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Nick Offerman Does a Glorious Stachedance to 'What a Feeling' from Flashdance
Halfway through Movember, Nick Offerman's mustache is so excited to be growing uncontrollably that it breaks into song and dance in this crazy-weird new spot from Made Man. For some reason, Offerman's...
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Ad of the Day: Kmart Finds a Completely Evil Way to Push Layaway Program
Each year, as the holidays draw near, you can depend on Kmart to start rolling out ads for its reserve-now, pay-incrementally layaway program. (In fact, Kmart couldn't even wait for the official start...
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Google Does It Again With Another Huge Tearjerker of an Ad From India
When the 1947 India-Pakistan partition ripped the two nations apart, Baldev was forced to relocate overnight, leaving behind his best friend Yusuf. Before that, they had been inseparable, flying kites...
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Baileys Updates The Nutcracker in Star-Studded Christmas Ad
Baileys becomes the latest big-name marketer to place an epic holiday spot under the tree with BBH London's modern take on Tchaikovsky's seasonal ballet The Nutcracker. We're treated to a Candyland...
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Leo DiCaprio, Bruce Dern, Calvin & Hobbes in This Week's Movie Trailer Mashup...
Perhaps Leo DiCaprio has been too busy. Too many films. Cigarettes. Models. His ubiquity and inflexible physiognomy appear to have inspired industrial-scale quantities of online waggery querying why...
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Jamaica Tourism's Giant Stress Ball in Times Square Helps New Yorkers Relax
New York is a stressful place, and Times Square isn't the most soothing of its neighborhoods. But thankfully, Draftfcb New York and the Jamaica Tourist Board recently plunked down an enormous stress...
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How Olivier François Is Fixing Fiat for Its Return to America
In 2011, as Fiat struggled to reestablish itself in America after a near three-decade absence from the market, the Italian auto brand didn’t have to call some guy named “Tony” to pop the hood. Olivier...
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Kohl's Christmas Ad Warms Hearts With a Tender Twist
Man, this holiday season is all about forcing me to confront my unfair assumptions. Kohl's delivers with an ad that starts out with a photogenic couple decking out an apartment with lights, a tree and...
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Kmart Hunks Play 'Jingle Bells' With Their Junk in Crazy Christmas Ad
And you thought the NBA guys were talented for playing "Jingle Bells" via well-timed three-pointers. Check out the Kmart studs in the retailer's crazy Christmas cross-promotion with Joe Boxer via...
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Pet Food Maker Gives Away 'Collar Cams' to Document Your Dog's Day
There will be no question about who rummaged through the trash, shredded the sofa or butt-scooted across the carpet. The pet cam will tell all. But that's not really the purpose of this lightweight...
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Test Your Online Endurance With Dodge Durango's Punishing 'Hands on Ron...
Taking its cues from the great 1997 documentary Hands on a Hardbody, Dodge and Wieden + Kennedy will launch a contest Tuesday called Hands on Ron Burgundy—an online test of endurance that will feature...
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Ad of the Day: Sainsbury's 'Christmas in a Day' Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes
Are you ready for a crowdsourced Christmas ad? Yes, it sounds like a bad idea. But this British spot for grocery chain Sainbury's from AMV BBDO—actually a trailer for a longer film, coming at the end...
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Rob Ford Flawlessly Replaces Van Damme in Epic Split Parody
Sometimes, the best parodies are the most subtle. Case in point: This truly impressive face dub of disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford onto the body of Jean-Claude Van Damme in his "Epic Split" ad for...
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Exploding Chipmunks Bloodily Remind You of the Dangers of Dodgy Electronics
Here's one for the file on unexpected PSAs: Exploding chipmunks that warn you against purchasing bootleg electrical goods. U.K. charity Electric Safety Council is using a gruesome, two-minute mock...
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JWT’s Global CEO-in-Waiting Has a Big Task Ahead of Him
Gustavo Martinez will have nearly a year to establish himself at JWT as global president before he succeeds Bob Jeffrey as CEO in 2015. Given the scale of the top job—and the significant challenges...
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Michael Bolton Warms Your Frozen Heart With Song in Honda's Holiday Ads
Honda loves Michael Bolton. Maybe even more than the Bobs, the doofus business consultants from Office Space, who really, really, love Michael Bolton. The 60-year-old pop crooner—who has popped up in...
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How a Speed Demon From a Century Ago Got Hennessy's Heart Racing
IDEA: Can an Englishman who died in 1948 convince American millennials to drink cognac in 2013? Hennessy hopes so. The brand has been urging consumers 21-34 to chase their "Wild Rabbit" (i.e., any...
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UN Women Take Famously Empowering Autocomplete Campaign Into Video
UN Women sparked a global debate last month, surprising even the group itself, when their modest print campaign, The Autocomplete Truth, went viral across the Web. Now, the organization and agency...
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Fun Parody of Gravity Trailer Is Set in That Other Huge, Terrifying Void: an...
Few things are more perilous and panic-inducing than getting separated from your companions in an Ikea—an experience that some young filmmakers have now captured in a perfect parody of the trailer for...
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Ad of the Day: JFK Library Brings the Man's Legacy Vividly to Life 50 Years...
It's understandable that most Americans who were alive on Nov. 22, 1963, remember where they were and what they were doing when they leaned that John F. Kennedy, the nation's 35th president, had been...
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