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Grey Crafts Hard-Hitting Ads for Gun Control Across Two Different Campaigns
A guy named Ed stalks past the glum cubicles of a nondescript office suite, raises his gun and fires a single shot at a middle-aged managerial type, narrowly missing his target. He then begins the...
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Kool-Aid Man Gets a Makeover, Going All-CGI and Showing Off His Fabulous...
The world's most famous spokespitcher, the Kool-Aid Man, just got a glassy makeover to help promote the brand's new sugar-free liquid drink mix. The Kool-Aid Man, who's been around since 1954, was...
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New York Sports Clubs Urges Kim Jong-un to Blow Off Steam by Exercising
North Korean strongman lardass Kim Jong-un should take some advice from New York Sports Clubs: "Exercise reduces aggression and makes you more attractive to others. Join today." The gym franchise,...
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This New Zealand Billboard Always Predicts the Local Weather With 100 Percent...
MetService.com, a weather site in New Zealand, recently put up this empty (but nonetheless branded!) billboard frame in Auckland, through which it offered "real-time weather reports." Ha. As a...
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CC Sabathia Is Dwarfed by Scott Van Pelt in ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad
CC Sabathia is a large man, but he's not technically wearing a fat suit. That latter fact—and not just his slimming New York Yankee pinstripes—gives Sabathia the advantage over the horizontally...
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Ad of the Day: Ikea
Gno one really gnows how hard it is to make this kind of ad. It's gnot an easy task, obviously, but in my experience, almost gnothing can keep a viewer's attention on a YouTube ad for more than a...
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Agency to Prospective Clients: Call Us or We'll Send a Drunken Zombie After You
This self-promotional clip from The Ungar Group, a boutique agency in Chicago, shows what might happen if you crossed Mad Men with The Walking Dead. You'd get a dapper, cigar-smoking, brandy-sipping,...
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LG Monitors Are So Lifelike, They'll Stop You From Urinating Properly
LG is making a splash with bathroom humor in its latest piece of prankvertising. Marketing shop SuperHeroes installed ultra-wide LG IPS 21:9 monitors at eye level above urinals in a men's room at...
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Ad of the Day: New Era
April 15 is best known as the date for everyone's least favorite federal obligation. But it also marks a significantly more upbeat occasion—the anniversary of Jackie Robinson's opening day with the...
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mOcean Has a New Consumer Brands Unit
SpecsWho (l. to r.) Mike Braue, director of client services, consumer brands; Michael McIntyre, president; Christianne Brooks, group creative director; and Kevin Aratari, evp, entertainmentWhat...
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Yet Another Car Ad Depicts Failed Suicide to Promote Clean Emissions
A disproportionate number of car ads—usually unapproved, never officially released, sometimes ultimately revealed as hoaxes—have focused on suicide. Inhaling car-exhaust fumes has been the most...
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Ad of the Day: Evian
Evian's babies are back, and they look more familiar than usual. The infants, introduced by BETC Paris in 1998 with the beloved French spot "Water Babies," and made famous a decade later by the global...
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Creepy Progressive Ad Shows Human Beings Compulsively Sucking on a Windshield
Progressive takes a swipe at "rate suckers" in this odd spot depicting bad drivers who cause price increases for everyone else as zombies who leap onto your car and suck on its surfaces with their...
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5 Reasons Why Some Critics Are Hating on Dove's Real Beauty Sketches Video
Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" quickly became a viral phenomenon. But as it blazed past 1 million views on YouTube, the video has racked up its fair share of critics, too. The Ogilvy-produced clip,...
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Campbell Ewald's Chief Marketer Can't Talk About Cadillac
SpecsWho Barbara YollesNew gig CMO, Campbell EwaldOld gig chief growth officer, North America, McCannAge 46What has been your impact on Campbell Ewald since you started last year? Whenever client...
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One Small Schtup for Man, One Giant Leap for Axe's Astronaut Campaign
Dude's got the right stuff! Talk about a payload specialist! No "Houston, we've got a problem" for this rocket jockey! Etc.! BBH London and Blink director Tom Tagholm score with its latest,...
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Anti-Anorexia Ads Imagine If Real Women Looked Like Fashion Illustrations
In keeping with current trends, Brazilian modeling agency Star Models is using illustrations to address body image issues. But its effort is more grim and cautionary than Dove's hotly debatedReal...
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Jesus Was the 'Original Hipster,' Down to His Grubby Converse Sneakers, Say...
Every now and then, you get a provocative church ad, like Florida's "Come get hammered" billboard or pretty much anything New Zealand's St. Matthew-in-the-City puts out. Catholic ads are typically...
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Nike Honors and Challenges Kobe Bryant in Inspirational New Ad
Nike placed this ad in Sunday's Los Angeles Times (and in social media), honoring Kobe Bryant following his season-ending injury. It's classic Nike—simple, rhythmic, inspirational. It's also sly. It...
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Old Spice Rolls Out World's First Scratch-and-Sniff Banner Ad
More goofiness from Old Spice and Wieden + Kennedy—a scratch-and-sniff banner ad, which of course they're calling the world's first. It's running over on The Onion's sports section. Clicking on it...
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