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Crazy Mom and Silent Dad Return in Hill Holliday's Safeco Spots
In Hill Holliday's new Safeco Insurance spots, an uber-complain-y mom—introduced in a popular ad a while back—bitches about her grownup kids' affinity for stuff like motorcycles, RVs and ultra-modern...
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Purina Goes Upbeat at Westminster
Néstle Purina is bringing a new, upbeat message to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, thanks to ad agency Leo Burnett. The brand launched a new campaign for its Pro Plan products, starting with a...
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Like an Adult in Toy Store: Hasbro Shows Off Its Wares To Collectors
The Hasbro Fan Media day at New York's annual Toy Fair is more or less what it sounds like - a motley collection of bloggers, amateur photographers and fan site administrators whose interest in Hasbro...
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5 Romantic Ads for Valentine's Day That Aren't Too Sappy
Most love-themed commercials at this time of year pour on the treacle so heavily, they're more sickly than sweet. Here are five exceptions—romantic ads that actually won't make you feel ill. Happy...
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We Interrupt This Love Affair for an Important Announcement
For Valentine's Day, College Humor aims its arrows at hearts all aquiver, reworking famous public-service campaigns as cautionary warnings about relationships. A goofily grinning guy serves his...
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PlayStation Lets You Shoot Up a Real Ice Cream Truck From the Internet
PlayStation's Twisted Metal, its longest-running exclusive franchise, is releasing a new game. To promote it, they're letting you remotely shoot the bejesus out of a real-life version of the ice-cream...
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Ad of the Day: Whole Foods Market
If you're an awkward, love-starved guy pushing 30, Whole Foods wants to help you find a date. The health-focused supermarket giant is poking a little friendly fun at itself, and its clientele, with...
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Microsoft Looks to Socialize Display Ads
From the sounds of Social Media Week, everyone wants to socialize everything–possibly even capitalism itself–but on Tuesday (Feb. 14), Microsoft took aim at a more realistic target: display...
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Ford Sneaks a Fake Swimsuit Model Into 'Sports Illustrated'
Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue hits newsstands today. And while it's full of scantily clad models in bikinis, one young woman is not who she appears. As Creativity reports, a Ford print...
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Raunchy Skittles Couple Welcome a Surprise Reese's Pieces Baby
Cousins, the directors who did the crazy unauthorized, NSFW Skittles spot last year, are back with a sequel. (Spec work seems to be their specialty.) The couple who were having Skittles sex in the...
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Portfolio: A City Connected
Who better to capture a day in the mobile life of New York than one of the city’s most individual observers? Best known for his 2009 cover of The New Yorker, the first for a major magazine created...
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Man Proposes to Woman Using an Infographic
Here's some more Valentine's Day goodness—an infographic proposal of marriage from Drake Martinet, associate editor at D: AllThingsDigital, to Stacy Green, vice president of marketing and...
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Find Your Facebook Valentine—the Person Who 'Likes' You Most Often
Y&R New York and VML have whipped up a simple little Valentine's Day app called Who, Like, Likes You? that lets you discover your Facebook Valentine—i.e., the Facebook friend who has "liked" more...
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Purina's Latest Ad Leaves Dog Lovers a Blubbering Mess
A good ad can make you laugh, but a great ad can make you cry. By that standard, Purina and Leo Burnett's "Inside Every Good Dog Is a Great Dog," set to the Tony Rogers song "Great," is a pretty great...
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Breckenridge Brewery Spoofs Corona, Dos Equis Ad Campaigns
These low-budget "Truth in Beervertising" spots from Denver's Breckenridge Brewery via Cultivator Advertising & Design do a so-so job of spoofing well-known commercials from a pair of industry...
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'Grab Some Goodby' Touts Talent From Agency's Recent Layoffs
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners endured painful layoffs in recent weeks, letting at least 100 people go after losing Sprint and parting ways with Hewlett-Packard. Now, a former Goodby employee who...
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Ad of the Day: Kayak.com
For its latest Kayak.com commercial, Barton F. Graf 9000 and director Harold Einstein fall back on that timeless old comedy chestnut—the grotesque medical experiment. Seems our brain-surgeon hero...
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Adele Is Everywhere, Including This Adorable Target Ad
I didn't watch the Grammys, which is fine, because I've already heard Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," and didn't feel an overwhelming need to hear it again on the show, see it win countless awards—and...
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Cablevision's Optimum Seeks 'Voice' in Creative Search
Product-focused, transaction-orientated advertising apparently isn’t moving the needle enough for Cablevision’s Optimum brand. The cable giant is now seeking a broader brand image campaign to...
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