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Moonshine Leaves the Woods for Store Shelves
Despite grumbling from some quarters that the Discovery series Moonshiners—which shines the camera light on the bootleggers of backwoods Appalachia—is a dramatization, one component of the show just...
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Chipotle's Next Tasty Marketing Gambit: A Scripted Satire Online
IDEA: Chipotle has won scores of ad awards and legions of fans with its gorgeous animations and haunting soundtracks. Now, the burrito chain is getting even more ambitious with a longer format and a...
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This Whisky Ad From South Africa Is More Heartwarming Than Most of the Super...
Scotch whisky brand Bell's and ad agency King James might just lift your spirits with this South African ad with an elderly man struggling to overcome his illiteracy so he can celebrate a family...
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Tegan and Sara Sing the Latest Oreo Commercial, and It's Pretty Great
I never thought I'd hear Tegan and Sara in an Oreo commercial, but I also never thought Tegan and Sara would make bouncy dance pop, so everything's up in the air at this point. The Canadian duo...
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Young Bilingual Singers in Coke's 'It's Beautiful' Ad Aren't So Conflicted...
Using children in politically tinged advertising is often problematic. Some would say it's tantamount to propaganda. Still, the kids who sang "America the Beautiful" in other languages for Coca-Cola's...
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McDonald's Sweden Taunts Norway With Big Mac Billboard at the Border
Here's a fun neighbor-shaming McDonald's billboard from DDB Stockholm. Sitting right at the border between Sweden and Norway, the billboard displays comparative pricing for Big Macs in the two...
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Meet Devin Graham, Advertising's Daredevil
IDEA: Want to appeal to young, attractive people who like watching other young, attractive people do insane stunts? Devin Graham is your man. The 30-year-old filmmaker, aka "devinsupertramp" on...
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Ad of the Day: Heineken Wants Guys to Show Their Feelings This Valentine's Day
It's Feb. 11. You know what that means? There are only three days left until Valentine's Day! Oh, and it also means you'd better have solid dinner plans for Friday night, because all the good...
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Caribou Coffee Builds Five-Story-Tall Pinterest Board at the Mall of America
Caribou Coffee, whose previous out-of-home ad stunts have included heated bus shelters in Minneapolis, is back with another special campaign—a giant, five-story-tall Pinterest board built (with help...
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Organic Food Makers Hilariously Take Down Bogus 'All Natural' Labels on...
Hey, professional truth-benders. Here's a sweet mockumentary-style PSA about professional truth-bending. Extra bonus if you also happen to be a tree hugger. In addition to fairly broad swipes at snake...
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This Production Firm Stays True to Its Storytelling Roots
SpecsWho Founding partners (from left) Jen Lucero, managing director, and executive creative directors Brien Holman and Jayson WhitmoreWhat Design and production studioWhere Los Angeles office With one...
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Ad of the Day: Coca-Cola Brings U.S.-Russia Olympic Rivalry to Space
Have you heard the one about the astronaut and the cosmonaut watching hockey together in the International Space Station during the Olympics? The American team scores against the Russian team, and the...
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Velveeta Explains What to Do With That Cast-Iron Skillet You Carry Around...
You have a weird, ineffable obsession with your cast-iron skillet. You carry it with you everywhere like a safety blanket. You believe like it could make you feel joy, but it does not, because...
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Big Mac Turns Your Brain Into a Drooling Pile of Oblivious Mush in British Ad...
McDonald's puts our minds to the test in this British campaign from Razorfish that features prankvertising and an online quiz. The premise is that people can't concentrate on anything else when the...
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Vanilla Ice Reminds Us of His Other Song in Cheesy Ad for Kraft's Ninja...
Go Ninja Go! Who says Vanilla Ice never had any street cred? Everyone, I guess. And when it comes to hip-hop, they're right. But … who cares? The rapper (term used loosely) is prop-ah as hell in this...
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Gatorade and Dwyane Wade Give High School Basketball Team the Surprise of a...
We've seen this marketing stunt countless times: Big brand dips into its deep pockets to give some hardworking, deserving, photogenic youngsters a new playground or a concert or a trip to Toys R Us....
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Neil Patrick Harris Sings a Sexy Song for His Favorite Sleep-Inducing Beverage
Neil Patrick Harris goes all Miley Cyrus on a bottle of Neuro Sleep in this goofy music video for the brand's "Sleep with Neuro" campaign. The video was directed by Jon Jon Augustavo, who also did...
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Do You Like This Incredibly Bubbly Ad for Coca-Cola Light, or Do You Love It?
Coca-Cola is really having a go at social media this week. Earlier, we had the Coke video that offered a fashionably questionable solution to social-media addiction. And now we have this ultra-peppy...
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Cuervo Imagines What Its Website Would Have Looked Like in 1795, 1880, 1945...
How does the world's oldest tequila maker introduce a brand-spanking-new website? By keeping one foot firmly in the past. McCann New York has launched a new site for Jose Cuervo that's actually five...
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Mila Kunis Puts Her Love of Bourbon to Work as the New Face of Jim Beam
The new face of Jim Beam, the iconic bourbon brand, might not be quite what you expect. While a rough-around-the-edges cowboy or country rock star might seem to fit the bill—Jim Beam has used Kid Rock...
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