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Ogilvy Publishes Justice & Brand Accountability Paper

Ogilvy has written a free paper on Justice & Brand Accountability that was published by members of the Ogilvy team spanning social, strategy, and
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Erich Funke Launches NineLives Group Under One Worldwide Virtual Roof

A Global Consortium of Advertising and Marketing Specialists Without Traditional Agency Costs and Constraints
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Omelet advertising sued for whistleblower retaliation against employee

According to NBC Los Angeles, ACD Tiffani Harcrow is suing Omelet, "alleging she was wrongfully fired in May for expressing concerns about the ho

Rick Wilson travels back in time to shame Domino's, gets ass handed to him.

In today's Boomer news, Republican Strategist Rick Wilson attempted to pwn Domino's pizza today for committing the sin of responding to a Tw
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The world's most socially distanced restaurant – in the middle of nowhere

This summer, Oddbird, the winery producing wine liberated from alcohol opens a temporary restaurant in a nature reserve outside Stockholm.
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Transgender activist and model Munroe Bergdorf makes peace with L’Oréal

L'Oréal Paris fired Munroe Bergdorf in 2017, then faced criticism for hypocrisy after embracing Black Lives Matter last week

Dentsu evacuated Tokyo HQ over bomb threat

L.A.-based Battery is offering free marketing services for local small businesses

Battery, the L.A.

"Remote Filming" software launches for global production industry use - nice timing.

Believe it or not, Remote Filming was actually in development long before Coronavirus showed up giving budding filmmakers ample opportunity for empty

HUN Wine launches brand with outdoor campaign at the worse possible time.

"This is the worst time to launch a new brand." TBWA London admits, but then they used this as an opportunity to stand out.

Trump 2020 - Pelosi "let them eat ice-cream" (2020) :90 (USA)

Political advertising is its own genre and is very different in different countries.

Furloughed ad industry workers created ad collective "Not Fur’Long" to help small business clients in need

A group of advertising creatives who are currently being paid not to work, decided to get together and work for clients who can't pay them.

Dutch government pay social media influencers for "alone together" Covid-19 campaign, but how much?

Don't you worry about those poor social influencers, in times of quarantine when they can't pose in sunsets on the beach or do yoga with a v
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Wu-Tang and Steak-umm: A tale of two brands

While every last brand and their mother has jumped on the repetitive k e e p y o u r d i s t a n c e bandwagon, some are doing so in a relevant way
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Your tech overloads want to monitor your every move.

Not content to merely harvest your private information, your driving whereabouts, music listening tastes and spending habits, as well as recognizing y

Silent London: The Sound of our Isolated Capital

Haunting and beautiful but in sound and vision. Have to say I love this idea.
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Luckie Helps Regions Bank Shift Ad Buy To Instead Support Food Banks

Ad agency Luckie and client Regions Bank, today announced the donation of 100% of their advertising inventory (:15 and :30 TV, digital ads, paid soci

Musicians and labels are adapting to the Coronavirus Age

With furloughs and layoffs of fulltime staff and freelance gigs disappearing, this month has been rough for a lot of people in advertising.

School buses have been repurposed to deliver wifi hotspots for pupils studying from home.

Creativity truly blooms in a crisis.

Minecraft now offering educational content

Zara owner offers to make scrubs for Spanish hospitals

Swedish hotel Stadt in Lidköping opens 67 pop-up restaurants due to Corona social distancing.

As a creative response in this crisis in order to still attract business, Stadt in Lidköping opens 67 pop-up restaurants.
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Tesco relaunches dark skin tone band-aids with a bloody double entendre

"It's about bloody time" reads the cheeky headline.

Salons in UK refusing gossip magazines after Caroline Flack's suicide

Beau Boutique Salon in Kent has started a small salon revolution.
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Diet Madison Avenue Defamation case moves forward.

Ralph Watson, former chief creative officer of CP+B’s Boulder office, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Diet Madison Avenue, an anonymous Instagr

Nubian Skin wins TFL's diversity in advertising competition, Mayor Sadiq Khan gets backlash on Twitter

The Nubian Skin billboard above was this year's winner of the TFL's competition to improve ethnic diversity in advertising.
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Planters ditches their "death of Mr Peanut" Superbowl ad, moves "rebirth" up to earlier in game

Planters has wisely decided that the commercial showing Mr Peanut plunging to his death isn't appropriate at this time, and will instead air only
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FOX is keeping the two campaign ads in quarantine, so no products air with Trump nor Bloomberg ads

Fox has decided to run ads from President Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg in separate breaks.

Digital ads now stalk you home, and enter your mailbox.

The Washington Post’s Heather Kelly reports: As people become numb to targeted digital ads that follow them across social media and into their email i
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Ryan Reynolds doesn't buy a Super Bowl ad, goes viral with single page NYT ad

"Everyone’s buying ads so I bought one too. Not on TV. In the @nytimes. #classy"

Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in Las Vegas jusst offered Prince Harry a job

It isn't easy being a Royal runaway, what will the future hold for Prince Harry as he has stepped down from his senior Royal role?

