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Why This Agency Just Painted Over a Beautiful Lobby Mural That Took 7 Years...
Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo has had an interesting art piece hanging in its lobby since opening in 2008. It started out as a completely white canvas, and over the years the agency encouraged...
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Condom Advertising Gets Positively Prehistoric With Epic Depiction of...
"Dinosaur sex, dinosaur sex/You make me feel like a Tyrannosaurus Rex." Forgotten U.K. post-punk band Family Fodder sang those lines way back in 1981, and now they've come to full and terrifying CGI...
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LGBTQ Posters in Toronto Schools Send Messages of Love in the Flash of a...
The climate in which kids are growing up is changing dramatically, but schools remain some of the toughest environments to endure when you're marked as different. Thankfully, there's more support now...
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Philly Police Channel Drake's 'Hotline Bling' for Their Latest Bizarre PSA
Philadelphia police are quickly becoming the authorities on oddly compelling viral PSAs. First, they generated national attention with a bizarre revival of a Saved by the Bell drug PSA from 1991. Now,...
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10 Terribly Misguided Old Drug Ads Revised With Modern Medical Information
Imagine peppy 19th and early 20th century ads for over-the-counter drug products containing cocaine and heroin, rewritten with today's medical knowledge. DrugAbuse.com, a resource for addiction...
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Moleskine Asks You to Handwrite All Your Tweets on Saturday for National...
This Saturday, Jan. 23, is the birthday of Founding Father and Declaration of Independence-signer John Hancock. And to celebrate, people all over the country will get arrested for smuggling. No,...
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Nespresso Steams (and Sues) Over Rival Coffee Brand's Clooney Clone
Two coffee brands are fighting over George Clooney. Then again, who wouldn't? Nespresso, which has employed Clooney as its pitchman in international markets since 2006 and launched a U.S. ad featuring...
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Diet Dr Pepper's Lil' Sweet Is Back, and Sweet-Talking All Over Your House,...
Diet Dr Pepper's fabulously dressed miniature singing mascot is back for a second round of commercials ... and they're still pretty sweet. Justin Guarini, best known as the runner-up in the first...
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U.S. Bank's New Ads Imagine the Future, Thanks to Some Clever Visual Tricks
U.S. Bank's new campaign from Carmichael Lynch leaves a lot to the imagination. For example, in "New House," a young couple tour their dream home ... which hasn't been built yet. Most of the story...
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'We All Need the D,' Says Ad Campaign That Obviously Doesn't Know What 'the...
You probably already knew this, but there's an essential vitamin that promotes bone growth. It's called Vitamin D. Up in Canada, Yukon's Health and Human Services wanted to spread this information...
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Pro-Breastfeeding Ads Come With Produce-Style Freshness Stickers for Your...
Breasts and supermarket produce go well together in advertising lately. A few month ago, we saw melons in a grocery store made up to look like breasts for a breast cancer awareness campaign. Now,...
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Why Jamie Foxx and Jason Biggs Are Chatting With DirecTV's 'Settler' Guy on...
As the preferred social platform for griping about #firstworldproblems, Twitter is the next logical destination for DirecTV's "Settlers" campaign, which is all about accepting a less-than-perfect life...
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Agency Vows to Stop Objectifying Women in a Great Video Mocking Truly...
One agency is promising to quit one of advertising's worst habits—objectifying women. Manhattan-based Badger & Winters is making its case with a new video, titled "We Are #WomenNotObjects." The...
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This Ad Copywriter Is Raising Money to Run an Anti-Trump Attack Ad in New...
Trump would date his daughter!Trump's son likes hunting!Trump says he could shoot a man and still win! We're sick of seeing Trump in our Facebook feeds. Thankfully, we aren't alone: Louis Wittig, a...
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Assemble Your Own Artistic Masterpiece With Ikea's New Adult Coloring Book
If you like assembling Ikea furniture, you'll love coloring in Ikea coloring books. Ikea just released an adult coloring book sure to appeal to the fast-growing segment of adults who believe coloring...
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Abe Vigoda Did It All in Advertising, From a Live 1951 TV Spot to the 2010...
Not many actors can boast a career spanning seven decades, but Abe Vigoda—who died Tuesday at age 94—was one of them. And his commercial career was just as long, beginning not long after the advent of...
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This Art Director Built an Igloo in His Backyard in Brooklyn and Listed It on...
Looking for a cute little "Boutique Winter Igloo for 2" that you can rent on Airbnb for a few nights of chilly bliss? This one in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, sounds awesome:"Dripping with ingenuity and...
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Giant Ben Franklin and Giant Cheesesteak Battle in Inexplicably Weird Philly...
The City of Brotherly Love looks hip, inviting and postcard-perfect in a scenic new tourism ad ... that is, until a skyscraper-size Benjamin Franklin starts pounding the pavement to do Godzilla-style...
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Can Bissell Clean Up This Year's Puppy Bowl, Which Promises to Make a Giant...
What's just as important to advertisers as the Super Bowl? The Puppy Bowl, of course. The Animal Planet event has now run for 11 "seasons," and this year's sponsors include Bissell, Geico, Dairy...
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Fiber One Returns with a Few Uncomfortably Irregular Constipation Scenarios
Saatchi & Saatchi is getting awfully regular at crafting goofy, effective spots for Fiber One. Following its pregnant man and rubber biscuit ads from last year, the New York agency has squeezed...
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