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Fast Chat: Tom Doctoroff
Tom Doctoroff is one of the most influential Western ad men in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. The JWT Greater China CEO is a Mandarin speaker who has lived on the Chinese mainland for 14...
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World's Highest Water Slide Has a Crazy Long Ad to Match
Beach Park, a water park in Brazil, has the highest water slide in the world—an insane 14-story-tall structure called, appropriately enough, Insano. The fearless riders on Insano reach speeds of 65...
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Swedish Hotel Now Accepting Artwork as Payment for Rooms
In a promotion that seems itself to a form of art, a hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, has announced that it will now accept art as payment for staying in its rooms. The Clarion Hotel took its inspiration...
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GE Marketing Exec Judy Hu to Retire
Judy Hu, the global executive director of advertising and branding at General Electric, is retiring from the conglomerate after 10 years, the company confirmed. Linda Boff has been named the new...
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5 Hilarious Fake Magazine Covers Work as Terrific Decoys
Wait, Cockhandler is not a real magazine? Not even at Condé Nast? That unsavory publication, which ostensibly follows the fowl business of cockerel and hen farming, is one of five fake "undesirable"...
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Did Volkswagen Steal a Band's Sound for Polo Ad?
With the subject of ad agencies ripping off artists fresh in our minds, let's have another look at this British Volkswagen spot from DDB London, which we covered in our Ad of the Day section last...
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Ad of the Day: Google Play
As we've noted a couple of times before, Google is quite fond of giving old-school demonstrations using near-obsolete technologies to explain, metaphorically, the mystical inner workings of its own...
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McCann Changes N.A. New Business Execs
McCann Erickson continues its search for a rainmaker to help the agency reverse its new-business fortunes. Barbara Yolles, chief growth officer for the past year, is leaving McCann and Alex Lubar,...
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Harvey Nichols Ads Advise Against Wetting Oneself Over Sale
It's a shame Harvey Nichols doesn't sell adult underpants to go with its chic fashions. It seems customers might need the protection, given the urinary trouble the British retailer expects in reaction...
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Trailer Mash 06-08-12
Welcome to your weekly preview of new-movie releases based solely on their trailers. This week, we open with the entirely appropriate union of Prometheus and Madagascar 3 in the mashup above, by Mac...
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The Spot: Lost in the Supermarket
IDEA: New World, a New Zealand supermarket chain, recently established a national marketing team, replacing a regional model, and wanted new ads that would live up to the feeling of enchantment in the...
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Giant Facebook Photo Mosaic Celebrates 40 Years of Title IX
The celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal rule that requires equal support for women's college athletics, espnW is asking thousands of women on Facebook to contribute photos to a...
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Sweden Hands Off Its Twitter Account to Citizens, and Things Get Weird
The people of Sweden would like you to visit Sweden. It is, like most tourist destinations, a lovely place, filled with breathtaking natural landscapes and a rich cultural history. Unlike most tourist...
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Comcast Must Back Off Internet Speed Claims
Comcast needs to slow down its advertising claims that its Xfinity Internet service is the "fastest in the nation," per a recommendation from the National Advertising Division, the ad industry's...
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Ad of the Day: Subaru
Sometimes love takes you places you weren't quite expecting, says Subaru. Maybe it's because you're a grounded wife chasing your roguishly obnoxious hot-air-balloon-pilot husband to wherever the wind...
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Google Ad Confirms Hall & Oates Should Have Called It 'Mangobbler'
As a rule, any enterprise that offers even a remote possibility of reviving interest in—and by extension, promoting the present-day playing of—songs by annoying '80s blue-eyes soulsters Hall &...
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20 Spots Vying for the Film Grand Prix: Which Is Your Favorite?
The Film Grand Prix at Cannes perhaps isn't quite as glamorous as it used to be—following the addition of Titanium some years ago. But it's still a hugely coveted prize, pitting the world's best TV...
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Max Page, Volkswagen's Little Vader, to Have Open-Heart Surgery
Max Page, the 7-year-old who played Little Vader in Volkswagen's hugely popular 2011 Super Bowl spot, will undergo open-heart surgery Wednesday for a congenital heart defect, according to a note from...
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