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Heart-Shaped Crotch Shot Promotes Italian Footwear Quality

In the customs line at Heathrow we saw this leggy ad reading "I love Italian shoes." And then we blinked. What's that logo in the upper left-hand corner? Is that a wide-open, heart-shaped pair of...

McDonald's Ends Report Card Advertising

Everyone bitched and McDonald's listened. Under pressure from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and 2,000 angry parents, the fast food giant haspulled the advertising it had placed on...

Who's to Say Technology Doesn't Get Under the Skin?

Adrants reader Atif sent us this spot, snapped by Engadget at CES 2008. It causes us physical pain. Not to say every questionable piece doesn't have its audience. Atif thinks the veins as headphone...

For Royal Treatment in Developing Nation, Build Brand that Doubles as Tarp

We spent some time in the Philippines last week. Good news for old-school brand goliaths: free promotion is alive and well alongside freeways and in living spaces (at the same time!). That, and...

Hyundai Pussies Out of Dropping Super Bowl Spots

With what Advertising Age calls Hamlet-like indecision, Hyundai has decided to keep its ads in the Super Bowl after all. Here's our brief coverage of its flirtation with pulling out. (We hate that!)...

Cheetos Gets Really, Really Weird With Orange Underground

After spending some time with Cheetos' new Orange Underground, a full blown movement "committed to transforming sterile order into messy mayhem," its primary purpose of urging people to do wacky...

Pocket Geek Game Tests Management Skills

We really like when business to business advertising leave behind the idiotic metaphors that so pervasively fill their advertising and, instead, opt for something, well, more fun. For power plant and...

To Up Bread Sales, Grain Foods Aims for Carnal Appetites

We like this cute take on a sinister fairytale. Instead of Hansel & Gretel, think gorgeous girl with good shoes. And instead of breadcrumbs in a forest, think breadslices in a well-furnished...

Rascal Flatts Says Milk Rocks. Do You Care?

We're not really sure who Rascal Flatts is. But they think milk rocks, and that's cool with us. "Milk Rocks" is a contest that will be promoted online and on milk cartons nationwide, as well as on...

Gondry Lays Waste to Internet for 'Be Kind Rewind'

We used to be fans of Michel Gondry, the father of lush Levi's commercials and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But then he came out with The Science of Sleep and shattered our childlike faith...