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Ad of the Day: Lactofree
The folks at Wieden + Kennedy love their spokescreatures. Last year, for Cravendale milk, the London agency filmed a charming pack of scheming cats with a thirst for milk—and opposable thumbs. (ITV...
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Man Crowdsources His Marriage Proposal
It's all about the nerdy marriage proposals this month. Back on Valentine's Day, a guy proposed to his girlfriend via an infographic (with data proving the mathematical rarity of her perfection). Now,...
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Ad for Facebook Pages Has a Major Google Vibe
Facebook is rolling out its new version of Pages, and asked directing collective Strike Anywhere for a commercial to promote it. The results are below—a very Google-like execution mixing dynamic...
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Perspective: Blonde Ambition
Question: What does a bottle of Pepsi from 1957 have in common with a pricey pair of Guess jeans in 2012? Answer: Pretty much nothing—except for tall, blonde and provocatively posed young ladies....
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Portrait: Womenkind
Specs Who Kristi Faulkner (l.), president, co-founder; Sandy Sabean, chief creative officer, co-founder What Creative agency targeting female consumers Where New York Industry pioneer Mary Wells...
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Nothing Sells Air Conditioners Like Flabby Dads in Their Underpants
Conventional wisdom says a montage of fat dads in their underpants is a bad way to sell air conditioners. But Argentine ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi has proven it's fantastic at...
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FDA's New Cigarette Warning Labels Ruled Unconstitutional
The federal government is going to have to find another way to scare smokers. A federal district court judge yesterday ruled unconstitutional the 36 graphic cigarette warning labels that manufacturers...
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Ad of the Day: The Guardian
Newspapers, we know, are under siege. Ravaged, in more ways than one, by the Internet and a digital age they failed to comprehend and adjust to, they're in a death struggle to remain editorially...
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'Foodie' Crispin Porter Adds Applebee's Account
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has become quite the food agency. Burger King is long gone but Domino's is still there, as is Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. And now, a week after Arby's shifted its creative...
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Yahoo Playing Ad Inventory Hardball
How badly does Yahoo want other publishers to join its fledgling sales alliance with Microsoft and AOL? So much so that it’s holding content distribution deals over the heads of some prospective...
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One Agency That Was Really Jumping Up and Down for Leap Day
You probably spent Feb. 29 watching YouTube videos, staring at a blank Word doc, and reading AdFreak. Or maybe you were one of the more than 1800 people who observed Leap Day by jumping up and down to...
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Banksy on Advertising: Guess What? He Doesn't Love It
Hey, I bet you've been wondering what Banksy—the maverick graffiti artist and filmmaker from England—thinks about advertising. Who hasn't?! I'm gonna take a wild stab here and say … he's against it!...
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'Mom, Please Marry Dad!' Pleads Child on Rochester Billboard
In a twist on the typical paid-media marriage-proposal theme, Joe Ferrari (vroom!) popped the question to Laurie Guidice, his girlfriend of six years, on a billboard near Rochester, N.Y., that has a...
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The Force Is With These Rejected 'Star Wars' Merchandise Ideas
Considering George Lucas's impressive mercenary instincts, it's amazing that this list of rejected Star Wars merchandise ideas exists at all, let alone that there's so much gold on it. Who wouldn't...
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3 Artists, 1 Song: Gorillaz, Andre 3000, James Murphy Rock Converse Project
Converse's latest 3 Artists, 1 Song collaboration, orchestrated by Cornerstone, brings together some of the project's biggest names yet: the Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem....
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Venables Bell Launches Biz Consultancy
Venables Bell & Partners is getting into the business consultancy business. The San Francisco shop has launched vpb orange, a unit that will seek to solve business problems and develop new brands...
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Bloody Parking-Lot Crime Scene: A Wrangler Production?
No one falls for the "homemade" video anymore. Most of us see a shaky handheld clip or a piece of "found footage" online and immediately ask which movie or brand it's supposed to be surreptitiously...
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Ad of the Day: Help Remedies
Help Remedies, maker of products like Help I have a headache (painkiller medicine) and Help I've cut myself (adhesive bandages), knows a thing or two about creating an unsettling mood. Its "Take less"...
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Trailer Mash 03-02-12
The overture and finale of rock 'n' roll's ruthless arc is the subject of our impressionistic mashup this week (see above). At one end, there's the view through the shiny eyes of the eager kids on the...
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