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Google Imagines a Real World That's as Irritating as the Internet
Google Analytics has put together a series of videos demonstrating what poor Web design can do to an online commerce site—crap we'd never put up with in a brick-and-mortar store. There's unintuitive...
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Wallace and Gromit Spread Holiday Cheer Through Google+ Hangouts
Wallace and Gromit are back, and pitching Google+ Hangouts, the group video chat client that allows people to spend quality virtual time with one another, in this fun 60-second spot from Adam &...
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Ad of the Day: Sprint
For the record, Frank Loesser's "Baby It's Cold Outside" is a duet about a guy who spikes his date's eggnog in the hope that she'll stay the night. Christmas! I will be doing a bit of Grinching in...
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Hill Holliday Spreads Happiness With 'Social Experiments' in Boston
All advertising strives to sell happiness, implying that buying certain goods or services will make you feel better than you did before. Pitching happiness itself, striving to communicate the gravity...
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Before Life as Call Girl, Olympic Runner Starred in Controversial Nike Ad
A three-time Olympian and star of a controversial Nike ad from the 2000 Summer Games has recently been living a double life as a high-price call girl, according to a new investigative report by The...
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Fiat Raps About Motherhood and Faking Orgasms
In the U.K., mommies apparently don't rock gas-guzzling minivans. They go for cute little Fiat 500Ls. So, to entice them, Fiat has released yet another example of the hilarity that is white people...
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Happy New Year! Here's a Horrible, Disgusting Anti-Smoking Ad
Britain's National Health Service decided to close out 2012 with a feel-good PSA offering plenty of heartwarming holiday cheer. Just kidding. They released a super-disgusting anti-smoking ad. This...
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Ad of the Day: Virgin Atlantic
As a child, could you catch fish with your bare hands while standing knee deep in the local river? Did you have uncanny, almost otherworldly powers of clairvoyance that let you glimpse the future—and...
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Nike Scores With New Ad as Fans Declare, 'Hockey Is Ours'
Hockey die-hards should be stirred by this Nike spot that captures fans' passion for the game and, by implication, their displeasure with the ongoing NHL lockout. The company and its agency, Wieden +...
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Cookie Monster Falls Off Wagon Early in 2013 in Google's New Year Spot
Going cold turkey was never the best strategy for Cookie Monster in ramping down his cookie intake. You've got to step down gradually from all that sugar. That's the main takeaway from this amusing...
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Apple's 'Do Not Disturb' iPhone Ad Is Brilliant, but Terribly Timed
Apple takes a stroll in dreamland in this superb spot highlighting the iPhone 5's "Do Not Disturb" feature, which silences the ringer on calls during overnight hours (or any hours you specify). It...
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Dating Site Urges You to Listen to Your Vile, Lecherous Heart
Dating site Zoosk, aka "The romantic social network," has already gotten some good press for its wacky ads. This latest one—in which a single woman's heart, personified as a fanciful puppet, makes out...
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Don't Get 'Nugged' for Your Nuggets, Warns Jack in the Box
With "nugging," Jack in the Box may think it's invented a cute new slang term for the act of stealing someone's chicken nuggets. But apparently nugging is already a thing. Actually, it's three things,...
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Pixar Parodies College Recruitment Ads for Monsters University
This is delightful: a campaign by Pixar for its upcoming film Monsters University that spoofs those wonderfully cheesy college-recruitment ads that air during NCAA sporting events. The spot below,...
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Romeo Beckham, 10, Makes Spirited Ad Debut for Burberry
Burberry's new spot for its spring/summer 2013 collection features a number of British models: Cara Delevingne, Edie Campbell, Charlotte Wiggins, Charlie France, Alex Dunstan and Max Rendell. But it's...
View ArticleBig Lots Hires Lead Creative Agency
Big Lots has bundled its creative business at a single shop. The retailer has awarded the account to Barkley after a review. Annual media spending exceeds $50 million, according to Nielsen. A handful...
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Ad of the Day: State Farm
Who knew Chris Paul had a twin brother, Cliff Paul, from whom the NBA All-Star point guard was separated at birth, who went on to assist people in a different way—by becoming an agent for State Farm,...
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Allstate Features Home Ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in Ad, but Fights Owners on...
Allstate finds itself weathering a storm of bad publicity owing to a recent commercial that showed its "agents of good" rushing in to provide assistance in the wake of the devastation caused by...
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Supermodel Bar Refaeli to Star in Go Daddy Super Bowl Spot
Go Daddy has found a new girl for its biggest day of the year. The Internet domain-name marketer, a mainstay on the Super Bowl for eight years running, is bringing in Bar Refaeli, the actress and...
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Grey Uses the New Facebook Poke to Create Self-Destructing Ads for Lingerie
Facebook has redesigned its Poke feature to allow people to send their friends video clips that self-destruct 10 seconds after opening. "Hey, that would be great for safe sexting!" you probably...
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