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Ad of the Day: IBM
IBM and Ogilvy make a big impact with the smallest of building blocks in their latest video, billed as "the world's smallest movie"—a rudimentary stop-motion animation made by IBM scientists using a...
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Copywriter Publishes a Book of Tweets, Gets Amish Guy to Advertise It
Keith Wisniewski, a writer and associate creative director at Publicis Seattle, likes being funny on Twitter. So, he went ahead and published a book of what he considers his most hilarious tweets. Too...
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JCPenney's Brutally Honest New Ad: 'It's No Secret' That You Hate Us
JCPenney is looking to bounce back from an absolutely wretched 2012, when it shed customers at an astonishing rate. But first, it wants to say sorry. In this admirably honest new commercial—the first...
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Patricia Field Named Second 2013 Honorary Clio Winner
The Clio Awards has named stylist and designer Patricia Field a winner of this year's Honorary Clio Award. Field is the second recipient of the award to be named this year, after musician and...
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Eddie Bauer Has New Creative Agency
Eddie Bauer, which has been redefining itself since emerging from bankruptcy in 2009, tapped Publicis Seattle as its new lead creative agency after a review. It could not immediately be determined...
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Domino's New Site Lets You Watch Live Stream of Pizza Being Made Somewhere in...
Life just got more stressful for the workers at a Domino's Pizza restaurant in Salt Lake City. That's because that particular location is the guinea pig for the chain's new Domino's Live experiment,...
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Infographic: Is a Barbie Body Possible?
Four out of five 10-year-olds say that they're afraid of being fat; 42 percent of girls in first through third grade wish they were thinner; half of girls aged 9 or 10 claim that they feel better...
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Glamour Hires First Digital Art Director
Glamour has hired its first digital art director, a move that underscores its effort to reach the digital natives craved by the fashion brand and its advertisers. Yvonne Lao will oversee product...
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Mountain Dew Fiasco Shows Brands Desperately Want Street Cred
Mountain Dew's problems with racial sensitivity this week culminated with the pulling of its "Felicia the Goat" spot today, after suffering similar marketing damage when the family of Emmett Till...
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Reminder: Do Not Show a Man Having Sex With a Pig on Your Billboard
Of all the images to take from British TV series Black Mirror, the one that made a billboard for Australian TV network Studio was of a man doing the underpants Charleston with a pig. Cable provider...
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Mark Sanford Is Latest Victim of an AshleyMadison Billboard Attack
AshleyMadison.com doesn't get political unless there's a sex scandal to exploit, so of course they jumped all over Mark Sanford. Wait, that came out wrong. The extramarital dating website is endorsing...
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Masked Warriors Primp and Pose in Teaser Trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts
There are knights in armor, Aztec warriors, ninjas, samurai and special ops commandos outside. There goes the neighborhood! 72andSunny's trailer for Activision's upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts features...
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How Bentley Blew Past Rolls Royce
The long road of the automotive industry is littered with the wrecks of many a brand that broke down along the way—not just the truly awful ones that never should have left the assembly line (the...
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AdColony Knows the Secret to Better Click-Through Rates
SpecsWho (l. to r.) Mike Owen, chief revenue officer; Will Kassoy, CEO; Nikao Yang, svp, new business development and marketingWhat Mobile video ad platformWhere Los Angeles offices If you’ve ever...
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Crazy Craiglist Ads Seeking Roommates Make You Never Want to Live With Humans...
"The functioning kitchen has a hot plate and we make do just fine." "I will not rent my room to a Ugly ass girl or some crazy looking dude that looks like A crack head." "I would like to assemble a...
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Clio Names Google 2013 Advertiser of the Year
The Clio Awards has named Google its 2013 Advertiser of the Year, Ogilvy & Mather its 2013 Agency Network of the Year and Marcel Worldwide in Paris its 2013 Agency of the Year. The annual...
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Energizer Points Finger at P&G Promotions for Hurting Shaving Market
Energizer, which owns the Schick shaving brand, blamed promotions by competitor Procter & Gamble for declining performance in the shaving category, The Wall Street Journal reported. Ward Klein,...
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Havas Reports Flat Q1 Revenue
Reflecting a slowing of business in North America, Havas reported flat first-quarter revenue of $504 million. Organic growth declined 0.9 percent compared to an increase of 3.5 percent in the...
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Employees Get Tattoos of Company's Logo in Exchange for 15 Percent Raises
Get scarred for life for a little extra cash! That's the tempting offer being floated by New York City's Rapid Realty, which is offering employees 15 percent raises if they get the company's logo...
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Little Debbie's Logo Change Is So Subtle, It Becomes a Spot the Difference Game
Little Debbie did not consult with Gap,JCPenney or any other noted logo overhaulers before updating its own logo—the first tweak to the design since 1985. The change is remarkably subtle, so much so...
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