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Ad Agency Updates Its Facebook Cover Photo Every 15 Seconds
Here's a clever way to make an agency Facebook page a bit more lively. Zaraguza, a digital shop in Bratislava, Slovakia, has created "the world's first real-time Facebook cover" for its page, with a...
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Brut Tries to Get Guys to Quit Facebook With 'Mantervention' App
Since I'm always game for letting the Internet reinforce gender stereotypes for me, I sat through Brut's Mantervention, a Facebook app in which some guy with George Michael stubble lectures you about...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Sept. 7-14
This week, we discovered Santa Claus isn't the only famous resident at Macy's flagship store in New York's Herald Square, milkmen were lobotomized by a crafty kitty crime boss, and an ESPN personality...
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'Boardwalk Empire' Offers NYC Taxi Rides in 1920s Vehicles
If tooling around Manhattan in advertisements for the third-season premiere of HBO's Boardwalk Empire is your idea of a good time, the Uber car service can make that dream a reality. Just download the...
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Horrifying PSA Asks: Are You a Monster When You're Drunk?
Well, here's a lovely bit of emotional carnage for your Friday—a creepy-as-hell PSA from Finnish agency Euro RSCG Helsinki for a charity called Fragile Childhood that shows kids wandering around a...
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Advertising GIF of the Week: The Bouncing Carl's Jr. Burger!
From Carl's Jr.'s Hamblor commercial.
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Ad of the Day: Comcast
Cable companies aren't known for making things easy. I must have 18 different user names and passwords for various Time Warner Cable sites. But now, Comcast is out with some new ads from The Martin...
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Trailer Mash 09-14-12
Is it the time of year? Does the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness inspire insecurities that only the comfiest of comfort cinema can appease? That's how it would appear, based on this week's...
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Jewel Turns One of Her Children's Songs Into an Ode to Walmart
Jewel's life came full circle with the release of her second children's album, The Merry Goes 'Round, when she sang one of the songs during a promotional appearance at Walmart—and changed the lyrics...
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The Adweek 50
There are many (some might say too many) lists of power players in business, often studded with names from the worlds on which we report: media, advertising, entertainment, technology and consumer...
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First Mover: Chris Weil
Specs Age 47 Day job Chairman, CEO, Momentum Worldwide New assignment Chairman, 4A’s(two-year term started in June) Why take on the chairman role at the 4A’s? Aren’t you busy enough? Well, I’m a huge...
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Wieden + Kennedy Wins Its Fourth Straight Emmy, This Time for P&G
Wieden + Kennedy is the Bryan Cranston of ad agencies—when it comes to Emmy Awards, no one else seems to come close. The agency picked up its fourth straight Emmy at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys,...
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Ad of the Day: St. John Ambulance
Few things build sympathy for a character quite like a battle with cancer. Such a battle encompasses three-quarters of this hard-hitting new PSA from BBH London for St. John Ambulance—beginning with a...
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Caine's Arcade, Part 2: Turning One Child's Passion Into a Global Movement
Could the next industrial revolution be powered by cardboard? Pint-sized entrepreneur Caine Monroy is expanding his footprint after making headlines this spring when a short film, "Caine's Arcade,"...
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Dr Pepper's Evolution Joke on Facebook Riles Up Creationists
So, this happened late last week: Dr Pepper posted a dumb joke on Facebook—a visual parody of the infamous 1965 "March of Progress" evolution illustration, with Dr Pepper playing a key role in human...
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This Is How You Suck Up to Your Agency's Visiting Global CEO
Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide CEO Kevin Roberts is in Warsaw, Poland, today to give some sort of seminar on marketing. So, the local Saatchi branch used thousands of Post-it notes to create a giant...
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Fast Chat: GS+P's First Female Partner Margaret Johnson
Margaret Johnson, Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ first new creative partner in over a decade and its first female partner, has worked on nearly every agency account in her 16 years at the San...
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