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Man Proposes to Woman via Audio Ad on Pandora
Nerdy couples are awesome. They do nerdy things for each other that cause both of them to squeal in delight. Recently this phenomenon has extended all the way up to nerdy marriage proposals. We've...
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Skechers Settles Deceptive Ad Case With FTC for $40M
When it comes to cracking down on health and fitness claims in ads, the Federal trade Commission isn't sitting on its butt. Skechers' health and fitness advertising claims didn't go the distance with...
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Ogilvy Names Head of Content Strategy
Jonathan Sackett is taking his digital chops to Ogilvy & Mather. After 14 months as chief digital officer at DDB in Chicago, Sackett is assuming a North American role at Ogilvy: managing director...
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Meet the Three Products That Just Won a Place on Walmart's Shelves
Walmart's "Get on the Shelf" contest, which saw more than 4,000 inventors and small businesses compete for the chance to get their product into Walmart stores, has wrapped up, and the winners have...
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Portrait: Walrus
Specs Who Frances Webster, co-founder, managing director; Deacon Webster, co-founder, chief creative officer What Creative boutique agency Where Walrus offices, New York Seven-year-old Walrus, which...
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Perspective: Join the Crowd
In 1943, an anthropologist named Abraham Maslow published a paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation” that, while it appeared only in an obscure academic journal, has since gone on to influence...
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Call Your Doctor If This 'Workaholics' Billboard Lasts More Than 4 Hours
Comedy Central's "Fully Torqued" phallic billboard on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard touting the new season of its Workaholics sitcom is awfully silly. TMZ claiming that its coverage of the sign is an...
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Condom Maker Asks Women What They Won't Put in Their Vaginas
Sir Richard's condoms, last seen defending the honor of sluts everywhere, is back with another provocative campaign from ad agency TDA_Boulder, this time asking women to share "rules about what they...
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Land Rover's Survival Guide: You Can Eat It in Case of Emergency
Automakers are getting ever more inventive with the literature they package with new vehicles. In the U.K., we saw the guide to Britain's tiny roads that came free with Volkswagen's compact Up! car....
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Skechers Pulls Shoes Ahead of Ad Industry Review
Skechers, the fitness shoemaker that just agreed to a $40 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over deceptive advertising charges, quietly pulled its toning shoe for girls from its...
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Ad of the Day: Staples
Office-supply ads in the U.S. aren't generally known for their subtle wit. In Argentina, it's another story. A new Staples spot from David, the Ogilvy & Mather-owned ad agency that opened in...
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Guinness QR Cup Reveals Scannable Code When Full
QR codes have been exhibiting an uncharacteristic characteristic lately—they've been not sucking as much. We had the Korean retailer's 3-D sunlight-activated QR code, which was scannable only at...
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Mindshare Adds Lee Doyle in Expanded Management Team
Last September, when Lee Doyle left his role as the head of WPP’s MEC media network, the company said he would stay within the corporate fold in what was then an undefined role. That’s now borne out...
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Real-Life Lightsabers Cause a Disturbance in the Force
Wicked Lasers is narrowly avoiding a cease and desist from LucasFilm with its LaserSabers, which come in two varieties (Krypton and Arctic) and are powered by a magnetic gravity system that can raise...
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Perky 'Trudy' Drives True Lemon Push
A perky, energetic character named “Trudy” is central to Roth Partners’ first work for True Lemon, a natural lemon flavoring for water that’s looking to steal share from bigger players like Crystal...
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Avert Your Eyes From Kayak's Crazy Dilated-Pupils Guy
Goofy pupils aside, this new commercial for travel website Kayak—the latest in a series of absurd spots from ad agency Barton F. Graf 9000—has a bit of a blurred vision. Why did the guy think dilating...
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Ad of the Day: Nike
Nike had a huge advertising success at the 2010 World Cup with "Write the Future," the epic soccer spot that won the 2011 Film Grand Prix at Cannes for Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam. (It didn't work out...
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Friskies Finally Addresses the Terrible Epidemic of Cat Boredom
Friskies is taking aim at the national "CATastrosphe" known as Cat Boredom, or CB. "There's nothing more tragic than a blasé cat," Chris Parnell explains in the video below. So true. Luckily, Friskies...
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Finalists Await Decision in Southwest Review
Can Arnold win its fourth pitch in four weeks? The Havas agency, which is on a mcgarrybowenesque roll, awaits a decision in Southwest Airlines' creative review after landing the creative accounts of...
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