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Dog Sledder, Life Saver, Surgery Fixer: Dos Equis Keeps It Interesting
Considering that Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" has become a meme with thousands of crowdsourced iterations, the bar is set pretty high for new official ads in the series. But this one...
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Dog Sledder, Life Saver, Surgery Fixer: Dos Equis Keeps it Interesting
Considering that Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man in the World" has become a meme with thousands of crowdsourced iterations, the bar is set pretty high for new official ads in the series. But this one...
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Celebs Join Sheryl Sandberg's Campaign to Stop Calling Girls 'Bossy'
For all of Lean In's strongly phrased criticisms of the modern corporate world, author Sheryl Sandberg still seems to spark the most debate with one seemingly innocuous opinion: that we shouldn't call...
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Gun Ad Featuring Michelangelo's David Comes Under Fire From the Italian...
The Italian government is taking aim at Illinois gun manufacturer ArmaLite, who offended Italy's entire cultural ministry by using Michelangelo's "David" in an ad for the AR-50A1 rifle. Italy's...
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Frank Ocean Gets the Last (Four-Letter) Word in Spat With Chipotle
Remember that viral Chipotle ad featuring an animated scarecrow battling evil factory farms while Fiona Apple crooned a version of Pure Imagination over top? Apparently, Frank Ocean had an earlier...
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Each Model for Betabrand's New Spring Collection Has a PhD
Betabrand, an online retailer of crowdsourced clothing, just launched its spring line, and the company decided to take a different approach to marketing the new looks: All of the models would have...
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Cringey-Cute Clothing Ad With Strangers Kissing Has 7 Million Views in One Day
How does a clothing brand get 7 million YouTube views in one day? By getting 20 strangers to kiss each other. The video below, titled "First Kiss," features strangers—all wearing L.A. fashion label...
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And Here's the First Branded Parody of That Super-Viral 'First Kiss' Ad
The surest sign that you've created a viral juggernaut is that the parodies quickly come flowing in. This will be especially true of Wren's "First Kiss" ad, which is so stripped down visually that it...
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Robinson Cano's Aura Speaks for Him in First Spot for the Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners considered Robinson Cano to be a heavenly catch this off-season, and there's a divine aura about him in the team's first ad with its $240 million second baseman. Seattle's...
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Kobe Bryant Handcrafts Pianos and Sneakers in Ad That Makes Lionel Richie Cry
Kobe Bryant doesn't just play pianos. He makes them. Or so it would appear from the opening scenes of this new ad from Wieden + Kennedy pitching "The Kobe Piano," from which "every note [is] a comedy...
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Duracell Bus Shelter in Montreal Heats Up When Everyone Holds Hands
Nothing enhances a commute like coming into physical contact with a bunch of strangers at the bus stop. Cossette's "Moments of Warmth" campaign for Duracell had public-transport patrons in chilly...
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Q&A: The Director of That Viral Chevy Dog Ad Isn't Surprised He Didn't Win
"Maddie," a minute-long commercial by young Canadian director Lloyd Lee Choi, didn't win Chevrolet and Mofilm's Oscars competition. That honor went to a whimsical exploration of creativity by Jude...
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PETA Sues San Diego Airport for Rejecting Anti-SeaWorld Ad
Claiming that its anti-SeaWorld billboard was wrongfully rejected for display, PETA is suing the San Diego Airport Authority with backing from the ACLU. The billboard pairs actress Kathy Najimy's...
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Frozen's 'Honest Trailer' Captures Everything That Made Viewers Hot and Cold...
Like many parents, I've been seeing (or at least hearing) a lot of Frozen lately. And while I enjoyed it enough the first time around, the film's odd logic doesn't always hold up under multiple...
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Unapologetic Fitness Mom Turns Her Polarizing Facebook Photos Into a Movement
When Maria Kang posted a picture of herself looking fit and trim while surrounded by her three young sons last year, she became a lightning rod for debate over realistic body images and "fat shaming."...
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Ad Campaign Seeks to Help Widow Whose Husband Had Hollywood's Most Famous Scream
Sheb Wooley comes screaming out of the mists of pop culture into the commercial mainstream in FCB's new campaign for pay-TV channel Canal+ in Spain. Wooley is the voice actor who performed the...
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Can an Ad Campaign for Women's Rights Succeed by Only Featuring Men?
Women earn 30 percent less than men for the same work. Some 64 percent of the world's illiterate people are women. Almost 800 women die every day from preventable complications during pregnancy and...
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Is This Obscure European Sock Company the World's Worst Advertiser?
There's dark humor, and then there's morbid humor. And then there are these French-made ads for Burlington socks, which likely don't qualify as any sort of humor whatsoever. The brand's newest ad...
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Remember When Burger King Ads Were Insane? In New Zealand They Still Are
It's been years since Burger King's U.S. advertising was truly weird. You have to go back to the Crispin Porter + Bogusky stuff from the mid-2000s—in particular, the deeply troubling "Eat Like Snake"...
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Mother London Makes Its Own 'First Kiss' Parody … With Dogs
The parodies of fashion brand Wren's super-viral "First Kiss" ad keep flowing in. Here's ad agency Mother London's entry—"First Sniff," starring a bunch of dogs. Stranger dogs tend to get pretty...
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