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Billboard for Sunglasses That Are 'Happy to Sit on Your Face' Is Removed
This "Happy to sit on your face" billboard, for Spy sunglasses, was supposed to stay up in its Encinitas, Calif., location for five weeks. But it was taken down after just one week due to complaints....
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Honest NFL Logos Take Every Team Down a Notch
Honest logos are a great running gag. Last year we saw that amusing collection of honest brand logos. And now, Grantland gives us this group of honest NFL logos. I don't get half the jokes here, but...
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Pitchfork, Pandora Execs Among Virgin America's New Ad Stars
Now boarding at Gate 11: geeks and nerds! Adland's recent trend of using Silicon Valley stars instead of Hollywood heavyweights and pro athletes—think Best Buy and J. Crew—continues in an interactive...
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Mike's Hard Lemonade Winners Relentlessly Harassed by Bear
It sounded great. A trip for two to Miami to soak up the sun on South Beach, cruise on a private boat, dine at the finest restaurants, and dance with some of the most limber Brazilians. Yes, Mike's...
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LendingTree Selects Creative Agency
Five months after hiring a media agency, LendingTree has found a new lead creative shop. Merkley + Partners won the pitch for LendingTree’s creative account and will break its first campaign in the...
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'The Walking Dead' Hungers for Its 10 Million Facebook Fans
AMC zombie show The Walking Dead just topped 10 million Facebook fans, and is celebrating the only way it knows how—by confirming that it would attack, kill, and consume every last one of them if it...
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S&P Lowers MDC Partners' Rating
Standard & Poor’s lowered its ratings on MDC Partners from B+ to B, with the ratings service saying it expects the holding company’s debt level to remain high over the next 12 to 18 months....
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Ad of the Day: Ally Bank
This week's honors for least likely endorser in a commercial go to Thomas Sargent, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, who, for whatever reason, agreed to shoot one of the new Ally Bank spots...
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Trailer Mash 09-07-12
Television is the new movies, they tell us. But really, movies are often just the best bits of television amped up with the stuff you can't project into people's television sets, as in The...
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Atmosphere Proximity Expands Creative Leadership
Atmosphere Proximity is expanding its top creative ranks with the addition of John Gagné, who becomes a new executive creative director at the New York office of BBDO’s digital, direct and CRM agency,...
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Denis Leary Once Again Strongly Suggests You Buy a Ford F-150
For anyone still stinging over Denis Leary's violent and untimely death at the hands of a giant half-lizard guy in the latest Spider-Man flick (oh sorry, were you waiting for the DVD?), you can catch...
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Meet Adam Reposa: Lawyer, Patriot, Champion, Maker of Insane Ads
Witness this ludicrous commercial for Texas lawyer Adam Reposa titled "Lawyer, Patriot, Champion," wherein he rams his giant Chevy into a Chrysler Cirrus, kicks in the window and repeatedly yells, "I...
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3 Shops Compete for Lionsgate Media
Lionsgate is reviewing its media business in the wake of its acquisition of Summit Entertainment earlier this year. Each studio has its own media agency now and the goal of the process is consolidate...
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The Week on AdFreak: Aug. 31-Sept. 7
The five most-read AdFreak stories from the past week: 5. Men's Clothing Store Called 'Hitler' Agrees to Change Its Name 4. Mitsubishi Identifies Your Most Pretentious Facebook Friends, and Runs Them...
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Kitty Crime Boss Lobotomizes Milkmen in 'Cats With Thumbs' Sequel
An underground crime syndicate of cats kidnaps milkmen, lobotomizes them, and sends them back into the world to steal all the milk in this new "Catnapped" spot for British milk brand Cravendale—a...
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Kellogg's Goes Back to the Land
After completing an overhaul of its master brand earlier this year, food conglomerate Kellogg’s is launching a new return-to-roots campaign, focused on the simplicity of some of its most classic...
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First Mover: Jeff Kling
Specs Age 45 New gig Chief creative officer, Fallon Old gig Executive creative director, Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam Known for Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man” campaign, Miller, Jaguar, Nike work Why...
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Social Anxiety
On a humid night in late July, more than 100 social media managers flooded into a downtown Manhattan workspace—but pizza, beer and rubbing elbows with peers weren’t all that was on the menu. In a...
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Electric Blue
In the mid-2000s, Nilay Shah often heard the same bewildered question from his party-hardy college buddies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. They’d playfully jaw at him as he jumped into the...
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