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Brilliant Ad Protesting the Redskins Nickname Airs During the NBA Finals
Miami stumbled in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, but a Native American tribe turned up the heat. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation of California ran a 60-second spot protesting the Washington Redskins nickname...
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McDonald's World Cup Ad Puts a Fun Family Spin on the U.S.-Mexico Rivalry
You can always count on McDonald's for more modest World Cup advertising—simple stories about family and friends, not flashy spots with overpaid stars. Some of it can be hokey, though sometimes it...
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This Is India's Most Viral Ad Ever, and It Will Make You Weep for Humanity
How precocious are digital natives today? They take charge of things literally from birth, according to this somewhat terrifying spot from MTS Telecom, which the company tells us is now the...
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Dead Island 2 Trailer Isn't as Artful as the Original, but Is Still Plenty...
The 2011 trailer for the original Dead Island is one of the most notorious video game ads ever made. It won a gold Lion in Cannes that year, yet it was booed at the screening in the Palais and is...
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Volvo Tells Millennials They Can Ride in a Volvo Again, This Time Facing Forward
Hey, millennials, 20 years ago you might've been riding in the third row of a Volvo station wagon, staring out the back window and maybe trying to stave off the slight nausea that can accompany your...
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Coca-Cola Has Flower Power in Ogilvy Ads for Its New PlantBottles
Coca-Cola's orgy of happiness continues with recyclable plastic beverage bottles made partially from plants, touted in cute ads from Ogilvy New York. The ads are rendered in Coke's signature colors...
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Nothing's Sacred: 'Dumb Ways to Die' Is Now Being Used to Hawk Life Insurance
One of the lovably misguided characters from "Dumb Ways to Die" sold both his kidneys on the Internet. Now, the client behind the beloved campaign has made a similarly greedy deal with the devil....
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'Dear Kitten' From Friskies Proves Cats Still Rule the Internet
Friskies has partnered with BuzzFeed to produce some chunky, meaty kitten content fresh out of the YouTube can. The video below, quickly closing in on 10 million views, is voiced by Ze Frank, who...
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PETA Wonders How You'd Feel If Your Hair Was Ripped Out Like an Angora Rabbit's
Plucking Angora rabbits to use their fur in clothing is like waxing the hair off unwilling humans, says PETA's latest human-shaming ad. Characteristic of the animal advocacy group's PSAs, it's...
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Apple's 'Go, You Chicken Fat, Go' iPhone Ad Has an Odd History Behind It
Why is JFK's youth fitness anthem marketing the iPhone 5S? Apple has a new 5S spot out, and the musical choice is even odder than the previous 5S spot, which featured a reworked version of "Gigantic"...
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Canal+ Lets You 'Be the Bear' in Fun Interactive Sequel to Famous TV Spot
I'm roaring with approval for this interactive sequel, of sorts, to "The Bear," the 2012 Grand Prix-winning commercial from BETC Paris and French movie channel Canal+. In the original, an ursine...
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India's Internet Baby: Agency Says Cannes Contender Is Beautiful, Not Terrifying
CANNES, France—Maybe India's Internet Baby isn't as horrifying as he seems? If you think about it, the preternaturally social star of the MTS Telecom campaign—who learns to cut his own umbilical cord...
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Aaron Paul's Xbox One Ad Is a Little Too Good: It Can Accidentally Turn Your...
If a new Xbox One ad gone awry is any indication, the voice-command function on the Microsoft Kinect device is working a little too well for some gamers. The commercial shows Aaron Paul, best known...
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Sarah Harbaugh and Jon Gruden Fight the Scourge of 'Dad Pants' for Dockers
Dockers prepares men for fatherhood, among other things, in these two videos from Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners, timed to Father's Day. Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden gives a...
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Durex Takes Down Flopping Soccer Players in Comically Ridiculous #DontFakeIt Ad
Don't fake it—on or off the football field—says Durex. The condom brand is hoping to capitalize on excitement around the World Cup—and particularly, the spectacular dives that players take while...
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Purell and TNT Ads Remind You That Hand Sanitizer Is Good in a Global Pandemic
Gas masks might imply that something stinks, but that's probably not the intended message of Mono's Grand Central Terminal takeover this week promoting Michael Bay's TNT series The Last Ship. (A...
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Fiat's New TV Ads Made Entirely of GIFs: Are They 'Endless Fun' or Overkill?
For better or worse, Fiat's latest TV commercials might make your head spin. The brand recently commissioned some wacky GIFs from The Richards Group for the Fiat Tumblr page, but Chrysler CMO Olivier...
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Old Spice Scores With World Cup Ad Full of Screaming
Old Spice scores another goal with Terry Crews, this time for the World Cup. The brand would like you to know it's now available in Brazil, and it's a good time to tell you that because there's a...
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This Precocious Director's First Ad Really Gets Inside Its Subject
Here's a very special delivery from French agency BETC. It's called "Birth," and it's a minute-long promotional film touting the annual Young Director Award that will be presented Thursday at the...
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College's Hottest Guy and Hottest Girl Give Out Free Kisses in Ad Stunt for Gum
College students know that chewing gum is for making out. But Immuno Gum, a new product, also claims to include immune-system-boosting ingredients like zinc, vitamin C and echinacea. To promote the...
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