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What Are Amway’s Ads Really Promoting?
In 1959, the Barbie doll hit store shelves, Cadillac rolled out its biggest fins, and Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, two high school friends from Ada, Mich., began selling soap door to door. Does...
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'Dumb Ways to Die' Returns With Adorably Gruesome Ad for Valentine's Day
Fifteen months and 71 million YouTube views after its storied premiere, McCann Melbourne's "Dumb Ways to Die" train-safety campaign is back with this cute, grotesque little spot for Valentine's Day....
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Is Cadillac's New Ad Totally Inspiring or Completely Repulsive?
In Cadillac's latest commercial from ad agency Rogue, airing during the Olympics, we take a tour of the souped-up American dream while our host (played by Neal McDonough) waxes poetic about the...
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Lovestruck Artist Blankets New York With Posters Looking for Man in Top Hat
Performance artist Maria Luisa Portuondo Vila has been putting "Missing Love" posters in subway stations all over New York City, trying to find some guy in a top hat. Apparently it was love at first...
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Organic Growth Flattens Out for Publicis Groupe
Publicis Groupe, in the process of a merger with Omnicom Group, said organic growth was flat in the fourth quarter of last year, in contrast to a 3 percent rise in the first nine months. The French...
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Pork Board Hires a Multicultural Shop
The National Pork Board is expanding its multicultural marketing efforts and has turned to República to lead the charge. The Miami-based shop will create ads designed to reach Hispanics,...
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NBC Could Hit a Billion in Olympic Ad Revenue [Video]
NBC could strike gold in ad revenue in Sochi, we find out how the agency Royale got where it is today, and Robert Klara tells us what Amway is really promoting. Winter Olympics Update: NBC Is in the...
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Ikea Lights Up a Forest in Gorgeous Ad Celebrating Move to Energy-Efficient...
Ikea planted lots of LED lamps in the woods for this 60-second commercial for the U.K. and Ireland touting the home-furnishing company's commitment to sustainability. Created by Mother London and...
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Cadbury Can (and Will) Boogie in This Charming Ad
Cadbury and Fallon London, the pair that brought us the Internet's legendary drumming gorilla, are back with a charming spot called "Yes Sir, I WILL Boogie in the Office." As many of us have likely...
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Ad of the Day: Coca-Cola Brings U.S.-Russia Olympic Rivalry to Space
Have you heard the one about the astronaut and the cosmonaut watching hockey together in the International Space Station during the Olympics? The American team scores against the Russian team, and the...
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Pancreatic Cancer Ads Blasted for Saying Disease Is Worse Than Other Cancers
Pancreatic Cancer Action has issued a thoughtful, heartfelt defense of its controversial U.K. awareness campaign that shows sufferers saying they wish they had other types of cancer with higher...
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Angry Birds Maker Hatches In-Game Video Ad Plan
Angry Birds is getting ready to introduce in-game digital video ads in an expansion of its advertising products that the company will unveil soon, according to Michele Tobin, Rovio’s head of...
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P&G Ads Are Taking Olympic Gold and Facebook Users Love Skiing
Here comes the Olympics data. AceMetrix today unveiled numbers that bode extremely well for Procter & Gamble, which takes the top three spots in its Top 10 rankings for Winter Games TV spots. The...
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Adweek's Top 5 Commercials of the Week: Feb. 7-14
It's Valentine's Day, and marketers have been tugging at your heartstrings all week with candy-coated, cute appeals. Also, the Winter Olympics continue to prove excellent fodder for major brands. All...
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Ad of the Day: Don't Watch This North Face Video If You're Even Mildly Afraid...
It's just kind of weird helping your friend do something that you know could potentially lead to his death." So says videographer and climber Cedar Wright, as the camera pans over a graveyard in the...
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PTTOW Expands Marketing Roster for Annual Getaway
The marketing world is a game of one-upmanship: Who can put on the better show and deliver the bigger surprise? So when your audience is leaders in marketing, how do you wow them? That’s where Roman...
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2 Guys Named Brad Head to BarrettSF
Back in the day, the hot creative team at Fallon (and later, Mother) was an inseparable duo known simply as the Swedes. Well, now barrettSF has the Brads. Brad Kayal and Brad Phifer, a creative team...
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Univision Adds 'La Fabrica' Division to Its Video Portfolio
Univision is launching a digital arm called La Fabrica, a Spanish and English-language initiative that will produce original Web video series. While Boris Gartner, vp of La Fabrica, told Adweek that...
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Havas Reports Flat Revenue in 2013
Havas, blaming the company’s performance in North America, said 2013 revenue was $2.4 billion, and fourth-quarter revenue came in at $703 million, which was slightly down from the year-earlier period....
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You Won't Believe How This Magazine Replied to a Photographer's Copyright Claim
UPDATE: We've received responses from both Survival Magazine (which is online only had says it has no print edition) and the photographer. You can read their statements at the bottom of this post....
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