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Hillshire's Ultra-Classy Vending Machine Comes With Its Own Maître d' and Butler
Here's something no marketer has ever tried anywhere before in the history of the universe—a wacky vending machine stunt! This particular machine, set up by VML to plug Hillshire Snacking's meats,...
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Virgin, Unsurprisingly, Gets a Little Smutty While Discussing the Pleasures...
Why take a car when you can take the train? It won't get your back all sweaty. In a pair of risqué ads by TMW, British transport company Virgin Trains is using couples to illustrate why trains are...
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Ad of the Day: Clive Owen Is Back in the Driver's Seat as BMW Films Returns...
It's been 15 years since BMW Films and Fallon released "The Hire," a series of eight original short films that helped define branded entertainment, with help from a menagerie of A-list stars and...
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Can This Empowering Ad Campaign From BBDO Get More Girls to Keep Playing...
Put them in, Coach!Baseball for All, a group dedicated to getting more girls in the game, is launching a pro-bono campaign from BBDO Atlanta that plays off the chorus to "Centerfield," John Fogerty's...
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WD-40 Makes Your Doors Extra Creaky (for a Change) With This Ingenious...
We would have loved to see the focus group on this. You've probably used WD-40 to get creaking to stop. But what if you need those creaks for effect ... like, say, on Halloween? Never fear. The...
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Kit Kat's Halloween Ad Shows You How to Fend Off a Homicidal Maniac in a Forest
Could Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees be dissuaded from their homicidal ways by a candy bar? Could a sugar fix be a cure for their mass-murdering tendencies? It's likely no one's ever asked the...
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Michael Phelps and Danny McBride Go to Outer Space for Call of Duty: Infinite...
With global temperatures rising and the most obscene U.S. presidential election in recent memory taking place, 2016 might feel like the worst year ever. But whether you're an average joe on the street...
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See the First Two Episodes of Chipotle's Weekly, Minute-Long Snapchat Show
Is Chipotle dishing out some sick stuff? This time, the burrito chain sincerely hopes so. Chipotle's image has taken a beating all year, what with E. coli and norovirus outbreaks and the indictment of...
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This Coffee Is So Black, It's Being Marketed and Sold Through the Darknet
Need a fix? The darknet's got whatever you need. Even coffee. The Chernyi Cooperative is claiming the dubious title of "first legal product advertisement on the darknet." It's selling its Chernyi...
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The North Face Surprises Shoppers With a Free Jacket, but They Have to...
The North Face is all about fun stunts in Korea, where it regularly gives shoppers unexpected surprises—and films them for videos that, as often as not, go viral. The most famous one was in 2014, when...
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Teams From Deutsch and Grey Won the First YouTube Creative Hack With These...
Seven hours might not seem like much time for two people to conceive and produce three video ads of anything resembling decent strategic quality. But if the spots are short enough, and the creatives...
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Burger King Dressed Up as the Ghost of McDonald's in This Scary Good...
Now this is a flame-broiled burn. A Burger King location in Queens, New York, has a lock on best restaurant Halloween costume of 2016 after it dressed up as the ghost of McDonald's—covering itself in...
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This Remarkable VR Film About Going Blind Is Hailed as the Format's Most...
This summer, the Sundance Film Festival hosted the premiere of Notes on Blindness. It's a film about John Hull, a theologian who spent 16 years chronicling his degenerative blindness in an audio...
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Ad of the Day: Secret's Latest Stress Test Has a Transgender Woman in a Pinch...
Becoming a woman is hard. There's that whole awkward adolescence, then the long canyon of negotiating space—with men, in careers, with other women. It takes a while to know who you are, to figure out...
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Documentary Follows an Agency Copywriter Into the Wild, With Only Client...
Remember that time Roundhouse sent a copywriter into the wilderness for a week, with nothing but client brands to keep him alive? Well, the Portland, Ore., agency just released the documentary. In...
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Denmark Rolls Its Eyes at the U.S. Election With This Hilarious Anti-Trump...
The anti-Trump outdoor advertising rolls on—even overseas. We've seen a ton of Donald-bashing outdoor ads in the U.S. (from the Nuisance Committee to Wieden + Kennedy to those rogue NYC bus-shelter...
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Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man May Be Different, but the Ads Aren't So Much
Dos Equis is out with its first full commercial featuring its new Most Interesting Man in the World. And he looks, perhaps unsurprisingly, like a rugged twist on a dazzling young Heineken guy. The...
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Makers of the Famous 'Dear Brother' Johnnie Walker Spec Ad Just Made a Volvo...
Death becomes them. Filmmakers Daniel Titz and Dorian Lebherz came to prominence last year with the breathtaking "Dear Brother" spec ad for Johnnie Walker. That spot, with 7 million views across all...
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Ad of the Day: Andy Daly Brilliantly Reads 3.5 Hours of Real Insults About...
What happens when you mix mean tweets, improv comedy, political satire and user-generated content? This new ultra-long-form ad from scotch brand Laphroaig that's so entertaining, you might actually...
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The World Wildlife Fund Made These Creepy Halloween Masks of Environmental...
On Halloween, our greatest fears become playthings, cheeky options for dress-up and candy. But who's seriously afraid of vampires, zombies and werewolves anymore? Our fears have changed. And the...
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