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Passersby Supply the Artwork for Red Bull's Jessie Ware Billboard
To promote British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware's latest album Devotion, Studio Moross and Red Bull Studio London proved you don't need black-light paintings or expensive digital setups to make a...
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AKQA Quickly Fills Executive Creative Director Role
AKQA has moved quickly in replacing Pierre Lipton as executive creative director in its San Francisco office, naming Neil Robinson and Stephen Clements to collectively fill the role Friday (Aug. 25)....
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Feds Strike Out on Cigarette Warning Labels
The federal government's proposal to force tobacco manufacturers to place 36 graphic cigarette warning labels on the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packages was struck down by a...
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Jack Bauer Bakes the Hell Out of Cupcakes in Killer Laptop Ad
Kiefer Sutherland gives a fun performance, reviving his Jack Bauer persona from 24, as he bakes cupcakes in this 90-second spot punctuated by car chases, explosions, the actor's trademark intense...
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'Breaking Bad' Mentos Commercial Is Fresh, Full of Life
If a potent new supply of blue Mentos hits the market soon, you'll know why. Here are Walter White and his son, Walt Jr., from Breaking Bad in a hilarious Mentos parody that's all the funnier for its...
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Election-Themed Tostitos Ad Greeted With Bipartisan Ridicule
Here's the frontrunner for 2012's most inane election-themed ad brought to you by a brand that has nothing to do with politics. If Democrats and Republicans would just share a bag of tortilla chips,...
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'Slate' Gets a New Publisher
Online magazine Slate recently created a dedicated sales force to capitalize on its traffic growth, and now it’s getting a new publisher to lead it. Matt Turck, the vp of sales and marketing who built...
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Meredith Corp. Makes Big Digital Hire
Meredith Corp. has made a big bet on digital, and now it’s hired an industry vet to take advantage of it. Carolyn Bekkedahl was named senior vp of digital sales, a new position for Allrecipes.com, the...
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Las Vegas Ads Salute Prince Harry, Denounce the Traitors in His Midst
In a pretzel-like bit of exploitation masquerading as outrage, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released a flood of marketing materials in the past week pretending to be angry about...
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Barbasol, Pure Silk Find a New Agency
A vintage shaving cream brand has found a new home. Barbasol—and sister brand Pure Silk—have landed at GSD&M after a review. The new agency succeeds Xtreme Creative in Phoenix, which handled...
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Ad of the Day: Virgin Mobile
Want to upgrade to a snazzy new Virgin Mobile phone? First, you'll have to creatively dispose of your old one. This enjoyable new spot from Mother in New York shows scene after scene of people...
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Useless Product of the Day: A Spoon for Dunking Cookies in Milk
If you're looking for something to keep your Shake Weight and Comfort Wipe company while they sit, unused, in your closet, you might consider the Dipr, a spoon designed for dunking sandwich cookies in...
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New Audi A4 Is Just 2,500 Twitter Followers Away
Canadian ad agency Lowe Roche and its Toronto car client Pfaff Auto, last seen orchestrating a sneaky/cool direct mail piece for Porsche, are back with another buzzy project. This time, it's a virtual...
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'Bic for Her' Pens Deluged With Sarcastic Reviews on Amazon
The sarcastically adoring Amazon.com review is a time-honored bit of anti-consumerism dating back to the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt and surely further than that. Now, it's Bic's turn to get savaged, as...
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Kraft Spinoff Mondelez Reviews Media
Perhaps it was inevitable. With the spinoff of Kraft Foods’ snack brands into a separate company called Mondelez International, the new company has begun a global review of its media planning and...
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Attack of the Ad Nerds
At 17, Anne Chiu stood in the middle of her family’s tchotchke-filled Brooklyn, N.Y., living room to pitch her father. Since visiting the small ad agency where her uncle worked two years earlier,...
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First Mover: Steve Williams
Specs Age 47 New gig President, PHD, New York Old gig CEO, OMD Group, U.K. How’s the new job so far? The opportunity to learn the U.S. market is a privilege. Lot to learn. It’s a very different scale....
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Droga5 Ups Bauer to Chief Strategy Officer
In an effort to swim insight further upstream in client talks and compete for new business on a larger global canvas, Droga5 has promoted Jonny Bauer, its head of strategy, to the newly created role...
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Excedrin and Tylenol Suffer Recall Headache
It’s enough to give brand marketers a whopping headache. After years of brand advertising around famous slogans such as “Excedrin Headache Number 24,” Excedrin products were voluntarily and quietly...
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The Spot: The Bottle Boy
IDEA: What's the point of a wide-mouth bottle? It makes beer easier to drink. But that's … kind of boring. Couldn't someone think of a more exciting purpose for it, or at least make one up? Enter...
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