With the arrival of spring, love is in the air in Volkswagen's new "Luv Bug" commercial--which, contrary to what you might think, isn't for its classic "love bug" Beetle but for its seven-seater Atlas. The ad kicks off with some actual love going down in a VW bug overlooking a cityscape. As the couple's family...
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Advertising & Agency Daily
March 21, 2017
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Deutsch's cheeky route to the 7-seater Atlas
By Angela Natividad
With the arrival of spring, love is in the air in Volkswagen's new "Luv Bug" commercial--which, contrary to what you might think, isn't for its classic "love bug" Beetle but for its seven-seater Atlas. The ad kicks off with some actual love going down in a VW bug overlooking a cityscape. As the couple's family...
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Overtime, overtaxed and over it
By Patrick Coffee
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If you were sleeping, you would have missed it
By Robert Klara
Carlo Rossi posts fake products with a wink
By Patrick Coffee
Top brands include Post-it, Scotch and Nexcare
By Patrick Coffee
The 3M Company has picked Adweek's Breakthrough Agency of the Year Venables Bell & Partners after a review to handle creative work promoting its Consumer Business Group around the world. The St. Paul, Minn.-based multinational conglomerate produces a wide range of products from adhesives and abrasives to car care and dental products. Its best-known brands...
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Essentia Water picks its first creative AOR
By Patrick Coffee
Up-and-coming bottled water brand Essentia has signed Periscope as its first creative agency of record after a competitive review. As consumers continue to move away from soda, beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have been devoting more ad dollars to brands like Poland Spring, Fiji and Lifewtr--and Essentia looks to expand its marketing efforts in turn....
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Brands have the power to change clickbait culture
By Scott Swanson
It's happened to the best of us: that headline on your Facebook feed sucks you into the "The 10 Worst Tattoos of '90s Child Stars" and, before you know it, you're stumbling through a clunky slideshow, hitting the wrong prompts again and again in the hopes that, eventually, you'll find out if someone really did...
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Ads from Poland Spring, Fiji, Lifewtr and others are cropping up
By Kristina Monllos
Edna Mitchell is an 88-year-old volunteer ambulance driver from Liberty, Maine. She's also the star of a lighthearted new branding campaign that Nestl? will roll out this week for Poland Spring--one of the company's six regional bottled water brands--touting a new tagline, "Greatness springs from here," from creative agency FCB in New York. The Northeastern...
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Talkspace, Musical.ly and even @RealDonaldTrump made the cut
By Adweek Staff
The heat coming off our picks for the 2017 Digital Hot List would be enough to melt the snow of a March Nor'easter. Lilly Singh, our Digital Creator of the Year, is almost the anti-PewDiePie--just as funny and entertaining, but not likely to offend. In fact, as Reporter Lauren Johnson explains, Singh's a brand magnet...
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For brands, our Digital Creator of the Year is a safe bet
By Lauren Johnson
Lilly Singh gets millennials. Specifically, she gets 13.1 million YouTube subscribers to tune in for weekly comedic videos poking fun at everything from her relationship with a fictional pair of parents to dating and work. Better known as IISuperwomanII, 28-year-old Singh--Adweek's 2017 Digital Creator of the Year--is one of YouTube's biggest creators, earning a reported...
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