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Pilgrims Get Sexy Makeover in Muscle Milk Thanksgiving Video
Teachers, hide your students! The traditional Pilgrim is about to get a deliciously sexy makeover by Jason Reed for Muscle Milk.
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Canon Plays Digital Version of Freeze Tag
Likening action photography to a game of freeze tag, a group of people were given Canon cameras to use in a game of photographic freeze tag.
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If Honda's Choir Sung With Helium...
...it would be a terrible Alfa Romeo commercial.
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Your Blackberry Storm Will Kill You With Lightning
We're not quite sure a brand would associate themselves with life-threatening lightning but McCann-Erikson New York has chosen to for Verizon's Blackberry Storm 2.
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Method Trashes Dow's Horny Scrubbing Bubbles
In the most hilarious cleaning product commercial in recent memory, Method has some fun with Dow's Scrubbing Bubbles.
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Anti-Cancer PSA Backfires, Makes Prostate Cancer Blob Likable
These are the most idiotic ads we've seen in a while.
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Allie Sullivan Wears Bunny Ears in Campaign to Socialize Playboy
While Playboy certainly does a great job helping men engage in a particular form of personalized social activity, the organization could use some help engaging with with people on a broader level.
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Matthew Lesko Snubs Ad Agencies, Hands Money to the People
If you've ever been to an ad conference and seen some dude walking around in a question mark suit or have been assaulted by one of his websites online, you've had the pleasure of seeing Matthew Lesko.
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Social Media (And Rick Springfield) Set Sail on Carnival Destiny
For four days beginning last Thursday afternoon, 60 or so "social media types" boarded the Carnival Destiny and set sail for Cozumel Mexico.
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Smooth Jazz Lures Buyers to Honda Accord Crosstour
In plain English, it's a decidedly different car commercial.
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ElfYourself Returns Social Media-Style
Back for its fourth year, the popular ElfYourself from OfficeMax has more goodies than ever before.
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Restaurant Lies. Quadruples Chowder Sales
The Denver Egoist shares the story of an underwater billboard hoax/viral/stunt/lie in which Ivar's Seafood Restaurant placed billboards underneath the Puget Sound.
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Meet 50 Cent, Strippers on Wheels, NBC's Olympic Ad Hopefuls
- 50 Cent and vitaminwater in the lab working on free iPhone apps and a chance to meet Fiddy, I said Fiddy. - Swing by NBC and pick up a 2010 Winter Olympics slot or three. - RuPaul is back....
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It's Chiquita Madness!
Of the egg-throwing variety. Because they have arms and are adept at pranks, no window is safe from them, for they are bananas , and nobody is safe.
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Naked People Furniture Will Be HUGE
It's probably not the nekkidness usually posted here that Steve likes, but it's got the wtfness not seen in a music video or commercial in some time. Not a bad song, and as the bio says, Valley Lodge is working overtime channeling Cheap Trick, T. Rex, Big Star, the Kinks and a few others.
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We Get Email - Redux
Putting the Rants in AdRants for a sec, OH you have no idea what gets sent in. Record labels send the latest CD from D-list talent. Nude iPhone tips. Upcoming interviews on Access Hollywood.
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Because Drunk Chicks Pole Dancing Make Everything Better
Trying hard to work in some party girl material before I leave, Heineken is back with the Know The Signs campaign and a Buzz Toolkit . They have a series of clips out where you can roll over parts of scenes which takes you to... more other scenes.
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A New Spin on Word of The Day
George Parker tested and approved. "Because it's easier to learn with sex, drugs, and f***ing swearing," there's The f***ing word of the day . It's not your dad's Word of the Day site: A Dineroesque little bit, little bit: SALUBRIOUS [suh-LOO-bree-us] adjective 1. Favorable to health; ...
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Does This Make My App Look Too Big?
Oh, there's an app for it alright. Why shouldn't plastic surgery have its own app? Developed by facial plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Denenberg , you can either look at hundreds of before and after shots, or take a pic of yourself and email the good doc for an evaluation over coffee.
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William Shatner for... Dell?
Dude, yer gettin a... overexposed celebrity who shills for anyone? (Nooo, that's Rachael Ray .) What I meant was, a new study out from Millward Brown claims they've developed a system to rank celebs and the brands they'd be best-suited for.
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