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Snoop's Druggy Pistachios Ad Drives the Networks Nuts
Having your latest commercial in a long-running campaign dubbed "too hot for network TV" can only be a good thing. So, congrats to Paramount Farms' Wonderful Pistachios for its cheeky collaboration...
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'70s Ad Hinted That Twinkies Were Not of This World
Hostess, which is going out of business after a crippling strike, had a proud history of weird ads, particularly back in the 1970s. This one for Twinkies is a classic. Note the ongoing fascination...
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Ben & Jerry's Scoops Up Euphoria on Instagram
iScreen, uScreen. Ben & Jerry's is rallying its 127,000 Instagram followers and inviting them to upload images representing "euphoria"—because that's the feeling you get from Ben & Jerry's ice...
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Gravy Is Great. So Why Does Every Ad Make It Look Gross?
In 1947, Campbell Soup Co. finally introduced a savory splatter of meatness to post-war America at the speed of modern life: canned gravy. Such a revolutionary advancement in science obviously...
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Ad of the Day: Coca-Cola
It's not yet December, but tradition and commerce require you to get in the Christmas spirit pronto. Perhaps a giant creepy Santa Claus can help? Coca-Cola is unleashing one, whether you like it or...
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Grabbing a Red Stripe Causes Store's Other Products to Break Into Music
Here's a pretty awesome stunt from London by Red Stripe. Ad agency KesselsKramer (along with Stinkdigital director Greg Brunkalla and creative technology consultancy Hirsch&Mann) rigged up scores...
View ArticleElectus Partners With Saveur on Web Series
From Top Chef to Iron Chef to Hell’s Kitchen, the TV schedule is packed with culinary competition shows. But when it comes to Americans’ insatiable appetite for all things foodie, there’s always room...
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Stella Artois Sends Holiday Carolers to Your Doorstep With Google Street View
If you're too cheap to buy holiday gifts for friends and family, send virtual carolers to their virtual doors via Stella Artois's Facebook app, which uses Google Street View and other tools to direct...
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Old Mentos Ad With Horse-Men Playing Basketball Is Weirdest Ever
Whoa, that's one wacky game of horse! Some naysayers are doubting SB Nation's contention that the clip below of dudes playing basketball in equine masks is really a "found" Mentos ad from 1992 that...
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Portrait: Thinkmodo
Specs Who Co-founders Michael Krivicka (l.) and James PercelayWhat Viral video marketing agencyWhere Outside New York offices Each time a mysterious new viral gimmick breaks on YouTube, among the first...
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Eau de Pizza Hut, the Chain's New Perfume, Smells Like Freshly Baked Dough
If you want to smell like hot grease and you can't afford Madonna's perfume, you're in luck! Pizza Hut has a fragrance now. Well, Pizza Hut Canada does, anyway. Its signature scent, called Eau de...
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Newcastle's 'Subtexter' Puts Honest Captions on Your Crappy Photos
On the heels of College Humor's viral Instagram parody set to Nickleback, Newcastle Brown Ale is offering an app called The Subtexter—part of its ongoing "No bollocks" campaign from Droga5—that lets...
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Soy Sauce: The Movie
Thanks to the invention of product placement, a brand with deep enough pockets can buy its way into any movie it wants. Now, Kikkoman soy sauce has upped the ante—by simply making the whole movie....
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Ad Agency Tests Snack Food's Allure on Mindless Human Lab Rats
Australian mall rats dress up in mouse costumes and run on a giant wheel inside a cage in this latest installment of Clemenger BBDO's borderline sadistic "How far will you go for Fantastic Delites?"...
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Oreo Completes World Domination With 5,000-Cookie Delivery to Antarctica
Amundsen and Scott could have used a delivery like this. Oreo has dramatically improved the tastiness of food in Antarctica by surprising scientists at the remote Palmer Station with 5,000 Oreo...
View ArticleThe Brand Union Hires Global Creative Chief
Dyfed “Fred” Richards, the global creative director for Omnicom’s Interbrand, is moving to The Brand Union as worldwide creative director, consumer branding, a new position at the WPP Group company....
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Brazilian Fast-Food Chain Puts Burgers in Edible Wrappers
Brazilian fast-food chain Bob's has come up with edible packaging for its burgers, just to make the point that people love its food so much that they can't even wait to unwrap it before digging in....
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Make Your Own Skittles Ad on 'Create the Rainbow' Holiday Site
I can make my own wacky Skittles holiday commercial on this Create the Rainbow site from BBDO Toronto and Jam3? Do I have to? Can't I just strangle myself with a string of festive lights instead?...
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Don't Get 'Nugged' for Your Nuggets, Warns Jack in the Box
With "nugging," Jack in the Box may think it's invented a cute new slang term for the act of stealing someone's chicken nuggets. But apparently nugging is already a thing. Actually, it's three things,...
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Spam and Peanut Butter? Damn Skippy!
Hormel Foods Corp. said today that it would buy Skippy—second only to peanut butter rival Jif in the U.S. while standing No. 1 in China—from Unilever for around $700 million. Austin, Minn.-based Hormel...
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