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Lego Builds Awesome Life-Size Star Wars X-Wing Fighter, Its Largest Model Ever
Lego has unveiled a life-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter jet made entirely of Legos in Times Square. It promotes an upcoming Cartoon Network show called The Yoda Chronicles. You can also see a life-size...
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Ad for 5,000-Case Limited-Edition Beer Will Disappear After 5,000 Views
Here's a clever little gimmick. Australia's Cascade Brewery recently made a limited-edition batch of beer with special "experimental" hops from a secret garden in Tasmania's Derwent Valley. There was...
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Arnold Wins Avocados From Mexico
Mexican avocado producers want consumers to think beyond guacamole and are prepping new marketing initiatives to take the fruit from exotic to everyday use. Avocados from Mexico, the newly-formed...
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Nikola Tesla Takes Down Silicon Valley VCs, but Will It Get Him a Statue?
Some days it seems almost anybody can make an enjoyable video promoting a Kickstarter project, but these guys get bonus points for simultaneously giving the venture-capital system a big poke in the...
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Ad of the Day: VisitEngland
Everyone's favorite British Claymation characters are famously fond of taking trips to far-flung places. In their first Oscar-nominated short, Wallace (a known Wensleydale enthusiast) and Gromit spend...
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Jell-O Hijacks Twitter's Profane #FML Hashtag, Changes It to Mean 'Fun My Life'
The ubiquitous Twitter hashtag #FML (there have been 37,000 #FML-tagged tweets in the past seven days alone) is generally understood to be short for an obscene phrase uttered when things are at their...
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How J.Lo Is Becoming A Wireless Brand
Jennifer Lopez’s partnership with Verizon Wireless to launch a new mobile brand targeting Latinos is a no-brainer when you consider the surging growth rates of those consumers in the U.S. and their...
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Atlanta's Most Infamous Stripper Pimps Charity Advertising Contest
The Creative Circus, Atlanta's advertising school, has hired the most famous, perhaps infamous, stripper in town to pimp its do-goody-goody advertising contest known as A+, where all the winners...
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Justin Bieber Is Sad About a Lot of Things, but Probably Not the Teen...
Today in weird, leechy Justin Bieber news, we have this new billboard that just went up in Los Angeles speculating on the cause of the young pop star's dramatic descent into sadness, as seen in pretty...
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Embattled P&G CEO Out, Replaced by Predecessor
Taking a page from the JCPenney playbook, Procter & Gamble is turning to its former CEO to help save a consumer products giant beset by agitated investors and an R&D pipeline that has fizzled...
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NSA Media Creates Alliance With Wishabi
Newspaper circulation may continue to drop, but one aspect remains a big draw to consumers: ad circulars. NSA Media, the country's largest buyer of newsprint and print circulars, is integrating that...
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Microsoft Humiliates Siri in Biting Parody of Apple's iPad Ads
Microsoft says a mouthful in this ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky. And—surprise!—those words are spoken by Siri, Apple's voice assistant, from an iPad sitting next to a Windows 8 tablet. As the...
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JCPenney One of 10 Brands Predicted to Die in Next Year
As new brands are brought to life in the evolution of various verticals, others will inevitably give up the ghost. While obsolesence related to industrial shifts is the No. 1 killer of outdated...
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Ad of the Day: Dodge
It's the rare commercial that you wish went on longer. But such is the case with this 30-second Dodge Charger spot advertising the Chrysler brand's tie-in with the groundbreaking TV show/video game...
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The Big Items on the FCC’s To-Do List
Did anyone really think that Julius Genachowski wouldn’t leave the media ownership rules for the next guy? Or the always-in-court, nearly impossible to legally defend broadcast indecency rules? Even...
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Marc Maron Talks About Tracking Down an Internet Troll
SpecsWho Marc MaronAge 49New gig Star, writer, producer of the new IFC series MaronContinuing gig Host of the podcast WTF With Marc MaronHow did the idea to do a scripted show come about? I’ve been a...
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Why the New Union Contract Is Good for Everyone
While the advertising industry’s new contract with SAG-AFTRA is still awaiting approval by rank and file members, agencies and talent alike should be closely considering how it is already remaking...
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Marketers Need to Embrace Peer-to-Peer Activities
There’s a group of hardware store employees in the San Francisco Bay Area who embody that sage observation that we humans are not “cisterns made for hoarding—we are channels made for sharing.” They...
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