Winners of the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards were announced Thursday night in New York, and Best of Show went to a familiar and celebrated long-running radio campaign--The Richards Group's work for Motel 6 featuring the musings of Tom Bodett. The Motel 6 campaign has been a fixture of the Radio Mercury Awards for decades, winning...
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June 02, 2017
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Motel 6 tops the Radio Mercury Awards again
By Tim Nudd
Winners of the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards were announced Thursday night in New York, and Best of Show went to a familiar and celebrated long-running radio campaign--The Richards Group's work for Motel 6 featuring the musings of Tom Bodett. The Motel 6 campaign has been a fixture of the Radio Mercury Awards for decades, winning...
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'Wear Sunscreen' gets second life, with proper attribution
By Angela Natividad
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A 30th birthday present for the Frakta
By Tim Nudd
Site will feature only climate stories through Friday
By Tim Nudd
TBWA finds another medium for diversion
By Angela Natividad
Tired of reading The Giving Tree over and over? No problem. Now your walls can take up the slack. French home improvement store Castorama has released "Magic Wallpaper," a playful unisex wallpaper for kids that's covered in colorful characters, including aliens, forest creatures, superboys and princesses (who hate dresses). And it's not just passively pretty....
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Interpublic Group is No. 1 holding company for first time
By Tim Nudd
Burger King's McWhopper campaign, created by Y&R New Zealand with help from David, ABPR, Code and Theory and Turner Duckworth, picked the Grand Effie on Thursday night at the 2017 North American Effie Awards, honoring marketing effectiveness. The campaign, which was a huge PR success, began on Aug. 26, 2015, when Burger King placed a...
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Reveling in an iconic staple
By Angela Natividad
We've always been suckers for a timejump spot. Lacoste's latest, "Timeless," uses the device beautifully. Created by BETC Paris and set to the emotional tremors of a violin, the ad casts us backward, recalling Lacoste's long history--it was founded in 1933 by tennis player Ren? Lacoste and Andr? Gillier--while explaining why its classic polo endures....
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And the game of thrones PR coup is complete
By Patrick Coffee
Offending a royal family is a marketing stunt fit for a king. Earlier this week, Burger King earned more than its share of media coverage for a campaign poking fun at Belgium's King Philippe while promoting the June opening of its first restaurant in the European nation. The "Who Is the King?" homepage asked visitors...
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Plus, get busy with its social media contest
By Tim Nudd
Pornhub has always been pretty skillful with its advertising in taking adult entertainment into the mainstream. Now, to celebrate its 10th birthday, the adult website is rolling out a new commercial and a whole social media contest designed to get people talking about what Pornhub has taught them over the years. First, check out the...
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A testy round of cards
By Gabriel Beltrone
The Spectrum monsters are back to terrorize the airwaves. But satellite service is still scarier, says a new ad from the cable provider. Fresh characters like a creepy doll join familiar faces like the mummy, whom the brand and agency Something Different introduced in April, for a friendly round of weirdo poker, with a baseball...
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