UPDATE: Immediately after we published this story, a McDonald's U.K. spokesperson confirmed that the chain had reversed course and decided to pull the ad. "We can confirm today that we have taken the decision to withdraw our 'Dad' TV advert," the statement read. "The advert will be removed from all media, including TV and cinema,...
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Brand Marketing Daily
May 16, 2017
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Approach to a sensitive topic goes awry
By Patrick Coffee
UPDATE: Immediately after we published this story, a McDonald's U.K. spokesperson confirmed that the chain had reversed course and decided to pull the ad. "We can confirm today that we have taken the decision to withdraw our 'Dad' TV advert," the statement read. "The advert will be removed from all media, including TV and cinema,...
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Who needs Kendall when you've got VFX?
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Pizza chain rolls out Sensory Sensitive Sundays
By Robert Klara
Vilebrequin's core product is still its $280 signature swim trunks
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Virtue produced the brand's first global campaign
By Patrick Coffee
At first glance, the world's coolest media company and its best-known purveyor of yoga pants may seem like an odd pairing. Yet, Lululemon picked Vice's in-house agency, Virtue, to reintroduce its name to the world with its first global ad campaign. The Canadian brand's evp of brand and community Duke Stump called the Virtue partnership...
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Wrigley explains why it was taken down
By Tim Nudd
Skittles has a long and mostly proud history of celebrating anatomical oddities and physical ailments, from the famous "Touch" and "Beard" spots a decade ago to more recent work like "Bleachers." But the brand's Mother's Day ad for 2017, by DDB Chicago, apparently went a little too far, with its dramatization of a mother and...
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It's about 'empowerment and confidence'
By David Gianatasio
Liquid-Plumr cracks wise in this new commercial from FCB Chicago. Various folks, ranging from a firefighter and florist to a bowler and boxer, expose some backside cleavage (though nothing overtly NSFW) as Rosemary Clooney's jaunty "Too Marvelous for Words" plays in the background. "There's a Plumr in all of us," proclaims the voiceover. A spiffy...
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It's a limited-time promo, but will health advocates be sweet on it?
By Robert Klara
Back in the good old days, when kids across America dug into sugar-laden breakfast cereals with nary a concerned glance from Mom, fans of Lucky Charms could be divided into two camps. There were those who simply gorged themselves on all that varicolored, crazy-shaped kibble. And then there were the young ones with the strength...
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Lola launches first non-digital campaign
By Katie Richards
Ladies of the world: Do you ever stop and think about how your tampons are made? Online tampon delivery brand Lola has and its spreading the word about its products--made from 100 percent organic cotton--to women of New York with its first big non-digital advertising campaign. Lola worked in partnership with creative agency The Working...
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More than ever, creativity is currency
By Andrew Robertson
Consumers like video. Today they have unprecedented opportunities to watch it whenever, wherever and however they want on their own terms of convenience. And they are doing just that. About 50 percent of all network traffic is from video today. By 2021 it will be 75 percent. More 18- to 49-year-olds now visit YouTube on...
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