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Andy Griffith, Liv Tyler, Sarah McLachlan Pimp, Paris Nughty
Medicare spokesman Andy Griffith appears in a new commercial touting the health care reform law and outlining some of its benefits.
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Heineken Makes Men Act Like Idiots Again
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Cisco Copies Old Spice. No One Notices. Not Even the Crickets
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
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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Idiotic 'Rename Crowdsourcing' Project Down to 12 Finalists
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
"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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Big Butts Still Worshiped. Just Not by Nike This Time
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
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
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
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
The fact Hollywood is even humoring Sylvester Stallone by making his The Expendables is shocking in and of itself.
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