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Portrait: Jackson & Partners
Specs Who From left, partners Randy Easterbrook, Mike Jackson and Gary Topolewski What Marketing and communications agency Where Detroit offices Detroit isn’t the advertising mecca it used to be....
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Preparing for the Political Ad Push
Between now and Nov. 6, there will be nowhere to hide from the onslaught of political advertising set to hit more than $3.3 billion on TV. Behind the scenes at TV stations, traffic managers are...
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Acceptance Speech Tips for Emmy Winners, by Parker Posey
If only the Emmy winners this Sunday night would take a cue from Parker Posey, who plays a ridiculously affected and over-the-top acting coach in this parody video about how to accept an award. Man,...
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Baxter the Robot Will Make Your Life Easier, Until You Have No Life
Just in time for the Nostradamus Apocalypse, Rethink Robotics will ship a twin-clawed, $22,000 workaholic hunk of steel and circuitry called Baxter, which the Boston-based company says signals a...
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Cosmetics Company Tries Insulting Customers With Acerbic Makeup Cop
Benefit Cosmetics, a California beauty brand, is trying to market makeup through humor. In its new spot by Portal A, Sarah Colonna, a comedian from Chelsea Lately, bops about on a Segway in a police...
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Secret Service in the Line of Fire in New Pistachios Spot
A hooker sex scandal involving the Secret Service? Delicious! An ad for pistachios poking fun at the situation? Fairly amusing, especially when you let your mind wander to all the potential bad puns...
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Webcomic Xkcd Draws a 46-Foot-Wide Interactive Masterpiece
Sometimes, something comes along that’s so brilliant and creative, you don’t even feel guilty letting it suck away an hour (or more) of your workday. Today, that prize goes to the popular webcomic...
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P&G Shops Line Up for Gillette Account
Gillette’s North American advertising review is shaping up to be a battle of veteran Procter & Gamble shops against relative newbies. Incumbent BBDO and challenger Wieden + Kennedy have only been...
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Jennifer Aniston Reveals All, Including Huge Triplets-Filled Belly, in...
This is better from Smartwater. The Glacéau water brand has used Jennifer Aniston for some time—finally they've produced a piece of content together that feels somewhat fresh. Once again, the premise...
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Before Visa Shift, BBDO Pitched In on Olympics Work
On the heels of its largest Olympic sponsorship in 25 years, Visa is moving its global creative business back to BBDO. The Omnicom agency lost lead worldwide status on the business in 2008 after a...
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Ad of the Day: Honda
Good-deed advertising is frequently a hard sell, but this is an adorable spot from RPA for Honda, showing the automaker secretly booking very, very indie band Monsters Calling Home on Jimmy Kimmel...
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Laying It on Thick
Most dairy brands engaged in the day-to-day battle for survival in the refrigerated section only wish they had the problems that Philadelphia Cream Cheese has. After all, the soft white brick of...
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J&J's Global Creative Review Nears Finish
Johnson & Johnson is close to concluding its global review of creative responsibilities for its over-the-counter brands and sources expect the bulk of the business to be consolidated at three...
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Portrait: Translation
Specs Who (l. to r.) Leeann Leahy, president; Chris Cereda, chief creative officer; John Greene, chief strategy officer; Steve Stoute, founder, CEO What Marketing and communications agency Where New...
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Perspective: Hide That Thing
When Americans got their initial look at the first commercially available television set at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, the eerie, bluish screen glowing before them measured 5 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches....
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Apple Unscathed by Map Flap
Apple's highly publicized maps blunder didn't seem to hurt its image with consumers too much. The company was one of the most-improved brands last month, as measured by YouGov’s BrandIndex, its slick...
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#FirstWorldProblems Hashtag Is Hijacked in DDB's Campaign for Clean Water
Devising a high-impact humanitarian campaign is a first-world problem that DDB New York solves in stirring fashion on behalf of WaterIsLife. With close to 1 million YouTube views in a week, the "First...
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Ad of the Day: Jordan Brand
Chris Paul bursts out of a concrete wall filled with shoe boxes, passes the ball to himself, knocks over a cyclist, makes some woman spill her coffee, sits for a caricature artist, upsets what appears...
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Old Navy Hits 5 Million Facebook Fans, Gives Them 120-by-60-Foot Human Coupon
It's become customary for brands to celebrate milestone fan counts on Facebook with oversized stunts—the bigger the better, to match the swelling number of drooling followers. Old Navy hit 5 million...
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