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Ad of the Day: Prada
High-fashion ads shot by celebrity directors usually amount to little more than pretentious, narrative-starved ad-sturbation. Prada, though, often delivers something more, something refreshing for the...
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MLB 'Fan Cave' Nerds Out Like Never Before With Fancy New High-Tech Toys
Here's a fun toy for obsessive baseball geeks: the new "Mission Control" installation at MLB's "Fan Cave" space in downtown New York. There, each year, a selection of the sport's most die-hard fans...
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How the Perfume Business Lost Its Class
In the old days, celebrity perfumes were plush, rarified things—scent couture, if you will. The lucky fan might get a whiff of the magic scent, but the juice wasn’t for sale. Today, of course, every...
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Struck Places Easter Eggs in a Location Finder
SpecsWho From left: Executive creative director Steve Driggs, CEO Daniel Conner and chief operating officer Pauline PloquinWhat Advertising, design and digital agencyWhere Salt Lake City headquarters...
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Orbit Gum Helps You Vanquish Giant Annoying Talking Meat and Potatoes
I've had way worse airline seatmates than the annoying, anthropomorphized, Jinx-playing serving of meat and mashed potatoes depicted in Energy BBDO's new commercial for Orbit gum. Beats getting stuck...
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Renault Surprises Test Drivers With Baguettes, Roses and Half-Dressed Hotties
Automobile test drives have been getting a bit more interesting lately. On the heels of the hugely popular Jeff Gordon video for Pepsi MAX comes this new campaign from Britain for the Renault Clio, in...
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Ad of the Day: Gatorade
OK, so does everyone watch Game of Thrones? You all do, right? You know how Ned has those horrible nightmares about things that actually happen in the first season? This is kind of what happens to...
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Nationwide Reviews Media Business
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is reviewing its media planning and buying business. Last year Nationwide spent more than $330 million in media, according to Nielsen. That figure does not include...
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Lance Armstrong and Oscar Pistorius Get (Fake) Tiger Woods-Style Nike...
Does winning take care of everything? Perhaps for Tiger Woods. Probably not for other some other athletes who've been on Nike's payroll. Here are some nicely done spoofs of the much-discussed new...
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BBH Names Communications Planning Chief
A key player in Bartle Bogle Hegarty's recent Sony PlayStation win is assuming a bigger role. Julian Cole, a strategy director at the New York shop, is now head of communications planning. In his new...
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Black Mirror Has the Best and Strangest Promos of Any TV Show Around
So, there's this British just-barely-science-fiction series called Black Mirror, created by a mad genius named Charlie Brooker (good interview with him here; he's also ripped into advertising fairly...
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Traumatized Man Speaks Only in Advertising Slogans in New Indie Movie
How many times have you busted out a well-known advertising slogan because it seemed to be the wittiest thing to say in a conversation? Never? Fine, wordsmith, but the rest of us are guilty of falling...
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Goodby New York Adds Another Leader
The New York office of Goodby Silverstein & Partners is rounding out its management team with the addition of Tom Morton, who next week joins the upstart operation as head of strategy. Morton...
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DOMA Nation
How did the Human Rights Campaign's logo become everybody's Facebook and Twitter profile pic?"We were really beating the drum for many weeks," said Anastasia Khoo, director of marketing for the Human...
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Depression Hurts. Tacos Loaded With Beef and Cheese Can Help
The medicinal benefits of tacos are explained in this parody of antidepressant medication ads, which is a pretty clever piece of work (although trust me, beef sweats are no laughing matter). I can't...
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A More Honest Trailer for Les Misérables
After a bevy of requests from fans, Screen Junkies has finally released an Honest Trailer for Les Misérables, and it … sucks. Well, it doesn't quite suck, but it definitely runs afoul of imitation...
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Pillsbury Doughboy Gigglingly Crashes Geico Ad
Hey, the Pillsbury Doughboy appears in The Martin Agency's latest "Happier Than … " commercial for Geico. I thought he'd done so a while back, but it turns out that was Eddie Money. Eddie's tunes are...
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CDC Adds New Ads to Successful Anti-Smoking Campaign
Soon after the government abandoned the court fight over its proposed scary warning labels on cigarette packages, it returned to what works: advertising. The Centers for Disease Control will launch...
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