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Kraft Salad Dressing Ad Gets Best Present Ever: A Slap From One Million Moms Fury over zesty, naked picnic

Kraft's saucy ad campaign (via ad agency Being) for its Zesty Italian salad dressing launched in early April, but it's taken a rebuke from One Million Moms to give it…

June 17, 2013, 4:17 AM EDT

Microsoft Bashes Siri Again in New Ad Showing Off Dell's XPS 10 Tablet Ouch! Ouch!

Microsoft vents its inferiority complex with Apple yet again—by humiliating Siri—in this new spot from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, following a similar ad last month that got more than 5…

June 17, 2013, 3:43 AM EDT

Mother's New Campaign for Optimum Is Completely MIDWULS Turning the phone number into 'something catchy'

Mother New York made up a word, "MIDWULS," using the last seven digits of Optimum's phone number, and created an integrated campaign around it. MIDWULS, we're told, is "that incredible…

June 17, 2013, 3:00 AM EDT

Max Page, Volkswagen's Little Vader, Makes the Most of His Jedi Powers Actor raises $50,000 for Children's Hospital

A year ago this week, Max Page—known to ad geeks as the 8-year-old actor who played Little Vader in Volkswagen's 2011 Super Bowl ad—had open-heart surgery for a congenital heart…

June 14, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT

Heineken Celebrates Corny #DadJokes in Father's Day Hashtag Campaign W+K to meme-ify best submissions

If you are male, the moment you have a child you are required to drastically alter your sense of humor in ways both profound and irreversible. Where before you were…

June 14, 2013, 11:56 AM EDT

Family Guy Pleads for an Emmy With Racy Spoof of HBO's Girls Provocative 'For your consideration' ad

Fox's Family Guy has a new "For Your Consideration" ad for this year's Emmy Awards, because Seth MacFarlane's unfunny Rat Pack schtick hasn't ruined enough award shows yet. The latest…

June 14, 2013, 9:25 AM EDT

Fiat's Abarth 500 Is So Fast, You Can't Follow It on Twitter Go ahead and try

Here's a fun Twitter stunt from Germany for Fiat's Abarth 500 turbocharged hatchback. If you try to follow the vehicle's official Twitter page, you get a direct message saying that…

June 13, 2013, 2:19 PM EDT

Has O'Charley's Created a Poor Man's Ron Swanson? Meet steak lover Brock Roland

I doubt I'm alone in believing that Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson (played by Nick Offerman's mustache) is one of the best characters in TV history. The folks at O'Charley's…

June 13, 2013, 11:26 AM EDT

Huggies Makes Pregnancy Belt for Men So They Can Feel Their Baby Kicking Moms no longer have all the fun

Huggies and Ogilvy & Mather Argentina made a belt for men that allows them to feel their unborn baby's kicks. The belt is synced up with the real-time movements of…

June 13, 2013, 11:10 AM EDT

Volkswagen Uses Sinatra's 'My Way' to Great Effect in Schizophrenic New Ad Beating the odds in Vegas

Adam&eveDDB once again gambles on an unconventional approach for Volkswagen in this new U.K. spot, which offers cornball renditions of "My Way," including one performed on pan pipes, for the…

June 13, 2013, 9:54 AM EDT

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