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Super Bowl Ad Asks: 'Is There a Century 21 Agent in the House?'
Century 21 agents are more helpful than doctors, at least when you're having a housing emergency. The real-estate company on Monday unveiled its 30-second commercial, titled "Wedding," that will air...
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Astronaut Outsexys Lifeguard in Axe's First-Ever Super Bowl Ad
Not surprisingly, Axe's first-ever Super Bowl commercial features a woman in a skimpy bikini jogging rather bouncily along a beach. Also not surprisingly, she's running toward a geeky dude who plays...
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Sarcastic Amazon Reviews Take a Darker Turn on Toy Drone's Product Page
Critics of the U.S.'s use of unmanned missile-firing robot aircraft overseas have found a novel forum for airing their grievances: the Amazon.com product page for a toy version of the American...
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Hyundai Gets Unstuck in First of Two Super Bowl :30s
Drivers of the Hyundai Sonata Turbo get stuck behind the strangest vehicles on the road. Luckily, they also have the power to get past them. The Korean automaker on Monday unveiled "Stuck," one of two...
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ManHands Soaps Make Men Smell Like Bacon, Beer, Soil or Urinal Cake
Every few years, someone puts out gimmicky "man-friendly" versions of equally gimmicky girly products, and they always smell like farts or baseball gloves or something. A few years ago it was...
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Taco Bell Pulls Ad Following Twitter Complaints
Pressured by nutrition advocates, a Taco Bell spot that joked bringing a vegetable tray to a sports party is "like punting on fourth and one" was pulled today. Instead, the ad urged viewers to bring...
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Lakers' Losing Streak Forces Taco Time-Out
With 2:05 left in the third quarter of a recent game at Staples Center between the Los Angeles Lakers and the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder, public address announcer Lawrence Tanter teases fans with...
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The Spot: Nike's Speed Demon
IDEA: Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's second-best soccer player after Lionel Messi, is a beautiful, terrible force. A large part of his talent is his overwhelming speed—a threat dramatized in Wieden +...
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Volkswagen Is a Dog's Best Friend in Tribal DDB Spot
See Spot run. And bark, growl, yelp and whine. This Volkswagen Golf commercial by Tribal DDB Amsterdam stars a perky pooch that makes all kinds of car sounds while out for a walk with its owner. At...
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Old People Behaving Badly: It's Taco Bell's Super Bowl Spot
Old people doing absurdly youthful things. It's a time-honored comedy staple that Taco Bell fully embraces in its 2013 Super Bowl spot—a 60-second salute to octogenarian debauchery driven by a...
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Why Cries of Racism Won't Sink Volkswagen's Super Bowl Ad
For Volkswagen, one of the most celebrated Super Bowl advertisers of recent years, it's been a tough 24 hours. After the company released its 2013 Super Bowl spot (posted below) on Monday...
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Ad of the Day: Ikea
Ikea is carving out a nice little niche allaying the neuroses of pack rats—also, normal people who just have too much crap cluttering up their lives. This new spot from the Swedish furniture retailer...
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Qualcomm Selects Agency for Image Push
Qualcomm has turned to DDB to develop corporate image advertising. The San Francisco office of DDB landed the assignment after a pitch in which Ogilvy & Mather was the other finalist, according to...
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Kaley Cuoco Grants Wishes in Toyota's Super Bowl Spot
Kaley Cuoco is going from the Big Bang to the Big Game as Toyota's newest advertising star. The 27-year-old actress from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory is seen walking around town granting magical...
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Time Inc. Cuts Coming Wednesday
Time Inc. employees have been on pins and needles for months about expected layoffs, and the official word is expected to come down Wednesday. The company hasn't said anything publicly yet, but within...
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72andSunny Nabs Event Marketing Player
72andSunny has turned to a key player at a rival shop to build an event marketing practice at the agency. Audrey Eden, evp of experiential marketing at Deutsch/LA since late 2010, joins 72andSunny at...
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Data Points: Ad Play
While football fans stock up on chicken wings and big-screen TVs in preparation for Super Bowl XLVII, marketers have their eye on the commercials that will play out on advertising's biggest arena of...
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A Devilish Willem Dafoe Joins Kate Upton, Usher in Mercedes Super Bowl Ad
Willem Dafoe, his eyes twinkling with evil and his fingernails filed to sharp points, plays the devil himself in Mercedes-Benz's 2013 Super Bowl ad, an extended version of which was unveiled...
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Diet Coke Finds Its New Stud, 19 Years After the Old One
He's the real thing. Meet Andrew Cooper, a British model whose shirtless turn as a soda stud in this Diet Coke 30th-anniversary commercial via BETC London is going viral and splashing Cooper's name,...
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Baby Perfects Gangnam Style Moves in Ad for Electronic Cigarettes
Here is the inevitable ad starring a baby doing Gangnam Style. The product, perhaps less predictable, is E-Lites, an electronic cigarette. It's a pretty macabre conceit. Don't miss your kid's first...
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