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James Lipton Is Finally a Bravo-lebrity in Network's New Summer Spot
James Lipton is a national treasure, damn it, but the erudite TV host gets precious little respect—or promotion—from his own network. Until now. Lipton lines up his first cameo in Bravo's splashy...
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Wieden Repeats as Grand Effie Winner
Wieden + Kennedy beat back an unusually long list of finalists to win the Grand Effie tonight for its “Imported from Detroit” campaign for Chrysler. The winner emerged from a pack of 10 finalists...
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Burning for You
Even if you’ve never smoked a cigarette, you know that...sound. It happens when the stainless steel lid pops open under the pressure of the cam spring—a crisp, metal-on-metal “click” that precedes the...
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John Malkovich Finds a New Best Friend, Siri, in Pair of iPhone Ads
For those of you who were getting a little tired of Zooey Deschanel's iPhone commercial with Siri—you know who you are—here's a breath of fresh air. John Malkovich has stepped into the campaign, by...
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Marriott International Launches Creative Review
Marriott International is reviewing advertising for flagship brand, Marriott Hotels & Resorts, according to sources. The brand's annual media spending is estimated at $15 million. The incumbent,...
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Getty Images Uses 873 Pictures to Tell One Amazing Story
Brazilian ad agency AlmapBBDO uses 873 stills, all from the archive of Getty Images, to tell the story of a life in this 60-second film. The pictures—of different people and locations—were culled from...
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David Beckham Bends It Like Beethoven in Samsung Ad
I learned two things from this Cheil USA ad for the Samsung Galaxy Note—namely, that Samsung has an Olympic Games ambassador, and that it's David Beckham. Who else would it be, really? After...
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How Will You Punch Miller Lite's Punch Top Can?
Miller Lite's revolutionary Punch Top can, which may completely reinvent the way high schoolers shotgun beers, frankly deserved better than the few desultory Draftfcb ads it got at last month's...
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Chain Offers Free Pizza If You Order in Spanish
The "Speak English or leave" fringe of anglo America has a new reason to hate Spanish speakers: They get free pizza. Texas-based chain Pizza Patron has announced it will give a free large pepperoni...
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Ad of the Day: Prada
What do you get when you combine a controversial director, a pair of iconic British actors, and a famous Italian fashion house? That question was answered this week at the Cannes Film Festival, where...
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Rodale's 'Best Life' Making Comeback
It’s the season for reviving defunct brands. Health and fitness publisher Rodale is bringing back Best Life, the high-end men’s lifestyle magazine that it folded in 2009, Adweek has learned. With...
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VW Advertises on Knockoff YouTube Videos to Tout Original Auto Parts
To promote Volkswagen's original auto parts, Brazilian ad agency AlmapBBDO slapped banners on popular homemade YouTube clips—mostly spoofs, parodies and wacky foreign interpretations of...
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Man Headbutts Wife in Horrible Ad for Social-Event Website
Here's your daily dose of horrible violence against women in advertising—a Portuguese commercial for a social-events website in which a husband gives his wife a nasty headbutt. Lovely. Adweek's...
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Ad of the Day: ESPN
Seventeen years after his untimely death from cancer at age 52, it's nice to see TV painter Bob Ross back on television, if briefly, in this amusing new ESPN commercial from Wieden + Kennedy in New...
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Trailer Mash 05-25-12
Seen The Avengers? Good. So, here are your options for movie watching this week as they have presented themselves in trailer form. Mashup by Sara Gardephe. Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity 3 is...
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Sun Life Financial Briefs Finalists
Sun Life Financial has briefed the finalists for its creative and media business, with final presentations slated for next month. Sources identified the contenders as Doremus, Connelly Partners and...
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Swedish Ad Celebrates the Sweet, Sweet Music of Condoms
This pro-condom ad that art and production studio Kollektivet Livet made for Swedish sex advocacy group RFSU was never used, which is a shame because it was a neat idea. The music is arranged in an...
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Lemonade Brand Tracks Down Lost Actress for Remake of '70s Ad
Way back in the 1970s, British lemonade brand R. White's made an ad in which a woman follows her husband down to the kitchen in the middle of the night and discovers he is a total dork. Oh, and that...
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Best Corporate Apology Ever Posted to Twitter?
Sainsbury's has this whole Twitter thing down cold. Earlier today, popular U.K. blogger October Jones complained that his chicken sandwich from the grocery chain "tastes like it was beaten to death by...
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