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Portrait: Cornerstone
SpecsWho Co-CEOs Jon Cohen (l.) and Rob StoneWhat Marketing and PR agencyWhere New York offices When it comes to mixing music with marketing, Cornerstone may be king. This summer it created the Pepsi...
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Perspective: Color Me Thirsty
Most shoppers have never heard of Edwin Perkins, nor the dubious assortment of potions and elixirs—including a purported smoking cure called Nix-O-Tine—that he sold via his mail-order company in...
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Samsung Gets Overly Attached Girlfriend to Play a Possessive PC
It. Does. Not. Compute. Or does it? Laina Morris, who became an overnight sensation with the Overly Attached Girlfriend video she made for Justin Bieber, stares wide-eyed and creepy from your screen...
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PETA Gets Itself in Yet Another Hairy Situation
PETA's print ads are known for their insipid, lad-mag use of sexuality, but the visuals themselves are decent most of the time. Its new "Fur Trim" ad with Joanna Krupa can't even claim that much....
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Ad of the Day: Morrisons
Christmas is a lot of work. For those brave souls whose job it is to decorate the house, trim the tree, send the cards, stuff the stockings, wrap the presents and cook the meal, pulling off a...
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Greg Jennings Is Going Nowhere in His Latest Old Spice Ad
Old Spice feels more like Skittles in this latest "Believe in your smellf" spot from Wieden + Kennedy for the brand's Champion line. This time, speedy Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings...
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Paula Broadwell Stars in This Infomercial for a Crazy Futuristic Weapon
You can add another title to the growing list of Paula Broadwell's roles—that of infomercial star. The biographer and alleged mistress of David Petraeus endorses a futuristic weapon called the Kriss...
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Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan Lead Gap's Love-Themed Holiday Ads
Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan represent "true love" in a holiday print ad for Gap, part of the retailer's "Love Comes in Every Shade" campaign via Peterson Milla Hooks in Minneapolis. Musician Rufus...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Nov. 9-16
This week, Apple showed us why bigger isn't always better, the Overly Attached Girlfriend made an overly creepy comeback, and Little Caesars discovered something quite unusual in the night sky. Many...
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Snoop's Druggy Pistachios Ad Drives the Networks Nuts
Having your latest commercial in a long-running campaign dubbed "too hot for network TV" can only be a good thing. So, congrats to Paramount Farms' Wonderful Pistachios for its cheeky collaboration...
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Insult Your Coworkers This Holiday With the Perfect Gift From HBO
Box sets of HBO programs are probably a little pricey as gifts for coworkers. But if you've got the extra cash, they can make the perfect passive-aggressive presents. That's according to BBDO New...
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Corcoran Will Find You the Perfect Luxury Home, If You're a Dog
Corcoran is the real-estate broker for dogs. Not just any dogs, mind you. Dogs with taste. Upper East Side dogs like Marcel who have summer places in the Hamptons. Marcel likes a good shiatsu. Also a...
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Reuters, NewsCred Launch New Entertainment Package
If you’re a brand looking to play pop culture publisher during the 2012-2013 entertainment awards season, Reuters and NewsCred want your business. The media company and the content licensing and...
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'70s Ad Hinted That Twinkies Were Not of This World
Hostess, which is going out of business after a crippling strike, had a proud history of weird ads, particularly back in the 1970s. This one for Twinkies is a classic. Note the ongoing fascination...
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Ad of the Day: Scrabble
Gimme a P! Gimme a Q! Gimme a blank square! What's that spell? Nothing. It spells nothing at all. You're useless. If you had an I, you could spell "quip," but that's it. And you don't. You have to sit...
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Dying Is Dumb and Hilarious in Adorable Australian PSA
Not since The Gashlycrumb Tinies has there been so much exquisitely hilarious death on display as in this animated PSA from McCann Australia for the Melbourne Metro train system. Described aptly by...
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Trailer Mash 11-16-12
We have a Trailer Mash special this week to mark the cinema event of the decade—the final Twilight film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. In honor of those many, many men who have seen the...
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Nicki Minaj Becomes the Bride of C-3PO in New Fragrance Ad
Perfume ads are often total nonsense, especially when they're for celebrity fragrances. So, it's no surprise that Nicki Minaj has tweeted out a baffling new commercial for her first signature scent,...
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Olson Wins Belize Tourism Account
The Mayans may have predicted the end of the world in December but Belize, home to ruins belonging to those Mesoamericans, is planning for life beyond. The Central American country has tapped Olson as...
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