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Ad of the Day: KFC Takes a Long Ride in the Slowest-Cooked, Fast-Food Ad Ever
Languid tales of southern Americana always make me feel hot and itchy. So, right from the start, I might not be the best audience for BBH London's 60-second "Bus" spot for KFC's slow-cooked,...
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Andrew McCutchen Loves His Lox in SportsCenter Ad for Opening Day
Are you ready for some baseball? ESPN has Major League Baseball's Opening Day covered today with a new "This Is SportsCenter" spot starring the reigning National League MVP, Andrew McCutchen of the...
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Women Spend $300 Billion Per Year on Auto Repair
Despite the fact that women drop a cool $300 billion on auto repair each year (and buy 65 percent of all new cars), the automotive business is still pretty much a boys’ club—except, lately, for Pep...
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Inspirational Makeup Ads Reveal Rather Than Conceal the Women's True Selves
IDEA: Makeup ads have a hard time being authentically inspiring, complicated as they are by issues of vanity and manufactured beauty. But Dermablend Professional is different. The brand's corrective...
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Clocking? Kissing Dad? Glub Glub? YouTube Announces 2014's Next Big Viral Trends
YouTube is going all out for April Fools' Day today, revealing which outlandish trends will go viral for the remainder of the year—based on the premise that YouTube itself masterminds the site's...
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April Fools' Day 2014: The Best of the Brand Hoaxes
Happy April Fools' Day! This year, all the usual brand suspects are joined by a host of tech companies and startups in trying to throw you for a loop—a near impossibility these days. And in an odd...
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Ad of the Day: Nike Launches 'Risk Everything' Campaign Ahead of the 2014...
It's a World Cup year, which means only one thing for soccer's major international stars. They're about to feel an almost unbearable amount of hellish pressure. Nike—which isn't a World Cup sponsor...
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King's Hawaiian Rolls Are So Light and Fluffy, You Can Inhale Them From...
Energy BBDO's new ad for King's Hawaiian bread rolls is sucky, though not in a bad way. The rolls are so light and fluffy, you see, you don't even have to reach for one with your hands—you just...
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Dad Obsessed With Indie Movies Tells His Girl the World's Worst Bedtime Story
From the folks who brought you "Mandible," perhaps the most twisted film-festival promo in history, comes a sequel that's also messed up—if less visually gruesome. RPA and Tool's new spot for the 15th...
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Subaru Gets Trashy With Trailer for Grindhouse-Style Movie
Subaru is going for the lowest common denominator of dudes with this new grindhouse-style trailer for a movie that hopefully will never really exist. The title, The Ride of Her Life, is only slightly...
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Ad of the Day: Coke and Pepsi Storm the Field with Dueling World Cup Campaigns
World Cup fever is heating up fast. Soon you'll need one of the globe's two major soda brands to help you cool down. Following the release of Nike's new soccer ad on Tuesday, Coca-Cola and Pepsi both...
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Self-Storage Company Boxes Up the Year's Most Brain-Melting-est Ads
Thinking of storing your stuff in the cloud? Well, if you aren't sure what the cloud is, Public Storage would like a word. Want to hang on to the perfect scale dollhouse in your backyard? You'd better...
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Sorry, Cats. Cravendale Falls in Love With a Cute but Creepy Cookie
Barry the Biscuit Boy splashes onto the scene in a slam-dunk spot for British dairy Cravendale, a cautionary tale from Wieden + Kennedy in London and production house Blinkink. The heady mix of...
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Jesus Joins Che Guevara, Genghis Khan and More in Online Investment Ads
You wouldn't think Jesus would be too concerned about his investment portfolio these days, but online trading service Kapitall has tapped Him as a spokesman anyway in a campaign featuring...
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Nicole Kidman Loses Her Pants, and About 30 Years, in Jimmy Choo Ad
Hiring celebrities to model for fashion ads and then rendering them unrecognizable is all the rage. Not long ago, we saw a very ambiguous Jennifer Lawrence pose for Dior. Now, Nicole Kidman stuns in...
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These Fashionistas Parlayed Digital Smarts Into a Creative Shop
SpecsWho Co-partners Carol Han (l.) and Alexandra WeissWhat Digitally focused branding agencyWhere New York In 2010, Carol Han and Alexandra Weiss, then working on the still-nascent digital side of...
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Why Blackglama Minks Dumped Their Divas
Advertising impresario Jane Trahey orchestrated successful campaigns for Olivetti typewriters and Hamilton wristwatches, but it took a bunch of mink ranchers trooping through her door before she...
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Ad of the Day: Evian Spins a Familiar Web With a Dancing Baby Spider-Man
Evian has a long history of incorporating creepy CGI babies in its ads, and an equally long history of viewers gobbling it up like it's some variety of highly addictive crack cocaine. Riffing on the...
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Nick Kroll Steals the Stanley Cup in Comedy Short for NBC's NHL Coverage
Nick Kroll really wants to play in the NHL—so badly, he'll steal the Stanley Cup and hold it hostage. At least, that's the premise of this long-form ad for NBC Sports' coverage of the hockey league as...
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Honey Maid Has a Pretty Cool Reply to All the Haters of Its Ultra-Inclusive Ad
Marketers who make ads about inclusive families these days need a battle plan for how to deal with the haters. And it's as much an opportunity as a crisis. It began, of course, with Cheerios, which...
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