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GM Hits Runway to Get Women on the Roadway
To get women in the driver’s seat in the 1950s, General Motors hired the “Damsels of Design,” an all-female team of auto designers who created female-friendly models like the Chevy Impala Martinique...
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Tony Scott's Final Commercial, for BBDO and Diet Mountain Dew
Tony Scott, who committed suicide on Sunday at age 68, directed hundreds of ads—many of them award winners—through RSA Films, his and brother Ridley's commercial production company. Here's his final...
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Rum Ad Pities the Catfish and Its Gazillion Wasted Taste Buds
Here's one commercial that sort of got away from its creators. And that's a shame, because the animated catfish in this Bundaberg Red spot by Leo Burnett Sydney is a nice catch. The creature is...
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A Day in the Life of an Ad-Agency Developer, in 101 Seconds
If you thought AMC's The Pitch was unglamorous, check out this clip of an ad-agency developer's typical day—condensed from 10 hours down to 1 minute and 41 seconds. The developer, Nick Zwinggi of...
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The Invisible Bike Helmet: A Collar That Inflates Into an Airbag
Two Swedish design students, Anna Haupt and Terese Alpin, decided to reinvent the bicycle helmet as an exam project, and the three-minute movie about their journey from initial concept to finished...
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Ad of the Day: Guinness
Arthur's Day isn't quite as historic as St. Patrick's Day. The latter has been celebrated for centuries, while the former was invented in 2009 by Guinness as a fabricated holiday honoring its founder,...
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Ads on Toilet Paper, for Marketing's Real Bottom Feeders
Are you brave enough to put your brand logo and advertising message right where you customer can, and surely will—let's be frank here—smear it with his own excrement? Jordan and Bryan Silverman trust...
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Jay Cutler Is Fashion Guru in Ad for NFL Women's Apparel
It looks like Jay Cutler has learned a thing or two from baby mama Kristin Cavallari when it comes to fashion. And that would be: Don't argue with women about it. In this amusing new spot from Grey,...
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The Spot: Sitting Pretty
IDEA: British furniture maker DFS has traditionally used its massive ad budget—some $130 million a year—mostly to annoy people. Its obnoxious, price-led, hard-sell messaging bludgeoned viewers into...
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A New Spin on an Old Topic
Pfizer, like Dove and Prudential before it, has gone topical. The pharma giant’s new corporate image effort eschews gauzy TV ads in favor of a microsite (www.GetOld.com) where consumers can find and...
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VW Beetle Turned Into Underwater Shark Cage for Shark Week
Volkswagen's shark-cage Beetle, built by Deutsch and MediaCom for a recent promotional tie-in with the 25th anniversary of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, looks aqua-futuristic in the video below...
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Axe Gets Back to Being Axe in New Spot With Headless Pair of Breasts
For those who were concerned that Axe's "Susan Glenn" spot represented a concerted effort by the brand to renounce its moral turpitude and embrace a measure of sophistication, fear not: This new Axe...
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JWT Atlanta Goes Soap for Scana
JWT Atlanta today launched an advertising push for regional gas and electric provider Scana, in what the agency is describing as the first major campaign produced under its new creative leadership....
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Todd Akin Asks for Forgiveness in New Campaign Ad
Todd Akin, the Republican Senatorial candidate in Missouri who's under fire for claiming a woman's body can fend off pregnancy after a "legitimate rape," released this TV spot on Tuesday in an attempt...
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Nike Giving Away Weird Shoes to Weirdest 'ParaNorman' Fans
Nike and Laica Studios are reaching out to weirdos with a Twitter contest promoting the movie ParaNorman, which hit theaters last week. Fans who follow ParaNorman's official Twitter account...
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Gannett to Buy Ad Firm Blinq Media
Social advertising startups keep selling. The latest is Blinq Media, a social media ad technology player whose suitor is Gannett Co. An all-cash deal, which a source said could be worth as much as $60...
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Ad of the Day: Samsung
James Franco would like you to know that it's great to be James Franco. What else is new, you say? Samsung is now paying Franco to play himself, in a new video from Cheil, also directed by Franco,...
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