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Keep Your Legs Warm With Temptations Cat Treats
Cats go mad for Temptations cat treats—perhaps a bit too mad, judging by this new commercial for the Whiskas brand from DDB Chicago and directors the Perlorian Brothers. Not only will Temptations make...
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Taco Bell Whips Up QR Codes From Lemons and Avocados
Taco Bell has just launched a new Cantina Bell menu, partnering with chef Lorena Garcia to create gourmet-inspired bowls and burritos featuring new ingredients for Taco Bell (including whole black...
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Taco Bell Airlifts a Ton of Tacos Into Remote Alaskan Village
With the pungent, gut-grinding scents of Taco Bell wafting on the icy breeze and the bass-heavy beat of Pitbull soon to shake snow from the trees, rural Alaska is getting more like the Lower 48 every...
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Jose Canseco Celebrates Not Cheating in Old Milwaukee Ads
After airing a handful of great Will Ferrell ads in a few small cities last year (and one more during the Super Bowl in a single Nebraska town), it appears Old Milwaukee is back with another amusing,...
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Ad of the Day: Sprite
There are only so many gigantic soda brands that can really be the beverage of nonconformists. And by so many, we mean zero. Dr Pepper has long cast itself as the choice of individuals, though not all...
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Kraft to Kids: Stop Wasting Those Noodles on Macaroni Art!
Every day, thousands of boxes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheeese are wasted in the name of children's pointless macaroni art. No longer! "Dinner, Not Art," a new tongue-in-cheek campaign from Crispin...
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Ad of the Day: McDonald's
The time difference with London will be exhausting and exasperating for people in some parts of the world as they try to watch the Olympic Games this summer. But instead of whining about it, DDB New...
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Coke's Happiness Islands, the Internet Ocean's Most Pleasant Archipelago
Looking to waste a little time on the Internet today? (Of course you are.) Take a trip over to Coca-Cola's Happiness Islands, a friendly little "sitelets archipelago" in the vast Internet ocean. Each...
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McDonald's Chef Shows You How the Big Mac's Sauce Is Made
Ahh, McDonald's secret sauce … so zesty on the palette, so testy in the digestive tract. In this video from McDonald's Canada, the chain's executive chef, Dan Coudreaut, shows us how the sauce is...
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Vending Machine Reveals Depths to Which People Will Sink for Free Snacks
What would you do for Fantastic Delites? I'm sorry, the phrase they're using is, "How far will you go for Fantastic Delites?" Same dif. The point is, would you mash a button 100 times for a free bag...
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Twix Unveils Rivalry Campaign, Pitting Left Bar Against Right Bar
An election year would seem an auspicious time to launch an ad campaign pitting right against left in a petty war whose origins are obscure and whose resolution seems all but impossible. We're...
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Ad Agency Creates a Cookbook You Can Actually Eat
I can't believe I'd never seen an edible cookbook until German ad agency Kolle Rebbe made one. How do I miss these things? The agency made this specific edible cookbook for a publishing-company client...
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KFC Urges Loser College Grads to Stop Living With Their Parents
There are a lot of different labels now for breaded, deep-fried bits of chicken sold at fast-food joints. They're called popcorn chicken, chicken stars, chicken tenders, meat slurry. But there's...
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Ikea Now Brewing Its Own Beer
Ikea is selling its own beer at its retail stores in Britain, because manufacturing furniture, gross meatballs and entire suburbs wasn't enough to satisfy its Norse megalomania. They call the in-house...
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Catalina: Marketers Waste Millions on Wooing Demos
Nearly a century after John Wanamaker first gave voice to the entropic theory of advertising, marketers remain in thrall to a fundamentally profligate system. “Half the money I spend on advertising is...
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Burger King Scrambling After Feet-in-Lettuce Photo Hits Web
It only takes a few bad apples, along with some dirty lettuce, to give a fast-food company some major headaches. Much as Domino's did in 2009, Burger King is now scrambling to contain the damage after...
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Print Ads Capture Anger and Panic in Wake of Marmite Shortage
"Don't freak. It'll be back." With that tagline, Saatchi & Saatchi is attempting to quell nationwide panic in New Zealand over increasing shortages of the inexplicably popular yeasty/salty...
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Good Combos Are Better Than Bad Combos, Says Combos
Here are some wacky new Combos ads from DDB Chicago—a couple of 15-second spots and a couple of print ads. The work plays off the product name, showing goofy examples of bad "combos" in real life,...
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Could Ads Convince Hipsters to Go to Applebee's Ironically?
Applebee's has an actual new ad campaign out from Crispin Porter + Bogusky tagged "See You Tomorrow." But The Onion thinks it has a better idea for the restaurant chain: Get hipsters to try Applebee's...
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Mike's Hard Lemonade Welcomes Some Unexpected Visitors
I get a righteous buzz from Grey New York's latest ads for Mike's Hard Lemonade, designed to portray the beverage as "always different, always refreshing." Scruffy young dudes hang out in a house,...
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