Old Spice blitz includes a marriage proposal

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Yesterday's blitzkrieg of 100-plus personal YouTube thank-you notes by Isaiah "Old Spice Guy" Mustafa was truly something to behold, and not just because it included a shout-out to AdFreak's own Tim Nudd. The Wieden + Kennedy team's reaction time was pretty incredible, as illustrated by my favorite video, below: a marriage proposal Mustafa made on behalf of a random guy on Twitter. @Jsbeals made this request of Old Spice: "Can U Ask my girlfriend to marry me? Her name is Angela A.

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