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Ad of the Day: JCPenney Has Store Shoppers Surprise Complete Strangers With...
Is giving to others the greatest gift of all? Even the sourest Scrooge might admit the idea has merit after checking out JCPenney's #JustGotJingled campaign from EVB and Victors & Spoils. In the...
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Burger King Surprised Apartment Hunters With One Whopper of a Kitchen Upgrade
If you're apartment hunting for a three bedroom/two bath/one Burger King, this might be the spot for you. Spanish agency La Despensa equipped a tasty pad in downtown Madrid with a BK kitchen and menu...
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Photograph These Ingenious Ads, and You'll Learn How to Save Kids From Eye...
If you take a flash photograph of a child, and one of his or her pupils looks white in the resulting image, it can indicate an eye tumor. In the U.K., a series of ads uses reflective ink to illustrate...
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Santa Is a Hipster, and a Pretty Funny One, in This Agency's Holiday Video
Is Santa Claus a hipster? He's got the unkempt mane and alternative lifestyle down pat. Yet he seems too obsessed with consumer goods and fourth-quarter commerce to qualify. It feels like hipster...
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Ad of the Day: Save the Children Does a Hairy, Hilarious Holiday Spoof of...
If 'tis indeed the season to be jolly—and being jolly involves either putting on some clothes for charity, or taking them off—then today is your lucky day! Save the Children, which created Adweek's...
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This Agency Will Get You in the Holiday Spirit With Its Anti-Christmas Song...
It's that time of year again—agency holiday card season. The pressure is high to come up with the funniest or coolest concept. Or maybe all you really need is lots of holiday spirit, staffers willing...
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Powerful 'Lockdown' PSA Marks a Grim Statistic: Nearly 100 School Shootings...
Classroom lockdown drills—at my first grader's school and every other school in America—have become the norm since the tragedy at Newtown, two years ago this Sunday. The powerfully sad PSA below from...
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Ad of the Day: YouTube's Rewind Takes You on a Crazy Ride Through 2014 Pop...
It's been a good year for YouTube—ad world highlights included a hamster eating tiny burritos, a devil baby terrorizing pedestrians, and strangers making out. The video site's annual Rewind supercut,...
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This Family Is Completely, Ridiculously Pumped to Be Shopping at Kmart This...
If you see this suburban family at your local Kmart, you'd better get out of their way. Mom just got an email confirming their online holiday order is ready, thanks to Kmart's free in-store pickup...
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Supermarket Surprises Shoppers by Playing 'Jingle Bells' Using the Checkout...
Like it or not, you can't escape holiday cheer everywhere you go. Maybe you've already taken care of your shopping, too. But have you ever heard Christmas music coming from the very machines...
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Ikea Gave This Theater a Cozy Makeover So People Could Watch the Movies in Bed
The worst thing about going to the movies is having to sit upright for a few hours to watch the film. Everyone knows lying down is the ideal viewing position for anything on a screen—or anything at...
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State Farm Shows You How to Fit 60 Seconds of Story Into a 30-Second Spot
Creatives often wish their :30s could be :60s. Here, oddly enough, it's the opposite. DDB Chicago covers a lot of ground in its 30-second "Never" spot for State Farm, as we follow a young man from his...
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Ad of the Day: Life Isn't Easy for a Man Made of Skittles in Candy Brand's...
The best Skittles advertising has always been about anatomical oddities. The examples are endless: the sheepboys, the guy with the living beard, the man whose touch turns everything to Skittles, the...
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Air Wick Brings Scents of the Family Home to a Soldier Overseas in This...
It's no secret that scent can be a powerful emotional trigger. Air Wick uses that to memorable effect in this new long-form ad from Droga5—by capturing the scents of home, infusing them into...
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Ad of the Day: Skype Tells the Story of Earth's First Climate-Change Refugees
Skype wants you to know it isn't just good for keeping in touch with geographically distant friends and family—it's a practical tool for important professionals doing good work. A new ad from the...
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Everyone in This Amazing Stock Photo Collection Is a Cancer Patient or Survivor
Nowhere is the world more carefree than inside stock photographs. The sense of normalcy they communicate is so pervasive, it's become cliché. Which is why it's such a stroke of genius that Isobar...
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Outtakes From the 'No More' Campaign Are More Powerful Than the Original PSAs
Sometimes, it's the unexpected things that happen on a commercial set that send the most powerful message of all. Case in point: the Joyful Heart Foundation's "No More" campaign against domestic...
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Ikea's Christmas Experiment Sweetly Shows That Kids Want So Much More Than Toys
Yo, grinches. I challenge you not to tear up, just a little, as you watch "The Other Letter," a holiday video from Ikea created by McCann Spain. Young children are asked to write two letters saying...
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360i's New CCO Says the Best Marketers Are Those Who Find 'the Hidden Obvious'
Photo: Alfred MaskeroniSpecsWho Pierre LiptonNew gig North American CCO, 360iOld gig New York CCO, M&C SaatchiAge 42Twitter@pierreliptonWho is furthest along in the race among traditional, digital...
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Johnnie Walker Goes Walking After Midnight in New Year's Eve Ad Filmed on a...
One of the great ads of the past decade was the 2009 Johnnie Walker spot, filmed in a single take, with the brilliant Robert Carlyle telling the brand's history while strolling in the Scottish...
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