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Even Home Intruders Get the Girl in Campaign for Axe's New Hair Products Quite the first impression

'Tis the season for male-grooming brand extensions. Old Spice introduced its shaving gel last week. And now, Axe has updated its range of hair products for men. It's advertising them…

May 20, 2013, 12:55 PM EDT

One Small Schtup for Man, One Giant Leap for Axe's Astronaut Campaign Hero crash-lands in woman's driveway

Dude's got the right stuff! Talk about a payload specialist! No "Houston, we've got a problem" for this rocket jockey! Etc.! BBH London and Blink director Tom Tagholm score with…

April 22, 2013, 9:37 AM EDT

CollegeHumor Creates Breakout American Eagle Ad—for a Fake Product Site rejiggers business around branded entertainment videos that are actually good

Brands as publishers, native advertising, branded entertainment. Sometimes digital advertising sounds like a bad joke. But when done well, it can be the funniest stuff on the Web. As long as…

April 4, 2013, 5:47 PM EDT

Syfy Bets $105m on a TV Series and Video Game [Updated] Takes big swing on apocalyptic space Western

At the risk of stating the obvious, $105 million is a lot of money. That’s about what Comcast and NBCUniversal have shelled out on the new Syfy series and video…

March 4, 2013, 11:37 PM EST

The World's Buzziest Brands Products we can't stop talking about

NBCUniversal Integrated Media launched the Brand Power Index (BPI) in 2010 to pinpoint the 500 brands consumers are talking about the most. The BPI’s methods for measuring the impact of…

February 5, 2013, 12:34 AM EST

Super Bowl Teams' Fans Pick Favorite Brands Baltimore likes BlackBerry, San Fran digs Calvin Klein

Social media data around the Super Bowl is becoming part of the big game fun—especially in the marketing world. So with that in mind, what can the brands "liked" on…

February 1, 2013, 5:08 PM EST

Astronaut Outsexys Lifeguard in Axe's First-Ever Super Bowl Ad :30 pitches Apollo line, offers trip to space

Not surprisingly, Axe's first-ever Super Bowl commercial features a woman in a skimpy bikini jogging rather bouncily along a beach. Also not surprisingly, she's running toward a geeky dude who…

January 28, 2013, 11:11 AM EST

Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Jan. 11-18 Rory becomes Tiger, people become sushi, and William Shatner becomes Kaley Cuoco's dad

This week, Hertz fooled people with a hot new ski accessory, Axe compared the relative attractiveness of firemen and astronauts, and Samsung showed that its washing machine holds up to…

January 18, 2013, 8:35 AM EST

Ad of the Day: Axe Firemen are hot, but astronauts are hotter, says the brand, which plans to send 22 people into space

On the list of sexy male professions, fireman is a perennial top pick. Just ask any male stripper (or the audience at Magic Mike). But according to Axe, the maker…

January 11, 2013, 11:02 AM EST

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