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Zulu Alpha Kilo - Left-Handed Mango Chutney (2022) 2:15 (Canada)

Zulu Alpha Kilo muses about the advertising industry in this film, once again shining a light on how absurd it is at times.

Battenhall takes Very Serious Ltd's TikTok account for ransom

Battenhall communications agency, the ad agency for the social media age, have hijacked Very Serious Ltd's Tiktok account as a reply to

“Black Joy Manifesto,” Edited By Cut+Run’s Aika Miyake for PASSERINE, Is A Poetic Celebration of Black Lives

#TheMovement4BlackLives - DearBlackPeople “Black Joy Manifesto” is a short film and poetic love letter to the beauty and importance of Black lives.

Halloween Special: "The Night of the Living Dead Brands!"

"They're coming to get you, Barbara"

Fred & Farid and JCDecaux launch an uplifting campaign in US

#WeKeepGoing 150 slogans promoting positivity and resiliency in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston.

Doner : "When the Motor Stops." (2020)

With COVID-19 spreading in Michigan, ad agency Doner, headquartered in Detroit since the 1930s, chose to send a message of strength and resilience t

LA Models & NEER Motion Celebrate The Oscars Season With "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again” spot

When Director Sandro Suppnig and Choreographer Lockhart Brownlie met last fall an idea was born: to create a film that taps into the Zeitgeist by feat
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Move over "Truth in advertising", Jean and director Pam Thomas create "Commercials", a hilarious look at our industry

Community Films’ directorial collective JEAN and director Pam Thomas have joined forces to create “Commercials”, a comedic web series about the humoro

Manifest CEO calls out client for ripping off their work.

Like all industries, advertising is filled with good eggs and bad ones.

"Thanks for the grit" billboard reveals an advertising mensch

What is this curious billboard? Thanks for the grit? The kind that you can eat? No, that's grits.

This Agency’s Holiday Card is an Auction of Award Show Bling

For their "holiday card," Toronto-based creative shop Bensimon Byrne is auctioning off the awards they won for their work on Casey House and

Bob Isherwood "kidnapped" in Cannes 2016

‘Can trolling be a force for good in advertising?’ is a seminar due to be held later today at the Forum in Cannes, to draw attention to it Bob Isherwo
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Ad agency 358: So cold we ski to the Monday morning meetings in Helsinki

Having seen the hot summer BBQ chops and chilled beer commercial for Australia day and the Meat and Livestock Association, ad agency 358in Helsinki, F

Are you Book Crit Ready? Ash and James are.

James Morgan and Ashley Bibby explain: "we are scrambling around trying to get noticed, get our work seen and find ourselves placements".

Creative Chatter’s “Ultimate Selfie Campaign” Will Put Your Selfie on Lamar’s Digital Billboards Nationwide

 Creative Chatter Communities, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, is launching an Ultimate Selfie Campaign in partnership with Lamar Advertising Company, one of

B-Reel wishes you a merry christmas

We’ve put our R+D heads together and created two experiences for your pre-holiday pleasure: one for desktop and the other for mobile.

John St: ExFEARiential - (2013)

WARNING: The snark-quotient is high in this prank-ad.

B-Reel sexy pics here.

...well they are sexy pics to us!! Thanksgiving has come a bit early to B-Reel with the additions of former HSI EP, Michael McQuhae and Believe dir
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9/11 Forward. Together. - street art

A group of Miami ad school students made this street art vandalizing tour (I'm not judging, I did it too when I was a student in the 90s), and a
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Meet The UnLuckiest Copywriter In The Universe

At the best of times, landing a job as a creative in the advertising industry takes more than just talent.
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McCann Israel goes Stock Photo Stalking

McCann Digital Israel came up with a fun way to recruit art directors.

Farkyeri - We Are Not Men - (2012)

Farkyeri, the Turkish ad agency crew who protested that bad Hitler shampoo ad by posing in dresses, but somehow still looking like hero musketeers (mu

Open letter to brand managers and marketing directors!

Eugeniy Danilov just sent this to us with the subject line "new video", so I guess the video speaks for itself, really. 
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"If you don't hire us.. we will... we will... get gay married!"

Most creative teams in advertising know that a perfect working partnership is very much like a great marriage.
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Vodafone case study credits the January 25 Egyptian revolution to... a Vodafone ad.

There's been much chatter about this Vodafone case study, which looks at an ad campaign created by advertising agency JWT for telecom giant Vodaf

Applied Arts - Many were called, Few were chosen

When one of Proximity Canada's own was appointed to the jury of Applied Arts Interactive Annual he saw an opportunity to turn a conventional awar

Y&R - Energy / Strategy / Creativity / missing letters - print campaign (2011) Ukraine

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Kiev, Ukraine Creative Director: Dmitry Barsukov Art Directors: Anastasiya Tymoshchuk Copywriter: Igor Tul

New Film from Thornberg & Forester Introduces the World to Fictional Founder, Walter P. Thornberg

Thornberg & Forester, the award-winning creative company that specializes in branded visual storytelling, has launched a new brand identity.
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Sniff Responsibly

To announce our 2nd edition of scratch n sniff direct mail promos for our photographers, we wanted to do a short teaser video acknowledging that we kn
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Master Kong invents a new way of seeding their viral to adsites.

Did y'all know I've gotten cynical over the years? Nooo, say it ain't so the crowd roars in mock shock, but yep, I have.

World of an Intern @ Crispin Porter + Bogusky (2009) 4:45 (USA)

Crispin Porter + Bogusky Summer 2009 Intern Music Video

Kids Xmas (2008)

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Crispin Porter and Bogusky plays strip poker

If a friend acted like this, we'd all be telling them "You know what your problem is?
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Real young creatives show us their.. uh.. guns.

CP&B who are handling the stunts for the Young Gun awards these came up with this campaign, real young creatives pose nekkid holding up their best
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Carte Blance want to physically shake up the Quebec ad industry

Carte Blanche ad agency is launching a self-promotional campaign in Quebec touting their new "physically" credo. No, I'm not quite s
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ASABAILEY Ogilvy stunt jumps the shark twice over

Adgrunt extraordinaire Caffeinegodess has like so many other ad bloggers, gotten a self promotional email from ASABAILEY.COM.
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Agency launches website by mailing a lamb hoof

When Cole, Russel & Pryce in Stockholm sent out their (e)mailers to advertise themselves and their new website, they probably didn't expect t

Singapore Press Holdings - XO beer (1993) Singapore

When newspapers were losing out to TV, the task was to demonstrate how newspaper advertising was not only relevant for these advertisers but essential

Art Directors Against Futura Extra Bold Condensed - print, 1992

Design Group Bang Bang Bang really don't like Futura Extra Bold Condensed.
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