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SpecsWho From left, Dave Brown, director of digital strategy; Maneesh Goyal, founder, CEO; and Lauren Austin, creative directorWhat Events marketing agencyWhere New York offices One sure way to make...
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Kaley Cuoco Grants Wishes in Toyota's Super Bowl Teaser
Kaley Cuoco is going from the Big Bang to the Big Game as Toyota's newest advertising star. The 27-year-old actress from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory is seen walking around town granting magical...
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Ad of the Day: Call of Duty
I hope The Replacer sticks around for a while. The titular character in 72andSunny's trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - Revolution is portrayed by veteran actor Peter Stormare, who riffs on his...
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Starbucks Tries to Make You Hate Mondays a Little Less
Starbucks is rebounding from recent image problems in the U.K. (something about tax payments, I think) with this ad for its Monday coffee special. The spot, from AMV BBDO, suggests Monday is actually...
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YouTube's Saddest Stars Get Happy in VW's Super Bowl Teaser
Volkswagen turns some notorious frowns—those seen by millions on YouTube—upside down in Volkswagen's just-released teaser for its Super Bowl commercial. The eHarmony cat lady, politician Phil Davison...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Panders to Children of the '90s
Children of the '90s, do you remember all the awesome things from your youth? Was Internet Explorer one of them? No? That's OK. It was there amid the slap bracelets and the hippos that were so hungry...
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TNT Ambushes Holland With Another Crazy 'Dramatic Surprise' Stunt
TNT had a gargantuan success with its "Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square" video, posted to YouTube last April. The clip—which showed a Belgian village square erupting in intricately choreographed...
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Two Shetland Ponies in Cardigan Sweaters Are Scotland's New Ad Stars
After a rough couple of millennia, Scotland has figured out how to make itself look good to the rest of the world: Just put a couple of Shetland ponies in lovely cardigan sweaters. The folks at...
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Go Daddy Unveils First of Two Super Bowl Spots, Pushing .CO Domains
Go Daddy on Friday posted one of its two Super Bowl ads online—a 30-second spot, due to run at the two-minute warning of the fourth quarter, urging people to register a .CO domain before someone else...
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Kraken Rum Billboards Will Kidnap You and Squeeze You to Death
The Kraken Black Spiced Rum is going with death by giant tentacle as the theme of a pair of 3-D billboards that went up recently in Chicago. On each ad, the brand's namesake mythical beast appears to...
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Where Do Babies Come From? In Kia's Super Bowl Ad, a Planet Called Babylandia
A flustered father answers his son's pressing question "Where do babies come from?" with a Super Bowl-worthy blockbuster of a tall tale—set on a distant planet called Babylandia—in Kia's upcoming...
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Draftfcb N.Y. Fills Top Creative Role
The New York office of Draftfcb has named new chief creative officer: Javier Campopiano, who most recently was regional creative director of Draftfcb Latin America. Campopiano, who starts Feb. 4, will...
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Ad of the Day: Samsung
If you've got a job, there's a decent chance you're dealing with a dual-device situation—you know, a work phone given to you by the office (probably one that's useless for anything beyond taking calls...
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Volkswagen's Super Bowl Spot Turns Glum White Office Workers Into Happy...
Are you a typical white corporate American office drone with a case of the Mondays? It would help a whole lot if you were Jamaican—or at least talked like one. That's the comical premise behind...
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Budweiser's First Tweet Asks Fans to Name Baby Clydesdale, Star of Its Super...
Babies are always big at the Super Bowl. This year, Budweiser might have the cutest one. A new baby Clydesdale, born Jan. 16, will star in the Anheuser-Busch brand's traditional 60-second Clydesdales...
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Super Bowl Ad Asks: 'Is There a Century 21 Agent in the House?'
Century 21 agents are more helpful than doctors, at least when you're having a housing emergency. The real-estate company on Monday unveiled its 30-second commercial, titled "Wedding," that will air...
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Astronaut Outsexys Lifeguard in Axe's First-Ever Super Bowl Ad
Not surprisingly, Axe's first-ever Super Bowl commercial features a woman in a skimpy bikini jogging rather bouncily along a beach. Also not surprisingly, she's running toward a geeky dude who plays...
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Hyundai Gets Unstuck in First of Two Super Bowl :30s
Drivers of the Hyundai Sonata Turbo get stuck behind the strangest vehicles on the road. Luckily, they also have the power to get past them. The Korean automaker on Monday unveiled "Stuck," one of two...
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The Spot: Nike's Speed Demon
IDEA: Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's second-best soccer player after Lionel Messi, is a beautiful, terrible force. A large part of his talent is his overwhelming speed—a threat dramatized in Wieden +...
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Volkswagen Is a Dog's Best Friend in Tribal DDB Spot
See Spot run. And bark, growl, yelp and whine. This Volkswagen Golf commercial by Tribal DDB Amsterdam stars a perky pooch that makes all kinds of car sounds while out for a walk with its owner. At...
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