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A-B InBev Throws a Masquerade Party in Stylish First Ad for Oculto Lager
Anheuser-Busch InBev introduces Oculto, a new high-alcohol lager, with a roomful of men and women wearing masks inside a dark club in this spot from Mother New York. The mood is mysterious and...
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Ad of the Day: Hefty Cups Turn Ordinary Moms Into Slang-Spewing Party Animals
They may have played beer pong with red Solo cups in 1999, but moms have upgraded to crack-resistant party cups in Hefty's sharp and funny new campaign by Havas Worldwide Chicago. Three new ads all...
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Grim Reaper Sings About Kids Dying in Unicef's Insane Sound of Music Parody
The hills are alive with the sound of Unicef Sweden singing about cholera. A jolly grim reaper does a Broadway number on waterborne diseases in Forsman & Bodenfors' insane new ad from the...
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Client Feedback on Famous Novels Reminds Ad People There's Other Writing Out...
A number of famous novelists spent time in ad jobs—among them, F. Scott Fitzgerald (who worked at Barron Collier in New York, where he wrote the line, "We keep you clean in Muscatine"), Joseph Heller...
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Tourists Give Jason Sudeikis Some Directions in AT&T's Tribeca Film Festival Ad
Live from New York … it's Jason Sudeikis. The former Saturday Night Live cast member appears in "The Tourists," a 45-second video from BBDO promoting AT&T's sponsorship of the Tribeca Film...
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Ikea Gets Into the Wedding Business, Promising to Marry People via Webcam
If your dream wedding includes getting married via webcam, you should sign up for Ikea's newest service. The Swedish furniture chain has launched "Wedding Online," a (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek site...
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Groupon Employees Read Their Favorite Sexual Comments About the Nonsexual...
For Groupon, it's the Bunker that keeps on bunking (but not bonking). The Banana Bunker, that famously suggestive-looking banana holder, is back "by popular demand" on the Groupon site this week. And...
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Ad of the Day: You've Never Seen Unboxing Videos Like Samsung's for the...
Unboxing videos are a pretty big deal these days, largely because they're seen as more "honest" than commercial brand videos, with real people unpacking their shiny new gadgets from their packaging...
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Empty Wheelchair Chases People Around a Mall in One of the Meanest Ad Pranks Yet
Hand out fliers about the dangers of osteoporosis pretty much anywhere and see what happens. Crumple. Toss. No one reads all those statistics. But chase those same folks with a remote-controlled...
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David Hasselhoff Reaches Peak Self-Parody in Promo for Kung Fury
Dinosaurs, fingerless gloves, punks, skateboards, hacking and traveling back in time to try to kill Hitler. It's everything you ever loved about the '80s in one film—now including David Hasslehoff....
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A 5-Year-Old Girl's Real Call to the Police Saves Her Mother in This...
Real audio of a 5-year-old girl calling 999 (Britain's version of 911)—after her mother has had a seizure—anchors this compelling new PSA from Grey London aimed at getting more parents to teach their...
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Milton Glaser Explains the Value of Design Beyond Just Selling Stuff
"By the time I was in kindergarten, I had been designated as class artist. Some of the older kids discovered that I could draw girls doing unspeakable things, and I could get a nickel apiece for...
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3 New Businesses in Omaha Are Making People Cringe, but They're Doing Good Work
Three strange storefronts have popped up in Omaha recently that you wouldn't want to enter—but they're part of a PSA campaign telling residents that, unfortunately, sexually transmitted diseases are...
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Ad of the Day: Ewan McGregor Takes the Piss Out of Advertising in Funny BT...
The year of the celebrity anti-pitchman continues, with Ewan McGregor poking fun at the absurdities of the advertising process in AMV BBDO's amusing campaign for British TV and Internet provider BT....
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This Cool Tumblr Imagines If Ad Agencies Were Ice Cream Flavors
If famous ad agencies were ice cream brands, what flavors would they be? Aditya Hariharan and Joshua Namdar, a pair of students at the Miami Ad School in New York, took a swing at visualizing the...
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Men Face a Gut-Wrenching Choice of Their Own in This Parody of Dove's Doors Ad
Men, if you saw a door marked "Big Dick" and a door marked "Average Dick," which would you walk through? Two weeks ago, Dove released a new video in its long-running Real Beauty campaign where they...
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South Dakota's Official Ad Campaign Asks: 'Why Die on Mars When You Can Live...
South Dakota sets the bar low with a new ad campaign that basically says, "Hey, at least we're not Mars." Aimed at both tourists and potential long-term residents, the campaign—developed by Sioux...
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Ad of the Day: Cooks Cut Loose in Lurpak's Sizzling New Food Porn
Cooking with Lurpak is a full body-and-soul experience. A new ad from Wieden + Kennedy London continues the butter brand's tradition of quick-cut, hi-res food porn. In the voiceover, Rutger Hauer raps...
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Check Out the Amazing Welcome Kit This Ogilvy Office Gives Each New Hire
It's a red box, but in some ways it's more like a red carpet. Ogilvy Cape Town has been giving a remarkable welcome box to employees over the past year. And now, it's been shortlisted in the design...
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Google Joins the Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster With Underwater Street View
People have been looking for the Loch Ness Monster for centuries, but now Google has brought some high-tech dragon-hunting software to the search. The company, with help from London agency...
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