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Life After the Infamous ‘Saatchi 17’ Walkout
SpecsWho Joanne McKinney (l.), chief strategy officer; Michael Burns, managing partner; Ann Morton, COO; and Jim Wilday, partnerWhat Advertising agencyWhere New York After spending a quarter of a...
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Source Marketing's Kersten Rivas on the Advantage of a Smaller Agency
Photo: Alfred MaskeroniSpecsNew gig President, Source MarketingOld gig Managing director, Havas Worldwide New YorkAge 43Twitter @mittonrivasWhat drew you to Source Marketing? I was at Havas for eight...
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British Coast Guard Ad About Changing Weather Is Chilling Even Under Sunny Skies
This PSA by AMV BBDO for the British Coast Guard, titled "Every Second Counts," pairs Hallmarky imagery of children playing on the beach with audio from a frantic 999 emergency call in which three...
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Ad of the Day: Oreo Is Creating Adorable Halloween 'Nomsters' in a Tim...
The mad scientists at Oreo are laughing maniacally as they cook up adorable little monsters—called "nomsters"—in a tiny, spooky little lab for Halloween. Beginning today, fans of the Mondelez cookie...
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This Shampoo Ad Is Lovely and All, but Can It Really Stop Couples From...
If you're looking for a "no more tears" kind of shampoo commercial, I'd skip this nearly five-minute Chinese ad for Procter & Gamble's Rejoice from Leo Burnett Hong Kong. It's all about making...
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Smartphones Troll Their Owners in Clever Ads About Learning and Attention Issues
Parents grow increasingly frustrated as Siri-type phone assistants misunderstand their requests in a pair of 60-second Advertising Council PSAs from Publicis Kaplan Thaler. The goal is to build...
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SkyMall Parody 'SkyMaul' Has It All, From a Nazi Grandpa Locator to a Forever...
In the market for a Steampunk Buttscope, a Bananaganizer or some Medical Test Results Fortune Cookies? You can find these wondrous creations and more over at SkyMaul. Sometimes a form of advertising...
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OK Go Guys Ride Tiny Little Honda Unicycles in Their Fantastic New Video
Does OK Go release albums? Like, full-blown records with multiple songs on them? I don't know. I don't care. Their videos are enough for all of us. Japanese creative agency Mori is behind this one....
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Diet Coke Prints 2 Million Unique Labels in Latest Stroke of Packaging Genius
You thought Coca-Cola was getting personal when it rolled out 250 bottle labels featuring people's first names. Well, Diet Coke just went and individualized 2 million bottle designs. Coca-Coca Israel...
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Trulia Terrifies Home Buyers With a Haunted Open House for Halloween
Real-estate companies love haunted-house pranks. We saw it earlier this year with this gotcha video from Denmark. And now, digital realtor Trulia is embracing scare tactics with its own hidden-camera...
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Ad of the Day: How Subaru Perfectly Poked Fun at Itself With Its Great...
Subaru's "Memory Lane" ad from Carmichael Lynch, with the hippie grandma teaching her granddaughter to love nature, has been out for more than a month. But it's still airing, and is one of the more...
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Ad of the Day: Crest Gets Kids All Jacked Up on Candy in Cute and Crazy...
We're approaching the holiday where little kids dressed as Marvel superheroes and the cast of Frozen will descend upon neighborhoods across the U.S., amped up on sugar, requiring that adults fork over...
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NFL Players Say 'No More' to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Powerful...
Nearly two dozen current and former National Football League stars appear in powerful new PSAs condemning domestic violence and sexual abuse. They look straight into the camera as they say "No more"...
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Chrysler Celebrates Being American by Making You Think It's German or Japanese
How do you sell American cars in 2014? By tricking people into first thinking your goods are Japanese or German. Chrysler is launching a tongue-in-cheek campaign for its 200 model with TV ads...
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Peeps Do Their Best to Get Scary for Halloween
More sweet. Less scary. That's the promotional campaign, not the ingredient list. The perennial Easter favorite Peeps continue to try to become a year-round candy with these "peepified" illustrations...
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One Woman and Her GoPro Reveal the True Nature of Street Harassment
If you're a woman, this video is not going to be that enlightening. It documents some of the creepier instances of verbal harassment—from more than 100 total—that a woman received during 10 hours of...
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HP Celebrates Human Hands in This Ad for Its Wild New 3-D Touch Computer
We rely on our hands to get us through our various daily projects, whether it's typing on a computer, creating works of art or instructing others to follow a plan. Now, HP wants us to use the power of...
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Ad of the Day: Sofia Coppola Directs 4 Oddly Charming Holiday Spots for Gap
Gap's new tagline, introduced a few months back, is "Dress normal." But the retailer knows your family is anything but—particularly at the holidays. Having launched the new positioning with David...
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Wearing a Fake Ebola Hazmat Suit for Halloween? Donate a Real One Instead
Planning to dress up in fake ebola hazmat gear for Halloween? That's awfully douchey, don't you think? Nonprofit humanitarian group Doctors of the World has an idea, though. Why not join the "More...
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'Dumb Ways to Die' Returns With a Trick-or-Treat Halloween Special
"Dumb Ways to Die," the famed Australian train-safety campaign from 2012, has done a couple of encores for special occasions. First it did a Valentine's Day ad. And now it's done a little...
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