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Google Tells Another Inspiring Story, but Is It Taking Too Much Credit for...
Google isn't just a technology company. It's a facilitator of dreams. That is, at least, according to much of the search giant's advertising, stretching back to spots like "Parisian Love" and "Dear...
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David Eckstein's Fake Ad for a Fake Law Firm Really Is Inside Baseball
Behold this strange ad-like object, which is half internal joke and half attempt to prove baseball is still down with the hip kids. It's a fictional ad for a fictional law firm created by Michael...
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The AT&T Kids Have a Very Odd Plan for Thanksgiving Dinner
Kids still say the darndest things. AT&T and BBDO New York keep up their rich tradition of child-centric, ad-lib style spots (they are lightly scripted but most quickly become improvised) with...
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Ad Blogger Copyranter Goes Out With a Bang After Getting Fired From BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, the curator of all things viral on the www, fired Mark "Copyranter" Duffy last month after employing him for a year and a half. And he did not go quietly. In a new article on Gawker titled...
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Magneto Killed JFK, Says Creepy Campaign for the Next X-Men Movie
Here's an inspired (if morbid) bit of viral movie marketing: Marvel has created a site called TheBentBullet.com that chronicles supervillain Magneto's role in assassinating President John F. Kennedy....
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Disembodied Mouth Gets Good Beer After Having to Do 'Bad Things' in Weird...
And the award for best disembodied mouth in a commercial goes to … Australian beer Tooheys Extra Dry for this memorably unnerving 45-second spot from BMF Sydney and director Hamish Rothwell. Popping...
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Chris Paul's Jordan Sneakers Now Available in Twin Brother Cliff's Favorite...
A year ago, State Farm released a wonderful commercial from agency Translation suggesting NBA star Chris Paul had a twin brother, Cliff, who happened to be a State Farm agent—because he was "born to...
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The Year's Best Candy Commercial Is Somehow Both Vulgar and Incredibly Sweet
Here's a wonderful little candy commercial from LoweFriends in Denmark that pulls off a rare trick. It's both edgy and traditional—with several F-bombs in the voiceover balanced out by an actually...
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Gavin McInnes Shows You How to Fight a Baby
Gavin McInnes has come a long way since his days at Vice. He rebranded himself as an adman (creative director at Rooster), and now he's even comfortable rolling around with his baby for the cameras....
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This Nice Ukrainian Man Wants You to Buy Yourself a Roku for Christmas
As one of the world's most loyal Roku owners, I have to say I'm a bit baffled by the streaming device's official holiday spokesman: Moxkat Grvida, fictional Ukrainian outdoorsman. In a series of spots...
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LAPD Warns Residents About Car Break-Ins by Zombies in New PSA
Sure, they're homicidal, but do zombies also make good petty criminals? Apparently they do, swarming the Los Angeles suburbs and snatching anything not nailed down from careless residents' vehicles....
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Gap Moves Quickly After One of Its Ads With a Sikh Model Is Vandalized
Gap earns some serious points for its quick, classy response after Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at The Islamic Monthly and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, alerted the retailer that vandals had defaced...
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Helvetica Perfume, 'For Those Who Dare to Be the Same'
What do you get for the designer who has everything? How about nothing?Helvetica The Perfume is literally just water, or "modernism distilled." Created as a gag gift by creative collective Guts and...
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GoldieBlox Deletes Beastie Boys Song but Not Without a Few Choice Words for...
GoldieBlox went from hero to zero in one short week, putting our ad-loving hearts through a roller coaster of emotions. Now, it's belatedly making amends by removing its parody of the Beastie Boys'...
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Target Defends Homepage Redesign but Still Won't Say Who Did It
Since late last week, when we pointed out the not-so-positive reaction many people had to Target's homepage redesign, we've been trying to answer two seemingly simple questions: Who did the redesign,...
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Logo TV's Twerking Turkey Will Give You Thanksgiving Nightmares
Logo TV reminds its "savvy audience of gay trendsetters and straight friends who are ahead of the curve" to twerk their turkeys this Thanksgiving, but not with stuffing or ham. What's their gripe with...
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Dan Wieden and Others Reveal the Work They Wish They'd Done in D&AD Ads
Envy makes advertising go round—when creatives aren't busying copying ideas, they're coveting them. D&AD celebrates that dynamic with a series of new spots, created by Wieden + Kennedy in London,...
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This Family Gets Awesomely Excited About Cheap Thanksgiving Meat
No Thanksgiving meal is complete without a hearty helping of cheap, cheap meat. This seasonal spot from Price Chopper and agency DeVito/Verdi has some fun with the reputation that discount grocers...
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Crayola Expands Its Palette With Major Push Into Toys This Holiday
After years of cornering the market on all things magenta and turquoise, Crayola makes a big, public shift into the toy category with its new "This Holiday, Get Creative" campaign. The oh-so-WASP-y...
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Ron Burgundy Co-Anchors an Actual Local News Broadcast in Bismarck, N.D.
The Ron Burgundy blitz continues. Now, instead of congratulating movie stars on landing porny roles or hawking Dodge Durangos, Will Ferrell is making your wildest dreams come true by co-hosting, in...
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