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Devin Graham Hooks Up With Mountain Dew for New Stunt: a Death-Defying Human...
Devin Graham has always seemed right up Mountain Dew's alley. The director, aka Devin Supertramp, who specializes in building giant outdoor contraptions that fling attractive young people into the...
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Environmental Campaign Suggests Naming Vicious Storms After Climate-Change...
New York ad agency Barton F. Graf 9000 has turned its roguish attention to the issue of climate change, and helped activist group 350 Action with the amusing video below. According to the YouTube...
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Makers of the Squatty Potty on Your Bathroom Habits: You're Doing It Wrong
This "educational video" about the Squatty Potty, which is basically a step stool (ha!) that corrects your toilet posture (tagline: "Healthy colon. Happy life"), feels more like an expertly done...
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Healthy Kids Feast on Unhealthy Foods in Vintage Back-to-School Ads
In the spirit of back to school, let's fatten up our kids and send them into anaphylactic shock! Seems that wasn't much of an issue in the '50s, when fall advertising aimed at lunch-packing moms...
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What It's Like To Wear Google Glass
Among those lucky enough to get their hands on Google Glass this summer is social marketer and CEO of Deep Focus, Ian Schafer. After a couple months trying out his new look, he's ready to share some...
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Haunted Connecticut Ad Agency Has In-House Ghost Writing Its Twitter Posts
Plenty of ad agencies have skeletons in their closet, but Keiler apparently has a ghost haunting the attic of its early 18th century Connecticut farmhouse offices. Naturally, they've put the snarky...
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Chobani Narrows Agency Search List
Chobani has cut its list of creative agency contenders to Droga5 and The Martin Agency and scheduled final presentations for next week. Wieden+Kennedy and BBH had also been participating in the...
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Ad of the Day: Audi Finds a Most Unlikely Endorser in the Boxing Ring
You're not the first guy who climbs into the ring and beats the crap out of the second guy. You're the third guy who makes sure the two muscle machines punching each other in the face are following...
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Jeff Goodby Sings About Agency's New App, Which Lets You Reach Out and Touch...
The techies at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' GSP BETA Group have whipped up a new app, which the agency is now promoting in decidedly offbeat fashion. The app is called Touch Room, and it's...
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Twerking the Hand That Feeds You: Beats Tees Off on Miley Cyrus
"Will somebody please feed Miley Cyrus?" That's the request from one anthropomorphized Beats Pill speaker to another in the commercial below, which aired Sunday on MTV after the pop singer's...
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OpenX Plans to Block Significant Chunks of Web Inventory
As the online ad industry races toward a full-throated embrace of programmatic ad buying, it's been rocked by a set of serious challenges: bot-driven traffic, ghost publishers and charges of...
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Dermablend App Gives You the Skinny on Super-Tattooed 'Zombie Boy'
Zombie Boy rises again! L'Oréal's Dermablend cosmetics brand got 13 million YouTube views for its 2011 "Go Beyond the Cover" video starring the über-tattooed Rick Genest. So, it's no surprise they've...
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Kobe Bryant Brings His Mad Beethoven-Playing Piano Skills to Lenovo Ad
Lenovo has moved on (at least for the moment) from comparing itself to Apple to having Kobe Bryant play Beethoven on the piano with symphonic accompaniment for no reason. Really. There's barely a...
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Taco Bell Brings Doritos Locos Tacos to Canada, Makes Impatient Critics...
Be careful what you say about Taco Bell in Canada. The chain is liable to etch your angry rants on taco shells and force them down your throat. That's what happened in this stunt from ad agency Grip...
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Burger King Takes Laziness to a New Level With Its French Fry Burger
Nothing compliments flame-grilled perfection better than golden fries, right? The problem is, it's too much work to eat a burger, then put it down, and then pick up, dip and eat a french fry. It's...
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Ad Agencies Love LinkedIn But Not SlideShare
When hunting for new business, agency leaders have embraced the use of social media platforms, but only the most established hubs. In a new poll from RSW/US—shared exclusively with Adweek—46 percent...
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H&L and Davis Elen Land Regional McDonald's Accounts
McDonald’s named new ad agencies for a handful of its Eastern regions, covering New England, upstate New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In New England and Albany, N.Y., the fast-food giant's...
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Cutwater Wins Ariat Creative Account
Ariat International, the Union City, California maker of English riding and Western cowboy boots, has selected Cutwater as its lead creative agency after a review. The company had previously worked...
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Ad of the Day: Guerlain Goes to the Ends of the Earth in the Year's Most...
This new ad for French perfume house Guerlain's Shalimar fragrance is perhaps the single most elaborate spot this side of the same director's famous Cartier commercial from last year. Say what you...
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BNY Mellon Agency Review Meetings Set For Next Week
Next week, agencies are scheduled to present to BNY Mellon in its global creative agency search, sources said. It's not clear if the incumbent, Omnicom business-to-business specialist Doremus, has...
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