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Ad of the Day: Cadillac's 'Dare Greatly' Launch Spot Has Teddy Roosevelt but...
I'm not sure Cadillac's "Dare Greatly" spot—ushering in a big new campaign that will break Sunday on the Oscars—will ever win any awards. But the commercial, among the automaker's first efforts from...
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Ad of the Day: Adobe Celebrates 25 Years of Photoshop With Colorful Oscars Spot
When you think of Photoshop these days, you might well envision fashion models being airbrushed within an inch of their lives. But there's so much more to the image-editing software, as Adobe reminds...
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Ad of the Day: Comcast Beautifully Shows How a 7-Year-Old Girl Who Is Blind...
Here's an ad that should be a show-stopper during the Oscars on Sunday night. The beautiful 60-second spot from Comcast tells the story of Emily, a 7-year-old girl who was born blind. Comcast asked...
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Ad of the Day: Scorsese Narrates Apple's Oscars Spot About Not Just Dreaming...
Apple scored Hollywood royalty in the form of Martin Scorsese for its latest iPad commercial, which got prime placement on Sunday night's Academy Awards—with the legendary director narrating the...
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Ad of the Day: Hello Flo Targets Moms With Painfully Funny 'Postpartum: The...
Hello Flo is growing up—sort of. The company has had two hilarious viral successes in advertising its Period Starter Kit for girls—with "Camp Gyno" (10 million YouTube views) and "First Moon" (30...
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Ad of the Day: Coke Spreads Joy to Some Seriously Unlucky Coke Drinkers
Coca-Cola knows that sometimes life straight up sucks. But Coca-Cola also wants you to realize that you, sir, are not the only one with problems. This new spot from Wieden + Kennedy, which broke on...
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Ad of the Day: Facebook Just Made Some of the Truest Ads Ever About Friendship
Facebook, in its advertising, used to get all caught up in lofty and tortured metaphors for friendship. But its latest ads—gritty, immediate, powerfully evocative—show how far the social network has...
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Ad of the Day: Epic Audi Spot With Marauding Mechanics Is Ridiculously Fun
Getting your car serviced by a dealer, rather than some random mechanic, isn't just a smart idea. It's a triumph of good over evil. That's the message of this entertaining, intentionally over-the-top...
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Ad of the Day: Geico Makes Clever Pre-Roll Ads That Are Basically Unskippable
Viewership rates for YouTube preroll ads are generally abysmal. According to some research, 94 percent of preroll gets skipped immediately after the first five seconds (which are unskippable). And in...
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Ad of the Day: This Beautiful Ad Council PSA Reminds Us We're All Human...
Prepare to feel all of the feels—and have a box of tissues nearby—as you watch this PSA about bias and diversity from the Ad Council. The poignant three-minute spot, for the "Love Has No Labels"...
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Ad of the Day: Tinder Plus Takes a Girl on Wild Adventures in Love, Sex and...
Monday's release of Tinder Plus, the paid version of the popular dating app, was met with a certain amount of consternation, particularly among elderly users over 30. But this 90-second spot for the...
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Ad of the Day: Air France Takes You Inside the Dreamiest Airplane Cabin Ever
Air France embarks on a lavish flight of fantasy in this trippy 45-second global commercial by BETC Paris. Directed by film collective We Are From LA (which also directed Pharrell's "24 Hours of...
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Ad of the Day: Microsoft Urges Girls to Stick With Science on International...
Add Microsoft to the list of companies touting support for young girls who like science and engineering. The tech giant celebrated International Women's Day on Sunday, and Women's History Month...
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Ad of the Day: Audi Is the Best Car for Fleeing a Swarm of Killer Drones
One day soon, drones will kill us all and/or deliver Apple Watches from Amazon. For now, they descend from the clouds with great menace in this rousing Audi spot from Venables Bell & Partners,...
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Ad of the Day: Ikea Praises Ordinary Household Items with Epic Irreverence
Don't take your toilet brush for granted, says a wise new ad from Ikea. Aptly titled "Everyday Heroes," the spot—by Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors—is a moving celebration of the different...
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Ad of the Day: Meet Charles Schwab's New Intelligent, Nonhuman Pitchman
Charles Schwab gets replaced by a robotic pitchman in Crispin Porter + Bogusky's new campaign introducing a digital platform called Schwab Intelligent Portfolios. A stylized, British-accented, boxy...
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Ad of the Day: Robert Downey Jr. Surprises a 7-Year-Old With a Bionic 'Iron...
There are good ways to use your megafame, and bad ways to use your megafame. Robert Downey Jr. has happened upon one of the best ways to use his—by drawing attention to Limbitless, a company that...
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Ad of the Day: Virgin Mobile's New Campaign Is the Ultimate Rickroll
The sudden appearance of Rick Astley usually means you've been duped. But 180LA and Virgin Mobile now want it to communicate the opposite. A new campaign for the wireless carrier depicts a family who...
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Ad of the Day: Here's What Happens When You Open a Gun Store in the Middle of...
States United to Prevent Gun Violence and its agency, Grey New York, have teamed up for some truly hard-hitting PSAs, including 2013's famous "Ed" spot, which won a Silver Lion in Film at Cannes. Now,...
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Ad of the Day: A-B Tricks Brooklynites Into Drinking Budweiser, and They...
As part of its continued assault on microbrew-swilling beer snobs, Budweiser headed to Brooklyn during Restaurant Week and orchestrated a little stunt to get people to actually drink Bud—and even rave...
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