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Ellen's Elves Ad for JCPenney Gets Added Bonus of a Protest
Ellen DeGeneres lets all sorts of groan-inducing, size-based bon mots innocently fly as she exhorts Santa's elves to make more toys for a seasonal giveaway contest in this JCPenney spot. But the...
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AmEx Flies the Flannel on Twitter
New York-area fans of Soundgarden could be in for a Twitter treat, as the grunge band has teamed with American Express to make its concert tickets cheaper than a flannel shirt. If AmEx customers sync...
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Ad of the Day: ESPN
Listen up, wankers. Two British soccer fans would like a word. While their French counterparts are spending their time moronically knee-skidding through wheat fields in ecstasy, the fans of Manchester...
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Hot Wheels Packages Real Cars Like Toys in Parking Lots
Hot Wheels came up with this idea for a great public stunt—assembling giant Hot Wheels boxes around people's cars in parking lots and letting them take pictures of them when they came out of the...
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Trailer Mash 12-07-12
As Helena Bonham Carter's genetically accurate rendition of Elizabeth in The King's Speech fades from memory, there's a new Queen Mother in town—England's rather splendid Olivia Colman. Perfectly cast...
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Newcastle's 'Subtexter' Puts Honest Captions on Your Crappy Photos
On the heels of College Humor's viral Instagram parody set to Nickleback, Newcastle Brown Ale is offering an app called The Subtexter—part of its ongoing "No bollocks" campaign from Droga5—that lets...
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Payless Meets With Creative Shops
Payless ShoeSource is meeting with agencies about its creative business with the goal of hiring a new lead agency. The review has reached the semifinalist stage, with Payless executives still in the...
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The Week on AdFreak: Nov. 30-Dec. 7, 2012
The five most-read AdFreak posts from the past seven days: 5. Eau de Pizza Hut, the Chain's New Perfume, Smells Like Freshly Baked Dough 4. Swedish Toys R Us Catalog Tries to Blur Gender Roles 3....
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First Mover: Robert Harwood-Matthews
Specs Age 42 New gig President, TBWAChiatDay, New YorkOld gig Group president, TBWA U.K.As soon as you arrived at TBWAChiatDay N.Y., one of the agency’s largest clients, Vonage, went into review....
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Agency Expansion Plan
"I’m based in San Francisco and on United Airlines,” says AKQA chairman Tom Bedecarré, sitting in the client lounge at his agency’s New York office. “That’s what I like to say.” It’s a laconic but...
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Droga's Delicious World
Some 400 members of Mondelez International’s global team huddled in Istanbul two months ago to talk about the company’s future. It was their first meeting since Kraft spun off the new snack foods...
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Editor's Letter: Get in the Picture
We go through this funny dance as part of our Agency of the Year selections every year, resulting in reports here on the global (Wieden + Kennedy), U.S. (Droga5) and digital (AKQA) winners for 2012....
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Wieden, Beyond 'Halftime'
It takes a fool to create something ingenious, says Chrysler global marketing chief Olivier François. In other words, if you’re blissfully unaware of boundaries, you may create something...
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'F This Job,' Writes Agency Social-Media Manager … on Client's Facebook Wall
Bozeman, Mont: Great place to visit. Even better place to leave? The Montana Office of Tourism has been in damage-control mode since Friday, when it posted this status update to its official Facebook...
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Holiday Cheers vs. Jeers as Pennsylvania Lottery Remakes 20-Year-Old...
Nothing says happy holidays like killing off a much-loved old commercial and replacing it with something almost identical yet totally different. The Pennsylvania Lottery has updated its "12 Days of...
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Game Maker Kills App That Let You Mock-Assassinate Your Facebook Friends
Japanese video-game maker Square Enix tried to advertise its game Hitman: Absolution by allowing you to pretend to put a hit on your Facebook friends for a variety of appalling reasons. The...
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Ad of the Day: Cisco
On Friday, Cisco CEO John Chambers met with financial analysts to outline the company's ambitions to become the world's leading IT player by expanding its services and software offerings. Today, Cisco...
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Google Tops Nike for Most Online Video Shares in 2012
Google's videos have always attracted a mass following on the Internet, partly thanks to the tech giant's massive online ecosystem. But the company truly broke through in 2012, with the hugely viral...
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