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This Toronto Agency Skipped the Product Placement and Released a Feature Movie Kokanee beer's entire ad budget

Specs Who Clockwise from top: Partners (creative) Rich Pryce-Jones, David Crichton, Randy Stein, Scott Dube; Bob Shanks, managing partner, business; David Chiavegato, partner, creative What Advertising agency Where Toronto offices Every copywriter wishes he…

April 25, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT

'Baby Got Back' Is Back Again, This Time in a Charmin Commercial Brand enjoys the go, and big butts

In the annals of advertising, there are some songs we just keep coming back to. "Baby Got Back" is one of them. From hawking Burger King's SpongeBob meal to bustin'…

April 24, 2013, 2:26 PM EDT

Ad of the Day: Kimpton Hotels Where every room comes with the most charming and fun-loving yoga mat

Life is short and full of pain. And there's nothing worse than being stuck in a lifeless hotel room on the most stressful business trip of your life—reports sprawled about,…

April 24, 2013, 1:48 PM EDT

Beefy Burglar's Bungling Becomes a Viral TV Spot Kent's Meats security-cam footage set to Benny Hill theme

Talk about beef jerky. The trend of using actual security-camera footage in ads continues, with Kent's Meats & Groceries in Redding, Calif., setting footage of a botched burglary to the…

April 24, 2013, 9:05 AM EDT

Ad of the Day: Coors Light The brewer ambushes a summer pool party with the frosty taste of winter

You're hanging out at the pool, just trying to relax on a sunny Florida day and say hi to some foxy babes, and you say to yourself, "Hey, I'll get…

April 23, 2013, 2:31 PM EDT

Carmichael Lynch Finds Brilliant New Use for 100-Year-Old Water Tower on Its Roof Canvas for art videos

Minneapolis ad agency Carmichael Lynch turned the century-old water tower on the roof of its building into an art installation. Students from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design contributed…

April 23, 2013, 12:23 PM EDT

Is This the Most Horrifying Film-Festival Ad Ever? RPA and Tool's gruesome seven minutes for Newport Beach

IDEA: "It's only a movie." That was Alfred Hitchcock's line to actors who took themselves too seriously. But it's also literally true for viewers. What feels like a lived experience…

April 22, 2013, 9:21 PM EDT

Outsider Agencies Are Drawn to NYC Like Moths to a Flame Hard to get respect

New York is a humbling market—but big fish from smaller ponds just can’t seem to stay away. Take Leo Burnett, for example. Its New York office’s biggest account win since opening…

April 22, 2013, 9:19 PM EDT

For Marketers, Sentimentality Trumps Slapstick From Ram to Subaru

Tugging at the heartstrings: an eternal tactic of marketers of everything from coffee and peanut butter to long-distance phone services and those charities for abused and neglected animals. But a pickup…

April 22, 2013, 9:14 PM EDT

Ad of the Day: Legacy The Butler Bros. and Psyop magnify the focus on an unlikely source of toxic waste

Attention smokers. You're not just destroying yourselves. You might also be destroying the planet. As Earth Day 2013 has again reminded us, environmental advertising is often not as engaging as it…

April 22, 2013, 4:22 PM EDT

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