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Cisco Copies Old Spice. No One Notices. Not Even the Crickets

AdRants - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:48
Having worked with high tech clients back in the dot com days, we're accutely aware of their unending need to give everything an acronym.


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Saldana Envied, Online Ad Spend Up 11.9% in 2010

AdRants - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 12:40
Here's some more Calvin Klein Envy ads featuring Zoe Saldana. And if these additional images aren't enough for you, there's video coming in mid-August with Saldana talking about CK's envy-inducing underwear.


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Childrens' Deplorable Living Conditions Highlighted in UNICEF Video

AdRants - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:40
So here's yet another look at the plight of less then fortunate children across the globe.


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Idiotic 'Rename Crowdsourcing' Project Down to 12 Finalists

AdRants - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 17:09
In the It's So Stupid It Could Only Happen in Advertising category, we have an update on GeniusRocket and 99 Designs' attempt to rename crowdsourcing.


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DirecTV Stereotypes, Timberlake Directs, Sears Facebooks

AdRants - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 08:41
"Opulence. I has it." Right up there with Verizon Dumb Dads and blacks who love chicken comes this new commercial from Grey New York and Biscuit Filmworks' director Tim Godsall for DirecTV that portrays a Russian doofus as if he were an Italian goomba. Oh wait, is that too many layers of stereotyping?


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Mad Men Season Four Premieres in Times Square

AdRants - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 11:23
Last night in Times Square Mad Men Season four premiered at 9PM


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Big Butts Still Worshiped. Just Not by Nike This Time

AdRants - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 11:05
In 2005, Nike released a campaign which focused on the fact not all women are rail thin supermodels.


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Tape Plays, Women Survive, DroidX Unboxed, Trolls Spotted

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 12:42
Yawn. Well, sort of. Scotch Tape's new ad is derivatively predictable and brilliantly witty all at the same time. (See, we didn't write the headline.)


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Eating Pilchards Will Make You A Super Heroe

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:51
Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has enlisted Super Heroes to call attention to the healthy effects of eating canned Saldanha Pilchards


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Sisley Confirms Women Love Cucumbers

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:20
It's kind of sexist and stupid all at the same time. But fashion advertising gets a pass on this. why? Because do we really want to look at fashion as if it were a Sears catalog?


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Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables Gets Broadway Treatment

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:46
The fact Hollywood is even humoring Sylvester Stallone by making his The Expendables is shocking in and of itself.


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Diesel's Mad Mamacitas Jack Up New Fragrance

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:15
Phallic? Definitely. Hot? Indeed. Strange. For sure.


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We're Just Energy Trapped Inside This Body

AdRants - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:00
This is one of those ads. Yea, one of those.


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Axe Saves Boys From Premature Embarrassment

AdRants - Wed, 07/21/2010 - 10:07
Leave it to Axe to save little boys from losing it prematurely at the site of a beautiful girl.


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Why Media Agencies Can 'Do Social Media'

AdRants - Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:02
A recent article by Advertising Age's Social Media and Event Content Manager David Teicher got us thinking. And writing.


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Levi's Goes Mechanical With Houston Street Billboard

AdRants - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 16:07
It would seem Levi's is testing a new mechanical billboard in New York.


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Lara Stone Gets Naked in Calvin Klein Jeans X Commercial

AdRants - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 15:37
Everyone has sex in the middle of a hardtop playground, right?


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Madonna Does Dolce, Payboy Gets SFW, Arby's Miniaturizes

AdRants - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:44
Oh and while Taylor Momsen is pimpimg Madonn'a new Material Girl line of clothing, the Material Girl herself is pimping Dolce and Gabbana.


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Parasailing Donkey Fake Advertising Stunt or Animal Cruelty?

AdRants - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:43
While this just screams fake publicity stunt, it seems a resort in Russia did parasail a donkey last Thursday to promote its private beach.


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FirstBank Airport Diorama Controls Crazy Kids

AdRants - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:42
If you have kids - or even if you don't - do you ever get sick of them running around the airport screaming and yelling while you're quietly trying to catch a little shut eye before the next leg of your journey?


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