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State Street SPDR Can Save Your Sinking Financial Submarine

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:45pm
Hmm. Here's an interesting approach to an advertising analogy.


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Wii Saves Home From Wayne Gretzky

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 11:44am
We all know most professional sports athletes aren't idiots. Though if you see them in commercials such as this Heat-created spot for EA Sports NHL Slapshot featuring Wayne Gretzky you'd think otherwise.


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MINI No Match For Grandma in Parking Space Race

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 11:11am
MINI is out with a new campaign to tout its model updates for Convertible, Clubman and hatch.


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Old Spice Gets Off Horse, Mounts Raven Instead

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:52am
Hmm.Not sure about this one. Actually, we're not sure about any Old Spice commercial that follows the amazing Isiah Mustafa series.


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Copywriter Risks Scooter-Induced Hemorrhoid Outbreak for Charity

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 4:11pm
On September 9, Lawson Clark, aka MaleCopywriter, aka Burt Reynolds look-a-like, will embark upon a 3,200 journey from Vancouver to Portland Maine...on a 150cc scooter...for ten days to raise money for Parkinson's disease.


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Production Company Seeks Agency to Star in Reality Show

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 3:34pm
Chiat's Girls of Chiat High We've been contacted by the representative of a production company which is seeking an agency around which to build a reality series.


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Philips Humors, Boobs Augmented, Interactive Gets Intimate

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 2:47pm
Philips has released a romantic comedy called Nigel & Victoria. The first three episodes are on YouTube.


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Coca Cola Happiness Machine Travels to England

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 1:20pm
The Happiness Machine is back and it's crossed the pond to dispense happiness to college students in the UK.


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Ali Larter Drops A Lemon on Kill Bill

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:18pm
Teased in early July, TBWA\Chiat\Day New York is out with its latest short film for Absolut.


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Keira Knightey Mounts Ducati For Chanel

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:37am
Keira Knightley, who some thought needed a digital boob job for her appearance on the movie poster for King Arthur doesn't need an enhancement of any kind when she plants her ass on the seat of a Ducati for a Chanel photo shoot.


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Only Hot Women in Heels CaseMate Their iPhones

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:44am
Yea. It's formulaic. You could sell any product this way.


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Sails Branded, Women Climb, Bear Hunted, Woman Deforested

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:37pm
Who needs billboards when you can mess up the nautical landscape with branded sails?


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Newsflash! Opera Singer Breaks Glass Through Cell Phone

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:42am
Kinda like the idiocy of that car that can break a glass, Orange is out with a commercial during which an opera singer breaks a glass with her voice delivered through a cell phone connection.


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Mess With Sasquatch, Win a Trip to Vegas

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:07am
Jack Link's Beef Jerky is out with another promotion giving film and advertising students a chance to create their own Jack Link's TV commercials.


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Sony Wants to Know if You're Still A Virgin

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:22am
To promote what assuredly will be a piece of crap movie, Sony is out with a billboard campaign which asks, "Still A Virgin?"


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Google Now Selling Ads on Maps

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 9:54am
After a six month test in Australia, Google has opened up a new ad platform on its Maps product.


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Has Pre-Roll Video Advertising Met the Grim Reaper?

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:30am
Today, the abandon rate of the :15 pre-roll has more than tripled.


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Big Ad Gig Video Toys With Andrew Keller, Donny Deutsch

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 8:58am
Perhaps you've heard of Advertising Week's Big Ad Gig?


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Scion Uses Magazines to Drive Augmented Reality Game

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 8:40am
ATTIK will break a new commercial for the Scion tC's Take On the Machine campaign September 10.


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Facebook Status Gets Ad Band Rap

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 3:26pm
Dr. Cheesebarn, the agency band for Resource Interactive, just sent us their new video called Status.


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