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Hand Sanitizer Ad Warns You're Just a Few Shakes Away From a Sex Toy
Hand sanitizer is flying off the shelves in the U.S. because of the flu outbreak. In Chile, they're worried about more subversive germs. Print ad for Dettol by Havas Worldwide in Santiago. Via...
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Disney Builds Entire 8-Bit Street in London for 'Wreck-It Ralph'
Disney tricked out an entire London street with cool 8-bit props to promote Wreck-It Ralph, its feature-film-length chunk of nerdbait whose retro visual style was reflected by the sculptures in...
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Ad of the Day: Nike
Lots of people don't have much use for Kobe Bryant, but his new Nike spot really is one of the most enjoyable ads he's ever done. The Los Angeles Lakers star has been in commercials since Roman times,...
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87-Year-Old Man Vandalizes Football Field in Taco Bell's Super Bowl Teaser
The star of Taco Bell's upcoming Super Bowl spot certainly has "lived más"—for 87 years and counting. The fast-food chain on Friday released "Grandpa Goes Wild," a 54-second teaser for its big-game...
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It's Man vs. Cheetah in Super Bowl Ad Teaser for Skechers
A dog lover last year with its generally well-received "Mr. Quiggly" spot, Skechers is suddenly into cats for this year's Super Bowl. The spot, scheduled to air during the two-minute warning before...
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Agency of the Year: PHD
When PHD pitched Unilever’s media business last year in a highly competitive review, the agency’s worldwide chief Mike Cooper hoped his company would win a couple of the marketer’s big global brands....
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Gildan Apparel Teases One-Night-Stand Super Bowl Ad
The biggest night in Gildan's marketing history will be a one-night stand—at least when it comes to the theme of its ad. The apparel marketer just released the teaser below for its debut Super Bowl...
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The Spot: 'Mayhem' Forever
IDEA: Two and a half years after it was born, Allstate's "Mayhem" campaign is now going into labor. As mayhem personified, Dean Winters has played dozens of mischievous roles, representing unexpected...
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Ad of the Day: Booking.com
A crappy hotel room will cast a pretty dark cloud over a vacation. Don't get a crappy hotel room. Priceline-owned accommodations site Booking.com is launching its first-ever TV campaign—a paean to the...
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Sentient Clock Is Able to Bend Time in Latest Grand Guinness Spot
Time out, Guinness. While I come down on the side of liking the brewer's new cinematic, Peter Thwaites-directed "Clock" spot, I'm fearful that the brand's countdown to self-parody has begun. The...
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Confess Your Most Evil Creative Sins at The Creative Confessional
Advertising creatives are a generally evil bunch, so it's nice they now have a place to confess their sins: The Creative Confessional. Scroll through to read the various revelations of bad...
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Kate Upton Scrubs a Clean Path to Super Bowl for Mercedes-Benz
Kate Upton is everywhere and nowhere for Mercedes-Benz as it prepares to air its 60-second Super Bowl spot on Feb. 3. The automaker on Saturday released its official 40-second teaser for the ad, with...
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Tide's Super Bowl Spot Will Look at Stains Worth Keeping
Tide will take a surprisingly forgiving attitude toward stains—admitting, probably comically, that some are worth keeping—in its 2013 Super Bowl commercial from Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. The...
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Cars.com to Get Overly Dramatic in Super Bowl Ad From Mcgarrybowen
Drama is good for Super Bowl commercials. It's less good when you're shopping for a car. Cars.com is vowing to bring some extra drama to the Feb. 3 broadcast with its 30-second first-quarter...
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Dodge Dart's Gift Registry Lets Friends and Family Help You Buy a Car
Quick-witted, energetic and amusingly excessive, Wieden + Kennedy's TV campaign for the Dodge Dart has quietly become one of the most entertaining on the air. Now, agency and client are bringing some...
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Amy Poehler to Star in Best Buy's Super Bowl Commercial
Amy Poehler is landing all the prime gigs this winter. The Parks and Recreation star, who co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards with Tina Fey earlier this month, will star in Best Buy's Super Bowl...
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Netflix Hiding Easter Eggs on Its Site for Season 4 of Arrested Development
Netflix is subtly seeding some sly marketing on its website to promote the 14 new episodes of Arrested Development it produced. For example, if you search for "blue" on Netflix, you'll see subtle blue...
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Visa Predicted the Super Bowl Teams Before the Season Barely Began
The Harbaugh brothers may not have seen it coming, but Visa did. Back in the fall, the company broke two ads from TBWA\Chiat\Day advertising its Visa NFL Fan Offers program. The focus of those ads?...
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Audi Asks Viewers to Choose the Ending of Its Super Bowl Spot
Audi is letting viewers choose its Super Bowl ad this year—or rather, the ending of it. Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco has created three different endings to a 60-second spot about a...
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Ad of the Day: Manwich
These are very, very simple 15-second Manwich ads, but DDB West shot them like a boss. The casting and direction (by Lena Beug of Moxie Pictures) are truly incredible, and it doesn't hurt anything...
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