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BETC and Canal+ Satisfy Your Craving for More Dwarf Clowns in Advertising
BETC and Canal+ together produced one of the most beloved ads of recent years in "The Bear," a hilarious and impeccably produced spot that won the Film Craft Grand Prix at Cannes in 2012. The French...
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Shop at Burlington, and Never Awkwardly Discuss Your Fashion Sense in Public...
After years of the hard sell, some regional and national retailers are actually trying to build brands. Last month, Men's Warehouse jettisoned its bearded chairman from its advertising (after...
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Posh Spokeswoman Narrates Best Ad Ever for a Stink-Eliminating Toilet Spray
Contradiction is the key to this brilliantly graphic online spot for Poo-Pourri, a toilet spray that eliminates odor. They took a beautiful woman with a refined British accent and gave her a complete...
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Buy the Guardian and Observer, or Your Weekend Will Be a Complete Disaster
BBH London expands its "We Own the Weekend" campaign for the Guardian and Observer's Saturday and Sunday newspapers with a pair of dark-humored spots that focus on the "Tech Monthly" and "Cook"...
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Ad of the Day: Axe Gets Educational With Hair Tutorials for Men
Over the years, Axe has been telling men around the world that smelling a certain way (namely, like a hormone-addled teenage boy doused in pungent drugstore body spray) is a surefire way to attract...
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McDonald's Remakes Classic Jordan-Bird Ad, This Time on the Football Field
McDonald's and Burrell Communications update a classic Super Bowl spot from 1993, pitting Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens and Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers, the opposing quarterbacks...
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Ad of the Day: St. John Ambulance Terrifies You (Again) Into Thinking About...
Few client-agency teams do scare tactics quite as well as St. John Ambulance and BBH London. With their artful yet horrifying set pieces about the importance of knowing first aid, the pair have been...
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Grey's 'Inspired' Ad for Canon Wins 2013 Emmy for Best Commercial
Grey New York and MJZ director Nicolai Fuglsig's "Inspired" spot for Canon won the 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial on Sunday at the 65th Annual Creative Arts Emmys. The win ended a streak...
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Virgin Mobile Makes Its Pitch in 25 YouTube Videos, Which You Scroll Through...
Virgin Mobile has been retraining your brain for a while. Now, it wants to borrow your eyes. In a fun stunt called BlinkWashing from Mother New York and rehabstudio, the mobile carrier makes its sales...
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New Zealand's 'Don't Get Stoned and Drive' Ads Are Curious, Funny and Charming
Some precocious Maori children in New Zealand argue about whose dad is more irresponsible in this curiously amusing PSA about driving while stoned—the latest in a string of such ads from Clemenger...
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Are You a Reckless Idiot Online? There's an App for That
IDEA: Are you a reasonably sensible person offline, only to act naive, stupid or flat-out reckless on the Internet? You're not alone."People have the same password for every device. Some people even...
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Ad of the Day: Volkswagen Breaks Out No. 2 Pencil for Great Homage to A-ha's...
Today in semi-obscure but fantastic source material for ads: A-ha's famous video for "Take on Me" has inspired the fun new Volkswagen spot below by Deutsch L.A. The VW spot, directed by David Shane,...
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Breaking Bad Thanks Cast and Crew in Simple, Great Ad for the Series Finale
Two shows left, bitches! AMC's Breaking Bad airs its last episode on Sept. 29, and the network whipped up this print ad promoting the series finale to thank the cast and crew for their efforts over...
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Apple Gets Its Color Back in This Oozingly Vibrant Spot for the iPhone 5C
Apple has always been all or nothing when it comes to color. "1984" was all doom and gloom with just a flash of red running shorts. "Think Different" was mostly black and white. The TV work, from...
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Watch the Thai Commercial That Has Half the World Sobbing Uncontrollably
Looking for a tear-jerker today? Thai mobile company TrueMove has got you covered with this story of a noodle seller whose generous act toward a young boy with a sick mother brings unexpected rewards...
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It's Been 101 Years, but It's Still Too Soon for Titanic Jokes in Advertising
Even though more than a century has passed since the Titanic sank, it's still too soon to joke about it in ads. Red Bull got in trouble for this ad hinting that the more than 1,500 people who drowned...
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Fly JetBlue and Stop Being a Sad, Pathetic Loser Like This Pigeon
JetBlue Airways is launching a big new ad campaign from Mullen with the theme "Air on the Side of Humanity." But its big star isn't even human—he's a pigeon. The 60-second launch spot is a...
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Dennis Rodman Goes Boom in Pistachios Ad With Fake Kim Jong-un
Keyboard Cat, Snoop, Psy, the Winklevoss twins and Snooki were all in on the joke. Can the same be said for Dennis Rodman and the Prancercise lady? Oh sure, it's just the Wonderful Pistachios campaign...
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Speeding Truck Drives Over Engineer's Head in Latest Scary Stunt for Volvo...
Starring in this risky spot for Volvo Trucks might give Roland Svensson a big head. Luckily, the engineer's head measured only 10 inches high when he was buried up to his neck in the sand and let a...
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The World's Kookiest, Catchiest Anti-Asthma PSAs May Leave You Breathless
Remember the "Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway" song from way back in 2010? How about the theme song from Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the 1990s? Parry Gripp was the songwriter behind the simian parody,...
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