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Won't You Get in Alan Thicke's Bed for a Good Cause?
Perfectly coiffed former Growing Pains patriarch Alan Thicke rolling around on a luxurious king-size bed: dream or nightmare? It's for a good cause, so be a sport and play along. Thicke certainly...
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U.K. Pharmacy Boots Celebrates Family in Its Quietly Lovely Christmas Ad
John Lewis may have won Christmas with its penguin ad, but Mother London's holiday spot for British pharmacy chain Boots is an impressive stocking stuffer in its own right. Director Noam Murro's...
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Inside Blake Griffin and Chris Paul's Hilariously Odd Comedy Sketches for...
Are you up for some BGCP3TV in HD? Los Angeles Clippers stars Blake Griffin and Chris Paul have each shown, separately, that they can anchor comedy. In State Farm's Chris and Cliff campaign, Paul...
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How a Fledgling Florida Agency Defied Recessionary Headwinds
SpecsWho Peter Gary, founder, CEO What Full-service ad agencyWhere Boca Raton, Fla.Pinnacle has bucked the headwinds of Florida's recent economic downturn, with the 3-year-old Boca Raton agency...
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Here's How the New Breed of Agency Leaders Will Stay on Top
We are living in what I call the Agility Era--a time when multitudes of people are discussing the importance of being lean and agile. And yes, this makes sense, but for any number of reasons, the...
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U.K. Drunk-Driving Ad Makes Cruelly Ironic Use of Kool & the Gang's...
The 50th anniversary of England's first drunk-driving PSA inspires a sobering celebration in this Department for Transport campaign. Kool & the Gang's 1980 hit "Celebration" anchors the new spot...
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How This Agency Cleverly Stopped People From Googling Their Medical Symptoms
If you're like me, you type your symptoms into Google every time you get the sniffles or feel the slightest bit under the weather. Well, that plan is ill-advised. It can yield reams of misinformation...
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This Bank Bought Every Ad Slot on Norway's Biggest TV Station for 24 Hours
How do you market round-the-clock customer service? If you're Norwegian bank DNB, you buy all of the ad space on one channel in a 24-hour window, and fill it with advice from your country's citizens....
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This Agency Pulled Off the Vending Machine Stunt to End All Vending Machine...
Tricked-out vending machines have become the vehicle of choice for brands to push all sorts of zany promotions or social media stunts. We're almost to the point where if you see one outside of its...
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Why Traditional Media Isn't Dying, and 4 Other Myths of the Digital Era...
"We are no longer creative people. We are inventors!" The cyber jury president at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity proclaimed this four years ago, but today I argue it couldn't be...
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DDB Employees Read Mean Tweets About Their Ads
DDB Canada takes a page from Jimmy Kimmel's playbook in this amusing video, in which employees read mean tweets about their work. The staffers seem both entertained and mildly horrified as they rattle...
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Ad of the Day: Winged Fairies Spread Magic and Joy in Marks & Spencer's...
John Lewis went the heartwarming, emotional route for Christmas, while Boots and Waitrose took more down-to-earth approaches. Now, Marks & Spencer eschews its celebrity focus of the recent past to...
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Landor Finds a North American Leader at TBWA
Landor Associates has hired Stuart Sproule as president of North America, a new position, and managing director of its New York office. Sproule will start Monday and will report to CEO Lois Jacobs....
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Cam Newton Gets Primal for Beats by Dre, With Help From Kendrick Lamar
Beats by Dre is back to motivate you, and this time it's enlisted Cam Newton. The Carolina Panthers quarterback sweats it out in a new ad for the headphone maker's wireless offering from R/GA,...
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This Agency Is Livestreaming a Virtual Tour via a GoPro Strapped to a Dog's Back
It really is the best way to see an agency: the dog's-eye view. Toronto animation, design and VFX studio Crush did it last year, attaching a GoPro camera to its dog Sadie and livestreaming her travels...
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Stressed Out? This Kitten Therapy Office From Tidy Cats Will Cure You With...
Kittens are notorious advertising stars, and as it turns out, they're miniature therapists too. At least, that's one takeaway from this stunt in Los Angeles, where Purina Tidy Cats invited...
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Leo Burnett Motivates Employees by Making Them Do Shots and Slapping Them in...
Here's the last parody video we're going to post from Strategy magazine's Agency of the Year event in Toronto. It's Leo Burnett's entry, and it seems the agency has found a unique way to make its...
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Man Cleans Up the Hairy Apartment in His Pants in Schick's Manscaping Musical
If you have an animal, you can surely identify with having their dander all over your living space. It can be tricky to clean up after them and make the space presentable for guests. Well, what if...
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Ad of the Day: Grandmas Know What Grown Princesses Want for Christmas, and...
Christmas creep is pretty much here, so it's time for an ad about opening gifts. Luckily, this one's good for some laughs. The spot, for Mulberry, is adam&eveDDB's first work for the high-end...
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Tesco Puts On an Insane Christmas Light Show, Proves Commitment to Holiday...
The annual British Christmas ad wars are heating up, and Tesco wants people to know it's armed with lots of the obligatory bright lights and endearingly ridiculous ornaments. A new TV commercial from...
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