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Perspective: Check, Please
Glance at the 1979 ad below, and two things become apparent, one immediate and the other less so. First is that the legendary Windows on the World restaurant—once perched on the 107th floor of the...
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Air New Zealand Travels to Middle-earth With In-Flight Safety Video
Yes, yes, my precious! Air New Zealand and WETA Workshop soar with this Hobbit tie-in—a real in-flight safety video. Characters from J.R.R. Tolkien demonstrate what to do in the case of an emergency...
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Gum Election 2012: Stick It to the Candidate You Hate the Most
In the event that your polling place was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, you can still vote for president early by smearing gum on the candidate you hate the most. Gum Election 2012—a street-art project...
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Honda Fit for Women Is Pink, Dotted With Hearts, and Even Prevents Wrinkles
Women, if you have a Bic for Her pen handy, you'll want to jot this down. Over in Japan, Honda is making an adorable little version of its Fit compact car that's specially designed for women! How so?...
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Darth Vader Goes (Back) to Disneyland After Lucasfilm Deal
In a bit of corporate efficiency that would make the Empire proud, Disney has taken this 2011 commercial for its Star Wars-themed Star Tours ride at Disneyland and recut it to celebrate he company's...
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Ad of the Day: Music for Sleeping Children
Teenage girls are a hugely influential consumer subset, determining what clothes, cosmetics, music and TV shows deserve to be called "cool." They're also an enigma: It's virtually impossible to know...
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Great Logo Challenge: Puzzle #1
Our first Great Logo Challenge has come to a close. See below for the answers. Congratulations to our winner, Jake Johnson, who gets a free iPad. Thanks to all for playing and stay tuned for our next...
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Martha Stewart Puts Everyday Food on Crash Diet
Everyday Food, the onetime pint-sized smash for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is being all but shuttered as the parent company scales back its struggling magazine portfolio to focus on its namesake...
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Stormy Weather: Analyst Downgrades Ad Market on Sandy Fears
Already looking rocky at the start of the fourth quarter, the media economy this week was dealt a staggering blow by Hurricane Sandy. In disrupting local TV and radio broadcasts and putting a halt to...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Oct. 26 - Nov. 2
This week, Hurricane Sandy and Halloween vied for our attention, brands got into heavy metal, and a famous former NYPD detective wants to make sure you know what you're dealing with in that Subway...
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Information Diet: Chuck Todd
Specs Age 40 Accomplishments NBC News political director and chief White House correspondent; host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC Base Washington, D.C. What’s the first information you consume in the...
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Switzerland Kills All the Clocks in Timeless Tourism Ad
Switzerland's appeal as a vacation destination is timeless. As proof, the nation's tourism authority springs "Clocks" on the masses. Spillman/Felser/Leo Burnett's film finds Sebi and Paul, a pair of...
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AKQA's Anheuser-Busch Win Comes Amid Growth
AKQA's win of digital responsibilities on Anheuser-Bush's core brands comes during a year of steady growth at the digital shop. Earlier this year, the agency landed Verizon Wireless' digital account....
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Wii U Commercial Is a Spectacular Dubstep Disaster
Some readers felt we were being premature when we announced the death of dubstep at the hands of advertising earlier this year. But now you're going to wish we'd been right. Nintendo has released this...
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Mr. Burns Endorses Mitt Romney
With only a few days left, Charles Montgomery Burns has declared his presidential endorsement for none other than Mitt Romney. Sitting next to a few binders full of women, the fictional plutocrat of...
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In Sandy's Wake, Power Bar's NYC Marathon Ads Are Weirdly Gripping
"I think I'll put the pain aside." That's one of several evocative lines in Power Bar's new ads in support of the 2012 ING New York City Marathon—a race, still scheduled for this Sunday, that's become...
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Dewar's: The Drinking Man's Scotch Preferred by English Women
Dewar's is trying to convince young drinkers that Scotch whiskey isn't just a drink for your irrationally angry grandfather. It's also a drink for irrationally angry hot English women with Scottish...
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Trailer Mash 11-02-12
In the latest CGI nostalgia dredger, some supervillain loser from a video game declares, "We can't change who we are." But the message of Wreck-It Ralph is, of course, the exact opposite, and Ralph, a...
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New Red Cross Advertising Breaks Tonight
The American Red Cross lost little time in assembling fund-raising PSAs asking for disaster relief contributions in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Working with lead agency BBDO, the organization...
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