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This L.A. Production House Is Getting Brands on Board With Virtual Reality
SpecsWho Co-founder and ecd Darren Craig and content division co-head Jonathan CravenWhat Production company and creative agencyWhere Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and London Few companies have made...
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Who Will Hire This Naked Copywriter Obsessed With Burt Reynolds and Vladimir...
You may recall this 2009 AdFreak story about freelance copywriter Lawson Clarke's efforts at self-promotion, which involved crafting the uber-masculine persona known as Male Copywriter and exquisitely...
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Method Leaf-Blows a Birthday Cake and Makes Other Unholy Messes in These Fun Ads
Hand, dish and laundry liquids get surprisingly sexy in a new campaign from green cleaning brand Method. Call it haute soap. The brand's new "Fear No Mess" campaign, which might be less pithily...
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McDonald's Turns Placemats Into Little Music Production Stations Connected to...
Wasn't it fun when we were kids to doodle on restaurants' paper placements with crayons? Well, McDonald's has introduced a high-tech, musical version of that sort of play with McTrax—a snazzy placemat...
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Ad of the Day: Amid Chaos, Cisco Says 'There's Never Been a Better Time'
To those who would say the world is falling apart in a hurry, Cisco would counter that, in fact, thanks mostly to technology, it's the most wonderful time to be alive. That optimism is given a...
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This Agency's Mother-in-Law Cards for Mother's Day Are Sweet, Except When...
What do you get for a mother who is not really your mother, but is still kinda your mother, for Mother's Day? How about card that will make her feel special, or very uncomfortable? Humanaut, the...
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A Man Comes Back to Life, Almost Literally, in Duracell's Beautiful Ad About...
Mad Men ended a year ago, but John Slattery, aka Roger Sterling from the AMC agency drama, is keeping a hand in the ad game, providing a voiceover for this Duracell spot tied to National Hearing...
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Head & Shoulders Shaves Famous Faces Like Odell Beckham Jr. Into Real...
Today in Weird Things We're Glad Aren't Happening to Us, Procter & Gamble's Head & Shoulders brand has released "Scalp Brave," a campaign that goes roughly where you think it's headed ... just...
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Time Warner Cable Admits Its Past Sins, and Vows to Be Better, in DDB's Comic...
Over the years, Time Warner Cable has unfortunately earned a certain less-than-flattering reputation in the customer service department. In its newest ad campaign, the cable giant has a message for...
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Sprint Turned a Wrecked Car Into a Mangled Emoji for This 'Don't Text and...
April was Distracted Driving Awareness month, and Sprint saved one of the most eye-catching PSA for last—unveiling the sculpture above in downtown Miami last Friday. Titled "The Last Emoji," it was...
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This Copywriter's Ad About Motherhood Was So Touching, It's Now a Children Book
In January 2014, Boba, a small Colorado company that makes baby carriers and accessories, posted a video online—created by Futuristic Films—that would prove to be one of the most popular ads ever made...
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Why Every Ad Space in This London Subway Station May Soon Have a Cat on It
It can be exhausting to travel by subway, especially when you work in advertising. Subways are home to some of the grabbiest, ugliest creative in all of existence, often in multiples. To wit:...
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Samsung Is Helping Preemie Babies by Making Incubators Feel More Like the Womb
Samsung is back to pull at your heartstrings again, this time with a campaign about premature babies. Infants born too early face a greater risk of language and attention disorders later in life. The...
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KFC Just Made Edible 'Finger Lickin' Good' Nail Polish That, Yeah, Tastes...
April Fools' Day was a month ago, but KFC is only just now announcing that it has made two edible nail polishes that bring the classic tagline, "Finger Lickin' Good," grossly to life. Ogilvy &...
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Ad of the Day: A Son Betrays His Father in the Most Painful Way in This...
The luxury auto wars get personal in Crispin Porter + Bogusky new 60-second spot for Infiniti, as a young man bearing a terrible secret travels to meet his father, knowing he's about to let him down...
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Pure Protein Bars Are There When Life Quickly Unravels in Droga5's Comic Ads
Taking care of yourself and eating healthy is all well and good when life is going smoothly. But when does life ever go smoothly? That's the message of a comical new campaign by Droga5 for Pure...
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Pepsi's Emoji Billboards and Instagram Photos Are Cool in Ways That the TV Isn't
There's no getting around the fact that emojis, whatever their social equity among young people, are quite literally cartoony. And if you're going to build a whole global ad campaign around them, as...
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A Man Rides His Favorite Number Into the Sunset in This California Lottery Ad
David&Goliath's new ad for the California Lottery focuses on a man who's quirkily obsessed with the number five—including waking up at 5:55 a.m., living at 555 5th Street, and basically designing...
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How Do You Get Bros to Drink Rosé Wine? Package It Like It's Beer
Rosé is great in giant bottles on the Carlton Terrace. But what if you're one of those average bros who's taken a liking to the pink stuff, which some have even taken to calling "brosé"? It's better...
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Forget the Ball Drop. Corona Is Organizing a Lime Drop at 5:55 p.m. for Cinco...
As completely invented, marketing-driven rituals go, Corona Extra has a fun one on its hands with the #LimeDrop, a campaign the Mexican brewer is running across social media for Cinco de Mayo. R/GA...
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