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Four Shops Square Off Over Pizza Hut
MEC, the media agency for Pizza Hut, must fend off competition from two rival holding companies to keep the business. The WPP Group shop's competitors for the account are Interpublic Group units...
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Ad of the Day: Call of Duty: Black Ops Rezurrection
What is it about zombies that's so damn funny? Their stupidity? Their facial expressions? The way they drag themselves across the land, driven by that sad, passionate hankering for human flesh?...
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Axe Attempts World Record for Most People Showering Together
Axe long ago cemented its position in the annals of most-sexist marketers. The brand's latest spot doesn't do much to break that mold, but instead repeats the strategy of BBH's "Billions"...
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'Paradise Lost 3' Trailer Needs Work as West Memphis Three Are Freed
Here's the trailer, just posted to YouTube yesterday, for Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, the third documentary about the West Memphis Three—Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley...
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The King Is Dead, as BK Cooks Up 'Food-Centric' Ads
Avocados, tomatoes, lettuce and beef are in. Regal mascots with oversized plastic heads are out. That's the new direction of Burger King advertising under Mcgarrybowen, with new work launching this...
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TV on the Radio Pops Up on Heineken Light Billboard
A global marketer's ad space might not seem like the most likely venue for a beloved indie rock band to play a concert—except maybe in an act of protest. Nonetheless, TV on the Radio popped up on the...
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Volkswagen Turns Highway Into Giant Roulette Board
More fun stuff from Volkswagen: To highlight the fuel efficiency of the Golf with BlueMotion technology, ad agency Try in Oslo dreamed up an enormous roulette board. Using Google Maps, it divided the...
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Benetton Not Feeling the Love for Its 'Unhate' Kissing Campaign
An image of the Pope smooching an Egyptian Imam—who wouldn't like that? It's just one example of controversial kissin' couples (mainly world leaders in conflict, like Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, and...
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National Geographic Lets You Pet Dinosaurs at the Mall
British digital agency Appshaker did an augmented reality project for National Geographic Channel in a mall, allowing passersby to watch themselves "interacting" with various animals and dinosaurs on...
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Jeweler Immortalizes Your Sappy Facebook Notes on a Billboard
People like to rag on advertising, but as Jumbtotrons have shown, they lose their minds when they see themselves on a billboard. Robbins Brothers, a jeweler out in California, has come up with the...
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Ad of the Day: IQ
As the wind turns bitter and the days become shorter, what could be more appealing than a Friday night spent relaxing by the hearth with good friends and a warming glass of spirits? It's a scene that...
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Information Diet: Peter Facinelli
What's the first information you consume in the morning? First thing in the morning, I check my email on my iPhone or laptop. What do you read or watch or listen to at the breakfast table? Normally, I...
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Last-Minute Shoppers Like Luxury Brands?
Don’t be too hard on the last minute shoppers in your life. In fact, you should probably encourage their procrastination: New data suggest last minute shoppers just might end up giving the most...
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VeryFunnyAds.com: Van Damme Recalls His Icy-Cold Pants
This week at VeryFunnyAds.com, one of the craziest spots of 2011—the Coors Light ad in which Jean Claude Van Damme stands on a snowy mountainside and waxes poetic about how the beer is a lot like …...
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Pets Try to Figure Out Their Owners in Adoption Ads
Draftfcb in Chicago has provided the Shelter Pet Project with another set of amusing PSAs to promote adoption. In these spots, pets examine the eccentricities of their owners. A cat tries to figure...
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Cannes Lions Launches Mobile Category
The advertising industry’s biggest award show has created a new category for its 2012 event. The Cannes International Festival of Creativity - Cannes Lions - will now feature a category for mobile...
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Don't Co-Sleep With Your Baby, Particularly If He Has a Knife
Look, a baby sleeping with a butcher knife. Awww, how cute! Milwaukee's public-health unit and local agency Serve Marketing produced these controversial ads to warn parents about the dangers of...
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Lowe's Markham Takes Digital Post at Crispin
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has filled a top creative role with Tom Markham, a veteran of Lowe who has worked primarily on Unilever. At Crispin, Markham has become the digital creative director. He’ll...
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Perspective: Just Look at That
Sometimes, the true beauty of a marketing campaign is not so much that it spotlights one of a brand's many dazzling attributes, but makes the best of the only one it's got. That, at any rate, has been...
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