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First Mover: Ryan Seacrest
Specs Age 38New gig Founder of Seacrest Global Group, majority owner of events marketing agency Civic Entertainment GroupContinuing gig Host of American IdolIn addition to hosting American Idol, doing...
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The Spot: Oh, Baby
IDEA: The E*Trade baby isn't known as a world traveler. All that changed Sunday in the company's high-energy Super Bowl spot, in which the talking toddler showed what you could do with the 401(k)...
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Ad of the Day: Adobe
A talking chimp and talking horse are the perfect Super Bowl ad characters. But that doesn't mean they have any respect for those who shell out a fortune for 30 seconds of TV time. Adobe released this...
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Land Rover Imagines an Earth Made Entirely of Land Rovers
Here's something you don't see every day: A print ad that imagines what the world map would look like if every land mass and topographical feature were shaped like the Land Rover Defender. The answer...
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Jell-O Rubs Pudding in the Wound for 49ers Fans
Hey, San Francisco, are you ready for some PUDDING?! No, really, are you? Because Kraft's Jell-O Pudding plans to send thousands of free cups of the stuff your way today as a consolation prize in the...
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Giant Rotting Fingers Count Down to Walking Dead's Return
Toronto's Union Station has been graced by this cool "zombie hands" installation for The Walking Dead that loses a finger every day until this Sunday, when Season 3 returns to the air. I wonder who's...
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Winning the New York Lottery Makes You Exactly as Funny as Andy Richter
Two fairly amusing New York Lottery commercials from DDB New York illustrate just what it means to be "that kind of rich." In one spot, a lottery millionaire spends big bucks on elaborate effects to...
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Clean, Wood-Seeking Beaver Would Like You to Try These 'Intimate Wipes'
Playtex has a new product called "Fresh + Sexy" intimate wipes, designed for men and women to freshen up before and after sex. New ads for the product, from Grey in New York, have a hard time...
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Ad of the Day: Herbaria Tea
This new spot for the latest game in EA's Dead Space series really captures the visceral horror of the video-game franchise's sickest, most disgusting … wait, hold on. I'm sorry, this is an ad for...
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David Beckham Sprints Around in His Undies for Guy Ritchie and H&M
H&M, which used to pimp clothes from Madonna, has now hired her ex, Guy Ritchie, to film this spot for the David Beckham Bodywear collection. Of course, it stars Beckham, who, though a series of...
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Perspective: Bowl Game
If you could peer into the cupboards of every U.S. household, you’d find Campbell’s soup in 100 million of them (that’s 80 percent, by the way). Want that picture on a per-can basis? Each year...
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Go Ahead and Play With Your Food, as Long as Your Food Is Bugles
"It's Bugles! It's Bugles! The game that you can eat!" After watching these retro-minimalist commercials for General Mills's Bugles from Cossette in Toronto (and Untitled Films director Curtis...
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Nina Agdal Makes Love to a Cod Fish Sandwich in Carl's Jr. Ad
One of these days, Carl's Jr. may go back to selling food rather than women. But until then, there are plenty more glistening, jiggling body parts to show in extreme close-up, and more off-puttingly...
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This Sports Drink Doesn't Suck, but Does Its Commercial?
This DIY commercial for Skratch Labs, a self-described "active nourishment company" that makes all-natural sports drinks, is definitely going for an off-the-cuff, Dollar Shave Club vibe. Not sure it...
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Ad of the Day: Qualcomm
Qualcomm may be one of the world's main suppliers for smartphones and tablets, but few people recognize the brand behind the processor chips used in so many of their favorite mobile devices. To grab...
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Portrait: NSG/SWAT
SpecsWho (l. to r.) Partners Troy Lumpkin, creative director; Richard Kirshenbaum, chief creative officer; and Miles Skinner, creative directorWhat Creative boutiqueWhere Near their TriBeCa...
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Dogs Can't Get Enough of Their Subarus in Brand's Latest Ads
Subaru of America is launching a new installment of its "Dog tested. Dog approved" campaign via Carmichael Lynch, so let's get one thing out of the way straight off. Awww, they're so cuuuuute!...
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Taco Bell Gives Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Big Poppa' the Spanish Treatment, Too
By its own admission, Taco Bell agency Deutsch in Los Angeles used Google Translate to put together Spanish lyrics for the version of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" in this ad—much as it did with...
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Ad of the Day: Diet Coke
Sartorial trends come and go, but in the fashion world, Diet Coke has always been a favorite. (In fact, it's the only liquid that legendary Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld will deign to ingest.) In...
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Ad of the Day: Lurpak
The world is going to hell in a hurry. But at least we've got our comfort food, which has sustained us for millennia—all cooked with rich, quality butter. That's the reassurance offered by Wieden +...
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