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1960s Adman Makes a Hilarious and Obscene Visit to a Modern Agency (NSFW)
We've already seen how Joan Harris (aka, Christina Hendricks) might adjust to life at a modern ad agency. Well, this guy is way more of a train wreck. Canadian ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo put together...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 24-31
Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, we could only scare up one spooky spot for this week's collection of best spots. But don't worry, the other four ads are a treat. Check them out below, and vote for...
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What Makes a Great Creative Director? Here's How 10 of Them Answered That...
Ask what makes a great creative creative director, and you'll probably get as many different answers as there are creative directors.The 3% Conference recently went around asking a bunch of cds about...
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The Best Video Ever About the Sheeplike Insanity of Real-Time Marketing
Ever feel like real-time marketing is all about being first, and not about being good? You're not alone. John St., the Toronto agency that regularly produces scathing parody videos about the ad...
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Asics Salutes 500 NYC Marathon Runners by 3-D Printing Statues of Them
Asics and ad agency Vitro always do something special around the New York City Marathon, whether it's having people race against a virtual Ryan Hall in the subways or daring you to remain upright on...
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Chobani Dresses Dogs Up in Costumes in Adorable Ad for Halloween
Petco had a whole Halloween contest around dressing up pets this month, but you don't have to be a pet brand to get in on that action. Droga5 did this cute ad for Chobani, featuring pooches in their...
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Carl's Jr.'s Latest Sexed-Up Burger Eater Is Less Classically Beautiful Than...
If you thought there was no way to top a Paris Hilton-Hannah Ferguson slow-motion car-washing, sex-eating burger-palooza, you'd be wrong, Carl's Jr. wants to tell bros.Supermodels and celebutantes...
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Ad of the Day: Lowe's Rolls Out 8 More Charming and Useful 'Fix in Six' Vines
Is Lowe's "Fix in Six" the best-ever use of Vine by a marketer? You can ponder that question over more delightful creative from the campaign, as BBDO New York has released eight new looping videos in...
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Seduced by an Idea? Go All the Way and Register the Domain Name, Says Verisign
It's official: Internet domain-name company Verisign has launched one crazy (and at times creepy) campaign. Which of the four videos from FCB Chicago is the most self-consciously bizarre? You've got...
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James Franco Is Saved From Certain Death by a Quick-Thinking Droid Turbo
The new Droid Turbo is so fast that when James Franco falls off the roof at a party, he can use the Motorola phone to find the nearest safe landing, calculate the best route there and text his date to...
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Ad of the Day: Everything's Great, Then Awful, Then Maybe OK in John Wall's...
John Wall's new Adidas shoe just dropped at Foot Locker. And according to this new ad, it might just be the beginning of something both great and terrible."The Process" from BBDO New York is actually...
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Concord Grapes Become Chatty Sitcom Characters in Welch's New Campaign
Is the time ripe for a sitcom starring a bunch of grapes? The VIA Agency's new campaign for Welch's mimics/spoofs the prime-time sitcom format to deliver the message that grape juice has heart health...
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Finally, Advertising Case Study Videos Get Their Own Award Show
Case study videos. I could watch them all day long. They're my favorite form of media entertainment—apart from sitcoms starring Concord grapes, that is. These days, advertising case studies are so...
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This Agency Rewards Its Employees in the Most Amusingly Sadistic Way Possible
Canadian agencies sure are good at doing videos excoriating the ad business. Just in the past week we've seen:• John St.'s hilarious takedown of real-time marketing with Reactvertising• Zulu Alpha...
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This Crazy Beer Ad Was Filmed Entirely Underwater. Here's How They Did It
IDEA: Shooting a commercial is hard enough. But shooting one entirely underwater? Are you crazy? Brazilian agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi decided it was doable, and would be a great way to...
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Remarkable Ads Protest the Absurdity of the Open-Carry Gun Policy at Kroger
Agencies have taken manyapproaches to creating memorable gun-control ads. Grey Toronto's latest work for Moms Demand Action, opposing an open-carry gun policy in Kroger supermarkets, is...
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Ad of the Day: John Lewis May Have Already Won Christmas With Its Adorable...
There's enormous pressure on John Lewis and adam&eveDDB to deliver an incredible Christmas ad every year—Christmas, after all, being Britain's version of the Super Bowl when it comes to...
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Why Every Marketing Person in Canada Is Cursing the Name of This One Agency...
Today in amusing Canadian agency videos, we have this one from Cossette—in which marketing people all over the country ask the same bewildered question: "What the fuck is going on at Cossette?" It's a...
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Viewers Are the Calm Inside the Storm in Vizio's Great New Ads
IDEA: It's hard for TV manufacturers to advertise picture quality in commercials. Viewers, after all, will be watching the ad on their own TV sets, not yours. Many marketers settle for telling you how...
View ArticleAdweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Nov. 1-7
John Wall and Romeo Beckham. A hilarous ad agency video. One of the most delightful airline spots we've seen in a while. And a brilliant beginning to the Christmas ad season in the U.K. Check out our...
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