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Netflix Just Invented Socks That Pause Your Show If You Fall Asleep
Netflix may have revolutionized how we watch TV, but it's not stopping there.Working again with Pittsburgh-based agency Deeplocal, the streaming company just released another do-it-yourself invention....
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Pitch Agency's Year-End Cookies Are a Tasty Way to Test Your Knowledge of 2015
Is there a way to make the bile-spewing Donald Trump a little more, well, palatable? Turn him into a dessert item, perhaps. Los Angeles-based Pitch Agency isn't actually trying to win anyone over...
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Australia's 'Stoner Sloth' Anti-Marijuana Campaign Is an Instant and Classic...
There's a long and not-very-proud tradition of anti-drug advertising that gets ridiculed for missing the mark with young audiences. Australia's New South Wales government just added a classic new...
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Was Steve Harvey's Miss Universe Flub Staged? If Not, It Should Have Been
Steve Harvey and Miss Universe—two people you likely weren't thinking about Sunday afternoon—abruptly became the Internet's top topics Sunday evening. Harvey spectacularly botched the announcement of...
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Hoverboards Are Explosive, but Not in a Good Way, in SNL's Fake Ad
Nostalgic 1990s aesthetics guide this SNL parody ad for hoverboards, which are more like those dorky Segway/unicycle hybrids you see tech guys riding sometimes instead of Marty McFly-style boards....
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If You're Having as Much Fun on Vacation as the Kid in This Ad, You're Doing...
When you book your vacation through Thomas Cook, it'll be so good that you'll be dancing like a madman. That, at least, is the premise of a new ad by Albion London for the U.K. travel agency. The...
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Pizza Hut Just Made a Cinemagraph TV Ad, and It's Oddly Hypnotic
We've written a lot about cinemagraphs, those mostly still photos that are animated by a small amount of video, producing an image that in some ways is more captivating that either photo or video...
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Everyone Is a Finger in Droga5's Zany New Ad for Android
Visual synecdoche rules in Droga5's new Android spot, in which fingers dressed up as caricatures stand in for consumers. There's a hitchhiker finger in a Hawaiian shirt, and a subway commuter with a...
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Christoph Waltz Tells James Corden the Epic Story of a Single (Real) Clash of...
Barton F. Graf 9000 just rolled out a new campaign for the Supercell game Clash of Clans that's got an interesting mix of elements—namely, an unexpected celebrity pairing plus a new focus on real,...
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Dollar Shave Club's Holiday Ads Show the Few People Who Wouldn't Want a...
For its holiday campaign this year, Dollar Shave Club takes an approach that recalls adam&eveDDB's Harvey Nichols work, rolling out amusing portraits of people who actually wouldn't be too happy...
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AT&T Is Pulling Its Retail Ads This Holiday to Run This One Instead
AT&T finds itself in a bit of a bind at the holidays. Yes, it's a mobile-first company, but at this time of year, it can be irritating for families when kids spend all day on their phones. To...
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Cards Against Humanity Threatens to Cut a Picasso Into 150,000 Pieces This...
Cards Against Humanity recently bought a Picasso. And it's now asking 150,000 people to vote whether to donate it to a museum or laser-cut it into 150,000 pieces. And I'm one of those people. Which...
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Taco Joint Turns Security Footage of a Burglary Into an Ad About 3 Really...
Here's another entry for the security-cam ad file: In what could perhaps pass for a case study on the power of storytelling, a Las Vegas taco restaurant turned footage of a real late-night burglary...
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Saatchi & Saatchi Defends Its Much-Ridiculed 'Stoner Sloth' Anti-Marijuana Ads
Amid the chorus of derision aimed at Australia's "Stoner Sloth" anti-marijuana ads, one group still wholeheartedly believes in the campaign—the agency behind it, Saatchi & Saatchi."The videos have...
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Watch Motörhead's Lemmy Slow Down 'Ace of Spades' for a Kronenbourg Beer Ad
Metalheads worldwide are quoting Nietszche in the wake of Motörhead singer/bassist Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister's death on Monday, but some may not have noticed he was in a Kronenbourg 1664 ad back in 2010....
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Subway Returns to a Pre-Jared Era of Innocence in First BBDO Campaign
You might not have known this, but Subway practically invented fresh food. BBDO has unveiled its first campaign for the sandwich chain. The post-Jared Fogle approach features a wholesome,...
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Can This Existentially Distressed Family of Bears Convince You to Go on...
When life gets unbearable, you need an escape claws. If you're thinking such silly wordplay heralds a campaign with ursine imagery, you're right. In "Bears," a delightful minute-long TV spot touting...
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GoPro's Year-in-Review Ad Is Action Packed with Sports, Kids and at Least One...
GoPro's Year in Review video for 2015, comprised of footage shot entirely on its Hero4 camera, features a little bit of everything: snowboarding, skateboarding, skydiving, rugby, people jumping in...
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Wired Interviews Lex Luthor in Fiendishly Fun Escalation of Comic-Book Movie...
Comic books are about world-building. The marketing for film adaptations of comics follows the same format: It cultivates an ever-expanding universe, one even populated with fictional advertising for...
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Millennials Don't Care If You Don't Get Them, Samsung Says in Its Latest Grab...
Samsung is looking to cozy up with the youths by proving it gets what it means to be a millennial ... and that it's cool with it. A new commercial from R/GA for the Galaxy A series of phones opens on...
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