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Hot Fashion Models Are Recruited for 'Sexy' Ad, but Then Things Get Really...
Attractive models are great at being sexy in commercials—until the dialogue on the cue cards starts getting super weird and unsexy. Have a look at this video without spoilers, then scroll down for...
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'Marketing: The Musical' Thanks You for Being Such a Stupid, Sheeplike Slave...
Hey, fellow morons. Just wanted to let you know the marketers are on to us. "People want to want things. Consumers need you to go," says the Canadian Marketing Association's invitation to its 2014...
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Ad of the Day: It Wouldn't Be Mother's Day Without P&G Making You Weep
Procter & Gamble, the self-described "Proud sponsor of moms," always has something special planned for Mother's Day. Last year, it was the spot with Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Maria Shriver. This...
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Perfect Match: Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Lonely...
It's such a great, simple idea: Young Brazilians want to learn English. Elderly Americans living in retirement homes just want someone to talk to. Why not connect them? FCB Brazil did just that with...
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Huffy Bikes Go From Boys to Mom
At the dawn of the 1970s, the Huffy Corporation (which made gas station equipment before turning to bicycles in 1934) was losing air from its tires. Cheap bikes manufactured in factories overseas had...
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The Girl in This Clean-Water PSA Can't Cry, but Not Because She Isn't...
Water Is Life and DDB New York's latest spot is, like much of their other work, heartbreaking. The ad focuses on the struggles of a young girl born in the slums of India, and does not pull its...
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Sorry, but Celebrities Don't Make Your Ad More Shareable
What do Bob Dylan, Ellen DeGeneres, Stephen Colbert, the Muppets, U2 and the cast of the '90s sitcom Full House have in common? They all starred in Super Bowl commercials this year, and none of them...
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This Ad Has No Respect for Personal Space, but at Least Honda Does
How do you sell a car to people who live in a city with plenty of transportation options? Simple. Offer them personal space. From there, it's cake. This new ad for Honda's City vehicle by Leo...
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Ad of the Day: Sauza Tequila Lassos Another Hunk, and This Time He's a Cowboy
The sensitive hunk and the hunky cowboy are two cornerstones of American advertising. Combined, they form the ultimate housewife fantasy: a man who will rescue you from the dangers of the Wild West...
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Christie's, the Auction House, Actually Made an Ad That Doesn't Smell 250...
Auction house Christie's may be celebrating its 250th birthday in 2016, but it's trying to seem more youthful in this promo for a contemporary art sale happening this Monday.From the Christie's...
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Old Spice Lets Its Fingers Do the Walking in Real-Time Twitter Campaign
Idle hands are the devil's playthings, and those hands look particularly evil when they have 14 fingers or the heads of chickens. Earlier today, Old Spice posed a simple question on Twitter: How many...
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Ad of the Day: Cadillac, Spike Lee Tell Teddy Bridgewater's Touching Mother's...
When Teddy Bridgewater was 9 years old, he promised his mother Rose that when he made it to the NFL, he would buy her a pink Cadillac Escalade. The first part of Bridgewater's dream came true on...
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GE Travels the World to Show the Very Human Side of Its Cutting-Edge Tech
GE generally does a good job of telling stories around technology that's diverse and specialized. A new collection of two-minute spots from BBDO New York is no exception. There are three videos in the...
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Instagram Ads Are Getting Instant Recall
Instagram ads, just six months old and limited to a select group of 15 brands, are already showing promising results, according to exclusive data given to Adweek by the social photo-sharing site....
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Coke Plays Peacemaker in Another War: the Milan Soccer Rivalry
Here's an amusing bit of mischief. Coca-Cola brought together fans on both sides of one of soccer's fiercest rivalries by making them give each other sodas."Fair Play Machines," a campaign from McCann...
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Ad of the Day: Heineken Unlocks the Secrets of a City in Latest Blockbuster
For Heineken's peripatetic "Man of the World," it's time for a staycation. In this new spot from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam—the seventh film in "The Legends" series—the charming, resourceful and...
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Kevin Bacon's Brother Michael Does Ads for Turkey Bacon in Union of Less...
Brad Pitt's brother did it. Now it's Kevin Bacon's brother's turn. Michael Bacon, the less famous of the Bacon brothers—though not entirely unknown, as he is one-half of The Bacon Brothers, the...
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Honda Creates Bottled Water Brand in Honor of Vehicle That Emits Only...
The compressed hydrogen-powered Honda FCX runs so clean, its exhaust contains only water—and it's so clean, it's drinkable. To celebrate this, Honda Australia and Leo Burnett Melbourne came up with a...
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'You Are What You Share' Video Captures the Sheer Stupidity of Social Media
State.com has set all our hilarious social media frustrations to classical music. Along with all having to look at what other people care about, which turns out is never what you care about, there’s...
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Campaign to Plant More Trees in NYC Begins by Tagging Everything That Isn't One
OK, it's time to play "Tree, Not a Tree." New York City has so few trees that people there might have forgotten what a tree is, exactly. At least, that's the tongue-in-cheek idea behind the New York...
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