We've seen scores of creatives' websites over the years, but here's one of our instant favorites--GetColeman.com, from British copywriter Joe Coleman. The idea is simple and very fun: The site's copy makes a variety of pitches for Joe, from "Less Hard Sell" to "More Hard Sell," using a slider you can move around at the...
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AdFreak Daily Roundup
April 03, 2017
Today's highs and lows of creativity
The many shades of Joe Coleman
By Tim Nudd
We've seen scores of creatives' websites over the years, but here's one of our instant favorites--GetColeman.com, from British copywriter Joe Coleman. The idea is simple and very fun: The site's copy makes a variety of pitches for Joe, from "Less Hard Sell" to "More Hard Sell," using a slider you can move around at the...
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Think you have the best idea? It might be time to throw it away
By Tim Nudd
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Magic gets a dose of reality
By Gabriel Beltrone
Elizabeth Banks returns in Pereira & O'Dell campaign
By David Gianatasio
Making things a little more uncomfortable for all!
By Tim Nudd
In a conceptually odd but undeniably memorable PSA campaign, the Mexico City Metro has installed a "penis seat" in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man's torso and penis, to get male riders thinking about the sexual harassment that women endure every day. The seat is labeled "For men only."...
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Don't you just love the system?
By David Gianatasio
Hey, Doc, it hurts when we do this. And by this, we mean attempt to use our nation's impossibly impersonal, ridiculously complicated healthcare system! North Memorial Health, which operates two hospitals and 25 clinics in the Minneapolis area, posits a cure for the healthcare blues in a pair of amusing ads developed by BrandFire. Its...
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He-Man's here too in U.K. spot for MoneySuperMarket
By David Griner
With an undead head and inhuman abs, Skeletor might literally live forever, which could explain why he's now jamming out to the lyrically appropriate theme from Fame. Mattel's cackling villain from the 1980s cartoon (and blatant toy marketing machine) He-Man and the Masters of the Universe returns to the marketing world after a three-year hiatus,...
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Nice work if you can get it
By Robert Klara
As a mother, supermodel, TV personality, social-media phenom and wife of musician John Legend, Chrissy Teigen doesn't exactly need another job--let alone one as a plant manager. But that's what Teigen is now. At least, that's what she is in a new spot for Vita Coco. Shot on a white-sand beach at Key Biscayne, Florida,...
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Highlights brand's 360-degree replay technology
By Christine Birkner
Intel has tapped some of the world's greatest athletes, including Michael Phelps and Tom Brady, to star in its ads, and the brand is at it again. Its latest spot from mcgarrybowen features LeBron James poking fun at the "crying LeBron James" meme. In the ad, "Baby Face," the three-time NBA champ's face changes to...
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Andrew Puzder takes credit for the brand shift
By Patrick Coffee
Andrew Puzder will soon step down as CEO of Carl's Jr., but he definitely has some thoughts on the recent and dramatic shift in the chain's marketing efforts. This week, the burger brand debuted a new campaign from creative agency of record 72andSunny in which it completely flipped the script on its famously risqu? ads,...
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