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Ad of the Day: These Lovely Solar Ads Trace the Long and Winding Road of...
A new kind of creative energy powers Arnold Worldwide's latest ads for SolarCity. For the time being, the agency has pulled the plug on its bizarre campaign starring bird-faced Egyptian sun god Ra in...
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Why This Agency Just Painted Over a Beautiful Lobby Mural That Took 7 Years...
Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo has had an interesting art piece hanging in its lobby since opening in 2008. It started out as a completely white canvas, and over the years the agency encouraged...
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Condom Advertising Gets Positively Prehistoric With Epic Depiction of...
"Dinosaur sex, dinosaur sex/You make me feel like a Tyrannosaurus Rex." Forgotten U.K. post-punk band Family Fodder sang those lines way back in 1981, and now they've come to full and terrifying CGI...
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LGBTQ Posters in Toronto Schools Send Messages of Love in the Flash of a...
The climate in which kids are growing up is changing dramatically, but schools remain some of the toughest environments to endure when you're marked as different. Thankfully, there's more support now...
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Ad of the Day: NAPA Auto Parts Makes Great New-Car Ads … for Very Old Cars
None of the cars in VML's new campaign for NAPA Auto Parts is your father's Oldsmobile. You will, however, find Granny's clunky Toyota among them. Three, um, shall we say "lovingly used" vehicles...
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10 Terribly Misguided Old Drug Ads Revised With Modern Medical Information
Imagine peppy 19th and early 20th century ads for over-the-counter drug products containing cocaine and heroin, rewritten with today's medical knowledge. DrugAbuse.com, a resource for addiction...
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Ad of the Day: The Y Calls on Droga5 for the First National Ads in Its History
The Y shines a spotlight on America's forgotten communities, and how important the nonprofit's youth development work can be to their social fabric, in its first-ever national ad campaign, breaking...
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Diet Dr Pepper's Lil' Sweet Is Back, and Sweet-Talking All Over Your House,...
Diet Dr Pepper's fabulously dressed miniature singing mascot is back for a second round of commercials ... and they're still pretty sweet. Justin Guarini, best known as the runner-up in the first...
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U.S. Bank's New Ads Imagine the Future, Thanks to Some Clever Visual Tricks
U.S. Bank's new campaign from Carmichael Lynch leaves a lot to the imagination. For example, in "New House," a young couple tour their dream home ... which hasn't been built yet. Most of the story...
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Pokémon Unveils Its Super Bowl Ad, the First of This Year's Spots to Roll Out...
Pokémon has become the first brand to unveil a full 2016 Super Bowl commercial, rolling out an extended version of its 20th anniversary spot that will run in a 30-second version on the Feb. 7...
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Pro-Breastfeeding Ads Come With Produce-Style Freshness Stickers for Your...
Breasts and supermarket produce go well together in advertising lately. A few month ago, we saw melons in a grocery store made up to look like breasts for a breast cancer awareness campaign. Now,...
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Why Jamie Foxx and Jason Biggs Are Chatting With DirecTV's 'Settler' Guy on...
As the preferred social platform for griping about #firstworldproblems, Twitter is the next logical destination for DirecTV's "Settlers" campaign, which is all about accepting a less-than-perfect life...
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A Hungry Marilyn Monroe Butchers 'Happy Birthday' in Snickers' Super Bowl Teaser
She's America's original sweetheart. But when she's hungry, Marilyn Monroe takes a turn for the worse. That's according to Snickers' new Super Bowl ad teaser, in which she reprises her iconic "Happy...
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Ad of the Day: Ellie Kemper Helps Buick Get Quirky for Millennial Love
Kimmy Schmidt may be unbreakable. But hey, Ellie Kemper, give that retractable roof button a rest already! The actress shifts her quirky-geek persona into high gear for a fun Buick campaign from...
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Agency Vows to Stop Objectifying Women in a Great Video Mocking Truly...
One agency is promising to quit one of advertising's worst habits—objectifying women. Manhattan-based Badger & Winters is making its case with a new video, titled "We Are #WomenNotObjects." The...
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Why a Digitally Savvy Finance Brand Decided to Go 'Old School' With a Super...
Despite some initial skepticism about whether it was the right move, financial services company Social Finance, or SoFi, is now all in on the Super Bowl. Part of a larger introductory campaign from...
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This Ad Copywriter Is Raising Money to Run an Anti-Trump Attack Ad in New...
Trump would date his daughter!Trump's son likes hunting!Trump says he could shoot a man and still win! We're sick of seeing Trump in our Facebook feeds. Thankfully, we aren't alone: Louis Wittig, a...
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Assemble Your Own Artistic Masterpiece With Ikea's New Adult Coloring Book
If you like assembling Ikea furniture, you'll love coloring in Ikea coloring books. Ikea just released an adult coloring book sure to appeal to the fast-growing segment of adults who believe coloring...
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Abe Vigoda Did It All in Advertising, From a Live 1951 TV Spot to the 2010...
Not many actors can boast a career spanning seven decades, but Abe Vigoda—who died Tuesday at age 94—was one of them. And his commercial career was just as long, beginning not long after the advent of...
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This Art Director Built an Igloo in His Backyard in Brooklyn and Listed It on...
Looking for a cute little "Boutique Winter Igloo for 2" that you can rent on Airbnb for a few nights of chilly bliss? This one in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, sounds awesome:"Dripping with ingenuity and...
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