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The Spot: Toy Overload Paying for a gift is a lot easier than choosing one in BBH's Christmas ad for Barclaycard

IDEA: It's no secret that holiday shopping, particularly offline, can be hell. Britain's Barclaycard, a credit- and debit-card company, doesn't claim to ease all the pain—just a portion of it.…

November 27, 2012, 4:09 AM EST

The Spot: eBay Ponies Up The perfectly adorable Christmas present turns on a family in VB&P's holiday ad

IDEA: A live pony, the pet every little girl dreams of, is lovely and sweet and the perfect Christmas gift. But no—actually, it's a violent little monster who will tear…

November 20, 2012, 12:00 AM EST

The Spot: FedEx's Package Deal BBDO Toronto delivers four ads for the price of one in its entertaining new 30-second spot

IDEA: Four ads—with talking turtles, worker ants, mythical dwarf-like creatures and reptilian humanoids—all packed into one 30-second ad? You're going to need some bubble wrap for that. Yet BBDO in…

November 13, 2012, 7:17 AM EST

The Spot: Can't Buy Me Love Money talks, but has bigger stories to tell, in theatrical ads for TD Ameritrade

IDEA Rubber fish tossed on a chef's prep station. A skydiver caught by stagehands. A 2-D dog floating through painted pastoral scenes. Full of wires and props, scenery and costume…

November 6, 2012, 6:13 AM EST

The Spot: TV's Best Friend Mother introduces second-screen app Zeebox in quirky ads celebrating other great partnerships

IDEA: Cookies and milk. A prom queen and her limo. A slow-running teenager and a horror-movie monster. Some things were meant to be together. You can add Zeebox and your…

October 30, 2012, 4:57 AM EDT

The Spot: Heart of Darkness CPR makes you undead in this gruesome zombie PSA for Halloween

IDEA: Zombies crave braaaains, but they're also fond of heaaaarts. Your heart keeps you alive, after all, and zombies need you alive to devour you. So, it stands to reason…

October 23, 2012, 4:50 AM EDT

The Spot: Kayak's Crooner The old lech recalls a time when a silky voice got you a great hotel room

IDEA: Who can resist the dulcet tones of a lecherous old crooner? Hotel staff can't. Or at least, they couldn't a generation ago, when the old windbag was in his…

October 16, 2012, 8:37 AM EDT

The Spot: Buying Target's Story The retailer shows off its fall fashions in a romcom film that's fully shoppable

IDEA: Attracted to each other but still seeing other people, online video content and commerce are the bumbling main characters in their own romantic comedy. They've flirted for years, and…

October 9, 2012, 6:15 AM EDT

The Spot: Airline to Heaven McCann Oslo brings the magic back to air travel with a spot for a Norwegian carrier

IDEA: It's a sad irony that flying, literally the most aspirational of human pursuits, has become synonymous with pure hell. Customer-service failures are the norm, to the point where one…

October 2, 2012, 8:52 AM EDT

The Spot: Bond's Favorite Beer 007 trades his martini for a cold one in W+K's new Heineken ad

IDEA: James Bond doesn't always drink beer. But when he does, he prefers … well, Heineken. With apologies to Dos Equis, 007 is the original "most interesting man in the…

September 25, 2012, 6:10 AM EDT

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