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The Spot: Angels of Death
IDEA: Safety PSAs are gloomy and tedious and largely ignored by young people hardwired to resist them—except when they're irresistibly fun and impossible not to share with friends. McCann Australia...
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Energy Company Brightens Bus Shelters to Fight Seasonal Depression
Swedish bus-stop therapy. It's nowhere near as kinky as it sounds. Power company Umeå Energi recently outfitted 30 transit shelters in its namesake city in northern Sweden with lights designed to help...
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Kate Moss Airbrushed Within Inches of Her Life in New Fashion Ads
At 38, Kate Moss has aged better than most hard-partying it-girls could hope to. But apparently that's not good enough for Chilean fashion line Basement. Having already forced her into breeding with a...
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TriHonda Dealer Group Completes Agency Search
A group of Honda dealers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that plans to expand its marketing efforts next year has hired a new agency to lead the charge. Publicis Kaplan Thaler will be the lead...
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Ad of the Day: Bing
Advertising writers love to coin new words, usually at the expense of reason and taste. The minds behind Microsoft's Bing, of all people, have hung their new anti-Google attack campaign on the rare...
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DeLorean Taxi Would Really Take You for a Ride
Designer Mike Lubrano crafted the missing link between Doc Brown and Jim Ignatowski with his DeLorean taxicab. This thing would give Boardwalk Empire's 1920s taxis a run for their money in NYC....
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Publicis Buys AR New York
Publicis has acquired a 100 percent stake in luxury advertising agency AR New York, the holding company announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AR New York, founded in 1996, employs 50...
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Lego Shocks 11-Year-Old Boy by Sending Him Discontinued Train Set He'd Always...
A heartwarming story of a boy who scrimped and saved to buy Legos has gone viral just in time for Christmas. James Groccia, an 11-year-old from Massachusetts with Asperger syndrome, saved all his...
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Crate & Barrel Apologizes for Selling 'Beggar Wallet' Inspired by NYC Homeless
Crate & Barrel wins this week's honors for most offensive marketer after being forced to stop selling a "Lucky Beggar Wallet" for $15.95, mocking those who can't even afford to put a roof over...
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WSJ Searching for Creative Agency for Assignment
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a creative agency for an assignment. The search, which is being conducted by MediaLink, L.A., has been spearheaded by Hamish McLennan, the former chief executive...
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Old Mentos Ad With Horse-Men Playing Basketball Is Weirdest Ever
Whoa, that's one wacky game of horse! Some naysayers are doubting SB Nation's contention that the clip below of dudes playing basketball in equine masks is really a "found" Mentos ad from 1992 that...
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Put Your Freeloading Baby to Work With the Baby Mop
Inspired by a possibly fictitious Japanese product of the same name, novelty retailer Better Than Pants has released its own version of the Baby Mop—a baby outfit with mop-like material on the...
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Looks Could Kill in Christmas Ad for Harvey Nichols
A holiday party becomes a Star Wars-like showdown for two women who show up in the same red dress in this amusing new Christmas spot from Adam & Eve DDB for British fashion retailer Harvey...
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The 10 Most Watched Tech Ads of 2012
Take that, Apple fanboys. Samsung blew away the competition, including its nemesis in Cupertino, when it came to the reach of its online videos this year—producing the No. 1 campaign, and three of the...
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Ad of the Day: Canal+
Oh, I get it—soccer players. Canal+ (that's pronounced cannle-plue, francophiles!) is the European HBO, and obviously people are excited about it—and about the big soccer matches it broadcasts—if this...
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Video-Hungry Newspapers Let Outsider Play Editor
News Distribution Network isn’t a household name, but news consumers sure watch a lot of the videos the company distributes. In fact, NDNbroke the top 10 in comScore’s ranking of top online video...
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Portrait: Thinkmodo
Specs Who Co-founders Michael Krivicka (l.) and James PercelayWhat Viral video marketing agencyWhere Outside New York offices Each time a mysterious new viral gimmick breaks on YouTube, among the first...
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Perspective: All Hands on Deck
Ever since Samuel Cunard sent the RMS Britannia across the Atlantic in 1840, the shipping business has looked for various ways to lure passengers aboard—a task that’s not as easy as it sounds. Because...
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