What perfect casting can do for UPS

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The UPS Whiteboard campaign is so simple, it’s ripe for parody. And sure enough, you don’t have to search YouTube for very long to find comical alternate versions of these ads. The real campaign, meanwhile, is also an amateur production—in a sense. Created by The Martin Agency’s Andy Azula, it also stars … Andy Azula. In his original conception, Azula imagined hiring an actor to play the part of the clever artist doodling in brown marker on the whiteboard to illustrate “what brown can do for you.”

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