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Dutch Hyundai Ads Continue to Be Totally Inappropriate (NSFW)
Ad agency Fitzroy Amsterdam gets a kick out of making the most provocative Hyundai ads it can. Its latest offering is the bizarre spot below for the Santa Fe, featuring attractive ladies in very...
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Ad.ly Is Incredibly Sorry It Ever Worked With Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen. Even when he loses, he winds up winning. America's favorite cocaine- and tiger-blood-soaked star is the subject of much griping by Walter Delph, the new CEO of social-media marketing...
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Dozens of Sheep Invade New York's Bryant Park for Wool Promotion
Prince Charles's Campaign for Wool is coming to the U.S. for the first time, making its preliminary stop in New York's Bryant Park today. There, 30 sheep are being penned in a 40-by-40-foot plexiglass...
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Kellogg's Pop-Up Store Lets You Pay for Snacks With a Tweet
The exact value of a positive tweet about a brand has been officially pinpointed: It's worth a bag of new Special K chips. At least, that's the going rate at the new Kellogg's Tweet Shop in London—a...
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5 Great Google Commercials to Watch on Its 14th Birthday
You may have seen the cake and candles on Google.com today. That's because it's the company's birthday. Google turns 14 today, and everything about the company—including its advertising—has grown up a...
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The CW Embeds a Live Twitter Feed Inside Its 'EW' Print Ad
To promote its fall lineup, the CW is putting LCD screens running video clips and a live Twitter feed—tweets by and mentions of @CW_Network—in copies of Entertainment Weekly's Oct. 5 issue. This is...
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Anti-Gay Group Sued for Using Gay Couple's Wedding Photo in Attack Ad
Another day, another Republican political campaign running into copyright issues. The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing an anti-gay group—called the Public Advocate of the United States, of all...
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How Not to Look Like a Complete Idiot at Advertising Week
Next week is Advertising Week in New York. The main question for anyone planning to attend is, of course: How can I avoid being exposed for the imbecilic fraud that I am? Luckily, ad agency...
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Samuel L. Jackson Offers Profane Wake-up Call to Obama Backers
Samuel L. Jackson reprises his role from Adam Mansbach's "Go the F**k to Sleep" in this new pro-Obama video titled, "Wake the F**k Up." The four-minute short film attempts to recharge Obama's base,...
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Children's Hospital Staff Confused by These Clown Billboards Around L.A.
In a gaffe that someone should have seen coming, billboards around Los Angeles for the Adult Swim show Children's Hospital, which is essentially House but with more clown makeup and much less...
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With Winter Coming, Heinz Tries to Warm You Up With a Bowl of Soup
Most folks are lapping up this Heinz Classics Soup spot from London ad agency AMV BBDO and director Jeff Labbe. Frankly, I'm not stirred. "I Love Winter" depicts an oh-so-average English gal who,...
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Stewart and Colbert Needle Brian Williams in Indecision 2012 Spot
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have proven to be reliable sources of political analysis and news nuggets, so they don't need to sling mud at competitors, right? Sure, but it's...
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Steve Martin's Ad for Bob Kerrey: A Wad of Paper and a Prayer
Can Steve Martin and a wad of paper save Bob Kerrey's bid to become a U.S. Senator for Nebraska again? For months, polls have suggested Kerrey is in deep trouble against Republican Deb Fischer as the...
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The Week on AdFreak: Sept. 28-Oct. 5, 2012
The five most-read AdFreak stories from the past week: 5. Horseless Headsman Fails to Frighten Until He's Had a Snickers 4. Wonderbra App Gives You X-Ray Vision to See Beneath Model's Clothing 3. This...
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StubHub's Tweeter Was Obscenely Happy to Leave Work on Friday
Let's all say it together: If you have access to a brand's Twitter account, make sure you log out before posting an offensive personal tweet. For the second time in a week, someone who thought they...
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Hotel Chain Has Robots Painting the Sleep Patterns of Its Guests
Let's make sleeping in hotels in strange cities far from home even creepier than it already is! The Ibis hotel chain will treat 40 of its guests in London, Paris and Berlin to sensor-equipped beds...
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Bond Is Great, and So Is Britain, Says Global Tourism Campaign
VisitBritain is capitalizing on the excitement over the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise—and the latest Bond film, Skyfall—with a global cinema ad that splices together clips from all six...
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Sony Sues Its Vp of Everything, Kevin Butler, for Playing a Wii
It looks like one of the great spokescharacters of recent years has met an ignominious end. Sony is suing Jerry Lambert, the great commercial actor who has played Kevin Butler, a wise-cracking...
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Mind the Gap! First Advertiser Jumps Aboard the MetroCard
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has begun rolling out ads on the front of its MetroCards. First stop: the Gap, which exhorts riders to "Be bright NYC," with the word "bright" stamped...
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English National Opera Releases Un-Opera-Like Condom Ad
The English National Opera is courting controversy with an ad campaign for its production of Mozart's Don Giovanni that pairs the image of an open condom wrapper with the familiar phrase, "Coming...
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