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| Adfreak | July 12, 2017 | | Today's highs and lows of creativity |
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The 25 Best Ads of 2017 (So Far) A summertime look at our favorite work from the year to date By Tim Nudd We've made it through the first six months of 2017 more or less intact, so it's time to look back at some of our favorite advertising produced over that time. See below for some of the most clever, beautiful, interesting and entertaining TV, video, print, outdoor, digital and social ads from the year so far....
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Toss Out That Baby Book! Fridababy Saves New Parents in Its First Brand Campaign Nope, that's not a turkey baster By Angela Natividad Meet Eve. She's super-pregnant. And everyone she knows and loves is about to freak her out. "Solution"-based maternity brand Fridababy, best known for the NoseFrida Snotsucker, whose name will forever erase any doubt in your mind as to its purpose, is launching its first-ever brand campaign. And in true millennial style, it's banking on an...
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This Classic Nike Ad from 1999 Had a Splendid Take on Unconventional Beauty Matthew Bull picks his three favorite ads By Tim Nudd It's become common practice for advertisers to acknowledge and celebrate all forms of human beauty, not just the stereotypical standards. But Nike, as it so often is, was ahead of that game long before most. In 1999, a full five years before Dove launched "Campaign for Real Beauty," Nike and Wieden + Kennedy broke the...
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Watch David Droga’s Emotional Rallying Cry to the Ad Industry at Cannes Lions Lion of St. Mark speech centers on the value of caring By Tim Nudd "There goes my facade of being a rock." David Droga choked up several times during a heartfelt and surprisingly emotional speech at Cannes Lions last month--in the end, it was one of the highlights of the festival--as he accepted the Lion of St. Mark award for creative excellence across his storied career. The Droga5 founder...
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‘Cards Against Humanity for Her’ Is the Same Game, but the Box Is Pink and It Costs $5 More Hilarious parody of female-targeted products By Tim Nudd In a savage parody of women-targeted products like Bic for Her pens, and Cosmo and Seat's car for women, Cards Against Humanity has released Cards Against Humanity for Her. It's the exact same game as the original, but comes in a pink box and costs $5 more. The press release is a gold mine of...
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These Two Well-Written Ads Perfectly Show How Dumb Humans Are Getting But perhaps there is a glimmer of hope By Tim Nudd The world, it seems obvious, is generally becoming a stupider place. It's getting hard to dramatize this in new ways, but this award-winning campaign from ad agency The Community does so in amusing fashion--with two stories of humans ignoring common sense entirely in pursuit of rather idiotic goals. See the spots here: Granted, the link...
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Adidas Got Women Artists to Design One-of-a-Kind Sneakers for All 50 States Partnership with Refinery29 pushes the UltraBOOST X By Tim Nudd Adidas and Refinery29 get geographical in a fun project for the UltraBOOST X sneaker, getting women artists to design a "BOOST the Nation" collection, featuring one-of-kind sneakers that are being auctioned off for charity. Refinery29 chose the artists--including Meagan Morrison, Maria "Too Fly" Castillo, Bree Poort, Lizzie Darden, Jenny Kiker, Sophia Chang, Mari Orr, Jen...
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