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Ad of the Day: Yorkshire Tea Fends Off Heartbreak and Zombies With a Catchy Tune
Here in the U.S., where 83 percent of adults are self-proclaimed coffee drinkers, tea is generally marketed as something genteel—a soothing beverage to be sipped while relaxing in your sitting room,...
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Kellogg's Apologizes for Promising to Feed Hungry Kids Only If You Retweet
The uneasy relationship between corporate good deeds and the positive PR that naturally comes from them is highlighted again this week, as Kellogg's U.K. deleted a tweet and then apologized for...
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Matt Damon Joins George Clooney in Nespresso Campaign, but It's No Oscar Winner
The New York Post reports that Matt Damon received $3 million for 20 seconds of work in a global Nespresso campaign made by McCann Europe. (When they hand him millions just to smile in an ad, then...
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Drink Up the Great Outdoors With Patagonia's New Organic Beer
Patagonia has partnered with New Belgium Brewing on an organic beer called California Route, and the product description is exactly as bourgie and detestable as you'd expect. The word nerd in me...
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Baileys Updates The Nutcracker in Star-Studded Christmas Ad
Baileys becomes the latest big-name marketer to place an epic holiday spot under the tree with BBH London's modern take on Tchaikovsky's seasonal ballet The Nutcracker. We're treated to a Candyland...
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How a Speed Demon From a Century Ago Got Hennessy's Heart Racing
IDEA: Can an Englishman who died in 1948 convince American millennials to drink cognac in 2013? Hennessy hopes so. The brand has been urging consumers 21-34 to chase their "Wild Rabbit" (i.e., any...
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Nearly One-Quarter of Shoppers Plan to Shop on Thanksgiving
The day after Thanksgiving is still the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season, but the holiday itself is starting to become the new Black Friday as a growing number of stores including...
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Coke Zero Invites You to Design, and Perhaps Even Wear, the Ugliest Christmas...
Christmas is coming, and along with it comes the worst part of the year: ironic ugly sweater parties. Formerly the sole domain of grandmothers and Bill Cosby, ugly sweaters are some kind of awkward...
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This Romantic Ice-Cream Ad Got 26 Million Views Without You Noticing
You've seen most of the big viral ads of the year, but not this one—because it was made for the Turkish market by Unilever's Cornetto ice-cream brand. It's a short film about a fateful teenage...
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Watch the Year's Most Beautiful Ad About Booze, Rain and Death
A dreary rainstorm and a friend's apparent death might not seem like promising raw materials for an uplifting ad. But this one takes place in Ireland, so it all makes sense. The two-and-a-half minute...
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Bacon-Scented Deodorant Made Especially for People Who Sweat Like Pigs
It wouldn't be the holidays if some cheeky company didn't release a men's personal-care product that smells like meat. In the grand tradition of Burger King's Flame fragrance (with "a hint of meat"),...
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Disembodied Mouth Gets Good Beer After Having to Do 'Bad Things' in Weird...
And the award for best disembodied mouth in a commercial goes to … Australian beer Tooheys Extra Dry for this memorably unnerving 45-second spot from BMF Sydney and director Hamish Rothwell. Popping...
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The Year's Best Candy Commercial Is Somehow Both Vulgar and Incredibly Sweet
Here's a wonderful little candy commercial from LoweFriends in Denmark that pulls off a rare trick. It's both edgy and traditional—with several F-bombs in the voiceover balanced out by an actually...
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Ad of the Day: KFC Makes the Holidays a Little Less Horrible With a Musical...
For all the earnest and sappy Christmas ads out there, there's a countervailing trend toward presenting a more realistic view of the holiday season—i.e., that it's actually a very stressful time of...
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Fox Sells Out the Super Bowl
Fox has sold the last of its available in-game Super Bowl spots, securing an average rate of $4 million per 30 seconds of airtime for the Feb. 2 broadcast. Media buyers said that latecomers who...
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DiGiorno Pizza Live-Tweeted The Sound of Music, and It Was Very Tasty
On Thursday night, as millions tuned in to see Carrie Underwood ambitiously take on the role of Maria von Trapp, croon about the hills being alive, and make children's clothing out of drapes in NBC's...
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Budweiser's Tweet-Powered Knitting Bot Makes Holiday Sweaters for Designated...
Bad news for grinches who still hate ugly holiday sweaters despite their newfound ironic popularity: Budweiser U.K. is adding some charm to the practice of capitalizing on them. The beer brand has...
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Ad of the Day: Oreo's Holiday Song About Balls Is a Real Treat at Just the...
Let's get something out of the way first: Oreo cookie balls are not an actual Oreo product. They are, according to the Internet, a homemade delicacy involving crushed Oreos that are mixed with cream...
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Have a Look at the Most Unusual and Irritating Starbucks Ever Built
Starbucks wants you to think it's just like your neighborhood cafe from 100 years ago. The coffee mega-chain has opened a New Orleans location with an interior design inspired by what the coffee giant...
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Special K Tries to Stop Women Who 'Fat Talk' by Confronting Them With It
Special K believes positivity is key to weight management success. So, it's taking aim at its opposite—"fat talk," or the negative things some women say about their bodies and others. The Kellogg's...
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