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U.S. Media Agency of the Year: MediaCom's Team-First Approach Landed a Ton of...
Last August, during final presentations for Anheuser-Busch InBev's $575 million domestic planning and buying assignment, Sasha Savic took his vow to raise the creative bar at MediaCom to a whole new...
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Carl's Jr. Has Some Voluptuous Data on the Charlotte McKinney Ad, Its Biggest...
Its agency is one of the more sophisticated out there. And ads about female empowerment are on the rise. So why does Carl's Jr. remain stubbornly Neanderthal, continuing its now decade-long obsession...
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Snickers Took Over the Back of SI's Swimsuit Issue With a Ssssplendid 'You're...
Snickers and BBDO New York have followed up their brilliant "Brady Bunch" Super Bowl ad with an inspired print piece—taking over the back cover of Sports Illustrated's new Swimsuit Issue with this...
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Here's Why Agencies Are Hiring Top Execs at Such a Blistering Pace
Even in an industry increasingly defined by change, advertising agencies this year are making high-level moves at a blistering pace. In the first six weeks of 2015, some 14 shops have made 19 new...
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SI's Swimsuit Models Look a Bit Less Lovely If They Have Cable Instead of...
To date, Rob Lowe has been the only celebrity to suffer physical indignities in Grey's DirecTV campaign making fun of cable customers. But now he can add three famous supermodels to the mix—Hannah...
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Ad of the Day: Goth Guy Pines for Popular Girl in Sweet Spot From Interflora
Advertising is officially into goths. Danish flower-delivery service Interflora is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with the ad below from Brandhouse. (This is the same agency-client pairing, and...
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ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad Reveals the True Identity of Katy Perry's Sharks
Right Shark and Left Shark had great time at the Super Bowl in Arizona. (Well, one of them had a better time than the other.) But now it's back to the grind. And that means returning to the ESPN...
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This New Agency Uses Old-Fashioned Spectacle With a Futuristic Twist
SpecsWho (From left) Jessica Reznick, managing director; Glenn Marck, partner, design; Brian Schultz, partner, production; Rick Rathe, partner, operations; Gary Johnson, director of strategyWhat...
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Infographic: The Crazy Personalities of 5 Archetypal Agency People
Here's an oldie, but new to us: The Anatomy of an Agency infographic from Grip Limited, offering pretty spot-on portraits of agency people (art director, copywriter, account person, developer, finance...
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Red Velvet Oreos Are a Delightfully Awkward Aphrodisiac in Quirky Valentine...
If regular Oreos don't already put you in the mood for love, maybe try the cookie's new Red Velvet flavor. The limited-edition Valentine's Day product stars in a new animated campaign from 360i, and...
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Ad of the Day: Sex Is Everywhere You Look in Lusty British Travel Spot
Adam&eveDDB goes the unsubtle stock-footage route in this Valentine's Day ad for travel site LastMinute.com, cramming scads of naughty visual metaphors into one fast-moving montage dubbed "Sexy...
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Ikea Uses Poorly Assembled Billboards to Admit Its Furniture Is Hard to Put...
Everyone else makes fun of how painful it is to assemble Ikea furniture, so why can't Ikea? And the company does in these fun billboards, from German agency thjnk, that are themselves poorly...
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Ad of the Day: MetLife's Doting Dad Is Also a Liar in This Ad With a...
The tearjerking Asian insurance commercial has become something of a cliché after so many years of emotional Thai Life spots. But MetLife Hong Kong breathes new life into the form with this spot—a...
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Vanessa Bayer Comes On to Everyone in an Elevator in Audi's Fifty Shades of...
Last week, Trojan took the piss out of the BDSM-light hype around Fifty Shades of Grey. And now Audi is joining the party with a new parody ad. Saturday Night Live's Vanessa Bayer stars as a try-hard...
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Gatorade Digitally Remastered 'Be Like Mike' After 23 Years, and Damn Does It...
For those of us who've spent too many hours digging through YouTube trying to find good-looking versions of classic ads, this is quite a treat: As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, Gatorade has...
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Ikea Shows Off Its New Range of Beds in Cheeky Ad for Valentine's Day
Ikea often does humorously naughty ads around Valentine's Day. Two years ago it did a fun promotion offering free cribs for babies born nine months after Valentine's Day. And last year it stacked a...
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Ad of the Day: Adidas Comes Out Swinging in Big New Brand Campaign
Some key things separate pro athletes from weekend warriors. Of course, there's the natural talent and physical skills. But there's also the mental approach. The pros excel at being able to learn from...
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XO Mints Freshens Up Valentine's Day With Catchy Ballad for Ugly People
Beauty is in the eye of the … um … sorry, I lost my train of thought. While I try to remember how that saying goes, enjoy "The Ugly Couple Song," a Valentine's Day music video by RPA for XO Mints....
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Booking.com Follows the Crazy Life of a Booking Hero in W+K's New Campaign
Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam goes big in its new work for Booking.com, with a 60-second spot that tells the epic story of a "booking hero" whose knack for finding the perfect accommodations helps him...
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An Ad Agency Punked Kanye West From Its Offices During Last Night's Flatiron...
Kanye West held an outdoor concert in front of the Flatiron Building in New York on Thursday night, but not everyone was completely welcoming. In fact, Partners + Napier's NYC office (at 11 East 26th...
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