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Ad of the Day: Honda Explores the Strange Art of Precision Walking in This...
In a beautiful display of step-by-step precision, Honda's latest TV ad for its new HR-V focuses on walking—not driving. The new 60-second spot, "Stepping," created by mcgarrybowen London for Honda...
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Have You Ever? This Ad for Big Lots Goes From Oddly Repetitive to Downright...
If you're a woman with an eye for design, Big Lots will apparently have you at a loss for words. But thankfully, there's AutoTune. In the chain's latest ad from agency OKRP, pairs of women—or...
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Here's the Whole Story Behind the Year's Kookiest Car Ad
Would you buy a used car from this man? Meet Chris Murphy, aka Dan Mayson, a voiceover artist and radio announcer from Fredericksburg, Va., whose zany, brutally honest YouTube video, designed to sell...
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Ad of the Day: This Woman's Heartbreaking Makeup Tutorials Double as Powerful...
This isn't the kind of makeup tutorial you see every day. In this compelling video by Ogilvy & Mather, a young vlogger named Reshma neatly walks viewers through the process of applying red...
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Nike's New Ad Discourages Budding Athletes, Who Won't Make It Anyway
Nike Korea's new "Just do it" campaign kicks off with "Play Loud," a 90-second short film by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo. Like past Nike works, it promotes team sports as a way to dodge conformity and...
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Bank of America's Marketing Morons Torment Billy Idol in Hilarious Ads From...
Bank of America and Christopher Guest would like to remind you ad people that there is, in fact, such a thing as a bad idea. And the argument, which doesn't need much help to start with, gets an...
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Doritos Is Ending Its 'Crash the Super Bowl' Contest, but Not Before One Last...
Over the last 10 years, Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" contest became a staple of Super Bowl advertising, offering anyone with an idea and a camera a chance at the big leagues by making their own...
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Here Are Apple's 8 Promo Videos From Today's Event, Including a :60 for the...
If you missed today's Apple event, get caught up with these eight promo videos showing off the sleek and shiny new toys. Most notably, there's the 60-second spot below for the iPhone 6s, outlining how...
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These 3 Instagrammers Just Got $10K Each From Getty Images for Their...
Getty Images just handed out its inaugural Getty Images Instagram Grants, awarding three photographers $10,000 each for their incredible work documenting stories from underrepresented communities...
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Fat- and Period-Shaming Collide in Easily the Year's Most Offensive Ad Aimed...
Fat-shaming and period-shaming in a single commercial? J. Walter Thompson Melbourne has managed it, with predictably bad results, in this spot for Unicharm's SOFY BeFresh Pads. The ad is titled "Ugh...
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Ad of the Day: Jet.com Just Made 50 Crazy Real-Time Ads Based on User...
Jet.com's advertising is so unabashedly, self-consciously silly, it's enough to make your head explode. First there was R/GA's "mind-blowing" spot introducing the members-only shopping site to the...
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Zac Posen Debuts an LED Dress Made by (and for) Female Coders
Fewer than 1 percent of high school girls plan to study computer science in college. Hoping to change that, Google's Made with Code initiative recently encouraged girls to design a "little black...
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This Japanese City Created a Street View for Cats (and for Humans, Too)
Over in the magical land of Japan, the tourism board of Hiroshima prefecture has created street view for cats. That's right—a site that offers a cat's-eye look at the city of Onomichi and its...
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This Cleverly Designed Movie Poster Makes a Bad Review Seem Like a Good One
It turns out negative movie reviews can be turned into positive ones, with just a little ingenious design. Guardian film critic Benjamin Lee didn't like the new Tom Hardy movie Legend very much,...
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Under Armour Welcomes Hundreds of Tom Bradys Back to Football in Ad for...
As expected, Under Armour added Tom Brady to its new "Rule Yourself" campaign on Thursday, and the timing couldn't have been better—as the Droga5 spot premiered during the NFL's season opener between...
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Ikea Just Had the Perfect Reaction to the Apple Pencil
Ikea Singapore continues its run of amusing advertising (which has included everything from the famous Bookbook catalog-as-gadget film to a slew of comical Facebook memes) with a quick-hit ad poking...
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Ad of the Day: You Just Might Pee Yourself Over Copper Mountain's Gloriously...
If there's a better way to sell folks on Copper Mountain skiing than dressing actors up as urine—yes, urine!—I'm certainly not aware of it. That's just one of four loopy anatomical scenarios that...
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A Man Finds Commuting Zen in This Brilliantly Silly Ad for Mobile Train...
If you're the type of person who wants to feel spiritually at one with the act of commuting by train, then British ticketing company Trainline would like you to try its app. In this new ad from...
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People Magazine Celebrates Jennifer Lawrence's Compulsive Photobombing in New Ad
Keen celebrity followers probably already know that Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is a notorious red-carpet photobomber. But did you have any idea how extensive her list of victims is? It...
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Moleskine Celebrates Coke's 100th Anniversary with Beautifully Designed...
Moleskine, the makers of those sleek black journals that every aspiring poet in America seems to own, is doing its part to revel in Coca-Cola's centennial glory with limited-edition notebooks created...
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