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Why aren't ads in widescreen yet?

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Adhesive Commercial Rip Off

A commercial here in India has been ripped off from one of the old show books, but for the life of me I cannot remember which show book *exactly*.

Tattoo ads eyesore

When we suggested tattoo ads a couple of years back in Pigeon-Holed, we were just kidding.
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Pay for play

Beer's Brand USA aint selling

Charlotte Beers, top Madison ave brand manager, was hired by the white house to overhaul the US's bad image abroad.
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Ad Age Apple Polishes Burnett Rant

Last week, Chicago agency Leo Burnett's famous apples got rolled up into a big Publicis crepe.
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Jump on the Anti-"insert bad thing here" bandwagon

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State of emergency again.

Spike To The Rescue

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Critic Critique Thyself

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Enjoy the Show

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Ad Age Adds Space

UK's ten most irritating ads last year

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Women washing their face in face wash commercials

Dear Ad Agencies, and whomever this may concern: We see shampoo commercials featuring women washing their hair in the shower.
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Taxfree coca-cola and Nestle?

Interesting to note is the large Multinationals march across the world and the advantages they might have in different markets.

Quiet Man Flames away: Alan & Jerome take on Fox Sports

We've found the little old lady from Hastings

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Don't quit your dayjob

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PETA's latest ad - the jaws of these people.

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You never know what you're gonna get!

The other day I was just considering what kind of ads are really the best ads for my clients. Is it the main-stream with no creativity or is creativi

Tabacco Advertising Self-Banning

Well, I don't know how about you guys, but I wouldn't be happy about any cigarettes brief (yes, I'm a non smoker).
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Red Bull Rips Off photographers.

Taliban explains current crunch in U.S. economy

Forget the usual explanations of the dot-com bust and the out-of-control-uber-hype-of-technology driving the American economy into a tailspin.

Does God need advertising?

A recent newspaper columnist reports that O&M Singapore has done a campaign to increase awareness about God.............. A few questions for Go
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Pigeon-Holed in Spanish

A translation of <a href="https://adland.tv/pigeon-holed-which-type-creative-are-you">"Pigeon holed"</a>

Ambient media - in and out of fashion?

This is SportsCenter

Absolut Hogwash

After milking the bottle concept for 20 years, Absolut and their creative evangelists, TBWA Chiat/Day, have opted to "reveal another piece of [th
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Won't you take me to Honky Town

Rejoice o citizens of the world.
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TBWA London shakeup

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City fights back - pavement not adspace

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Naked Sophie scores even more free PR.

The now infamous Sophie Dahl Opium ad has become the most offensive ad of 2000. It'll go down in history kids!
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Violence sells nothing

Violent TV Programming will stop you from buying anything - as a new study shows that violent programs make you angry - and angry people don't re
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Resexsion?

Straight white men are the new women in advertising

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The making of Ad creators as Rockstars

Pardon me, but I feel an adrant coming on. After throwing away the mind-numbing device in my house - otherwise referred to as a Television - I quic
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It's sacrilege! It's funny! It's blasphemy! It's advertising! It's your call.

This has been an interesting find -- Never before have I found a(n) homage to advertising that has created such enthusiastically opposing responses fr

I'll miss the dot-coms

They may not have had actual products, and we now know they never made actual money, but several dot-com companies ponied up some nice ads over the pa
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Dots Drop Spots

The Access Hollywood show reports that while dotcom companies made up 80% of last year's Super Bowl spots, they'll only represent 10% of the
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Freeze dried food again?

The gimmick. Everyone has at least once, tried to use a gimmick.
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BBDO is sweeping up

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The land of political correctness strikes again...

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What is this spot selling?

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Ericsson want us to see the everyday revolution.

Come october 2nd, Ericssons new campaign will launch, the message: "The Mobile Internet revolution.
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Spam in the name of Diesel

Spam is not advertising - it is the cancer of the web.
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Olympic Chainsaw Massacre

NBC contributed the latest example of advertising "standards and practices" hypocrisy when it cut a new Olympics spot from Nike spot off at
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Gimmick Keeps Going and Going...

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Internet Ad Virus - looks like another Mahir trick.

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Big vs. Small - which ad agency should you pick?

This is the simplistic theory of an industry that lives and thrives on simplification (of products, of brands): if your agency is small you are creati
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This Dollar is Golden

The U.S. mint recently launched a national ad campaign to announce the production of the Golden Dollar coin.
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'How was Cannes?' - Dabitch reports from the south of France

In the middle of June ad people gather in Cannes from all over the planet.
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If you can't do - then teach.

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Pigeon Holed - which type of creative are you?

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CLICK CLICK YOU'RE DEAD

CLICK, CLICK, YOU'RE DEAD.
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The A B C's of advertising rules.

Work off of a proposition from a good strategic brief. It tells you who you are talking to, and what they need/want this product for.
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Pounding the Pavement - how to show your portfolio

To show your book around is painful, frustrating,and time consuming, what should one do? We've all been there.
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Comments about nike ads

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What should the client do?

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'Hacking It!' by Tony Brignull.

"Two years ago (1990) the new president of Kraft, Mike Mile toured his kingdom. It is a very big realm indeed.

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