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87-Year-Old Man Vandalizes Football Field in Taco Bell's Super Bowl Teaser
The star of Taco Bell's upcoming Super Bowl spot certainly has "lived más"—for 87 years and counting. The fast-food chain on Friday released "Grandpa Goes Wild," a 54-second teaser for its big-game...
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Target 'Snacks' Around Super Bowl Spend
Target isn't advertising in the Super Bowl, but the big-box retailer hopes to garner consumers' attention anyway, with a mobile game called Snack Bowl. The virtual game invites players to throw branded...
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Sentient Clock Is Able to Bend Time in Latest Grand Guinness Spot
Time out, Guinness. While I come down on the side of liking the brewer's new cinematic, Peter Thwaites-directed "Clock" spot, I'm fearful that the brand's countdown to self-parody has begun. The...
View ArticleStudy: Prime-Time Spending Wildly Inefficient
A new study from advertising consultancy Simulmedia suggests that there's a large disparity between prime-time ad spending and the actual return on the investment. In the two-week period measured,...
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Ad of the Day: Manwich
These are very, very simple 15-second Manwich ads, but DDB West shot them like a boss. The casting and direction (by Lena Beug of Moxie Pictures) are truly incredible, and it doesn't hurt anything...
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Starbucks Tries to Make You Hate Mondays a Little Less
Starbucks is rebounding from recent image problems in the U.K. (something about tax payments, I think) with this ad for its Monday coffee special. The spot, from AMV BBDO, suggests Monday is actually...
View Article$7 Per Facebook Fan? Seamless Is Cool With That
Seamless is offering Facebook users, Google searchers, general Web viewers and radio listeners $7 discount codes, attempting to drum up new customers during the brutally cold days of January when...
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Kraken Rum Billboards Will Kidnap You and Squeeze You to Death
The Kraken Black Spiced Rum is going with death by giant tentacle as the theme of a pair of 3-D billboards that went up recently in Chicago. On each ad, the brand's namesake mythical beast appears to...
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Let It Bleed: UFC Is Big Business for Fox
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has gone mainstream, and the proof is in the ad inventory. On the eve of Fox’s sixth live UFC showcase, the network is completely sold out for the duration of its...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Brands of the Year
Subway was the top brand in the U.S. for a third year in a row, while two huge tech companies, Google and Apple, which battled privacy issues and product defects, fell down the popularity list. Market...
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Budweiser's First Tweet Asks Fans to Name Baby Clydesdale, Star of Its Super...
Babies are always big at the Super Bowl. This year, Budweiser might have the cutest one. A new baby Clydesdale, born Jan. 16, will star in the Anheuser-Busch brand's traditional 60-second Clydesdales...
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Old People Behaving Badly: It's Taco Bell's Super Bowl Spot
Old people doing absurdly youthful things. It's a time-honored comedy staple that Taco Bell fully embraces in its 2013 Super Bowl spot—a 60-second salute to octogenarian debauchery driven by a...
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Diet Coke Finds Its New Stud, 19 Years After the Old One
He's the real thing. Meet Andrew Cooper, a British model whose shirtless turn as a soda stud in this Diet Coke 30th-anniversary commercial via BETC London is going viral and splashing Cooper's name,...
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Canadian Wheat Board Somehow Manages to Make an Ad That's Too Sexy
The Canadian Wheat Board is in trouble for a print ad that uses a 1969 Gil Elvgren pinup painting to draw attention to a "winter pool" grain sale offer. In other news, there's a Canadian Wheat Board....
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Ad of the Day: Snickers
Eat Snickers, or you will turn into Robin Williams doing John Wayne and Nikita Khrushchev. I cannot stress this enough. Eat Snickers, for the love of God. This isn't a Super Bowl ad, but it could be....
View ArticleJustice Files to Halt Anheuser-Busch Modelo Deal
Budweiser may be the king of beers, but the U.S. Department of Justice is looking to confine the kingdom. The DOJ filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today to halt Anheuser-Busch InBev's $20.1 billion...
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Will Ferrell Smooches His Way Through Another Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Ad
Go Daddy's Super Bowl ad with Bar Refaeli and Jesse Heiman wasn't the only one to feature lots of disturbingly unlikely necking. Check out this Old Milwaukee ad with Will Ferrell, which we're told...
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Despite Blackout, Super Bowl Scores Record Ratings
Despite a 34-minute power outage that left CBS scrambling to impose order in New Orleans, the preliminary ratings suggest that last night’s Super Bowl may be the most-watched in history. According to...
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Jell-O Rubs Pudding in the Wound for 49ers Fans
Hey, San Francisco, are you ready for some PUDDING?! No, really, are you? Because Kraft's Jell-O Pudding plans to send thousands of free cups of the stuff your way today as a consolation prize in the...
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Budweiser Picks Name for Super Bowl Star
Budweiser has settled on a warm-and-fuzzy name for its star Super Bowl horse after receiving more than 60,000 suggestions via Twitter, Facebook and phone calls, the beer brand announced Tuesday. The...
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