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Everyone Wins in Audi's Awesomely Odd Spock vs. Spock Ad With Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy Logic goes out the window

A "Spock vs. Spock" ad should, when considered logically, be a complete nerdfest packed with inside jokes only Star Trek superfans would appreciate. Instead, Audi's new spot, "The Challenge," is…

May 7, 2013, 5:02 PM EDT

Susie Essman Celebrates Mother's Day by Clenching Her Snapdragon for Virgin Mobile Kicking a daughter to the curb

Any Mother's Day commercial with Susie Essman is not going to be warm and fuzzy. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star appears in the new online video below for Virgin Mobile…

May 7, 2013, 4:03 PM EDT

Finlandia Creates Epic World 'Where Cheese Reigns' and Oddballs Abound Barton F. Graf campaign gets painterly

Finlandia cheese may come from Finland, but its new ad campaign from Barton F. Graf 9000 takes a detour through Flanders with its comical paintings of a land "where cheese…

May 7, 2013, 3:40 PM EDT

Dove Magazine Ad Uses Carbon Paper to Show How Abusive Words Don't Fade Building children's self-esteem

The Dove Self Esteem Project and agency Torke+CC in Lisbon, Portugal, placed an ad (and a pen) in a parenting magazine and asked adults to write down the worst thing…

May 7, 2013, 11:07 AM EDT

Google Celebrates Moms With Poignant Ad for Mother's Day A new specialty from Whirled

Google traditionally does a special Google Doodle for Mother's Day. This year, it's adding another gift—the commercial below from creative agency Whirled, saluting moms for everything they do. As Procter…

May 7, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT

A Philips Sonicare Ad That Was 5,000 Years in the Making Still using that old toothbrush, caveman?

IDEA: You're an intelligent, civilized human who enjoys all the efficiencies of modern life. So why do you use knuckledragging technology to clean your teeth? That's Philips Sonicare's question to…

May 6, 2013, 10:18 PM EDT

Ad of the Day: Target Retailer builds giant dollhouse inside Grand Central to show off its Threshold collection

If you build it, they will shop. That is Target's thinking, as the retailer unveiled a mind-boggling project on Monday—a life-size, two-story dollhouse in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall stuffed full…

May 6, 2013, 4:32 PM EDT

Child-Abuse Ad Uses Lenticular Printing to Send Kids a Secret Message That Adults Can't See 'Phone us and we'll help you'

The ANAR Foundation, a Spanish child-advocacy organization, used lenticular printing in this powerful outdoor ad to send different messages to children and adults. Anyone under about 4-foot-3 sees bruising on…

May 6, 2013, 11:52 AM EDT

Diet Coke Invents World's Thinnest Vending Machine, So You Can Feel Even Fatter by Comparison Skinny can redux?

Oh, hey there, ladies. Feeling fat? Of course you are. Don't worry. I've got some advice. Don't get sugary, fattening soda from that fat, tubby vending machine over there. Get…

May 6, 2013, 9:56 AM EDT

Ad for My First Rifle, Used to Kill 2-Year-Old, Is Way Too Much Like Any Other Toy Commercial Crickett takes website down

The problem with this 30-second spot for Crickett's My First Rifle .22-caliber single-shot gun is that it basically markets it as a toy. We see a school-age boy wide-eyed with…

May 6, 2013, 9:35 AM EDT

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