Nike's marketing playbook regularly includes congratulatory ads for individual athletes as well as sports franchises on the occasion of a milestone victory. We saw it with the Chicago Cubs last fall, and with Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors last month. On Sunday, it was Roger Federer's turn. The Swiss tennis star added to...
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July 17, 2017
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Spot aired right after his victory Sunday
By Tim Nudd
Nike's marketing playbook regularly includes congratulatory ads for individual athletes as well as sports franchises on the occasion of a milestone victory. We saw it with the Chicago Cubs last fall, and with Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors last month. On Sunday, it was Roger Federer's turn. The Swiss tennis star added to...
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Social response to his Brigitte Macron remarks
By Tim Nudd
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Publicis London makes another trip to Westeros
By Patrick Coffee
Any reunion is better over a Quesarito
By Tim Nudd
Storytelling on a historic scale for Chicago's Field Museum
By David Gianatasio
If a 150-million-year-old Brachiosaurus could talk, what would it say? You can find out at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, where many of the exhibits will soon tell their own stories using local voices, thanks to an initiative from local museum advertising specialist Leo Burnett. The agency wrote more than 100 short scripts, each...
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Mother London adds to the 'Wonderful Everyday' campaign
By Erik Oster
Just because you rest for 18 hours a day doesn't mean you're lazy. Agency Mother London is launching an integrated campaign for Ikea across the U.K. and Ireland focused on the living room, titled "Relax Into Greatness," which functions as the latest addition to the larger "Wonderful Everyday" campaign. The debut spot, "Lion," is based...
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YouTube itself tops the list with #MoreThanARefugee
By Tim Nudd
YouTube rocked its own Ads Leaderboard in June, place the No. 1 and No. 4 spots on the list of the month's most watched ads on the video platform. #MoreThanARefugee topped the list, while the latest #ProudToBe spot for Pride was fourth. Console and gaming spots filled out the rest of the top five, while...
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Athletes set absurd obstacles for themselves in latest from W+K
By Tim Nudd
"Just Do It" has always been an entreaty to face up to daunting athletic challenges and break through with sheer force of will. But in Nike's new ads, athletes seem fairly undaunted from the start--and intentionally make their workouts more grueling, and "Just Do It" that much harder to accomplish. Four new spots for the...
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Two Ad Council spots from R/GA make the list of five
By Tim Nudd
Ads with a social purpose dominate this year's Emmy Award nominees for outstanding commercial, with two separate "Love Has No Labels" spots for the Ad Council making the list of five hopefuls, along with the "Why I March" PSA that mcgarrybowen made for the Women's March on Washington. R/GA and the Ad Council won last...
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Wear your love of chicken on your sleeve
By Angela Natividad
Last week, we mysteriously received a Colonel Sanders pillowcase in the mail, designed to look like we were sleeping together. Now, KFC has explained what that whole thing was all about: As of yesterday, the brand launched KFC Ltd., an online merchandise shop packed with limited-edition goods and high-quality fried chicken apparel. This includes that...
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