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Ad of the Day: Bad Customer Service Brings Down a Secret Agent in Adobe's New...
Adobe always likes to unveil a comical new spot for Advertising Week. This year is no exception, and this time we get a James Bond-style spot in which a secret agent easily handles almost everything...
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Parents Will Love This Sweet, Heartbreaking Ikea Ad With a Kid Picking Out...
The first trip a person makes to Ikea is often with his or her parents. Buzzman Paris brings that bittersweet visit to life in "My Son," an ad that opens on a mom strolling the store with a boy who...
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Jack Daniel's Puts the Townspeople of Lynchburg Front and Center in Its New Ads
If you don't know jack about the townsfolk of Lynchburg, Tenn., that's about to change. Lynchburg's most famous resident, Brown-Forman brand Jack Daniel's, puts the spotlight on some of its...
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Tecate Will Ambush Tonight's Debate With This Trump-Mocking Ad About Building...
Tecate thinks building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is a great idea—as long as it's 3 feet tall and is used as a meeting place for guys from both sides of the border (and all sides of the...
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Audi Made One Hell of an Entertaining Ad for Tonight's Debate That Everyone...
There's one thing almost everyone watching Monday night's first presidential debate will be able to agree on—that this new Audi commercial, "Duel," airing during the telecast, is a brilliant bit of...
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Oreo Is Now Making Tasty-Style Recipe Videos for Some of Its Stranger Flavors
If you're looking for a low-calorie dessert that mixes avocados and chocolate, then Oreos has a video for you. To promote new special-edition mint and strawberry-cheesecake flavors of the classic...
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McCann Created an Escort Service That Had a Macabre Surprise for Anyone Who...
Prostitution has always been fraught with the risk of violence, but today the internet provides broader scope and anonymity. Alongside the sense of entitlement that some people get when they pay for...
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Advertising Week Called Out Agencies by Name in 6 Cities Ahead of This Week's...
Can the advertising industry "change the conversation" to things that really matter, like gender, diversity, client/agency distrust, transparency and more? Advertising Week made that the theme of the...
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For Love or Money? One Couple Doesn't Have to Choose in This Lovely Spanish...
The lottery may not have much to do with fate, but it's a lot like love—if you don't play, you won't win, says a new ad from Spain. The three-and-a-half minute commercial for EuroMillions, the...
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Airbnb Set Up Marnie the Dog in Her Very Own Pet-Friendly Beverly Hills Mansion
Travel can be rough on animals. So, to celebrate National Dog Week (Sept. 19-25) and promote its 600,000 pet-friendly homes, Airbnb shined a light on social media star Marnie the Dog, a senior pet who...
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Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Revisit the 1991 Clio Awards, Advertising's...
It remains the most notorious night in advertising history—June 13, 1991. The Clio Awards were scheduled to hand out their radio and print awards. But as Adweek later told the story,"what ensued was...
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The Official Name of Volkswagen's New Car Is a Hashtag: #PinkBeetle
It's not every day that an automaker launches a new, brightly colored car based on social media demand. Or names the model after the hashtag that helped bear it. The 2017 Special Edition Volkswagen...
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U.S. Cellular Made a 7-Hour Preroll Ad That Just Lets You Watch Grass Grow
U.S. Cellular sets a new standard for tedium with this preroll ad that lasts seven hours. It's about as exciting as watching grass grow. In fact, that's mostly what happens during its 420-minute...
View ArticleHow Starburst's Little Lad Inspired Wheat Thins' Famous 'Family Guy' Ad
What does Starburst's classic "Bus Station" commercial, with the Little Lad, have in common with the famous Wheat Thins Family Guy spot? Lots and lots of mentions of the product name—a gag that Lisa...
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Step Right Up and Watch This Air Acrobat Attempt the Most Irresponsible...
One December day at the International Scene of Contemporary Dance in Stockholm, Sweden, a man named Olle, one of the best air acrobats in the world, did a triple-somersault jump. It was a jump like...
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New York City FC's First Brand Spot Is a Gritty Paean to the City It Calls Home
When Major League Soccer began play in 1996, those of us who lived in New York City had only one team to root for—the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. But despite their odd hybrid name, they were...
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Need a Little Sausage Support? Johnsonville Experts Are Now Just a Phone Call...
Sooner or later, everyone's sausage needs some support. If you find yourself in such straits between now and this Friday—say, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Central time—go ahead and call Johnsonville HQ at...
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How the Title Sequence Can Become the Single Best Ad for Any TV Show
What makes a good TV title sequence? YouTuber Ryan Hollinger of Screen Smart explores that question in a video of nearly seven minutes, using the starting sequences of American Horror Story, Twin...
View ArticleJaime Robinson Talks Netflix, 'Beauty Inside' and Why Kiss Makeup Was the...
It's fitting that Joan Creative's first bit of finished advertising was this Netflix spot, unveiled in social media during the Emmys, all about powerful women—presented as a parody of '50s...
View ArticleHow Facebook Wants Creative Agencies to Innovate in Live, Vertical and 360 Video
Having moved from the agency world to become the global creative director of Facebook's Creative Shop, Andrew Keller is well positioned to work with creative agencies on optimizing and innovating...
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