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VW's 'Connected Dog' App Lets Your Best Friend Walk Himself, So You Don't...
Volkswagen has been having trouble with cars lately, so it's moved on to dogs. Or so it would appear from this latest prank video from the automaker's Dutch division and ad agency Achtung! You see, VW...
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Sexual Consent Ads Ditch the Metaphors and Go Right to the Talking Cartoon...
A well-received video made the rounds last fall that addressed the issue of sexual consent through a metaphor of drinking tea. Based on copy written by blogger Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess, it...
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Samsung VR Headsets Help Millennials Overcome Their Fears in Persuasive New Ads
Terrified of heights? Try tricking yourself into thinking you're on the roof of a skyscraper, using virtual reality technology—and maybe, with practice, you'll be better equipped to deal with the real...
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College Ad With Couple Kissing in the Library Boosted Applications and Just...
A college recruitment ad that made waves last year for including a scene of a couple making out in a library has been named the best university commercial of the year. Kira Academic, a tech company...
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Reactions to the All-Female Ghostbusters Trailer Prove It'll Be the Most...
Usually, a major movie's first big trailer generates one of two reactions—passionate enthusiasm or shrugging indifference. That's certainly not the case with the new Ghostbusters film. Some,...
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How a Mobile Product Designer at Imgur Suddenly Became the New Old Spice Guy
Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews have had a stranglehold on the title of Old Spice guy in recent years, even battling each other for it. But now, you should really meet Colin Hoell. He's not appearing...
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Friends Strip Down in an American Diner to Plug This French Home-Delivery...
A few years ago here in Paris, people were hard-pressed to find a food delivery service. This changed with the launch of Allo Resto, which enabled Parisians to score delivery from lots of different...
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This Ad Explains Why Everyone in China Might Eventually Grow Very Long Nose Hair
Sometimes, the problem is right under your nose. That's certainly the case in this wacky, well-done anti-pollution PSA from WildAid China and McCann Shanghai. The 90-second spot is set in a...
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Durex Created a Racy Online Art Museum to Get the Chinese Talking About Sex
Concerned that not enough people in China feel comfortable discussing sexuality, condom brand Durex worked with social marketing agency S-Lab to create an online sex museum that broaches the topic in...
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Actresses Read the Real (and Really Sexist) Casting Calls They're Subjected...
If you needed evidence women are still stymied by stereotypes in ads and shows, look no further than this eye-opening and eye-rolling video."Casting Call, The Project" features 18 women reading real...
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Copywriter Launches an 'Agency Sex Quest' Encouraging More Staffers to Sleep...
Working in an ad agency is just like working in any office: There's going to be a bit of what Dr. Freud would have called "unresolved libido." When copywriters, art directors and their teams work so...
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Tituss Burgess From Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Now Has His Own Pinot Noir (Get...
Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the surprisingly upbeat comedy that gave the charming Ellie Kemper a starring role, will return later this spring. But we've already got a treat from the arguably...
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This Fan Edit Makes the New Ghostbusters Trailer 100% Better by Cutting an...
Whether the Ghostbusters reboot trailer left you excited or feeling your childhood was being smothered in feminectoplasm, we can all agree on this: Much of the trailer was pretty lame. There were some...
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SNL Blasts Donald Trump, and His Supporters, With Brutal 'Racists for Trump' Ad
Donald Trump might not be inclined to host Saturday Night Live again anytime soon. Four months, almost to the day, after his much-hyped hosting gig, the NBC comedy show this weekend ripped into the...
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The Bank That Made GAYTMs Has Now Given an Entire Branch a Fabulous Makeover
It's become common for brands of all kinds to show support for the LGBT community. And while efforts from Wells Fargo, Honey Maid and others have garnered headlines—particularly during Pride Month in...
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Boy Comes Out to His Father on McCafé Cup in This Taiwanese Ad, Stirring...
A new, gay-friendly McDonald's McCafé ad in Taiwan has predictably stirred up opposition from local religious groups, who are demanding a boycott. The ad, by Leo Burnett, shows a boy coming out to...
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Interscope Partnered with Giphy to Produce These Sublime GIFs for The 1975's...
For the launch of The 1975's second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, Interscope worked with Giphy's artist community to create a few gorgeous GIFs—a nice...
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ABC and Lexus Team Up for Special VR Mini-Episode of Terror Drama Quantico
ABC and sponsor Lexus are hyping the midseason return of Quantico with the network's first virtual reality experience, which takes viewers inside a specially scripted mini-episode of the terrorism...
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Y&R Targets Art Directors With Recruitment Ads on the Watermarks of Stock Photos
Advertising art directors spend a lot of time on stock photo websites. So, what better place to target them with a recruitment campaign? Y&R Prague did so recently, putting little "Now Hiring"...
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This Agency's New Website Is a Huge, Hilarious Parody of Terrible Agency...
As a rule, agency websites are pretty wretched—full of self-congratulation, jargon, "creative" headshots and pompous meditations on proprietary philosophies and processes. But Zulu Alpha Kilo's is the...
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