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Infographic: How Bad Is Your Facebook Addiction Disorder? Please don't say it's not a problem

A few weeks ago, we posted an infographic that suggested ad people are more addicted to social media than "normal" people. This may have left the impression that those "normal"…

May 23 2012

Most Amazing Ad Yet Made Starring a Huge Naked Man (NSFW) You can't watch, yet you can't look away

Sorry to do this to you on a Monday morning, but you really should watch/not watch this NSFW Italian commercial from ad agency Armando Testa and director Jonathan Gurvit—possibly the…

April 30 2012

Video: Nancy Hill on Adland's Revival

4A's chief Nancy Hill discusses the rejuvenation of the ad biz with our own Barbara Lippert.VISIT REAL-TIME ADVERTISING WEEK

September 30 2010

Ikea Squeezes 2,800 Products Inside Single Web Banner Ad Even its digital marketing saves you space

Here's a great little digital stunt by Ikea. To emphasize the point that its furniture and other products help you to save space, the Swedish retailer has squeezed an entire…

April 17 2012

Roller Skating Beats a Life of Drugs and Despair, Says Ad Genius mock PSA from Reno's Roller Kingdom

In a post on Rhett & Link's website, Rhett McLaughlin claims, "If you are in Reno, Nevada, there's a better option out there than drugs." That's a bold assertion that…

April 25 2012

Hitler Sells Shampoo in Turkish TV Commercial Spot pitches 'a real man's shampoo'

In the most bizarre ad fail of the year so far, Adolf Hitler takes a break from selling condoms to pitch shampoo in this TV spot, which is airing on…

March 26 2012

'Adland' Author on the Horrors of Advertising

Though he describes himself as having a "workmanlike" creative career, James P. Othmer can at least boast of having collected a lot of terrific stories in his years at Young…

January 05 2010

The 11 Most Ridiculous Job Titles in Advertising Rub the lamp, get a digital marketing genie

Gurus, alchemists, champions, evangelists, insurgents, and genies. These kinds of job titles—some of which are parsed and pummeled in this roundup from Chicago agency Plan B—make adland sound a lot…

October 26 2011

Will Ferrell on Old Milwaukee: 'I Just Love a Good, Crappy Beer' The actor remains coy about his rogue TV spots

Will Ferrell has never really explained his hilariously random Old Milwaukee ads, which began airing in Davenport, Iowa, in December and culminated with a Super Bowl spot that ran only…

March 20 2012

Man Crowdsources His Marriage Proposal Len Kendall meme-pops the question via Photoshop game

It's all about the nerdy marriage proposals this month. Back on Valentine's Day, a guy proposed to his girlfriend via an infographic (with data proving the mathematical rarity of her…

February 29 2012

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