in Manila, a lovely...
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65% of Millennials in Advertising Think Their Agencies are Innovative
Sixty-five percent of the millennials who work in advertising think their agencies are innovative, according to an IdeaPaint survey of 600 people ages 20-32. It's probably debatable whether that...
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Lance Jensen Talks Cadillac and Where It's Taking American Luxury
IDEA: What is American luxury these days? Cadillac teams with an old collaborator, Lance Jensen, as it tries to answer that question creatively in its first work from Rogue, the Interpublic Group team...
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Ad of the Day: Santa Visits Canada First for Airline's Lovely Christmas Miracle
Canadian airline WestJet played Santa to a couple hundred travelers recently, and the result was heartwarming and tear-jerking. Before two flights from Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, to WestJet's home...
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Special K Tries to Stop Women Who 'Fat Talk' by Confronting Them With It
Special K believes positivity is key to weight management success. So, it's taking aim at its opposite—"fat talk," or the negative things some women say about their bodies and others. The Kellogg's...
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Beastie Boys Countersue GoldieBlox, Seeking Profits Earned Off Viral 'Girls' Ad
The fair-use fight between Beastie Boys and GoldieBlox isn't over. After sparring several weeks ago over the unauthorized use of the Beasties song "Girls" in a GoldieBlox commercial that went viral,...
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Hello, English Ladies. Isaiah Mustafa Returns for Old Spice in the U.K.
If you've been unable to sleep since the Old Spice guy faded from the spotlight, or suffered from nightmares that he was permanently relegated to playing a lesser version of himself in Israeli beer...
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Ad of the Day: Edward Norton Shines in Crazy 90-Second Thrill Ride for...
Given the actor's reputation for demanding final cut (all right, the director was notoriously insane) and distancing himself from projects he doesn't like, it makes perfect sense that if Edward Norton...
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Newcastle Will Drive You Home, If You Talk About Its New Beer Through a Huge...
No good deed comes without a little punishment. That's Newcastle Brown Ale's "No Bollocks" take on responsibility messaging, judging by a recent stunt in Los Angeles orchestrated by Droga5. The brand...
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2 Ad Agencies Produce This Holiday Season's Most Anti-Consumerist Toy
Leave it to a couple of ad agencies to upend the holiday season with the year's most radical toy. Independent shops Barton F. Graf 9000 in New York and TDA_Boulder in Boulder, Colo., partnered on a...
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Ad of the Day: Heineken Gets Holiday Revelers to Sing Karaoke for 30,000...
Depending on your views (or ability to carry a tune), karaoke can be a fun way to let loose among friends or a guaranteed path to total embarrassment. This year, in the name of holiday cheer, Heineken...
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Electrifying Video Salutes the Incredible, Otherworldly Genius of Ad People
Marketing professionals, here's your Friday-morning pep talk—a video anthem honoring your astounding, preternatural, game-changing genius. You've made people follow, share, pin, tweet, re-tweet and...
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Kmart Does a Hilariously Dickensian Christmas Version of 'Ship My Pants'
You have to hand it to Kmart and Draftfcb. They've shown this whole year that they know how to whip up a good viral commercial. We had "Ship My Pants" in April and then "Show Your Joe" (aka, "Jingle...
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Mike Hughes of The Martin Agency Dies at 65
Cancer has claimed another one of advertising's good guys. Mike Hughes, the patriarch, president and ultimate creative leader of The Martin Agency, died Sunday of lung cancer, some 15 years after he...
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Brilliant Coke Ad Celebrates the Agony and the Ecstasy of Early Parenthood
In a span of 60 seconds, Coke Argentina tells a true-to-life story of the highs and lows of early parenthood in this new spot by Santo Buenos Aires for Coke Life. We see a couple go through all the...
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Mock Commercial for Beans Is Better Than Almost Any Real Commercial for Anything
Visual effects studio Cinesite produced this crazy-good mock commercial as a way to show off its creature animation skills. And one hell of a creature it is—a marauding beast who takes umbrage at...
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Ad of the Day: Airbnb Builds Birdhouse Versions of 50 of Its Most Intriguing...
It's the allure of Airbnb, but also its biggest stumbling block—its rental listings are not impersonal hotel rooms but actual people's homes. Some travelers embrace this, knowing they'll experience a...
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