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Volkswagen Turns to the Dark Side in Greenpeace's Little Vader Parody
Greenpeace has jumped on the Volkswagen Little Vader spoof bandwagon, mocking the automaker's much-feted Super Bowl spot "The Force" with a new environmentally friendly online campaign. Marvel already...
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BMW Canada Cheats Death Again in Helipad Video
Following high-speed skids through car-shaped gaps in thick (supposedly) concrete walls, BMW Canada presents more insane stunt driving to promote its 1 Series M Coupe. Now, the brand wants to flip the...
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Information Diet: Isaiah Mustafa
What’s the first information you consume in the morning? CNN is my home page on my computer, so that’s probably the first thing I take a look at. What do you read or watch or listen to at the...
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Hailee Steinfeld's Ads: What a Difference Two Years Makes
Holy crap, what happened to Hailee Steinfeld? Just two years ago, she was a normal kid in a goofy Kmart ad (see below). But in Miu Miu's 2011 fall ad campaign, she looks like she's my age. And she's...
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Celebrity Sniff
It seems impossible that England’s King George III, Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, and Michelle Obama could have much of anything in common—let alone a brand they could all wear in public. No, it’s...
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Short Film With Split Personality Wins Nokia N8 Contest
Dear J.W. Griffiths: Congratulations on winning the Nokia Shorts 2011 Competition for Splitscreen: A Love Story! We were blown away—blown a-way—by your inventive storytelling in which a guy and gal...
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R/GA Wins Grey Goose
R/GA has been named Grey Goose vodka’s first digital agency of record. The Interpublic agency won the global assignment after a review involving undisclosed contenders. The account will be based at...
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Kim Slicklein Heads OgilvyEarth
Kim Slicklein has been named president of OgilvyEarth, the WPP agency’s global sustainability practice, replacing Seth Farbman who joined Ogilvy client Gap as chief marketing officer. Slicklein had...
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Ad of the Day: If Insurance
Computers are great for accomplishing visual tricks, but sometimes they leave behind that artificial sheen. The easiest way to make action seem real is to make it real. Well, not the easiest way—it...
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Why Silicon Valley Can't Sell
Drive up and down the 101 Freeway in Silicon Valley, or cast your gaze north toward Seattle, and media companies, which expect to book over $20 billion in advertising in 2011, appear to be everywhere....
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The Masculine Mystique
Fast cars, faster women—those are the much-parodied signifiers of the male midlife crisis in pop culture. At least, they were, because while surely middle-aged men still claim the lion’s share of the...
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Wayback Machine: Remnants of the Last Bubble
Beach blowouts Typical evening buffet at the ‘99 Internet Summit, held at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Desk games Now Sun’s gone (bought by Oracle), and Facebook has claimed its old...
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Listen Up, Morons. Kenny Powers Is Now the CEO of K-Swiss
Continuing its ballsy Kenny Powers campaign that started with a Funny or Die video last year, K-Swiss has now promoted Kenny to CEO of the company. And the fictional star of HBO's Eastbound & Down...
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Tiny Belly, Huge Scam: Banner Ads Accused of $1 Billion Hustle
Like all lard-ass Americans, I dream of being in better shape. Those ubiquitous "Tricks of a Tiny Belly" banner ads gave me hope. If it's on the Internet, it must be for real! Enter the buzzkill FTC,...
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Big Fuel Wins T-Mobile USA
Big Fuel was named T-Mobile USA’s first social agency of record, beating Sapient Nitro and the Dachis Group in a competitive review for the business. Previously, social media efforts were handled by...
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Ad of the Day: KFC
It's still a long way from fine dining, but KFC suddenly seems interested in providing an aesthetic experience. At least, in its advertising. At least, overseas. Last month, we took a close look at...
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Beck's Gets Even Artsier With Green Door to Nowhere
Last week, Beck's announced it was launching "augmented reality galleries" scattered across a couple of continents—a bunch of green boxes marking locations where people can use their smartphones and...
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Ladies Get Naked in Public for New Zappos Campaign
Zappos wants you to know it sells more than shoes. So, in new ads from Mullen, the online retailer shows women wearing … only shoes? Yes, the creative approach here—showing naked women to illustrate...
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Man's Animated Tattoo Brought to You by Ballantine's Whisky
Tat-vertising seems to be all the rage. People get some sort of twisted pleasure from watching other people permanently etch crap on their bodies on behalf of brands. (It's probably a mix of awe and...
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Crispin's Clemans Joins Taxi N.Y.
Dave Clemans, the former Crispin Porter + Bogusky creative executive associated with Volkswagen’s “Safe Happens” pitch and the teen anti-tobacco campaign “Truth,” has been named executive creative...
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