Fresh work from Toronto-based production company Skin & Bone “A World Without Y”

Fresh work from Toronto-based production company Skin & Bone for the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

Maple Leaf Foods CEO takes over Twitter feed in anti-Trump rant

On January 12th, 2020, The CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, Michael McCain, took over his company's Twitter account to voice his grief over the loss of a

Code cracking recruitment subway ad campaign gets over 800 applicants for job

We've seen this tactic before, and it works.

Billfold - cashless payments that doubles as ad space (for your venues drinks etc)

Someone realized that absolute pain it is to drag a wallet out every time you hit the bar at various clubs and concerts.

Roman's Pornhub ads silence other ads.

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Marmite bites back at Vegemite in full page ad: "See you at the home of Cricket" #MarmyArmy

So, recall that Marmite 'started it' as they handed out free jars of Marmite at the Ashes? Yeah, then Vegemite responded in an ad.

Australia vs England hostilities spread beyond the cricket field - "because Vegemite tastes like Australia."

Australia vs England hostilities spread beyond the cricket field - heh, "spread", see what we did there?
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Banksy who once claimed "copyright is for losers" sued an Italian museum for copyright infringement

Banksy fans are a lot like fans of Donald Trump.

Mortierbrigade turns right-wing political posters into human rights posters

The agency and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen recycle Belgian right-wing party posters, and make them for refugees instead.
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CVT Softserve

Los Angeles Ice Cream truck CVT Soft serve doubles the price for Instagram Influencers - gets tons of free press.

Los Angeles ice cream truck owner is tired of social media influencers trying to get free ice cream for @ mentions.
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Firefox creates "TRACK THIS", a way to trick advertisers by poisoning your surf data.

It's not an original idea, the best way to hide your data is to create more data, thus creating a campaign of misinformation about you.

Taking What If To What’s Next: Production, Design, Technology & Post Unite At Chapeau Studios

The company is evolving and expanding

Gucci celebrates abortion in its latest collection

As abortion debates pop up around the The United States, and the world, Gucci weighs in for profit.

Mærsk are granted a trademark on their light blue colour

For only the second time in the history of Denmark, a business has got the exclusive right to colour The Patent and Trademark Office has signed on th
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Coca-Cola launches Ramadan campaign - in Norway

To celebrate Ramadan, Coca Cola launched a new billboard campaign with the now famous logo enveloped by a crescent moon.

Wieden+Kennedy and Droga5 New York Each Win Eight Gold Pencils On Second Night of The One Show

W+K named 2019 Agency of the Year, “Dream Crazy” for Nike wins Best of Show and three Best of Disciplines on the night.

Visit the Salvador Dalí museum, and Dalí himself will take a selfie with you

If you are looking for a reason to visit Florida, here's one: Goodby Silverstein & Partners have brought Salvador Dalí back to life in the Da
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Political group hijacks wall in Copenhagen to place 120 square meter banner promoting remigration

A group of young activists, so-called identitarians, scaled a building in central Copenhagen on Sunday and put up a 120 square meter banner with the h

LIA Announces the 2019 Jury Presidents

London International Awards (LIA) has announced the 2019 Jury Presidents. Now entering 34 years, LIA is a show created for creatives, that strive

Game of Thrones Crypt built in Moscow in advance of a final season

The Game of Thrones’ final is still a mystery, but we definitely need to get ready for many more deaths.
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New Study: Brand experiences deliver three times the 'purchase advantage'

The continued demand for innovation by consumers is requesting from brands to address a change.

"Diet Madison Avenue" New York members may be unmasked soon in Ex-CPB Creative Watson's case.

Former Crispin Porter Bogusky creative executive Ralph Watson is making headway in identifying those behind the “Diet Madison Avenue” Instagram accoun

DLMDD Music, a Sonic Branding agency

We sound out Max De Lucia about the new sonic branding agency he co-founded with Greg Moore, Sascha Darroch-Davies and Jeremy Paterson. Press relea
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Lima

Creative Cities around Adland - Lima, Peru

How to navigate the third largest city in the Americas?

Set Experience Group Merges, Relaunches as Set Creative

Luc Wise, the good company.

An unusual new Paris agency will help brands navigate the responsibility revolution.

Nick Vitale "open letter" ad page in in Wall Street Journal fools NBC New York

A New Jersey man took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to voice his issues with modern customer service in various industries...

This Newspaper is Female

Scan any daily newspaper’s pages and you’ll see that, on average, only one out of four names mentioned in its pages are female.

Liverpool’s "Woman" billboard is taken down by ad company after trans activists complain

A billboard with the dictionary definition of "woman" has been 'banned'.
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Havas closes Victors & Spoils to make way for blockchain and AI instead

Well, now it's man against machine.
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CIWF wants to end the EU practice of factory farming rabbits

Director Sam Cadman is an award-winning filmmaker and leader in the genre of experiential storytelling.

FlyGTA created some air sickness bags you'll want to keep

Toronto, Canada.

LOTTO 6/49 - Joy for All (2018) :30 (Canada)

GEICO - Manatee Shirts - (2018) :30 (USA)

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Go Transit crowdsources Etiquette concerns from actual commuters.

GO Transit is a public transit service for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Canada.

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