In a recent Nike ad about equality, created by Wieden + Kennedy, a conviction-laden voice says, "Opportunity does not discriminate." In the background, Alicia Keys croons, "Change is gonna come." With that gorgeous piece of work, Nike touted its commitment to inspire people to take local action to advance the values of sportsmanship, self-empowerment and...
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AdFreak Daily Roundup
February 24, 2017
Today's highs and lows of creativity
Local activations, global scope
By Angela Natividad
In a recent Nike ad about equality, created by Wieden + Kennedy, a conviction-laden voice says, "Opportunity does not discriminate." In the background, Alicia Keys croons, "Change is gonna come." With that gorgeous piece of work, Nike touted its commitment to inspire people to take local action to advance the values of sportsmanship, self-empowerment and...
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It's one of four spots debuting during Sunday's show
By Christine Birkner
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Ultramare moves beyond hospitals
By Gabriel Beltrone
'This shows they really care,' says Ryan Stew
By David Kiefaber
RIP, obsolete technology
By David Gianatasio
Ashes to ashes, rust to rust... Nossa, a prominent agency in the Portuguese digital ad scene, recently staged an unusual mock funeral service in the garden behind its Lisbon office. Staffers weren't mourning the demise of the traditional agency model, the 30-second commercial or even the web banner ad. (Some things, it seems, just won't...
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Severed fingers billboard is pulled in Germany
By Tim Nudd
Netflix has been making viewers do a double-take with its Santa Clarita Diet ads since the Golden Globe Awards, when Drew Barrymore's cannibalistic take on weight-loss commercials was a disturbing standout among the TV commercials on that night's broadcast. The digital and out-of-home ads have been fun, too, featuring various body parts dressed up as...
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Stripped-down brand campaign includes Oscars spot
By Tim Nudd
In a world of fake news and alternative facts, The New York Times is asserting the primacy and importance of the truth--and the role independent journalists play in searching for it, and telling it--in a big new brand campaign from Droga5. Stripped-down TV, print, outdoor, digital and social ads tackle head on the sense of...
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Just get in the photo
By Angela Natividad
Moms are always getting the short end of the stick. They get thrown up on, judged for working, judged for not working, and are rarely thanked for spending the whole day baking 30 cookies for a classroom of kids who'll just pick all the good bits out of them anyway. You can't right all these...
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Max Karlsson uses @sweden for a political protest
By Patrick Coffee
Since 2012, Sweden has been letting ordinary citizens take over the official @sweden Twitter account, one week at a time, with next to no oversight. It's been risky move intended to help the country promote itself, unfiltered, as a travel destination, with each citizen serving as a kind of de facto tourism ambassador. There have...
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Director works with GSD&M on new spot
By Angela Natividad
Are you down to pee with LGBT? As the Trump administration rescinds federal protections allowing transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, the issue is likely to be decided on the state and local level--including in Texas, where GSD&M and Hollywood filmmaker Richard Linklater have banded together to give you "Taking a...
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