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You Too Can Live a Jude Law-Worthy Life in This Swingin' First-Person Ad for...
Hey, was that Jude Law in CHI & Partners' new "The Life RX" campaign for Lexus Europe? Indeed it was, though if you blink you might just miss him: The Hollywood A-lister appears only at the...
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Black Lives Matter in Akoo's Fall Fashion Film, Which Takes a Stand on Racial...
Police brutality is a hot-button issue in our nation right now. But despite the current advertising climate of social good projects, most brands have been silent on the subject. T.I.'s clothing label...
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Agency Holiday Cards 2015: See All of This Year's Best Season's Greetings Here
It's the most wonderful time of the year, except for agency people who've been feeling the annual pressure to come up with something fun for their agency holiday card. How did they do this year? Check...
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KitKat Posted the Perfect Tweet in Response to One Direction Taking a Break
One Direction is going on hiatus beginning in March, and they apparently can't wait. Because this is Super-Bowl-blackout-level news, just waiting in the wings for an Oreo to own it, KitKat seized the...
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Honda Is Returning to the Super Bowl With a :60 for the Ridgeline Pickup Truck
Honda said Friday that it will air a 60-second spot for its Ridgeline pickup truck during Super Bowl 50 in February, returning to the big game after a year away. The ad, created by ad agency RPA, will...
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Netflix Just Invented Socks That Pause Your Show If You Fall Asleep
Netflix may have revolutionized how we watch TV, but it's not stopping there.Working again with Pittsburgh-based agency Deeplocal, the streaming company just released another do-it-yourself invention....
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Pitch Agency's Year-End Cookies Are a Tasty Way to Test Your Knowledge of 2015
Is there a way to make the bile-spewing Donald Trump a little more, well, palatable? Turn him into a dessert item, perhaps. Los Angeles-based Pitch Agency isn't actually trying to win anyone over...
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Ad of the Day: A Real-Life Stuntman Really Soars in This Riotous Spot for a...
Finally, a stuntman gets the lead role. Meet Jacob Tomuri, the star of this minute-long spot for travel-search site Cheapflights, the brand's first work from agency Forever Beta. Actually, you've seen...
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Australia's 'Stoner Sloth' Anti-Marijuana Campaign Is an Instant and Classic...
There's a long and not-very-proud tradition of anti-drug advertising that gets ridiculed for missing the mark with young audiences. Australia's New South Wales government just added a classic new...
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Hoverboards Are Explosive, but Not in a Good Way, in SNL's Fake Ad
Nostalgic 1990s aesthetics guide this SNL parody ad for hoverboards, which are more like those dorky Segway/unicycle hybrids you see tech guys riding sometimes instead of Marty McFly-style boards....
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Ad of the Day: Watch TiVo Crash a Movie Theater and Interrupt a Film With...
Where's an ad blocker when you really need one? That's what 100 influencers invited to a private screening of Spectre, at the Cinebarre Theater in Louisville, Colorado, were thinking last month. Their...
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If You're Having as Much Fun on Vacation as the Kid in This Ad, You're Doing...
When you book your vacation through Thomas Cook, it'll be so good that you'll be dancing like a madman. That, at least, is the premise of a new ad by Albion London for the U.K. travel agency. The...
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Pizza Hut Just Made a Cinemagraph TV Ad, and It's Oddly Hypnotic
We've written a lot about cinemagraphs, those mostly still photos that are animated by a small amount of video, producing an image that in some ways is more captivating that either photo or video...
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Ad of the Day: Geico's New Mom Character Is So Good, They Couldn't Do Just...
In The Martin Agency's latest "It's What You Do" ad for Geico, a James Bond-style super-spy takes an unexpected phone call that severely cramps his style just as the bad guys and helicopters close in....
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Everyone Is a Finger in Droga5's Zany New Ad for Android
Visual synecdoche rules in Droga5's new Android spot, in which fingers dressed up as caricatures stand in for consumers. There's a hitchhiker finger in a Hawaiian shirt, and a subway commuter with a...
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Christoph Waltz Tells James Corden the Epic Story of a Single (Real) Clash of...
Barton F. Graf 9000 just rolled out a new campaign for the Supercell game Clash of Clans that's got an interesting mix of elements—namely, an unexpected celebrity pairing plus a new focus on real,...
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Dollar Shave Club's Holiday Ads Show the Few People Who Wouldn't Want a...
For its holiday campaign this year, Dollar Shave Club takes an approach that recalls adam&eveDDB's Harvey Nichols work, rolling out amusing portraits of people who actually wouldn't be too happy...
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Ad of the Day: This Coca-Cola Campaign Can Be Deciphered Only by Color-Blind...
Can you connect the dots? Ad agency Essencius recently launched a teaser campaign in Denmark touting stevia- and cane-sugar-sweetened Coca-Cola Life, but only about 5 percent of the population could...
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AT&T Is Pulling Its Retail Ads This Holiday to Run This One Instead
AT&T finds itself in a bit of a bind at the holidays. Yes, it's a mobile-first company, but at this time of year, it can be irritating for families when kids spend all day on their phones. To...
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Cards Against Humanity Threatens to Cut a Picasso Into 150,000 Pieces This...
Cards Against Humanity recently bought a Picasso. And it's now asking 150,000 people to vote whether to donate it to a museum or laser-cut it into 150,000 pieces. And I'm one of those people. Which...
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