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Mark Sanford Is Latest Victim of an AshleyMadison Billboard Attack
AshleyMadison.com doesn't get political unless there's a sex scandal to exploit, so of course they jumped all over Mark Sanford. Wait, that came out wrong. The extramarital dating website is endorsing...
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Masked Warriors Primp and Pose in Teaser Trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts
There are knights in armor, Aztec warriors, ninjas, samurai and special ops commandos outside. There goes the neighborhood! This trailer by 72andSunny (and director Mark Romanek from Anonymous...
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Little Debbie's Logo Change Is So Subtle, It Becomes a Spot the Difference Game
Little Debbie did not consult with Gap,JCPenney or any other noted logo overhaulers before updating its own logo—the first tweak to the design since 1985. The change is remarkably subtle, so much so...
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Ad of the Day: Lexus
There's nothing that car companies seem to love more than showing off their creativity by producing short films that have practically nothing to do with their actual products. Such is the case with...
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Bra Company Tries to Reclaim the Acronym MILF for Mother's Day
Adrants draws our attention to this odd campaign by True&Co, an online bra outfitter. True&Co is trying to reclaim the pejorative acronym MILF. Specifically, they'd like to turn "Mom I'd like...
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Two Friends Are Not Quite Who They Appear in Touching British Juice Ad
I'll admit to not seeing the twist ending coming in this evocative new spot by BBH London for fruit-drink brand Robinsons. You could quibble with the end lines, perhaps—and here's why—but that's...
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Ad of the Day: Samsung
Some smartphones are smarter than other smartphones," Samsung proclaims in this new 90-second spot, which aired Thursday night on Conan. But mostly, some smartphones appear to be younger than other...
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PETA Looking to Spook Horse Racing Fans With This Ad at the Kentucky Derby
The 139th Kentucky Derby takes place at Churchill Downs on Saturday. The spectacle is as much a soiree and fashion occasion as it is a prestigious horse race. Thousands will flock to the grounds in...
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Nicole Kidman Is Gloriously Happy in First U.S. Ads for Australian Multivitamins
Nicole Kidman frolics around in some fields, giggles a lot and just generally looks happy and healthy in her first ad campaign for Swisse Wellness, Australia's No. 1 multivitamin brand. And this isn't...
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Ad for My First Rifle, Used to Kill 2-Year-Old, Is Way Too Much Like Any...
The problem with this 30-second spot for Crickett's My First Rifle .22-caliber single-shot gun is that it basically markets it as a toy. We see a school-age boy wide-eyed with excitement when he gets...
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Diet Coke Invents World's Thinnest Vending Machine, So You Can Feel Even...
Oh, hey there, ladies. Feeling fat? Of course you are. Don't worry. I've got some advice. Don't get sugary, fattening soda from that fat, tubby vending machine over there. Get delicious, trimming diet...
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Child-Abuse Ad Uses Lenticular Printing to Send Kids a Secret Message That...
The ANAR Foundation, a Spanish child-advocacy organization, used lenticular printing in this powerful outdoor ad to send different messages to children and adults. Anyone under about 4-foot-3 sees...
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Ad of the Day: Target
If you build it, they will shop. That is Target's thinking, as the retailer unveiled a mind-boggling project on Monday—a life-size, two-story dollhouse in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall...
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A Philips Sonicare Ad That Was 5,000 Years in the Making
IDEA: You're an intelligent, civilized human who enjoys all the efficiencies of modern life. So why do you use knuckledragging technology to clean your teeth? That's Philips Sonicare's question to its...
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Google Celebrates Moms With Poignant Ad for Mother's Day
Google traditionally does a special Google Doodle for Mother's Day. This year, it's adding another gift—the commercial below from creative agency Whirled, saluting moms for everything they do. As...
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Dove Magazine Ad Uses Carbon Paper to Show How Abusive Words Don't Fade
The Dove Self Esteem Project and agency Torke+CC in Lisbon, Portugal, placed an ad (and a pen) in a parenting magazine and asked adults to write down the worst thing they remembered being called as a...
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Finlandia Creates Epic World 'Where Cheese Reigns' and Oddballs Abound
Finlandia cheese may come from Finland, but its new ad campaign from Barton F. Graf 9000 takes a detour through Flanders with its comical paintings of a land "where cheese reigns" and some strange...
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Susie Essman Celebrates Mother's Day by Clenching Her Snapdragon for Virgin...
Any Mother's Day commercial with Susie Essman is not going to be warm and fuzzy. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star appears in the new online video below for Virgin Mobile urging young adults to give their...
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Everyone Wins in Audi's Awesomely Odd Spock vs. Spock Ad With Zachary Quinto...
A "Spock vs. Spock" ad should, when considered logically, be a complete nerdfest packed with inside jokes only Star Trek superfans would appreciate. Instead, Audi's new spot, "The Challenge," is a...
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YouTube's 10 Most-Watched Ads in April
It's shaping up to be an astonishing spring for ads on YouTube. In March, Pepsi MAX's Jeff Gordon spot screeched its way to 33 million views, or about 13 million more than 2012's most-watched spot did...
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